Can tell you for sure right now that there are some real heartbreakers (for me, and I presume for many others as well) in the #101-125 range.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
Movies That Would've Been In Had I Weighted VotesMovies That Would've Been Out Had I Weighted Votes
Stats that will cause riots fyi
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
'Movies That Are Legit Scary' would be a great (and fairly slim) sub-list. I mean, there are maybe only five or six of mine that fit that bill imo.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
By my count, 25 of my 50 have placed already, and there are three that are definitely still to come. Possibly the most in tune with ilx poll results I've ever been? Though I guess having 50 picks rather than, say, 25, makes that more likely.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
Probably not, hausu chicken. Somehow, only two movies would be swapped out for a different two. I was surprised too.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, given how much of a bottleneck there was of almost-same point totals toward the bottom.
27 for me, and i'm guessing i voted for pretty much all of the top ten, too.
i can't tell if that makes me part of the problem or what.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:18 PM (5 minutes ago)
was always a massive long shot but if one of them has the initials lhodes I'll go a lil crazy inside
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
I do feel slightly bad for not including loads of out-there weirdo trash movies
you should! (n.b. a lot of my ballot was stuff like this)
Also, I voted for both versions of The Fly and both Invasions of the Bodysnatchers.
― sarahell, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:24 PM (2 minutes ago)
wow, that's some consensus... tho the pool of voters was significant enough I guess
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
27 of my picks have placed thus far, with at least another surefire 5 still to place in the top ten. So I'm pretty in-tune with these results, I guess, despite being a little more low-class and a little less Oldie Oldson.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
only 10 out of 50 of mine have placed.
― sarahell, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
25 of mine have placed.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
11 for me so fat
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
stuff on my ballot that's appeared so far ... 31 of my picks, so i'm doing quite well indeed:
011. The Fly (1986) (#24 on my ballot, 27 pts)012. Repulsion (#13 on my ballot, 38 pts)013. The Exorcist (#19 on my ballot, 32 pts)014. Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn (#33 on my ballot, 18 pts)015. Eraserhead (#9 on my ballot, 42 pts)016. Dawn of the Dead (#44 on my ballot, 7 pts)019. The Night of the Hunter (#1 on my ballot, 50 pts)024. Carnival Of Souls (#46 on my ballot, 5 pts)025. Let the Right One In (#39 on my ballot, 12 pts)026. Don't Look Now (#11 on my ballot, 40 pts)030. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) (#38 on my ballot, 13 pts)033. Freaks (#48 on my ballot, 3 pts)035. House (Hausu) (#27 on my ballot, 24 pts)036. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (#4 on my ballot, 47 pts)037. The Silence of the Lambs (#32 on my ballot, 19 pts)040. The Birds (#12 on my ballot, 39 pts)042. Peeping Tom (#21 on my ballot, 30 pts)045. Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) (#45 on my ballot, 6 pts)046. Eyes Without A Face (Les yeux sans visage) (#47 on my ballot, 4 pts)059. Cat People (1942) (#35 on my ballot, 16 pts)060. Vampyr (1932) (#3 on my ballot, 48 pts)061. M (#5 on my ballot, 46 pts)063. Shaun of the Dead (#23 on my ballot, 28 pts)067. Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen) (#18 on my ballot, 33 pts)071. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (#49 on my ballot, 2 pts)075. (tie) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) (#31 on my ballot, 20 pts)077. Pan's Labyrinth (#36 on my ballot, 15 pts)080. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (#10 on my ballot, 41 pts)082. Kwaidan (#14 on my ballot, 37 pts)090. Dressed To Kill (#37 on my ballot, 14 pts)093. Seven (#20 on my ballot, 31 pts)
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
so fat
― ahhhhhhh shit here comes the motherfuckin thread cops (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
I think I have 2 more that will make the top ten, but that's it
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
me so fat
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
chicken fat
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
PS: Fuck you, Gwenyth Paltrow. Get out of my important web searches.
haha, the exact same thought went through my head earlier today
― Chris S, Thursday, 24 May 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
27 of mine have placed
― Darin, Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I discovered a treat for those of you who feel that YouTube is the ideal way to watch a movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_XPJHwOsHE
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
i'm sure night of the living dead will be in the Top 10, more so than last house on the left.
yeah, i was saying this earlier. by far the best film romero's ever made, and one of my all-time horror favorites. there's no way that last house on the left is beating it out for one of the remaining slots.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
27 of my votes have shown up so far, and i expect to have 32 on the list by end of day tomorrow
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
16 so far, I believe. 21 by poll's end for sure.
― Simon H., Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
this movie is fat iirc
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NL2Gd68XOeo/T4yr17kezuI/AAAAAAAAFHk/puJavYNC-34/s1600/l_93990_37413efa.jpg
― Carnage of PJ Soles (Pillbox), Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:32 (twelve years ago) link
Just watched Possession. It was very good.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:45 (twelve years ago) link
I watched it at the Yerba Buena in SF a few weeks ago. It messed up my brain.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:47 (twelve years ago) link
How would the weighting votes work?
