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

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.

see I find Olde Worlde Englande hilarious

Suspiria is top 10 material, for sure, I just don't have a lot to say about it: batshit set design, garish colors, loud noises, screamy music, bright-red blood, the end. In other words, awesome.

cheerio ol bean wot wot too bad about me choppers eh

xp

Suspiria may not be the most startlingly clever film of all time, but I think it is one of Argento's where the plot actually works in a coherent manner. And it is his most beautiful.

I don't find Argento dumb so much as vacant.

lol I am such a dope, it just dawned on me that The Wicker Man was the movie I'd forgotten the name of and as a result left off of my ballot

I don't think you need to worry

"vacant" is closer to it i think but i'm totally happy with art which is all surface, it's a legitimate approach

could get all Deleuze-y about the surface being the interior or something but not with this hangover

gonna have to see this ere Suspiria film

I didn't say it wasn't a legitimate approach. I voted for it, I don't begrudge its placement, and yeah vacant is prolly more accurate than dumb.

plz don't get deleuzey

delazy

desnoozy

^ an appropriate level of discourse for the suspiria portion of the thread

I watched Susperia the first time when I was in college. My roommate rented it because someone had told her it was the scariest horror movie ever made. That was not true but watching it with absolutely zero information and being really high made me a superfan for life.

there's a whole bit about Willard in Mille Plateaux

Carl Agatha, I have a similar college story about me and Eyes Without a Face. Except instead of being high I was getting trepanated.

whoa