Tales From The ILX Top 100 Horror Movies Poll Discussion/Nominations Thread

Yeah, I was just realizing what a Pandora's box I opened up with that google doc.

For sanity's sake, I think doing it the old-fashioned way might be better for me to keep track.

woops, I meant The Legend Of Hell House. Different movie!

Will I be the only person voting who still covers my eyes when a film scares me? Seriously. And I'm 50.

It doesn't happen much, but I'll admit at the end of Paranormal Activity 2 I was worried what they'd do for an encore and watched between fingers.

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDES: pulse

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286751/

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Sooo...are we keeping track here of stuff we added to the spreadsheet? If so:

An American Werewolf in London
Blob, The (1988)
Brain Damage
Creepshow
Dawn of the Dead (1978) (Dates are gonna be crucial with some of these entries)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Eraserhead
Exorcist 3, The
Fog, The
From Dusk Til Dawn
God Told Me To
Gremlins
Hausu
Hellraiser
Howling, The
In The Mouth of Madness
Inland Empire
Legend of Hell House
Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Phantasm
Pieces
Return of the Living Dead
Salem's Lot
Shaun of the Dead
Testament
Tingler, The
Trick r' Treat

(Dates are gonna be crucial with some of these entries)

I'd also like to see a distinction between the Haunting (1963) and The Haunting (1999). While I can't imagine voting for the latter, someone might.

Yep, I closed off edit access to all for that doc, but I'll keep adding stuff to it myself. It's just easier for me to keep track of new entries that way.

Oh, man, yeah...this might be a PITA for you, Eric. Like, I was trying to pare down my list as I noticed people mentioning stuff in this thread, but I still managed to add some dupes. Plus an unintentional string of bbcode (which I watched someone delete in real time and didn't realize was a thing Google Docs did...creeeeepy).

Oh, never mind. Ha ha.

LOL, yeah, when I was trying to edit and saw two other users adding stuff, I thought: This is a mistake.

So, to recap. Nominations doc is available for all to read. I'll add titles that are listed in this thread, and the ones that received votes in the yearly horror movie polls (later).

Carry on Screaming
Deep Red
Dog Soldiers
Hellraiser
Kill List
Let the Right One In (2008)
Lifeforce
Psychomania
Sleepy Hollow
Theatre of Blood

I have 4 types of things I generally look for in a good horror movie (but not necessarily in the same flick):

* terror/fright
* tension/thrills/accelerated heart rate
* unease/despair
* lols

there are probably going to be a few movies that are just classic or great that I'll include on my list (and I probably have more criteria than what I listed), but this is what I think of first when I think of horror/comedy horror.

I don't scare easy, so I love a good fright. Maybe a half-dozen movies have legit scared me.

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?

wait, what?

Does Threads count?

Testament will be very high on my ballot, so I'd say horrifying Reagan/Thatcher-era nuclear war nightmares absolutely count (maybe this will be the kick in the seat I need to finally watch Threads). And I think TV movies should probably get a huge pass in this poll to allow for the inclusion of stuff like Salem's Lot and It.

Speaking of which, I nominate:

Ghostwatch

Okay, some more noms:

Häxan (1922)
Vampyr (1932)
Suspiria
The Stone Tape
Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
Blood on Satan's Claw
Eraserhead

Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Tenebrae
Angry Red Planet
It! The Terror from Beyond Space

Evil Dead II
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II
Ringu
Phantasm II
The Changeling
White Zombie
Frailty
Halloween III
Zombie
Rec aka [rec]
Black Christmas (1974)
Slither
Martyrs
Scanners
Zombie aka Zombi 2 (1979)
Eraserhead

^ oops @ Zombie repeat

I love how many times Eraserhead is getting nominated. :)

will be an easy ballot cuz there are only about 20 respectable horror films ever

and one of the top 5 is Kobayashi's Kwaidan (1964)

figure it will get 3 votes.

Added that boring movie to the nominations list.

also..

The Changeling (1980)

(not the one w/ Angelina Jolie)

Horror = a gazillion times better a genre than comedy. And often funnier, too.

know-nothingism reigns, it is the Year Zero!

