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

looking over my list, only 3 of my top ten are going to make it, two of which are oldster movies and one of which is wolf creek. and yeah i am not surprised by most of that but hostel not making it (or for that matter saw, which i am not crazy about) and paranormal activity getting in is just bizarre to me (no offense to PA supporters)

xpost yeah yeah i know

pour one out for Return of the Living Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhyJlMHa8XQ

rip awesome punk rock horror movie

also torture porn is a turn-off to most people, no matter how many lolz it has

and i say that as someone who laughed harder at the final scene from hostel ii than many comedies i've seen in the last decade

jjj modern horror movies need to know their place, ie outside the top 10

I think only one of my top 10 picks (God Told Me To) isn't going to place but we'll see

so far this list has NO Larry Cohen, which is fucking wrong.

i also say all this as someone who only voted for two 21st-century movies in his top ten, one of which was inland empire and another that was a non-audition miike, but i swear i'm on your side here.

on the plus side my two aforementioned oldster movies are "black christmas" and "sleepaway camp" neither of which (esp black christmas) i thought had the slightest shot of making the countdown so shut up me

Robin Wood was a big God Told Me To fan.

I would have been *very* surprised if Black Christmas hadn't made it.

Maybe it's more ignored in the US? Over here it's always championed as 'the first great slasher flick'...

Isn't there a general feeling that Eli Roth is an ass? Wonder if he's suffering here from backlash while the anonymous makers of, say, Wolf Creek get a pass.

ILX's Poll of the Top 50 John Saxon Movies

i am pretty sure 50 to 75 percent of film directors are asses. you probably kinda have to be to get anything done.

I knew Return of the Loving Dead wasn't a sequel when I said it was. I'm claiming mental slowmess from lingering illness.

Also:

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 want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:03 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

With all the high-faullutin' barelyhorror snoozefests on this list and you take issue with those two movies? gtfo

lol @ "return of the loving dead"

Hahaha

Send more cops... For me to make out with

I am

a) totally interested in reading contenderizer's ballot when the time comes

b) totally on board with Return of the Living Dead showing up in the top 10.

eli roth is kinda cute though, dilutes the assholery imo

Dammit I got all heartfelt about The Fly & nobody's handing me a hanky.

so far this list has NO Larry Cohen, which is fucking wrong.

It really is super fucking wrong.

Maybe it's more ignored in the US? Over here it's always championed as 'the first great slasher flick'...

Possibly. I was barely aware of Black Christmas' existence, so I was surprised to see it show up.

Deric, your going to sleep watching Eraserhead explains a great many things to me (joeks)

It takes me back to a time when I was a wee little fetal calf thing, swaddled in bandages and incessantly squawking at my beleaguered papa.

I do feel slightly bad for not including loads of out-there weirdo trash movies, but I don't feel bad for not including 21st-century torture films. And with the former clause, y'know, I just don't love them as much as I love stuff like Repulsion, so it wasn't that much of a tough choice.

xpost - other people on this thread saw a similarity between Repulsion rotted rabbit and Eraserhead baby, right?

I knew Return of the Loving Dead wasn't a sequel when I said it was. I'm claiming mental slowmess from lingering illness.

S'cool, bro. It's a spiritual sequel, as Shakey points out. Maybe one of the first meta "sequels" ever?

Sorry to hear about your slowmess. Go have a liedown and watch some zombies dole out hugs until you feel better.

megalolz at someone voting in a genre he explicitly doesn't care for dismissing one of the genre's acknowledged classics as "a silly little horror film."

b-b-but the acknowledgers ARE WRONG!

Speaking of silly, the one (and I assume only) Vincent Price film that made it is one where he doesn't play "Vincent Price." Pity.

btw Larry Cohen films are hard to see now if you don't do that downloady thingy

Speaking of silly, the one (and I assume only) Vincent Price film that made it is one where he doesn't play "Vincent Price." Pity.

Agreed. The Tingler was a longshot, but I was pullin' for it.

really want to watch Return of the Living Dead now. maybe this weekend, hmmm

Aw, thanks, DWHc. I watched four monster-of-the-week eps of X-Files, but close enough.

I give up what does the rabbit symbolize. Deneuve herself? her libido?

anyway now we're on to the really classic shit, I see.

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:06 PM (32 minutes ago)

rabbits known for their reproductive prowess and represent sexuality in general

playboy bunny for ex or http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/_/dict.aspx?word=breed+like+rabbits

slowly rotting rabbit = sexuality combined with death and repulsion, really a multi-level thing relating to the film's themes

Okay, I'm looking through my ballot, and by my estimation the most egregious omissions from these results are gonna be Day of the Dead (Come on! BUB!) and In The Mouth Of Madness (probably one of Carpenter's top three, and just such a great headfuck).

Also:

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 want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:03 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

With all the high-faullutin' barelyhorror snoozefests on this list and you take issue with those two movies? gtfo

― carl agatha, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:46 PM (Yesterday)

well my main point is that of the modern stuff these 2 are going to be minor blips at best like next year

also (and i know as capn save a 21st century this seems odd) am i right in thinking that not only no hammer horror but also no universal monster pictures are going to make the cut? because that is a whole different kind of insane really.

hence the perfection of pillbox's screengrab

Yeah, we're missing out on Hammer big-time. Got the two big Tigon films, though, so that's something. Am I right in thinking no Corman or Gordon Lewis, too?

Masque of the Red Death, you mothers

In The Mouth of Madness? for serious?

I don't feel bad for not including 21st-century torture films.

This might be food for another thread, but after seeing a couple of the Saw/Hostel/etc. films I have to raise the "I don't get it" flag on all of them. I'm annoyed with myself because it's such a cop-out answer, but I never found any of them to be particularly boundary-pushing, mind-buggering, or old-fashioned transgressive. Otherwise, they're all just a filmed mashup of Joel Peter-Witkin and Grimtooth's series of D&D trap books.

Martyrs may be the only exception, but that one is playing with a completely different deck of cards.

No Hammer, no Corman, no Herschel Gordon Lewis, no Fulci, no Bava (unless Black Sunday makes the top ten).

I think part of the Hammer lack might be that there are a lot of potential contenders, but not too many made the nom list afaict, and there wasn't a lot of campaigning so nobody got reminded of how much they loved Dracula Prince of Darkness or whatever.

...but also no universal monster pictures are going to make the cut?

First two Frankensteins have placed. (But I am surprised Dracula, The Mummy, and The Wolf Man were all shut out.)

No Franco either.

Yeah, I must say that although I like the overall Hammer aesthetic I do struggle to find films that are actually Hammer (rather than just being of a similar style - seriously, I get this confusion all the time) and that stand up among 'the greats'.

No Bava is a bloody travesty, actually.

Lugosi vs Karloff in The Black Cat > Dracula

Also, Tod Browning's silents with Chaney.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Drgoodfootos.jpg

i realize it's not a horror movie. i just like posting that.

clearly Fabian is an alias

he's just 'FABIAN'

Okay, I've got a Bela Lugosi box with The Black Cat--it's go time! (Should clarify that I didn't expect all three to place--I thought maybe one besides Frankenstein would make it. I assume Freaks is Universal too?)

feel like i need to do a quickie AIP poll

Masque of the Red Death, you mothers

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:10 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ this

God, I hope so. But I doubt it at this point.

In The Mouth of Madness? for serious?

I'm absolutely serious! Although I wonder between viewings, "Was I serious? Is it really that good?". Because it kinda seems like it shouldn't be? And then I watch it again and I'm like, yep, it really is that good.