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!
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
lol xpost jjjusten
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
I've totally been recycling throughout the poll, carl a.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
I'm relieved to hear it, frankly.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
i am looking forward to when eric gets to step down as impartial poll master and gets to opine on a lot of this
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
save "polemaster" for whatever genre Showgirls is in
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
It's a big old rampage of weirdo hicks cutting up annoying teens, how is not lolsome?
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
grampa trying to hit the girl over the head at dinner is p funny
― Darin, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
I had Chainsaw 10th. I first saw it in the last 10 years, and the theater was rocking with laughter.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
If it's Alien or The Shining I'm donating $100 to the NRA in your name today.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
LOL
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
texas groundhogs day massacre
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
so we're left with the Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Psycho and the Wicker Man eh
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
well, by that measure, the wicker man is a wierdo loser farting around for a while before coming afoul of hippies
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
I do like that the hitchhiker is doing Bobcat Goldthwaite years before he was even a thing.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
the Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Psycho and the Wicker Manwould see this movie
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
^^^exactly
nothing remotely scary/horrifying about it
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ Lechera
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.
otm. on that level, it's as distressing as any "torture porn" film.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
All credit goes to Pillbox, including the decision to make the Top 10 rotating gifs.
I've been doing the assembly, sure, b/c that is what I *do* - but esp in the final stages of the rollout, I just wanted to point out that the selection process etc. was all very collaborative.
― Carnage of PJ Soles (Pillbox), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
Already broke this rule a lot, but mostly to praise the movies I love here, which is less a problem since it's a "top 100" list and all.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
They Solve Crimes!
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
Cult hippies are way scarier than hicks.
Anyway, don't get me wrong, obviously I can pinpoint the bits of TWM that are also lolsome, but I guess this is my preference for creep rather than slash coming out...
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
The Alien, The Thing, The Shining, the Psycho, the Wicker Man, the Cook, his Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
"Psycho and the Wicker Man" really does sound like some 70s cop/private detective joint.
xp ROFL
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Been desperately searching for "TCM" bit in "Summer School," but I did find this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPGROgL-b2s
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
is this some sort of Manson vs. Gein binary
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
That's like asking which is scarier: my family or my 20s?
― carl agatha, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
I get the black humor in TCM, but not one frame of that movie is lolsome to me. It hits me in a very deep and nightmarish place.
― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
"It WAS ... until Mr. Hal Jam's MOTHER'S ballot SWITCHED them back around! Hee-hee!"
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8141/7262257888_2790462214_o.gif
06. PSYCHOAlfred Hitchcock, USA, 1960(1049 points, 28 votes, 1 first-place vote)
Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO, now 50 years old -- great 20th-century art or mere "carnivalesque" shocker?re the shrink's monologue: Try to imagine what the average American thought about crossdressing in 1959.― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Sunday, March 7, 2010 2:49 PM (2 years ago)it's pretty audacious that the movie spends 1/2 hour with Marion and her plot before she gets killed off, I can't imagine a movie going that far just to fuck with you these days― congratulations (n/a), Monday, March 8, 2010 9:48 AM (2 years ago)
re the shrink's monologue: Try to imagine what the average American thought about crossdressing in 1959.― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Sunday, March 7, 2010 2:49 PM (2 years ago)
it's pretty audacious that the movie spends 1/2 hour with Marion and her plot before she gets killed off, I can't imagine a movie going that far just to fuck with you these days― congratulations (n/a), Monday, March 8, 2010 9:48 AM (2 years ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
Wicker Man beating this is some bullshit
this post to be c+p'ed as necessary
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
my parents saw Psycho on a date without knowing much about it and it scarred my mother to the point where she almost cries at any type of jump scare
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
"If it's Alien or The Shining"
oh, MUST RESPECT canon, eh Phil, just like all the silent and Sturges stuff in the comedy poll?
well, this was my #2, so somebody lied. Also, TOO LOW.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
I agree with that. "Psycho" is never dull, even when the psych is babbling at the end. But "Wicker Man" ... I dunno. She does have sex with a door, I guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
xpost.
also my dad took baths instead of showers for like a week afterward
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
Eeeeeg, that shot of the body shape in the mattress!
― The Thnig, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
To be honest, I'm starting to wonder if The Wicker Man is actually going to be perplexingly missed out. I can see it beating a bunch of these, but... beating Psycho? Really? But then... surely it can't have been beaten by everything else here, including a film that only came out a week before voting? Surely?
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
per Robin Wood, I think of Psycho as the cinematic equivalent of Hamlet as much as a proto-slasher film.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
I do like the smell-ntal image I have of people walking around in 1960 in total full stink due to their newfound fear of showers.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
i knoweither way it won't end well
option a: everyone hates on the wicker manoption b: wicker man gets shut out
both result in ;_;
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
all of this "how can hicks be terrifying" stuff is making me think that england must have really low-quality hicks or something
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link