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

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.

Tera and I tried to watch Possession. It was late and we both sleepy, but I had sort of hype the movie due to this thread. We made it half way through and had to turn it off. Maybe we'll try to watch again when we are more awake, but it was maybe one of the scariest movies I've seen. Not sure why it terrified us so much but surprised it didn't place higher.

You could almost call it ... ridiculously scary, if you catch my drift.

Chalk up "Black Christmas" and "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" as two dull as rocks classics I could barely tolerate. They might as well have been improvised (and may very well have been). Just blah blah blah.

Whoa thinking black Christmas is dull is super weird to me, and I say that as of one of the board appointed extremo modern horror apologists

i think CSPWDT owes its enduring legacy to a deathless title, which instantly evokes drive-in and grindhouse nostalgia in a way that obfuscates the film's many, many shortcomings. but, yeah, it's slow as hell. not without its own meager, wooly charms, though. the last reel features some great makeup and a few genuine scares.

Gotdammit. You know what I totally forgot about in the noms thread? Dark Forces. Excellent early 80s psychic powers biznazz from Australia. Fuck.

Dark Forces didn't work for me. hung a pseudo-supernatural (clown) costume on the Rasputin narrative, but the script's muddy mix of politics, parable, and the paranormal just went nowhere.

I had a list of aussie films I wanted to watch before voting, obv this did not happen

long weekend - 1978 animal horror
thirst - 1979 vampire flick
chain reaction - 1980 radioactive nonsense
next of kin - 1982 slasher thriller thing
undead - 2003 zombies, surprise

Awesome stuff, managed to read and catch-up on most of the discussion. Thx to all! Made it for a really enjoyable chunk of my time.

Surprised by how much I've seen -- these are the ones I'll need to chase:

023. Possession [1981, 565 points, 17 votes, 2 first-place votes]
024. Carnival Of Souls [1962, 560 points, 20 votes, 1 first-place vote]
033. Freaks [1932, 475 points, 18 votes]
036. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [1920, 467 points, 18 votes]
046. Eyes Without A Face [Les yeux sans visage] [1960, 371 points, 16 votes]
060. Vampyr [1932, 314 points, 8 votes]
061. M [1931, 312 points, 9 votes, 1 first-place vote]
074. Threads [1984, 251 points, 6 votes]
080. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht [1979, 226 points, 8 votes]
088. The Seventh Victim [1943, 206 points, 6 votes, 1 first-place vote]
092. Onibaba [1964, 191 points, 7 votes]

As well as The Thing. Doubt I'll ever see The Shining as it'll probably spoil my enjoyment of the Simpsons parody.

Haxan is a must for outside the top 100

Would get Onibaba right now but there is a Shindo season at the BFI for the next two months (he not only died, but did so two days before the season opened) so I'll save it for the big screen in a month.

watched May last night, good stuff. omg @ blind kids crawling around on glass, easily the best scene in the movie

Tera and I tried to watch Possession. It was late and we both sleepy, but I had sort of hype the movie due to this thread. We made it half way through and had to turn it off. Maybe we'll try to watch again when we are more awake, but it was maybe one of the scariest movies I've seen. Not sure why it terrified us so much but surprised it didn't place higher.

I chalk it up to the movie feeling as unhinged as the characters are. For a film where the mise en scene is so often really matter-of-fact and prosaic (even the completely batshit moments are framed like scenes from a straight dramatic film), you never feel like you're observing a world that's at all sane or predictable. You're never allowed to get your footing.

watched May last night, good stuff. omg @ blind kids crawling around on glass, easily the best scene in the movie

yeah great movie - the leg shaving sight gag is also a stand out scene

Possession was too heavy for me. The film drained me, what we saw of it. After we turned it off I regained my energy and we watched something else. I'd like to return to watching it, want to see how it ends.

I am watching Paranormal Activity 3 right now. In a mostly dark basement. By myself. This is not among the smartest decisions I've ever made.

Pulse last week, It last night. The first felt like a bridge between Videodrome and Ringu/The Ring. Many nice images, and I give it credit for eschewing gore and easy shock for atmospherics; in the end, though, the build-up drew me in and the last half-hour or so lost me. It's resolution was completely preposterous, there was a lot of bad acting (especially Harry Anderson), and the occasional Big Chill detours made me wince. But Pennywise was great; it did scare me.

It seem obvious too, as I watched It, that King was trying for his own Nightmare on Elm Street (film '84, book '86).

"seemed"

tbf there's no way they could have filmed the actual climax of "it" without being arrested for sex crimes so

Haven't read the book, so I don't know how it really ends. Surely they could have come up with a better substitute, though--not just in terms of what the physical manifestation of "It" turned out to be, but also the idea that all they had to do all along was gather round and start hitting it really hard.