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

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

All credit goes to Pillbox, including the decision to make the Top 10 rotating gifs.

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ok guys, you're posting way too much

The Wicker Man is seriously not better than this last run of half-dozen entries

xpost keep up old man, or Leatherface'll GITCHA :D

Still need over 2,000 posts to come within earshot of comedy poll.

I didn't even vote itt and I'm 100% invested in the outcome now

tcm may have the most...diseased vibe of any film i know.

quality over quantity imo

xps

xp Ha, me, too. Well, I voted, but I'm also super invested. I even suspended my "no ILX on my work computer" rule for the duration of this poll. Let's hope nobody looks at my browsing history (why are there all these searches for "666 birthmark" and "gory eyeball death"?).

eh fuck it, i got some stuff i love higher than it would have been for sure. and considering i did it out of worry about these films getting neglected and only 13 of mine are going to place, it feels warranted.

also to clarify, i totally stand by my ballot, and although it isnt the real deal academic top 50 i would do if i was like writing an article about it, its definitely a description of the horror movies that i am the most passionate about.

xpost to DJP

besides if we do ballots and stats in here you'll get yr filthy bloodsoaked 2000 maniac posts

TCM looks how our garbage can smells when Mr Veg throws away the offcuts of a pork shoulder

next time i run a movie poll i might have to recruit p-box

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2qp7llLTe1qiy5m2o6_1280.jpg

I mean, geez, this looks like it could be the final shot in any number of "torture porn" flicks. TCM bein' all influential and whatnot.

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

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:20 AM (8 minutes ago)

the stills at the beginning go a long way towards explaining why i don't really like TCM, though i do admire it. everything in the film is filthy, cluttered, off kilter, tense, sweaty, grotesquely ugly. and screaming. the terrified, agonizing shrieking just goes on and on and on, sometimes intermixed with roaring chainsaws, sometimes not. one of the most abrasively unpleasant cinematic experiences available.

;_; jjj how can I effectively lol @ u if you're going to be so equinamous about it ;_;

like every surface looks like it could give you tetanus or an std

xposts

Man, she is going to need so much therapy. xp

My #1, even though I haven't seen it in at least 20 years--voted on visceral impact going back to my early '20s.

omg an Omar/Pillbox poll would be all time

(crosses fingers and prays for War Movie poll)

*no offense Eric H, oops lol

Should be double-billed with In a Year with 13 Moons.

i love that contenderizers description is basically exactly why i love TCM as much as i do

totally -- the world is mean, and man uncouth!

one of the most abrasively unpleasant cinematic experiences available

And your point is ... ?

After 93 posts, I fear we're starting to take Eric's amazing crypt keeper intros for granted, I think. I'm amazing and awed that you were able to think of this many puns! And that they are so good!

lol xpost jjjusten

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.

not astonishing to me, but slightly surprising, maybe? i like it a lot, was my #29, and i hate the word "overrated" on principle, but there's something about its elevation to all time best-of-the-best status that mystifies and even bothers me a little. seems like it naturally oughtta be this creepy little low-key cult oddity that sneaks in somewhere in the mid-twenties and surprises everybody, not universally praised as the best horror movie ever made. eh, but why not? taste is unpredictable, and it is pretty damn great.

I've totally been recycling throughout the poll, carl a.

I'm relieved to hear it, frankly.

Eric's not into pleasence, cept for Donald.

Next up is the one I allegedly kept outta the top 5 with my ballot! I pray it's what I think it is!

The Wicker Man is seriously not better than this last run of half-dozen entries

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:33 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, it pretty much is. Except maybe Suspiria. And if Repulsion was in the last six. Also, TCM is way more lolsome than TWM.

i am looking forward to when eric gets to step down as impartial poll master and gets to opine on a lot of this

man e.mily i am totally baffled by the idea that TCM is ever ever lolsome

And your point is ... ?

just that. not hating on the film or its fans, just explaining why it's not a personal favorite of mine. now that it think about it, it is somewhat similar to possession, which makes a similar virtue of unrelieved tension, disorder and discomfort.

save "polemaster" for whatever genre Showgirls is in

It's a big old rampage of weirdo hicks cutting up annoying teens, how is not lolsome?

man e.mily i am totally baffled by the idea that TCM is ever ever lolsome

grampa trying to hit the girl over the head at dinner is p funny

I had Chainsaw 10th. I first saw it in the last 10 years, and the theater was rocking with laughter.

man e.mily i am totally baffled by the idea that TCM is ever ever lolsome

well, it does have sick-funny parts (grandpa's dinner), and there's a blackly comic tone to the whole thing, but yeah, the gross grim tension never lets up enough to permit actual laughter.

My fave TCM story is that they only had something like 20 feet of dolly track, so all that running through the woods is supposedly just the same stretch of woods over and over again.

Next up is the one I allegedly kept outta the top 5 with my ballot! I pray it's what I think it is!

If it's Alien or The Shining I'm donating $100 to the NRA in your name today.

LOL

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so we're left with the Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Psycho and the Wicker Man eh

I recognize the spots that could be lolsome, but I've never been able to lol at TCM. The stumbling block I can't get past is the screaming and how it never, ever stops. But I can see how even that could be funny to the right person.

It's a big old rampage of weirdo hicks cutting up annoying teens, how is not lolsome?

well, by that measure, the wicker man is a wierdo loser farting around for a while before coming afoul of hippies

I do like that the hitchhiker is doing Bobcat Goldthwaite years before he was even a thing.

the Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Psycho and the Wicker Man
would see this movie