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

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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

Voluntarily?

sucks when your college is in a dry town

http://www.kookscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/DarrylRevok_ThirdEye.png

Hey, I didn't know there were surviving pictures from that night. Really takes me back.

this is my favorite thread

there is one wild card left in this deck imo and every reveal is kind of nerve wracking

I honestly can't tell if Thnig is joking...

*scared*

well his name used to be Thing

wait, my deck needed to be reshuffled. no wild cards left, as you were...

Thing One or Thing Two? xp

I didn't know him in college, but he does have a very unusual mark on the side of his head.