lol @ Lechera
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:52 (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.
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
i am looking forward to when eric gets to step down as impartial poll master and gets to opine on a lot of this
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
the Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Psycho and the Wicker Manwould see this movie
They Solve Crimes!
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 18:53 (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
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
Next up is the one I allegedly kept outta the top 5 with my ballot! I pray it's what I think it is!
"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
High quality hicks in "Straw Dogs!"
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
my mother saw psycho by herself in 1960 when she was 10 yrs old
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
English hicks, yesterday:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article_images/articledir_12509/6254898/1_fullsize.jpg
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
i mean to be clear "backwoods psycho" is one of the cornerstones of horror, but maybe more so/only in america? honest question
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of proto-backwoods psychos in Hammer-ville, no?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
also might explain tragic lack of the hills have eyes here. also i am totally amazed that last house on the left didnt make this poll at all, apparently.
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
In England, the backwoods psychos live in castles near quaint villages.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Dracula: backwoods psycho.
(also: vampire)
Nah, I totally get the trope, but I think the Brit version is maybe more culty/hippy anyway?
xposts - yeah, we're a lot smaller, the threat tends to be little village conspiracies, rather than isolated US nutters... I think.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Also, when your car breaks down in rural England, you're never that far from a big city.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
in the novel, Norman Bates is a squat Rod Steiger type
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
omg that nic cage wicker man montage
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
In the novelization of Psycho II that I once read, Norman Bates is just like Anthony Perkins.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
This, btw, is far and away one of the best film-studies books I've ever read, not just on "Psycho," but at all.
http://i43.tower.com/images/mm118050261/a-long-hard-look-psycho-raymond-durgnat-paperback-cover-art.jpg
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't seen The Wicker Man yet, but apart from The Shining (which, surely, must be #1), I can't think of any horror films better than Psycho.
― daavid, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://rue-morgue.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Official-Norman-Bates-Halloween-Costume-Rubies-Costume-Co.-235x490.jpg
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Not that Psycho II is entirely a bad movie, but man the fucking hit job that movie does on Vera Miles/Lila Crane-Loomis just pisses me off to no end.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
oh great, some other late voter put a HOTEL MOVIE ahead of this MOTEL MOVIE?
FIX! FIX!
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
which movie is the HOLIDAY INN MOVIE
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
i bet morbz knows
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Holiday_Inn_poster.jpg
― some dude, Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Is there a SHORT TERM BUSINESS RESIDENCE horror movie?
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
wouldn't the native townsfolk in an american werewolf in london be hicks? not just by lol britishes standards, but by anyone's standards?!?
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
the fact that there isn't a tradition in english horror of threat from poor & ugly outsiders is sort of weird, now that i think about it. they drag you into coal mines and pulp you with mallets. they drown you in pig shit and make sausages of your innards.
in america, this is a very common expression of distaste for the impoverished and unsightly.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link