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

rainbows were popular in the 70s guys

So were gay people.

Didn't Betty Buckley do a bunch of successful Lloyd Webber horseshit on stage?

Forgot about Cats (which always makes me think of Paul Newman on Letterman: "Where the hell's the singin' cats?").

I think that's the saddest thing to me about NOTLA, is that it wound up in public domain because as Romero put it (iirc), hell they were students, they didn't know any better.

But at the same time, it's kind of gratifying that despite all the horrible things that have been done to that poor movie, all the iterations with color and updates and alternative endings and remakes all just serve to remind everyone how great the original truly is. It's unfuckwithable.

goddammit this thing should be #1

Duane Jones should have become a star.

Night obviously owes a lot to The Birds, though I think it's a much better film.

the best remake of night of the living dead is called assault on precinct 13

Ah yeah, but the public domain thing did lead to NOTLD: Re-animated, which I thought was a pretty cool and fun project.

I know I'm opening myself up to ridicule ("They're all going to laugh at you!"), but I thought Signs was an honorable addition to the Birds/Night tradition of assault-on-the-home horror films.

noooo, Assault on Precinct 13 is a mediocre remake of Rio Bravo

I would agree you until the last third xpost

There's a shit-ass documentary called Fan of the Dead that it, you know, shit-ass, but it does go to all the original NOTLD locations, and it's kinda fun to see how the basement looks now, the cemetery, the house location, etc.

I honestly wish I had been alive and old enough to have seen this in 1968. It must have been a real punch in the balls, even by the standards of drive-in fare.

I think if I ever saw George Romero in person I'd have to fight the urge to give him a great big bro-hug.

Agree, de croupier--the baseball bat/religious stuff was bad.

Read Ebert's original review for a good sense of someone sitting in a theatre in 1968, numb with shock.

Signs is like if it turned out the zombies in Dead were allergic to water even though they were eating bodies that are at least 50% water.

I've given Romero a bro-hug and can report two things: dude is like 8 feet tall and smells like 1000 cigarettes. xpost

noooo, Assault on Precinct 13 is a mediocre remake of Rio Bravo

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:13 PM (32 seconds ago)

hawks obv a huge influence on NotLD but I would imagine romero loomed pretty large in carpenter's world in 1976

xpost Thnig: dunno, sounds p awesome to me :)

xpost and that the murderous zombies were put on earth to bring the world's flightiest minister back to jesus

hate to say it but Crazies remake >>>> original Crazies.

i mostly agree with this right up until the absolutely horrible cheapout ending of the remake

not for any good reason, but i was absolutely shocked when i found out that romero is this huge tall dude.

While we're on Romero, have we ever had a thread about "Monkey Shines?"

well, according to wiki we're both right

The story was inspired by the Howard Hawks western film Rio Bravo and the George A. Romero horror film Night of the Living Dead.

I'm afraid to see the Crazies remake because it just looked like it would be disappointing, olyphant crush notwithstanding

i mean i had seen a ton of interviews with him but he was always sitting down i guess.

hawks obv a huge influence on NotLD

Don't say like that.

"A must for fans of ARRRRRGH-ITECTURE!"

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08. SUSPIRIA
Dario Argento, Italy, 1977
(1014 points, 29 votes, 2 first-place votes)

what does Dario do that others don't? Well, he practically invented the mis en scene of the contemporary horror film that is the killer's eye view point (as seen from the camera) not to mention quietly revolutionising the use of widescreen in the genre, his 360 degree camera trickery in Opera was genuinely groundbreaking and without Suspiria and Deep Red there would be no John Carpenter or Brain DePalma and Tim Burton as we currently know them. Without Suspiria it's probable that Sam Raimi and Nicholas Roeg would not be the same either - and the Robert Zemeckis film What Lies Beneath was pure Argento, as was From Hell and pretty much every other 'mainstream' genre film of recent years. I could ramble on, but as one postee mentioned there has been a ton of literature devoted to his influence on American cinema.
― Calum, Friday, May 2, 2003 7:25 PM (9 years ago)

the opening sequence at the airport alone is as perfect a fusion of image/sound/movement/colour as anything that the archers achieved
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, October 27, 2010 10:53 AM (1 year ago)

can you imagine if suspiria and solaris were scored by ornette coleman?
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, May 13, 2003 10:18 PM (9 years ago)

xxposts yeah I don't think I knew how tall Romero was til I watched that Simon Pegg behind the scenes thing on Land of the Dead.

VG the remake is great, though i saw it before the original. if you can resist a movie that opens with olyphant, in a police uniform, sipping coffee and saying "i don't care what you say, the first day of spring is the first day of high school baseball season" you are not a true Olyphant fan.

Well, he practically invented the mis en scene of the contemporary horror film that is the killer's eye view point (as seen from the camera)

oh bless him i know what film he hadn't seen

Somewhere Olyphant has a Dorian Gray painting stashed away.

TV trailer to Monkey Shines, with just that wind-up monkey toy, scared the ever-loving shit out of me as a kid. Pretty decent movie, actually -- like all non-zom Romero, it's better than you think it's gonna be.

xpost

xpost okay croup, you convinced me: I'll check it out :D

TOO LOW.

oh bless him i know what film he hadn't seen

M?

i barely remember a thing about Monkey Shines but i remember not thinking it was out of Romero's top drawer

i fear modern cinema has ruined argento for me, i just don't know what i'm supposed to do during the long stretches between the gorgeous shots of murder

i love tedium

pretty sure those are the parts where texting and making phone calls are allowed in the modern movie theater

Am I a bad person for preferring both Deep Red and Phenomena over Suspiria?

But... the murders aren't the only gorgeous bits of Argento films.

not much to say about suspiria. it's beautiful, pulse-pounding, works on your fear center in an almost subconscious way, but it's dumb as a bag of hammers.

somewhere in the bottom half of my ballot

I'M OUT OF MY MEETING NOW

i know that this is not a very popular opinion around here but the fact that the wicker man is beating some of these is really astonishing to me.

― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:46 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark

As much as I am a Wicker Man Superfan, I tend to agree with you here. But it is NOT a comedy. A fantasy, maybe.

i don't think Suspiria dumb, i assume you mean in terms of plot or script but i just don't think Argento is interested in them as anything but means to visual expression

Suspiria is v v pretty.

by that I mean it doesn't have a coherent thought in it head, but as you point out the drapes are nice

xp

its head

maybe should avoid typos when calling a film "dumb"

Wicker Man's as funny as toothache. it literally made me feel ill when i first saw it, as much as i loved it. something about.. Olde Wordle England
(maypoles, blackboards, harvest festivals etc) always gave me the heebies for some reason. this film just sends my trauma-ometer doolally.