The Haunt Of Fear: ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Results Thread

o-kay

Oooooh, outside the top 10... very interesting.

wow had NO idea that Fangoria was still around

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Number 13!

Not top 10? Now I have no clue what's going to happen. That was my #3.

I had Fangos as a preteen & hid them under shelves in brown paper bag like they were Playboys. BUT not bc of parents but bc they freaking terrified me. The worst was one with a cover of the melting-face vampire in the tub from Lost Boys. Fleeting in actual movie, of course.

Oh jeez. His mustache clasps my hips. It sets a punishing rhythm - in, out, in that order. Oh jeez. I have been studying Quicken.

really ratcheting up the suspense for the top 10 here!

lol xp

It's time to keep your appointment...

Oooooh, outside the top 10... very interesting.

Major surprise for me--major! (I thought it would come very close to winning.)

xxxpost LOL I do want to note that I was not implying anything less than handsomeness for 70s donald sutherland. He was hot (no homo).

I think I probably told my story on the other thread about my sister and I wanting to watch The Exorcist when it aired on CBS, but I can't remember.

Finally I can unburden myself.

UNTIL 1 WEEK AGO I HAD NEVER SEEN THE EXORCIST EVEN THOUGH I'D SEEN EXORCIST II MULTIPLE TIMES

sob

Great still--you see Max von Sydow with his head bowed, and you think you've wandered into a Bergman countdown.

Night of the Living Dead. Return of the Living Dead. Alien? Um, Last House? Suspiria? The Thing, The Fly? Psycho, Chainsaw. I'm thrown off by "Jaws" being so low, and now "The Exorcist" ...

His mustache clasps my hips. It sets a punishing rhythm - in, out, in that order.

Is this "Shades of Grey?"

All actors kill it in this flick & so does Friedkin, the end.

lol @ William Peter Bleccchy

he was a total babe in The Dirty Dozen, though not as hot as Cassevetes

"That Catherine Deneuve sure has an interesting recipe for HASENPFE-FEAR!!"

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12. REPULSION
Roman Polanski, UK, 1965
(863 points, 26 votes, 1 first-place vote)

Repulsion is, according to my shrink father, an accurate rendition of what it's like to be a schizophrenic.
― warmsherry, Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:02 PM (3 years ago)

Repulsion and The Tenant are Polanski's two best films; it's true that they're similar to Rosemary's baby, but they're both better (none of the religious stuff, just pure closed space pcycho-drama).
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, December 15, 2003 4:44 AM (8 years ago)

Repulsion was made in '65, dude. shit was shocking as fuck back then.
― the table is the table, Thursday, April 16, 2009 5:36 PM (3 years ago)

i think my fav. thing abt this thread is how many ppl like to gratuitously post some combination of "anal" "rape" "child" and "13 year old"
― yellow card for favre (call all destroyer), Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:56 AM (2 years ago)

Everyone who saw and liked "Black Swan" should be forced to watch "Repulsion" until they know better.

Known forever in my home as Replusion because of the spelling error on the DVD case (at least the one i first saw).
This movie ruuuuuuules.

Terrifying:

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Anyone who voted for it, I've gotta hand it to you. (Sorry--too much time looking at this poll.)

i liked black swan because it was like a funny version of repulsion

"anal" "rape" "child" and "13 year old" btw

HASENPFE-FEAR!!

goat

xposts I actually argued against using that still with Pillbox because I thought it constituted a minor spoiler, but hopefully almost everyone who contributed to this poll has seen the movie already.

Alien? yes, this is ilx dude
Um, Last House? maybe? kind of a wild card tbh
Suspiria? yes, this is ilx dude
The Thing, yes, this is ilx dude
The Fly? yes, this is ilx dude

Awww, was really expecting Repulsion to make it into the top ten. My number one. That fragmentation of mind is probably the most terrifying thing to me.

That flashed across my mind, Eric, and I went ahead anyway--maybe shouldn't have.

repulsion is great, but doesn't have the wider appeal of that other movie

gonna stop speculating before jjjusten shows up and yells at me

repulsion is another film i pushed down into the southern half of my ballot for reasons that i can't now defend or even really recall. glad it finished in the top 20, though i suppose there wasn't ever any reason to doubt that it would.

once wrote a college paper on feminism and madness in repulsion and carnival of souls

"Be a FLY! Be very a FLY!"

