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

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?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yhI2B4K0p8c/Tar_sNczFJI/AAAAAAAAAI4/XxMDtMP-XCo/s1600/grumpy+old+men.jpg

ah shit i bet theres some duplication there i didnt check all the xposts, sorry man

clemenza you're young at heart, you can stay <3

Eaten Alive
Meet The Applegates (a possibly controversial nominee that I considered and rejected nominating for the comedy poll)

Just know that if Super 8 and Taxi Driver place above Last House on Dead End Street and Deathdream, there will be spillage.

Oops, forgot I was to remain impartial as the mod.

man i am obv not a good judge of this, but looking at the expansion of noms i find it nearly impossible to imagine that anyone wont be able to at least list 20 films

Yay for me!

Yeah, there will be a minimum on the ballots for sure. Just have to decide whether it's 10, 20, 25, more?

anything pre-1960 on this one, clemenza, you ex-cineaste?

Attack The Block
The Fury
Rebeccca
The Crazies (2010)
Dahmer
Mother's Day (1980)
Dead Calm
The Blob (1958)
Hostel
Hostel Part II
Tremors
The Faculty
Santa's Slay
Jack Frost (1996)
Final Destination
Scream
Eyes Of Laura Mars

I have such a soft spot for gargoyles, hugely fascinating to me as a kid. it's a terrible movie no doubt, but AP otm in that the first half has some genuinely creepy moments with those gargoyle incursions into the human world. and if I have not hallucinated this, I believe bernie casey as the winged king gargoyle astride a horse is one of the most bizarre and wondrous visions beamed into american households of the 70s. def a movie for ppl whose fav part of wizard of oz were the flying monkeys.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/gargoyles.jpg

haha that should be Rebecca on my noms, no need to search for an obscurity

Rubber
Hampshire
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The
Abandoned, The
Murder Loves Killers Too
Re-Cycle
Severance

dude you just nommed rubber

I'll have a few pre-'60. I don't think anything silent, though. (Possibly Caligari just for its weirdness.)

What are some all time movies that horror fans would know but would probably be obscure to a relatively mainstream audience?

I will try to watch some of these so as to give consideration to things that should place high.