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

What's gonna be in the top 3? The Shining, The Thing, what else? Has The Exorcist placed?

Nic Cage IS... Carrie

hey guys, all of these movies are good

what nonsense, next thing you're gonna tell me xmas trees and presents are pagan

xp to shakey

you eat jesus for fuck's sake!

love this

imagine Nic Cage scraping his face off in a remake of "Poltergeist"

MY FACE MY FACE MY FACE MY FACE MY FACE

What's gonna be in the top 3? The Shining, The Thing, what else? Has The Exorcist placed?

― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, May 24, 2012 8:33 PM (1 minute ago)

Alien. and hostel 2.

sounds like it woulda been a cool snappy comeback in grade school

oh yeah? well you eat JESUS

i haven't seen the remake, but nicholas cage can pierce the actorly veil and be truly frightening in a way that nobody in the original wicker man could be (out of propriety? dignity?)

well in the original you can be sacrificed by pagan partiers for being a pious dude, in the remake you can be sacrificed by a man-hating cult led by Ellen Burstyn just for being a nice guy trying to help out an ex. So I guess it's scarier since so many of us are nice guys who just want to know how it got burned, how it got burned, how it got burned.

Maybe this poll will surprise all of us and Return of the Living Dead will be #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS23CWl4lUE

also rosemary's baby has one of those scenes where the protagonist plays with scrabble tiles to glimpse the horrible truth -- via anagrams! i know it's a played out trope by now but here, it really gets across the pitch of paranoia and grasping helplessness

More scared by the notion that there are people who refuse themselves pleasure their whole lives. And then they die.

And I'm one of them.

i think of rosemary's baby as being, thematically, less about the helplessness of a woman to determine her fate, as by the inability of the present to escape the past. the threat is the old world, old people, "expert wisdom" and secretive tradition. the building symbolizes this as much as its residents. it's ultimately about corrupt age consuming naive youth.

"...as about the inability of the present to escape the past."

dangit

this may be because you are a dude

hahahahahaha!
hate to break it to you but we're all la lechera socks

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Seriously though, emil.y TOTALLY 100% OTM -- she said everything I would have said if I hadn't been riding my bike home from work (only she said it much better and with fewer irritating exclamation points than I would have)

Hellraiser and Wicker Man are like the far ends of the pleasure spectrum.

omg lol Eric I misread that as 'people who refuse to pleasure themselves their whole lives'

xp to contenderizer - Maybe, but it speaks to me way more specifically on the level of "nobody believes something horrible is happening to you, little lady, let me call an abusive dude to come pick you up." I'm not even trying to argue that this is the theme of the movie (I don't think it's purposeful at all, actually) but that for me, that's where the horror originates.

I have similar things to say about The Shining.

carl agatha otm

this may be because you are a dude

yeah, lol, that's a good point. carl agatha otm, too. i do relate to the film that way, the frustration of the protagonist in not being taken seriously, and i suppose that it doesn't have to be one theme or the other. they reinforce each other, really.

The title even hints at how Rosemary is just a nice, warm, but ultimately unimportant vessel in the eyes of the Satanists. It ain't called Rosemary.

age, expertise and the old world = ways in which authority is claimed by someone other than rosemary

Poll too fast!!

- Happy with today's results.

- Love Rosemary and even her babby, too

- I wish I had time to participate in fussing about TWM, but: LL OTM and Thnig, too.

- Eric, Pillbox, you guys rock. <3 the gifs! <3 U guys

I LOVE YOU AND GIFS AND GUYS AND BABBY

3-minute gap

in this thread i think that means I killed the thread

oh, the suspense! ...HAS VANISHED

Was sort of hoping the idea of me pleasing myself would've sustained the thread while I'm on my train ride home.

Ya it's been like 50m since last post wtf I'm outta here

i always lol @ that cheerful old lady at the end of rosemary's baby who gleefully raises her glass and toasts a chirpy "Hail Satan!", as if she were toasting her grandkids graduating college or something. then there's the Japanese Satanist who's more concerned w/ his camera than anything else (lol 1960s racial stereotypes).

ugh this thread is so dead *removes bookmark*

HAHAHA INTENTIONAL PUN OH I KILL MYSELF

HAHAH I DID IT AGAIN LOOOL

Lol "pleasuring"

meantime -- SNUBBED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1NWXq7Hy90

Fans of The Wicker Man, any of you read The Dark Is Rising YA novels by Susan Cooper? The Greenwitch, in particular, taps into the same vibe, along the lines of what emily was talking about. Great novels!

Also calling the pagans in TWM hippies is ignant

VP and his wife were rather merry Satanists in that film, weren't they?!?

plz note: i didnt call them hippies, i called that particular scene hippie dippie nonsense

La Valse'nt Price

i always lol @ that cheerful old lady at the end of rosemary's baby who gleefully raises her glass and toasts a chirpy "Hail Satan!", as if she were toasting her grandkids graduating college or something.

That woman is EDNA FROM THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW!! I fell out of my chair and ROFLed and died when prim old Edna said "Hail Satan!"

idgi -- what is nonsensical or hippie dippie about it? she is seducing him, he is failing to be seduced.

AT HIS PERIL

"you're lying! you witches, you're lying! you're lying, you're lying!"

jjjusten, wasn't calling you out in particular.

I wonder if TWM sucked for some people becasue they were reacting to the islanders in the context of neo-paganism.

(i've never read those books, btw)

i dont want to get that much into it and i havent seen it for a while but she is iirc seducing him through song and some sorta awkward modern dancing

again i want to get the movie because i trust yall, maybe i should just fast forward through that scene

you should make a jjj edit that has that scene taken out maybe

also does the remake actually replace the huge burning wicker dude with a HEADPIECE FULL OF BEES

idgi -- what is nonsensical or hippie dippie about it? she is seducing him, he is failing to be seduced.

― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Guys, I'm going to reverse my opinion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIac4nKaAy4

While the movie is supposed to be about old-school religion, I feel like these people are less likely to throw me in a bog than slip me a couple tabs of acid.