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

Other avoidances of Nobel Cripple:

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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

the modern interviews are full of still lingering rage at the shit they had to put up with on set.

Also basically nobody got paid.

Thx to distribution deal with the mafia.

tbh I voted for it even tho I don't think I've ever watched the thing all the way through - I've seen the entire thing, just in various disconnected chunks

which I guess is appropriate lol

Yeah it has a real docu-drama feel ...and then there's stuff like the famous low-angle tracking shot up to the house, real artist-type shit.

slamming metal door might be the greatest moment in horror film history

Definitely right up there for me. I didn't vote in this poll, but TCM would have been my number one.

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*

Eaten Alive is the same way, though nowhere near as good a movie.

also "who will survive...and what will be left of them" is unbeatable

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

^Yes! This is when you realize, OH DAMN THESE PEEPS IN SOME DEEP DOO DOO!!

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

That whole scene from the moment he enters the screen door until the metal door slams shut may be my favorite scene in any movie ever.

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

Yep. It's the moment that makes you wonder what the fuck you've gotten yourself into; ie, the purpose of horror films.

+ the pig sound effects over the whole thing

I don't remember how old I was when I first saw it, teens I guess, but I loved- (well it scared me at the time but retrospectively)- I loved how it felt like it was really happening in front of me the first time I saw it. that docu-dramayness can't be underrated

also you guys I think we need to take a moment and thank ed gein for being such a great inspiration [vomits]

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this is the first point where i feel actively bad abt my strategy voting because this really should have been higher. if the next film beats it by less than 50 points i will feel like a jerk.

lol @ u for strategy voting btw

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Cmon let's just appreciate these.

incredible screencaps/images eric! the bar has been raised for all future polls.

omg Thnig that gif literally made me recoil

Cmon let's just appreciate these.

Her butt cheeks?

who wears short shorts