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

That didn't come across to me at all. But I'm gonna bow out of this I think, I didn't like it one bit but I didn't hate it quite enough to enrage myself about differing tastes. 4/10.

fair enough. it's been ages (at least a decade, and probably a good deal more) since i last saw it, so i might feel very differently about it now.

So, animation results aside, the talk on this thread kinda turned to 'what next?' SF, war, romantic comedy, what's next and who's doing it?

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Sisters didn't make the Top 100? Whaaaaaat.

Dressed to Kill did instead.

ppl too busy voting for dressed to kill iirc

xp

I watched The Caller on Netflix streaming and ugh what a risible piece of crap. The whole stalker/abusive ex-husband plot was twice-warmed-over crap, the film was set in Puerto Rico for no discernable reason whatsoever and was oddly devoid of Hispanics not named Luis Guzman, it actually had a scene of the heroine falling to her knees in front of a grave . . . it started strong but just completely went to crap very, very quickly.

so where did the caller place in the top 100

lol wrong thread

I wanted the "shit our pants" thread.

No, the other one.

rewatched Candyman the other night. I should've put that on my ballot.

I just watched it yesterday. I forgot how much I liked it.

Saw Black Christmas tonight. I think I saw it on TV once years and years ago. Definitely scared me--spent enough time covering my eyes that I was a little confused at the end--and it felt like a new kind of horror film on the timeline. Not Night of the Living Dead-new, but it did seem like a blueprint for lots that followed. Best of all, Lynne Griffin (first victim, plastic bag) was there--she must still live in the city. She spoke before and after and was great.

new list:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/100-greatest-horror-films-of-all-time

Cure missing the cut is already pitiful, but not Eric's fault I imagine. (Don't worry, I didn't participate.)

Knowing the full order right now, I can say it's great fun to see which movies fall more or less into the same placements as they did on this lists, and which movies are miles off.

btw at some point this fall Trouble Every Day was rereleased and reclaimed as a classic

huh, maybe it'll finally get a decent US home video release

Full results are now up for the Slant horror list, btw.

Slant's #1 = my #1

however ...

ILX's #1 = the "right" #1

All of the pictures are gone? ;_;

oh no -- there's always this thread
SCREAMcaps! - outtakes, alternatives and other misc. images from the ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll

Not sure what happened. Maybe it's because I let my flickr account lapse out of "pro," but the set is still up here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leechlake/sets/72157629754853602/

Despite having little affinity for the genre, I've seen the Slant top 20 cept #9 and 15, and have no argument with first three.

The only time a museum/theater has used my writing as program notes, afaik, is for Psycho.

I always read these lists hoping Psycho isn't going to be Top 3, just seems so pre-ordained and boringly canonical. At least they didn't have The Exorcist, Alien, or The Shining top 5.

Psycho's #2 ranking caught me at the best possible moment: in the middle of reading the long hard look by Durgnat.

u r boringly anti-canonical, or something, but i wd be open to replacing Psycho with Peeping Tom. (Except PT seems much more a psychological thriller, which is not really the same as horror to me.)

I don't know that book, Eric. This guy seems to prefer Robin Wood's and Paglia's approaches (tho I am intrigued by the role of Thorold Dickinson, who directed the best film of Gaslight):

http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/book-reviews/psycho_durgnat_mogg/

Neither version of Gaslight did much for me.

Saw Suspiria for the first time tonight. (I don't want to load this massive thread...I think it placed somewhere in here.) Thought it was okay, but a lot of dead air waiting around for the big set pieces. If a horror film really gets to me, walking into the house afterwards is unnerving; tonight, nothing. I did like how the last scene perfectly split the difference between Rosemary's Baby's last scene and the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks. Barbara Magnolfi, the woman who played Olga (did I miss her, or did she just disappear after her early scenes?), was there for a brief interview beforehand.

Suspiria's only failing is that its climax doesn't really live up to the lead-up.

I can think of a few; stilted performances and dreary exposition high on the list. (Jessica Harper's fine.)

Saw The Haunting for the first time, and my comments are going unnoticed on the Robert Wise thread, so I'll just say I didn't realize it was a lesbian-crisis movie in haunted-house drag.

Two moments in the movie (you know the two) I was genuinely scared, and that's so incredibly freakin rare.

― The Thnig, Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:56 AM

I give up, which? The incessant-banging-soundtrack ghost scenes are more aggressive / annoying than 'genuinely scary', and the silly trapdoor boo near the climax is kinda what i hate about the genre. (Lois Maxwell's 'explanation' in the postclimax is even worse.) This is better at sustained mood / distress than scares.

Anyway a very artful piece o' work nearly elevated to greatness by Julie Harris' intense, coming-apart characterization. Too bad Russ Tamblyn is hanging around tho.

I would think the part that gets most people is when Harris thinks Bloom is holding her hand. And yes, the loud night hauntings, particularly the bending door scene.
Tamblyn didn't bother me but that's the only film I know him from.

He is the uncharismatic Jet leader in Wise's film of West Side Story. Later a semiregular on Twin Peaks.

Apparently the first essay i need to get hold of is "Female Spectator, Lesbian Specter: The Haunting", by Patricia White.

such a great movie.

with a great great film score by Humphrey Searle for which, apparently, the tapes are hopelessly lost.

I was too young to see Don't Look Now when it came out; I either saw it at a rep a few years later, or maybe on VHS. The Lightbox screened a nice print tonight. Nothing wrong with it--maybe a bit of overacting by Sutherland a couple of times--but I didn't get much more out of it than I did 35 years ago. Even seems a stretch to me to call it a horror film (I'm posting here because I think it ranked somewhere on the list). There was an image in the climactic scene that did seem to be the basis for the ending of The Blair Witch Project.

Love all the riffs on this in "In Bruges."

what's up, yall

(lately I've been shitting my pants to something new)

RIP Angus Scrim

this is a great poll, wish the images still existed. though y'all should be ashamed for how much my bloody valentine didn't place

Spent a nice chunk of yesterday re-reading parts of this thread, a SHOT of BOO-rbon by my side.

<3

all my favorite ppl were in this thread & thanks to everyone itt i discovered the wonders of Carnival of Souls

tomorrow i am watching Haxan & Onibaba for the first time

Oh man, I’m totally going to reread this thread.

This and the comedy were two of my favourite polls.

well worth the reread <3

Yeah, I spent a good portion of this morning reading through this and the comedy poll and adding things to my Letterboxd watchlist that I might otherwise not think to watch.

Those were the two best polls, basically. Oh, the MUMMY-ries. Guess I'll reread this thing, too, in the spirit of to-GHOUL-therness.