My impression is indeed that Hostel is being punished rather than celebrated for it's influence, but I am a little surprised at Saw. But then I guess if influence was king we'd be seeing Friday the 13th somewhere in here?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 May 2012 07:28 (twelve years ago) link
As a near-complete ignoramus I am intrigued by finding out different levels of respect for what I'd absorbed as Those Horror Films, like the Friday 13th thing - what is the reason Last House of the Left should be top 10 when Amityville / Child's Play / Basket Case / The Hitcher don't make the top 100?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:01 (twelve years ago) link
no reason at all, and it won't be
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:22 (twelve years ago) link
i want a reverse exacta on the shining and the thing.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:34 (twelve years ago) link
Oh no I got that, but some people seemed to think it might be, I was just curious.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 May 2012 08:39 (twelve years ago) link
Ok here's a brief Exorcist story. I've seen it once, in the cinema. It might be hammy but it scared the living fuck out of me and I couldn't go to sleep without the light on for literally weeks afterwards. I was 21 at the time. Even thinking about it now, in broad daylight - e.g. when reading about the spiderwalk scene upthread, which i happened to catch on tv one evening - can give me the shivers. And that is why i'm not a horror film afficionado. (Other films that have shitted me up good and proper: The Haunting, Ringu/The Ring, the 1980s Granada TV production of The Woman in Black.)
― the fey monster (ledge), Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:27 (twelve years ago) link
ledge i thought you were a hardcore rationalist, what's happened to you man?
― You can do it Sun Myung Moon (NickB), Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
I went to see The Exorcist on its rerelease ~7/8 years ago - I just had one of those "see 7-8 films" weekends, and the Exorcist was last thing on Saturday. And then again first thing on Sunday, arguing with the cashier to let me in an hour into the film, where I fled the night before :)
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:34 (twelve years ago) link
xp I don't know man! Well of course not believing something doesn't always make it any less scary. Also I think the Exorcist is an incredible depiction of pure evil, distilled and exaggerated obviously but all the more effective for it; and although I don't believe in the form it's presented in that doesn't mean I don't believe in the idea or its ability to scare.
― the fey monster (ledge), Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
Loving the poll though. Quite a few on here I want to check out - and a few I know I should stay the hell away from.
― the fey monster (ledge), Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:52 (twelve years ago) link
I've seen 11 of these which is surprsing to me. i remember watching Eraserhead in a lecture hall at uni with about five other people. my housemate had her eyes covered for the whole of the second half lol.
― kid steel (cajunsunday), Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
The Hitcher! Would have made a fine addition to the list. Or Basket Case, for that matter.
Really glad Day of the Dead never appeared. That movie is dull as fuck, with a great beginning, a great ending, and an hour of talking and yelling in the middle.
A couple of other great Romeros, of course, won't make it (Martin, Crazies). Same with Carpenter. The question is, which inevitable surprise of the top ten will get the biggest reaction? I predict Nightbreed.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:46 (twelve years ago) link
The only thing I expected to place which hasn't and probably won't now is Carpenter's 'They Live'. I thought that was fairly well regarded, though perhaps not enough 'horror' in it for some.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
I might have expected Tenebrae to place but i can't see two Argento films being in the top ten. Too much vote splitting, perhaps.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
Spoilers: Tenebrae missed out on my vote as I already had two Argento films on my ballot.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
xp I'd love to see any surprise of course, but particularly Lost Highway.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
rmde
there's no way the argento isnt suspiria but who knows with this list anymore
― me so fat (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
Martin is Romero's best flick, maybe second best, so obv it won't place.
predicting Frankenhooker ftw
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago) link
no Demons either? honest to god fuck this i knew i shd've voted
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:31 (twelve years ago) link
David Lynch but no fucking Demons poll is dead inside
― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
Items from my ballot that have made it so far (28/50, not bad!):
011. The Fly 013. The Exorcist014. Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn016. Dawn of the Dead 017. Videodrome 018. Halloween 020. Poltergeist 021. Braindead [Dead Alive] 024. Carnival Of Souls 025. Let the Right One In [Låt den rätte komma in] 027. The Ring 028. The Blair Witch Project 030. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers 036. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 038. Black Christmas043. A Nightmare On Elm Street 045. Deep Red [Profondo Rosso] 046. Eyes Without A Face [Les yeux sans visage] 047. An American Werewolf in London048. Jaws 052. Re-Animator 056. The Vanishing [Spoorloos] 071. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 075. (tie) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers078. Hellraiser081. Duel093. Seven 100. Phantasm
Items from my ballot that will under no circumstances show up:
Prince of Darkness, Scanners, Sisters, The Crazies, Pumpkinhead, The Blob (1988), Altered States
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:34 (twelve years ago) link
Strongo, I think everyone is assuming that Suspiria is getting in. I know I am, and that's what I thought ShariVari meant by not seeing two Argento films making it top ten (as in, Tenebrae doesn't stand a chance, not that it could be one or the other)... Unless I'm misunderstanding you?
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 12:35 (twelve years ago) link