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

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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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.

that's a good interpretation. there's tension in the film between the unknown and terrifying world of adulthood promised by mae and the safe comforts of home. i was disappointed by the retreat to the latter. the theme of seduction leading to loss of innocence is strongly present in both the lost boys and near dark*. both films allow their protagonists to linger on the precipice of fatal experience, but "rescue" them back to innocence at the last minute, sparing them the fall to adult corruption. this works in the lost boys because it's a childish pop adventure, but feels like a betrayal in near dark. you can't go back. we all have to bite the apple (neck, whatever).

* i compare them because they both came out in 1987, only a few months apart, near dark seeming in some ways like a rebuttal to the lost boys' cheerful pop appeal.

damn, so much subtext w/ vampire movies/lit/etc (i mean, horror in general, sure - but ESP vampires). that said, contenderizer otm on yr reading of Near Dark.

* i compare them because they both came out in 1987, only a few months apart, near dark seeming in some ways like a rebuttal to the lost boys' cheerful pop appeal.

was wondering about this. Lost Boys is way more ubiquitous and must have done better box office - I hadn't even heard of Near Dark until recently. Lost Boys annoys me much more than this did tho. I've sat through it many times and it's put me to sleep more than once, so much so that I can't even really remember its sequence of events at all beyond a few key setpieces. This seemed much more coherent and committed.

oh yeah, despite my caviling, near dark is at least 90% great, a much better movie than the lost boys

i mean, i considered voting for near dark in this poll, and kind of regret not having done so. at one time, it would have been guaranteed a spot in my top 10.

Can't tell you how many times I've calmed myself by repeating, "You live 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."

Actually apts in the city are more haunted than houses in the boonies because of the sheer number of people that have lived where you have lived & all the bad shit that went down there. But don't worry -- surely not your place! Surely!

xxxpost

Our apartment is old as hell but it's not even remotely creepy. Our last haunted apt was in NC. That place was full of creepiness and the basest contained a portal to hell (IMO).

basement

a much better movie than the lost boys

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O RLY?

A crazy (natch) guy murdered his mom in our house 30 or so years ago. No joke. But don't worry, guys, not haunted.

(Murdered her with an axe, btw!)

Hey Eric, are you still going to post a link to the spreadsheet?

have you summoned the appropriate demons, jjj?

https://cansesclasseled.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/ilx-horror-movies.xlsx

So I finally watched all of The Wicker Man last night. It was OK. I'd seen enough clips of it over the years that any surprise or suspense element was gone, since I knew what the basic story was. I like the early parts of it best, all the bits where the whole village is just cheerfully going about their pagan ways and the cop's stumbling around wide-eyed. Wouldn't have made my ballot even if I'd seen it earlier, but pleasantly odd.

Huh, I guess no one else really likes Ganja and Hess.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is playing in my house, my house

ohhhh ffs I forgot about grandpa

*barf*

I can't open that file... any chance for it to be upped to a google docs or something?

Try this... Formatting might be fubar.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhQjgn46NQ2tdGx4RTZ4eld3aTV2SmlRRFNnVlFidXc

Well, it works for my purposes. But wait, I was the only person to vote for The Stuff? I was sure at least one other person would join me on that...

I just DVR'd Ganja and Hess. Duane Jones is so damn good in NOTLD I feel like he could have been a big star. Dying to see this.

xpost: Given that apts would logically be more haunted than houses, I'm surprised more horror films don't take advantage of this. Yes, there are exceptions (Candyman being a big one, sorta Jacob's Ladder, sorta Rosemary's Baby), but by and large it's still the isolated house out in the country.

was wondering about this. Lost Boys is way more ubiquitous and must have done better box office - I hadn't even heard of Near Dark until recently.

near dark was poorly marketed and played for a week in my area. ND def built a cult reputation on home video.

ganja and hess was a late cut from my ballot. a very diff movie than NotLD. a very diff movie than almost any other movie?

hmmm

*examines spreadsheet*

Morbius posted this on the rolling RIP thread, thought it might get a bit more notice here: Kaneto Shindo, director of Onibaba, dies aged 100

only one other person voted for hostel 2, and maybe no one else for hostel (sorry to be that lazy but it was taking forever for that google doc to scroll). you people.

i do find it funny that the highest placing roth was cabin fever, which i have love for for very specific reasons, but is def a director finding his legs thing and making some pretty profound mistakes vs his later movies

it remains possible that eli roth just sucks

or you suck