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

"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

are you actively trolling morbs or

Sometimes, but this time I'm just ignorant.

i will stan forever for alien being much more of a horror movie than a sci fi or action film, the thing less so xposts

see howard hawks' 1951 the thing from another world

remakes of 50s horror were popular for a minute there: carpenter's the thing, cronenberg's the fly, hooper's invaders from mars

^ first part of that is redundant now, but oh well...

The Blob

i will possibly vote in the rom com poll but only after i see how the nominations turn out

I probably read Kael in '82, so I've never seen this.

This remake of the 1951 version, by the director, John Carpenter, and the special makeup effects wizard, Rob Bottin, was a folie à deux. They went back to the chameleon idea of the original story, so they seem to be trying to outdo the monster from Ridley Scott's ALIEN (1979)--THE one who could take any form and, at one horrifying point, erupted from John Hurt's chest. In its own putting-the-squeeze-on-the-audience terms, ALIEN was effective. This picture isn't (except for an early episode with a husky trying to escape the hunters shooting at it from a plane). It appears to be a film of limited imagination with unlimited horror effects. A new landmark in gore, it features oozing, jellied messes of blood and entrails and assorted parts of the people and serpents and animals that the mutating Thing devours. And it's grimly serious. Carpenter seems indifferent to whether we can tell the characters apart; he apparently just wants us to watch the apocalyptic devastation.

Weird for the Thing to poll so high as a horror movie but ah, ilx you're a loveable scamp with your genres and what the hell YAY KURT RUSSELL YAY JOHN CARPENTER and fkn high five for practical effects extravaganza amirite

I love the Macready taperecorder stuff --- I always wished that there were outtakes of him just totally plowed singing Brandy You're a Fine Girl or Blue Oyster Cult or making tearful proclamations to his dead father...I dunno why, but thinking about that just cracks me up everytime I watch it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH7hyzPIbp0

THE one who could take any form

*scratches head*

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

pleased by it, tbh. comedy followed immediately by romcom would have been a lot less interesting than comedy - horror - romcom.

i will be the reverso me in the rom com poll though and probably not vote for anything made after 1960

please note: Slither is totally a rom com

"lovable scamp" = sloppy as an oversexed sailor

a film of limited imagination with unlimited horror effects

ha, 11yo me and kael on the same page here

Love, Actually's status as "the ultimate romcom" makes any such poll moot

oh man i wonder if i can come up with 20 horror movies that didnt make it here to get into the rom com poll

yeah i was going to pull that out, alien in alien cannot "take any form" wtf

I'm sure Kael's review had something to do with me never having seen it; next time I see a used copy, I'll give it try.

Kurt Russel is handsomely hairy in The Thing.