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

probably a good idea

xposts: LOL WmC I watched "Carnival of Souls" tonight too -- but I had the total opposite reaction. When the movie started I was like, oh this is going to be really hard to get into, it's really awkwardly done. And then that scene where she's driving to Utah and the creepy music starts up and she sees that scary dude in the window reflection OKAY I'M IN.

Was it talked about upthread how proto-Lynch this movie is? The long closeups, the weird humming noises and use of silence and the hallucinated figure in the crowded room... I was getting such a Lost Highway/Bob from Twin Peaks vibe from the scary guy's appearances. I read afterwards that Lynch was a big fan so I guess it all makes sense now, haha.

And I really did end up invested in her as a character. Especially just with her terror and paranoia and she's still getting hit on by the across the room neighbor who either doesn't notice or doesn't care that um she's really not been okay since you met her so I don't know why you're surprised when she really DOES freak out. And that closeup of his eye when he's watching her put on her robe through the door....bleeeeehhhhhh

It very successfully gave me the creeps a great number of times, and I definitely am adding it to my new list of favorites. Thanks ILX!

Overall just a very creepy, sadly beautiful movie. Lack of dialog combined with the music/sound really did it for me.

Though that movie definitely highlights the benefits of a good foley artist. Holy crap could her footsteps have sounded more club-footed?

*** just wanna make clear that my long post up there is in no way an endorsement of where the dead go to die. i watched it cuz, i dunno, it sounded unusual (and it was). i took about 100 screecaps while watching it, cuz i love that kind of exaggerated, camp-surrealist horror imagery, but the movie itself is a turd. boring, ugly, dumb, obvious and whiny, with terrible performances and depressingly lazy animation/design. it flaunts a high school shooter's "satanic" nihilism and despair, but even the angst seems second-hand. avoid.

Though that movie definitely highlights the benefits of a good foley artist. Holy crap could her footsteps have sounded more club-footed?

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, May 26, 2012 6:54 AM (1 hour ago)

I saw a "live" performance of Carnival of Souls where they had musicians, voice actors and a foley artist on stage below the projection, replacing all the sound. A vast improvement tbh!

― etc, Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:05 PM (1 month ago)

It took me four hours to read this thread and it was the most informative four hours in recent memory.

be sure to catch the 2 prequels

There's a 3D remake coming out in August.

There will be a "Coward's Corner" accessible to those too faint-of-heart to brave all 8,000 posts.

When I was a kid, we used to pass around a VHS tape with only the best bits of this thread, edited down.

55 ilxors went into the woods, and this thread is all that remains...

someone said two people actually died on set while they were making it

Somewhere between science and superstition, there is another world. The world of this thread.

Wasn't Ilxor the name of that tentacled God conjured by Lovecraft?

ilx is built on an indian burial ground

The real reason ILX is scared to take showers has never been told.

whatever you do, don't go in the basement

built from the code of an indian message board

the phone call is coming from inside the thread

wow, i hadn't even thought about mike diana in many years

haha mike diana was one of the worst free speech poster boys ever

Don't enter Sub-Board 1408, "Ask A Serial Killer."

a.k.a. ask chaki

timely

http://thefilmstage.com/features/cannes-interview-rodney-ascher-on-stanley-kubrick-the-shining-and-his-documentary-room-237%E2%80%99/

The Landmark theater a block from my place is showing The Shining for free at midnight. Sort of strange - I don't remember them doing that sort of thing before. Obviously this thread influenced them.

I am going to see The Exorcist on the big screen June 6 - pretty excited!

Me too! :D

it's the 32nd anniversary of the shining's release this weekend, and it came out on may 23 - 32/23 is the kind of mirroring its fans love

About to watch Pulse. If I don't make it back, tell the world my story.

copy that

them (ils) is really awesome and one of the most effective scary movies I've seen. but my advice would be not to watch it if you live alone!! caught it when I still did and found it tough to shake all kinds of nasty home invasion thoughts. :-/

40-odd minutes in, I'm thinking maybe Them might be scarier than I want at moment.... I like being scared but I don't love getting freaked out going to the bathroom.

Feeling very glad not to live in a freestanding home or even on a low floor or to have a yard. Those places are teeming with terrifying shit. And for sure fuck the woods.

Hell my room is full of insects tonight and they are scaring me, they aren't even radioactive and huge.

Feeling very glad not to live in a freestanding home or even on a low floor or to have a yard. Those places are teeming with terrifying shit. And for sure fuck the woods.

Can't tell you how many times I've calmed myself by repeating, "Younlive in an apartment in the city. It's not haunted. You don't even have a basement. You can hear the neighbors pee, and they'll hear you screaming for help."

Check out The Seventh Victim and get back to me.

it came out on may 23 - 32/23 is the kind of mirroring its fans love

adult numerologists: SCARY!

You're going to take your sunburn crabbiness out on ILX today, eh?

pointing out sad crap is not crabbiness

Numerology hate = the lord's work.

"Adult numerologists: SCARY!" said the sabermetrician.

lol

yeah, superstition = statistical analysis. Recommending Phil for the Salem witch jury.

(I am not a sabermetrician)

"Finding amusing/interesting connections" != "superstition"

let's just agree to be bored w/ topic

btw Alien was shown in big-screen glory at Lincoln Center today, and in honor of this thread, I didn't go.

Met my friend at the bar and we talked about all the things wrong with The Shining.

why u braek heart, morbs ;_;

watching Near Dark tonight

this better be good

http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/147/006200_11.jpg

my friend likes Carpenter's The Thing though

/fartineisbaersface

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/StatlerAndWaldorf.jpg

http://media.salon.com/2011/06/fathers_day_friday_night_seitz-slide-7.jpg

Near Dark was v enjoyable thx for the heads up on that one, voters

dunno how it flew under my radar, esp since it features the evil kid from River's Edge! love that lil dude.