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

Two more:

Sisters
the first 15 minutes of When A Stranger Calls

So, controversial idea. I'm toying with the idea of making people list 50 on their ballot or else risk losing their vote's clout. In other words, your last placing movie gets 1 point and you can work your way up to 50.

Thoughts?

that was how we did it for the comedy ballot. Why is that controversial? or am I completely misunderstanding you because I'm low on caffeine?

Also, I always think the guy on this cover:

http://www.soundonsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/alucarda_la_hija_de_las_tinieblas_1977-213x300.jpg

is Jaco Pastorius.

The way I want to do it is if your ballot only has 20 movies on it, your top-ranked movie only gets 20 points.

all horror movies should have upside down crosses in them

Which is, I swear, not a preemptive disenfranchisement of Morbs' ballot.

Well, it's kind of a hodge-podge after the first ~ 20, and it's not necessarily a bad idea, but it might make the latter half of my list a little more desultory than otherwise. @ Eric

xpost -- oh i see

well if the rules say vote for 50, i'll vote for 50. I didn't realize ppl just go 'fuck i'm only voting for 10' or whatever

all horror movies should have Jaco Pastorius in them. esp. because he's DEAD.

well especially because of that

This is going to be hard, hah... One of those things like the all time metal poll where getting my ballot down to 50 choices will be maddening.

it's gonna be difficult for me to get up to 50 movies, lol

^yeah

I don't think I can get away with the ascending point value plan, but it will irk me to see some ballots come in from people who can't muster anything beyond 10 or 20.

Which is, I swear, not a preemptive disenfranchisement of Morbs' ballot.

But honnnnnnesty's not your strong suit...

Added this:

Visitor Q
Suicide Club
Human Centipede, The
Let Me In (2010)
House of the Devil, The
Bug
War of the Worlds (2005)
Halloween II (2009)

From this:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/the-25-best-horror-films-of-the-aughts/281/

what if both Let Me In and Let the Right Ones In place?

honnnnnnesty's
old movies suuuuuuuck soooooo muchhhhhh

Did you just have a stroke?

oh War of the Worlds counts? huh

sure you have your full complement of silent horror? all the Tod Brownings?

(like anyone who hasn't seen them wd watch)

(Magnetic Fields ref lost on Tony Manero)

I don't think I can get away with the ascending point value plan, but it will irk me to see some ballots come in from people who can't muster anything beyond 10 or 20.

I think that's better than the alternative, wherein people with only 20 or so favorites pack a bunch of garbage into the back end of their ballots in order to give their number one pick more heft.

i'm hoping this poll proves *once and for all* that The Omen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Exorcist.

(Magnetic Fields ref lost on Tony Manero)

I can't believe you think this is a slam.

Yeah, Deric, that's true.

Taking War of the Worlds off. That was just clumsy cut-and-pasting.

Also, I always think the guy on this cover:

is that not a gal

I don't believe you (are gay any longer)

xp

xposts Tho it's a zillion times scarier than Pan's Labyrinth imo.

oh War of the Worlds counts? huh

I'd contest it more because I didn't particularly care for it than because it's not a straight-up horror film. But it does have some scary-ish stuff (inasmuch as it approaches the concept of genocidal aliens with a much more gravid brush than does Mars Attacks! or Independence Day), so I don't have a problem with it being in the running.

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
GhostWatch (1992)

Also, I always think the guy on this cover:

is that not a gal

(Joke too subtle.)

btw did Forbidden World aka Mutant get vetoed because it's unbelievably terrible

My misuse of the word 'gravid' = most horrifying thing in this thread thus far.

(I'm semi-okay with that, I just wanted to know)

OH DANG gargoyles (1972)

This is another movie I saw once on tv as a kid. I remember being really into for a week but have only wierd shadowy memories of it. The first half of the movie was spooky and isolated and what are these strange happenings, and then iirc the second half was just like conversations with gargoyles, and like "we're people too" boo-hoo type stuff around monster genocide ot w/e

lol I didn't even notice the gravid brush until you pointed it out

what the hell have you been doing with that brush

as spastic as I get about genre shenanigans, DJP I have to say I kind of love you for nomming Interview With The Vampire

I don't really understand why a movie would be pulled from the nominations for not being "horror" enough. If it doesn't belong people won't vote for it. Plus, as the comment re: Pan's Labyrinth points out, it's a slippery slope.

also that description of Gargoyles the movie makes it sound like Gargoyles the mid-90s cartoon show

there should be a minimum # of movies on the ballot. 20 votes minimum I think has been standard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Kz6G8174w

City of the Living Dead aka The Gates of Hell
Final Destination 2
Prom Night (1980)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Psycho 2

I almost nominated War of the Worlds but it straddles a weird sci-fi/horror/action axis where I'm not comfortable placing it in any of them. That said, if it's on the ballot, it'll get a vote from me somewhere. That first scene with the tripods is straight-up pants-shitting horror.

xp oh well n/m

if there's a minimum, it needs to be much lower than 20 IMO, otherwise you are either fucking up the poll with noise or you are de facto filtering out the people who are interested in participating but aren't as well-versed in the genre, or you are forcing them to vote for things they may not have voted for just to meet the minimum count

Really? I can think of 20 movies easily and I'm not a big horror buff

btw did Forbidden World aka Mutant get vetoed because it's unbelievably terrible

It's still on the list.

Cat and the Canary, The
Hands of Orlac, The
Le Manoir du Diable
Unknown, The
Waxworks (1924)

from this list:
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-under-appreciated-silent-horror-films.php

DJP's right. I love horror, but only my top 20 are going to be meaningful.