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

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

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my friend likes Carpenter's The Thing though

/fartineisbaersface

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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.

playing an evil kid, natch

have to ask tho: were you ok with the ending?

yeah sure, it fits with the whole familial theme of the movie in general - rejection of adolescent rebellion, Caleb returning to the family fold, May replacing the absent mother. kind of oddly conservative/traditional but it didn't strike me as inconsistent with what came before it.

basically my reading is teenage male protagonist flirts with alternative lifestyle, can't deal with it, returns to fold older and wiser (and with attendant sexual conquest in tow).

actually now that I write that out that seems really regressive but for some reason it didn't bother me while I was watching it.

it seems only nominally engaged with the tropes of the horror genre (which, imho, would have called for a more nihilistic "gotcha!" ending) but I respect how it was all put together. I wasn't bored or frustrated by it.