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

have I told the story about how Omen II totally fucked me up as a kid because I completely misread/misunderstood the movie and thought that all of the adults basically badgered and hounded Damien into becoming the Antichrist and that if they'd just been nice to him, none of those awful things would have happened?

well I guess I have now

"BUZZ has it this is the most unsettling movie many of you ever SAW!"

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07. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
Tobe Hooper, USA, 1974
(1031 points, 27 votes, 8 first-place votes)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the original.
― David Merryweather (DavidM), Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:36 PM (7 years ago)
All new ILE movies poll: THE WORST FILM OF ALL TIME, EVER, WITHOUT ANY QUALIFICATION. Nominations thread.

i had never seen the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and i started it last night...and i had to turn it off. it was totally making me paranoid.
― the table is the table, Friday, January 18, 2008 10:24 AM (4 years ago)

wd've been fine with orig Texas Chainsaw Massacre finishing waaaay ahead of Ghostbusters in comedy poll, btw
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:39 AM (1 month ago)

Ditto.
Of course, I'd root for that movie in a romance poll.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:41 AM (1 month ago)

I have lived my entire life being afraid of seeing Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:04 PM (3 years ago)

The worst scene in Texas Chainsaw is where the girl gets out of the house, runs down the porchsteps, the Texas sky is so blue, and nope, Leatherface catches her and takes her back into the house.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:40 AM (3 years ago)

xp In your searches, did you come across the photo where somebody got "666" tattooed underneath his fingernail??!?!?! That's some dedication to a thing right there.

Omen 3: Damien Sees a Counsellor

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay TCM

ok now this poll is getting ridiculous

omg a gif?!

I would like to congratulate Boxing Helena on its surprise win

This was #5 on my ballot. I cannot think of two movies that would place in between this and the top five.

well that's good because there's only space for one

I would like to congratulate Boxing Helena on its surprise win

lollllll if there's anything that would make me leave ILX forever, this would probably be it.

Marilyn Burns is the all-time fucking greatest. That screaming and her run through the woods after Leatherface kills Franklin . . .

xp Quiet, Professor Math

For a while I was pretty convinced that Julian Sands was actually Bob.

(everyone else actively wanted Franklin to get killed, wheelchair or no wheelchair, right?)

Oh yeah.

SALLY THEY TOOK THE KEYS SALLY DO YOU THINK HE COULD FOLLOW US SHOULDN'T WE GO LOOK FOR THEM SALLY SALLY IT'S GETTING DARK SALLY LET ME GO WITH YOU SALLY

8 number ones??? Bloody hell. A good film, though I mostly found it amusing rather than scary.

omg a gif?!

― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:03 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All of the top ten have been gifs - you need to go look again, they're brilliant.

The avoidance of the Noble Cripple trope is one of the many things I like about this movie (nb: this is one of the cannon selections I didn't vote for, assuming (correctly) it would do fine without me).

sorry, i had to catch up after that meeting that bored me TO DEATH

knowing the circumstances around the actors experiences in TCM makes lars von triers notable abuse of actors seem kinda huggalovable

Actually, on repeated viewings the family creeped me out much more than they did the first time. Not entirely sure why it'd work that way round, maybe more time to stew on the actual fucked-upness of humanity.

Other avoidances of Nobel Cripple:

http://twitpic.com/40iirb

I should probably watch TCM

aw u made bjork cry, heres some rotting meat to hang out w/while you cook in the texas heat

xpost wait waht

xxpost jjjusten I don't know much of the behind the scenes stuff, was it a bad scene for the actors on set?

This scene will never NOT scare me.

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Fun Fact: Hooper's actual first feature, Eggshells was re-discovered in 1969 and can watched here:

http://mubi.com/films/eggshells

per Wikipedia:

The primary filming location was an early 1900s farmhouse located on Quick Hill Road near Round Rock, Texas, where the La Frontera development is now located. The small budget and concerns over high-cost equipment rentals meant the crew filmed seven days a week, up to 16 hours a day. The environment was humid and the cast and crew found conditions tough; temperatures peaked at 110 °F (43 °C) on July 26. Hansen later recalled, "It was 95, 100 degrees every day during filming. They wouldn't wash my costume because they were worried that the laundry might lose it, or that it would change color. They didn't have enough money for a second costume. So I wore that (mask) 12 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week, for a month."

Pretty much everyone on that crew vomited once; some had to be hospitalized after they lit a bunch of dead dog carcasses on fire out back and the smoke seeped into the set.

crap, sorry, Eggshells was rediscovered in like 2004. XPOST

oh god yes, the modern interviews are full of still lingering rage at the shit they had to put up with on set. also franklin and sally apparently legit hated each other which i think adds to some of the chemistry you see on screen.

Guy who played the Hitchhiker claimed he was in Vietnam and it wasn't as bad as being on set for the dinner sequence.

TOO LOW

I didn't vote for TCM but I really should have

some had to be hospitalized after they lit a bunch of dead dog carcasses on fire out back and the smoke seeped into the set

I heard they did this on the set of Tom Hanks' "The Terminal" but they were professionals about it and walked it off.

This is my #1. No movie has ever filled me with the sense of dread like this one. Love the degraded roughness of it, the bleakness, and of course the black humor (that I didn't get when I viewed this as a teen but now just adds to the awesomness).

some had to be hospitalized after they lit a bunch of dead dog carcasses on fire out back and the smoke seeped into the set.

tbh this sounds like a scene from some of the parties I went to in high school

can anyone recommend me a good book /interviews etc for background deets? I'm really interested, dunno why I never dug around before now

IFC did a horror movie month when I turned 21 and I spent each weekend eating pizza alone and watching a ton of canonical stuff hosted by tom savini instead of doing the stuff you're supposed to do when you turn 21. They even aired TCM with a commentary track on.

Most of the filming took place in the farmhouse, which was filled with furniture constructed from animal bones and a latex material used as upholstery to give the appearance of human skin. The house was not cooled, and there was little ventilation. The crew covered its walls with drops of animal blood obtained from a local slaughterhouse. Art director Robert Burns drove around the countryside and collected the remains of cattle and other animals in various stages of decomposition, with which he littered the floors of the house.

The special effects were simple and limited by the budget. The on-screen blood was real in some cases, such as the scene in which Leatherface feeds "Grandpa". The crew had difficulty getting the stage blood to come out of its tube, so instead Burns's index finger was cut with a razor. Burns's costume was so drenched with stage blood that it was "virtually solid" by the last day of shooting. The scene in which Leatherface decapitates Kirk with a chainsaw worried actor William Vail (Kirk). After telling Vail to stay still lest he really be killed, Hansen brought the running chainsaw to within 3 inches (8 cm) of Vail's face.

I am also interested in more than the wikipedia article about the making of this movie and all of the misery involved.

why would anyone set a bunch of dead dog carcasses on fire

ever since the first time I watched it, whole of TCM just felt creepy as all get out from the beginning. Like it just looks kinda greasy and sweaty and *shudder*

Leatherface *looks* like he stinks

no wonder it was so effective, I had no idea it was so grody irl

why would anyone set a bunch of dead dog carcasses on fire

just another Friday at the quarry

if i was pressed i think i might say that the slamming metal door might be the greatest moment in horror film history

DJP, lets be fair, those werent dog corpses, that was toxic fumes from burning tires

I WANT TO WATCH THIS RIGHT NOW PLEASE

those making-of details go a long way to explaining how grimy everything looks

but no way would teenagers pour pig blood on each other