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11. THE FLY
David Cronenberg, USA, 1986
(871 points, 29 votes, 1 first-place vote)

Let's begin with The Fly, shall we? Cronenberg says it's his meditation on aging and the strange decay of the human body, though "meditation" may be laying it on a bit thick. Still, there are so many good things about this movie. Goldblum is as good as he's ever been, nerdy and nervous at first, then scary but cracking wise to the bitter appendage-sprouting end. Geena Davis is serviceable enough -- I wonder if they cast her because she was a good match in height? The big effects date badly -- the emergence from the skin at the end looks like rubber, and the vomit-on-the-hand thing is the same cheese effect used for face-melting in Indiana Jones. But it's the details that get you. The hair coming out of the wound. The oozing fingertips. The vomiting. You're thanking the heavens they don't actually show him "eating." It's all the little stuff that adds up to one of the most genuinely icky movies I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of other Cronenberg, so that's saying something.
― slightly more subdued (kenan), Monday, May 23, 2005 10:13 PM (7 years ago)

"The Fly" is still his triumph to me; an accessible, disgusting romantic comedy/tragedy derived from a '50s B movie (and the peak of its two stars). It had the emotion and resonance (AHoV) only has in jolts.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:57 AM (6 years ago)

i thought i'd heard he said the fly was about how in a love affair one person always turns into a monster. and of course the reading at the time was 'it's about aids'.
― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, May 23, 2005 10:16 PM (7 years ago)

Is The Fly his 'Daydream Nation'?
― Soukesian, Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:01 AM (2 years ago)

And now, I leave you to police yourselves about the movies that have yet to place.

I made a post on ilx once about the rampant symbolism in repulsion and someone asked what the rabbit symbolized and I was like, really?

Edward III I think if you say jjjusten's name 3 times he shows up, isn't that how it works?

only if you're posting drunk at midnight

The Fly is the first one that's placed exactly where it was on my ballot!

repulsion is a great movie to intermittently nap to

i am way less concerned w/ballot guessing now that weve hit the top ten, although obv i prefer to do mine by gnashing my teeth and wailing about stuff that has no chance of placing and thus got shut out of the top 100 in favor of lesser trifles.

Everyone who saw and liked "Black Swan" should be forced to watch "Repulsion" until they know better.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:45 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

^ this

no hostel or other roth stuff, no human centipede, day of the dead not going to make it but thank goodness pontypool and the cabin in the woods got their fair shake huh

I love Repulsion, and though I prefer it, I'm tired of the "I liked it the first time, when it was called Repulsion" attitude towards Black Swan. Different films with similar themes and, to a degree, styles. Big fan of both.

repulsion is a great movie to intermittently nap to

― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well. It's clear that SOMEONE on this thread has never been a woman with mental troubles. *flounces*

I missed a few days and had to just scroll through to see what placed, but I hope at the end of this there will be separate page/tumblr/whatever with just the image countdown. Got some friends who would love to see this.

so I guess Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is way past the chance of making it now

so in no order:

The Shining
Rosemary's Baby
Alien
The Thing
Suspiria
Wicker Man
Last House
Carrie
Psycho
Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Oh yeah, would definitely love that. There's a precedent for it, so nobody should mind.

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The Fly was my #1. It goes back to what I said about Jacob's Ladder--for me the best horror movies are the ones that work as horror but also move me. And I don't know that any movie devastates me like The Fly. There's so much hope in that relationship, so much promise, and it's all undone by a moment's impulse (going into the pod) and a tiny thing gone wrong (the entry of the fly). The physical decay fucking hurts when you see (and I'm sure most of us have) what terrible diseases can do to a person, not just their body but their mind. And you can see Geena Davis trying to so hard to hang on and be supportive but after a while it's just not possible anymore -- Brundle's changing body has changed his mind. Dammit, body and mind should be separate, but they're not, and this is what the film mercilessly throws at us. Plus, it's my absolute model of efficiency in screenwriting: there are 3 damn characters in this thing and never a boring minute. Maybe it's easy to take for granted now, but for Cronenberg to look at the silly original Fly and then come up with this masterpiece that never -- never -- flinches, not even at the heartbreaking end, is like a miracle. Plus there is humor(!) and excessive gore used to rare perfect effect, and that part where she has to decide to abort the baby because of possible deformities, even though she doesn't want to. I could go on and on.