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

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.

My mom saw the remake (with the bees) and had no idea about the original, and at some point I mentioned to her that friends of mine (LL and The Thnig) went to some of the locations where parts of the movie took place and she was like "The movie where they killed Nicolas Cage with BEES??!?! WHY would anybody do that???!?!?"

Still pleasuring myself.

OG wicker man wasn't dedicated to Johnny Ramone ... just sayin'.

Ok but one last thing -
She sings "our maid can milk a bull" (not to mention the lyric about "a bucketful") -- that's pretty...graphic stuff right there. I guess I don't take her seduction techniques lightly -- she's really trying to save him, giving it her top shelf treatment. He resists because he's uptight, pious, obedient, and stupid. It's kind of painful to watch, but not for the reasons most people think. I like that she's serious about what she's doing, but also soft and pretty.

I didn't vote for The Wicker Man because I still have never seen all of it -- which maybe I will remedy soon -- but the discussion reminds me of this thread I started a while back.

the nic cage-wicker man pagans weren't so nice b/c they didn't offer him, say, a naked Leelee Sobieski doing a seductive dance to save him.

instead all he does is roundhouse-kick chicks in the face, sucker-punch them whilst wearing a bear suit, push over little girls to steal their bikes, and scream about bees.

nic cage in the excorcist:

"Oh my god, I'm stabbing this crucifix into my vagina!"

exorcist

"Let me see that THING! Baby, that THING TH-THING THING THING! – SICK-SQO"

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03. THE THING
John Carpenter, USA, 1982
(1117 points, 31 votes)

ok so there are 4 spots left and i feel like rosemarys baby makes 5 expected films? also if the thing wins this poll too i swear to god
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:02 PM

basically at this point I assume that 80% of the board has masturbated while watching The Thing
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:21 PM (58 minutes ago)

Spider- head followed by "You've got to be fockin kiddin me?" line one of the great scene's in cinematic history.
― Omar, Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:00 PM (10 years ago)

Every time I hear about Sarah Palin shooting wolves I think of the first scene of this movie.
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:08 PM (2 years ago)

i'm laughing hysterically now as i imagine Nicolas Cage's voice croaking out "you know what she did your cunting daughter?!?" and "your mother sucks cocks in hell you faithless swine!" from Regan's demon-possessed body

no first place votes!

Also calling the pagans in TWM hippies is ignant

― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:57 PM (57 seconds ago)

and funny!

nice pun on this one

no first place votes!

um that's a mistake

Sorry, there was one. My bad again.

So I'm assuming Wicker Man stans are primarily Britishors? I dig it, but it's not nearly top 10 material for me. Seems like something that would have a deeper resonance with you Old Worlders. Would've voted TCM #1, which is about as American as TWM is British I suppose.

God I haven't seen this one either :-( and I love horror so much, too! I'm like one of those self-professed music fanatics with a collection full of, like, The Screamers and Popol Vuh and Manuel Gottsching but no Beatles or Zep or Beach Boys or Elvis

Which I mean actually I am, too

i would totally go to a double-feature of the thing and encounters at the end of the world.

oh what a relief

this was my #1. if I'd known what the rest of you losers were voting I might have changed that...

Obviously you people know your ilx better than I. I didn't expect The Thing to place. (tho I gave it 10 pts)

So I'm assuming Wicker Man stans are primarily Britishors?
Not this one.

well it just won the action poll and plans on winning the rom com poll whenever that comes up, i was hoping we could have a short break from it

if there's a sci-fi poll it will also place really high lol

jeez, top 10 thing seemed a given to me from the beginning, but i don't think of that as an aberration on ILX's part. pretty universally beloved by both horror nerds and film fans in general.

will probably vote the thing higher in the inevitable sci-fi poll than i did here

I'm curious about the overlap of people participating in rom com poll and horror poll.

saw the thing during its initial run when I was 11, thought the effects were great but overall didn't have a ton of love for it (and I was a huuuuuge carpenter fan at the time). in subsequent viewings over the years I've come to enjoy it more, consider it a good solid horror movie but the undying devotion kind of baffles me. if the thing placed somewhere in the top 20-50 I'd be fine with it.

I said yesterday I thought I had the last 13--was right up until The Thing. I had no idea the remake was that highly regarded. I've never even seen it.

It's a remake?

though it's one of my all-time favorite films, i stuck it way down at the bottom of my ballot because i knew its success here didn't depend in any way on me. would have been bummed if too many other people had done the same, though...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/

It's a remake?

― polyphonic, Thursday, May 24, 2012 5:41 PM (44 seconds ago)

are you actively trolling morbs or

for the love of god do not mistakenly watch the recent prequel ALSO named the thing

I would've put the thing from another world on my ballot before I put the thing

The irrational part of me was hoping that neither the Thing nor Alien would place, as I consider them both action/sci-fi. However, they're also both totally horror, too, and you can't get away from that.

Alien? yes, this is ilx dude
Um, Last House? maybe? kind of a wild card tbh
Suspiria? yes, this is ilx dude
The Thing, yes, this is ilx dude
The Fly? yes, this is ilx dude

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 6:49 PM (Yesterday)

I'm curious about the overlap of people participating in rom com poll and horror poll.

*raises hand*

sorta pissed at other polls taking precedence over the romcom poll actually