Oh. Oh, oh, oh. I started watching Cathy's Curse last night (from the same 10 for $10 box set that introduced me to the wonderful God Told Me To and Pieces) while going to sleep, and I'll have to finish it to see whether it belongs here, but what I saw was the most jaw-droppingly :O sub-Ed Wood ineptitude which was somehow so inept that it started crossing over into something surreal and unnerving even while it made me laugh. It doesn't feel like something made by human beings or anything with the capacity for conscious thought.

(Also, horror is way cleverer, has better cinematography, more plot, deeper characterisation... I could go on...)

Oh, god, yeah, The Changeling. That movie scared the ever-living crap out of me when I was like 12 and saw it on HBO.

k, emil.y added to enemies list

Glad to see that Morbs will be maintaining the complain-a-thon throughout this poll, as well.

Haha, like months ago.

Morbs is going to take it to the next level on this one.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
M
Let the Right One In (2008)
Bloodsucking Freaks

You've admitted repeatedly that you don't enjoy being scared and don't like horror movies generally, Morbs, so I suspect the thread will give your cavils all the attention that they merit.

actually I won't DWH, since it's my least fave genre and I don't care what you guys think about anything

*into Carrie Weiss's grave*

So I really love ringu, dark water, pulse

Any other Japanese horror movies you folks can recommend?

Also loved A Tale of Two Sisters (and The Host which is of a different sort than what I'm looking for here)

So obv looking for recommendations for Korean horror as well

omg Carrie Weiss :)

k, emil.y added to enemies list

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:03 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You just can't handle the truth!

I will check out Kwaidan at some point, though, I quite like a good portmanteau.

C'mon, Morbs, you're not fooling anybody. You may not agree with anything we think, but you care so hard what we think about everything.

Speaking of which, have we had:

Black Sabbath (Bava, 1963)

?

Austerity Fluffles, I will have a think about Japanese/Korean horror for you. There's definitely some amazing stuff.

Dead of Night
Frenzy
Dead Ringers
My Bloody Valentine (1981)

omg Carrie Weiss :)

^ the way into Eric's knickers

Thinking of nominating the Paul Schrader "Cat People" just for the lols. Although the scene where Ed Begley gets his arm ripped off by Catcolm McDowell and bleeds to death on the floor scared the pants off me when I was 13.

Okay because when I went to the google doc, stuff seemed to move out of order? No idea what happened, but hope it wasn't me.

I added The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and the 1920 and 1931 versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Waxworks (1924)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Student of Prague (1926)
The Unknown (1927)
The Man Who Laughs
Freaks
White Zombie
The Island of Lost Souls
The Mystery of the Wax Museum
Black Cat (1934)
Mad Love
Cat People
The 7th Victim
I Walked with a Zombie
The Uninvited (1944)
Dead of Night (1945)
The Body Snatcher
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Les Diaboliques
Dementia (1955)
The Bad Seed (1956)
Curse of the Demon (1957)
Jigoku
Les Yeux Sans Visage
The Innocents

Burn, Witch, Burn
Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People
Blood Feast
Onibaba
Hush..Hush, Sweet Charlotte
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Tomb of Ligeia
Viy
Witchfinder General
The Devil Rides Out
Spider Baby
Hour of the Wolf
Torture Garden
Twisted Nerve
Horrors of Malformed Men
The Dunwich Horror
The House That Dripped Blood
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Blood on Satan's Claw
Asylum (1972)
Requium for a Vampire
The wicker Man

Vault of Horror
From Beyond the Grave
The Crazies
A Bell from Hell
Martin
Blue Sunshine
Alucarda
The Brood
Possession (1981)
Living Dead Girl
Basket Case
The Company of Wolves
Phenomena
Re-Animator
Return of the Living Dead
Gothic
Near Dark
Lair of the White Worm
Paperhouse
Pin

Evil Dead Trap
Parents
The Reflecting Skin
Cemetery Man
Cube
Memento Mori
The Devil's Backbone
A Tale of Two Sisters
The Orphanage
Let the Right One In

A Tale of Two Sisters

Getting the name wrong on one of the most indelible characters in horror history? Sure bet.

Sry, Ed Begley JUNIOR. Forgot Morbs was around, don't want to confuse him.

Okay because when I went to the google doc, stuff seemed to move out of order? No idea what happened, but hope it wasn't me.

That was me. I closed off access and re-alphabetized.

oh it's White, right? I saw it in German.

but yr wrong, her name is not Norma(n) Bates