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

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.

yeah, I've got no love for people who vote in a horror movie poll that can't name at least 20 movies.

I can easily think of 20 canonical horror movies but I haven't seen all of them so I therefore wouldn't vote for them

like, I've never seen the entirety of the first Friday the 13th, or the first Halloween, or the first Nightmare on Elm Street, to throw out some obvious from-our-generation examples

I don't think you should go with ascending points. That would just lead to the crappier well-known films getting a few more votes that they don't need and sending me into extra-Morbsian apoplexy.

Not sure about minimum votes, either, but wouldn't necessarily oppose it.

And Picnic at Hanging Rock is definitely a horror film.

So is Walkabout ^

it's a list of 20 horror movies you enjoyed, not "20 canonical horror movies"

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

and for anyone else employed and out of their teens.

How many films did you vote for in the comedy poll, Morbs?

home movie (2008)
30 days of night
woods, the (2006)
woman, the (2011)
deadgirl (2008)
sauna (2008)
sexykiller (2008)

whoever nommed viy I kiss you

oh oh wait, I have another controversial nomination:

Beloved

I won't put any rules into place until after the noms/discussion period is done.

man I really hated the Beloved movie. but I think loving the book so much just automatically set me up to be disappointed.

why are the old and employed making a racket in the kids' yard?

yeah Eric can we make this a NO OLDS ALLOWED poll?

I'm old, employed, and can probably make a ballot of 100 horror movies. Someone's setting up straw dogs men.

straw geezers

(Tho this poll may kill off my employment.)

Dorian Gray (1970)

13 Tzameti
Signal, The
Shrooms
Deadgirl
Ungodly, The aka The Perfect Witness
Below
City of the Living Dead
Horseman, The
RED (2008)
Stuck
Human Centipede: First Sequence, The
Shadow
Feed

Just a jump off list here sourced from a different thread, more when i dont have peeps in the shop trying to buy stuff. dicks.

So is Walkabout ^

Arguably walking a very slippery slope, but I kind of agree. Particularly from the POV of the kids.

LOL, oh Feed. :)

Cloverfield
Super 8

yeah Eric can we make this a NO OLDS ALLOWED poll?

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