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

THANKING U

angst also to be noted for best performance of a wiener dog in film history

a friend of mine JUST recommended this soundtrack to me...weird

- forgot how good Goldsmith's score was in this

Definitive edition came out late last year from the FSM label. Complete film tracks on disc 1, rerecorded LP program on disc 2, both remastered to a fare-thee-well.

Wow! That one slipped by me. Will have to order again, though I thought the '97 CD was just fine.

You need it for the album version if nothing else (it had never been on CD before this FSM edition). It's brilliantly put together, a better listen than the film tracks.

Cool. Between that and the 2-disc Carrie set, it's sort of like prime time for horror soundtracks I first bought in the late '90s finally done right.

Yeah, and Gremlins got the same treatment a few months later (also FSM). I feel like this trend kicked off with Intrada's stupendous edition of Alien several years back.

See now some dude is just straight up trying to troll me

― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
noooooo

some dude? he wd never

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

veg that hurts!

seriously though i got absolutely nothing out of Hostel and thought Pontypool was fantastic, those are opinions i would hold and gladly state in these threads even if jjj wasn't constantly ranting the opposite opinions

<3 u some dude

my point though was really that i imagine in a similar poll on a different msg board Hostel would place and those movies wouldn't, so i was just saying yay ilx hivemind

:)

i am not ranting, i am calmly stating immutable facts. while swearing a lot and calling people monsters.

it is weird how quickly eli roth went from director to 'famous guy who once directed movies' though huh

yeah i dont get that at all, esp considering that all 3 movies made absolute fucktons of money on investment - iirc he is one of the most profitable directors in the horror biz.

I have no idea why Eli Roth is famous, let alone a director.

I think he likes seeing himself ON camera too much now to get behind it half as much as he should

imo

oh huh and a bunch of details just leaked abt his next movie in the last 3 hours! "the green inferno" (assuming that is a working title but who knows) that appears to be a modern day spin on the cannibal holocaust vibe which in his hands has pretty high O_O potential.

Hostel II was probably too low budget to lose money but it was a huge box office disappointment

xpost ooh that sounds good

Has never lost money on a film. "Cabin Fever" recouped 15 times its budget theatrically, "Hostel" recouped 20 times its budget theatrically, and "Hostel: Part II" , Roth's biggest budget film to date, recouped triple its budget theatrically. -- IMDb Trivia: Eli Roth

Ok who's the silly billy who decided that The Wayward Cloud is a horror film?

note all of those are theatrically, so they were making mad money even before hitting dvd, which is pretty unheard of for modern horror stuff.

still can't beat The Virgin Spring! xp

I count Thundercrack! after reseeing it, but with the horror being mostly contained in the endless wet-beaver closeups.

yeah but i mean at a time when the Saw movies were consistently making the same impressive amount of $ year after year after year it definitely seemed like a big buzzkill for Hostel II to make less than half what the original made

contenderizer, quit being a silly billy.

No one else voted for Calvaire or Wait Until Dark :(

I have no idea why Eli Roth is famous, let alone a director.

Was a photogenic presence amid dozens of Harry Knowles types on many clip shows.

Yeah big time. He's waaaay hot.

otm

I have one (1) crush

Ok who's the silly billy who decided that The Wayward Cloud is a horror film?

yeah, i nominated but didn't vote for it. will totally defend it as a non-genre, "horrifying" outlier, though. it's as funny as it is creepy, but it's suspenseful, atmospheric and often quite disturbing. the visit to the porn rental dungeon is even shot like expressionist horror.

No one else voted for Calvaire

was one of my last cuts. in retrospect, i wish i'd made room for it.

so I was searching for a clip of the lemora soundtrack on youtube and discovered somebody uploaded the entire thing... today! wish I had repped earlier and longer on the voting thread, alas, but this is still true: reminiscent of valerie and her week of wonders, except replace the hippie-dippie surrealism with bava-does-southern-grotesque.

273. Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural | POINTS: 49 | VOTES: 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD60kNtxn0M

Adore Lemora, really like Calvaire, love all of you.

was it angst that got hyped in the voting thead or anguish? either way, you should also watch anguish. everyone should watch anguish

You're absolutely correct. I suppose I shall have to watch both in order to rectify this heinous error.

I have no idea why Eli Roth is famous

Come on, dude, Bear Jew! Although I still would've loved to have seen Adam Sandler in the role.

xpost holy shit that (Lemora) was one of my biggest must-sees from the noms thread! Will watch!

lemora score is a weird blend of standard orchestral stuff, church hymns, southern folk tunes, and vintage 70s synth burbling

Adore Lemora, really like Calvaire, love all of you.

― The Thnig, Thursday, May 31, 2012 3:23 PM (13 minutes ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBXyB7niEc0

Score sounds like it comes straight from heaven.

Watching Angst now and it's kinda giving me the willies because the house looks very much like a couple of empty houses on my street, which is in Austria.

Austrian film went through an amazing creative (and largely government-subsidized and cocaine-fueled) phase in the early 80s. There are some never-gonna-be-subtitled black comedies from that era that are pretty amazing.

plz to name names?

angst also the only film that gerald kargl directed, a shame

The Thing arrives on Netflix today omg

If you can read German, search for Der Standard's dvd series "Der österreichische Film", which is pretty incredible and pretty complete. http://derstandard.at/2590632/Alle-125-DVDs-auf-einen-Blick

If you want me to point out a couple of my favorite's from that list, I will do when Angst is over.

yeah, do!

Kargl makes commercials and educational movies, and made a couple of well-filmed skiing documentaries (which are an Austrian thing) before Angst.

they're a northwest (US) thing too

ha netflix is delivering amer and trouble every day to my house tomorrow, which considering i just sent back brand upon the brain! today should be sufficiently jolting

also dont worry morbs i am sure that we will retreat back to the rolling pants shitting thread soon enough

OK, Angst is ultimately a touch too obviously symbolic and typically Austrian in being terrified of people with mental difficulties (I mean the son as much as the killer here, both pretty awful parodies), but it wasn't a waste of time watching it. And I can now say that horror movies filmed close to where you live are by definition a tick scarier.

Anyway, early 80s Austro film that I might recommend (but I don't know where you'd find it if you don't have a code free dvd player): "Der Schüler Gerber" (Gerber the Student) from Wolfgang Glück, which is a tragedy about student-teacher conflict; "Exit -- nur keine Panik" (Exit -- don't panic) from Franz Novotny, about a small-time crook who wants to go straight and open a coffee house, but stealing the espresso machine he needs sets off a shit storm; and "Müllers Büro" (Müller's Office), which is a noir detective parody musical cocaine daydream.

Here are some clips:

"Der Schüler Gerber": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7JfObB1mVs

"Exit -- nur keine Panik": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnbbwjYy9AI

"Müllers Büro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ZglYvUfbA

All three are not inappropriate to this thread (can't tell you why on Gerber, too big a spoiler) -- Exit and Müller both using extreme violence in very unexpected places to blacken the comedy even further.