THE VAULT OF ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Voting Thread (voting closes May 9 *~*~*~*2012*~*~*~*)

hammer stuff got under-nommed but it's been so long since I've seen most of the frankenstein/dracula series I'm not sure which I'd even vote for. I don't think a single one of those films got nommed? very disappointed in you brits tbh

Hammer films are like Carry On films in that they're mostly good but quite similar to each other, the only one I can think of that really stands out is Witchfinder General (was that even Hammer?). Also they turn up on tv a lot, or used to at least, so they don't seem like anything special here.

― 0O0O0O0O0 (Matt #2), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 8:14 PM (8 minutes ago)

there are a couple of hammer films nommed, just not any from the dracula/frankenstein camp. I get the cultural fatigue but it strikes me as, like, not nomming any of the corman poe adaptions.

also roomfinder general is not a hammer film

It's Tigon, right?

yeah tigon/aip

I dunno maybe those hammer films just haven't aged well

The Pirie book may have been about British horror films in general, with a focus on Hammer. But I see The Conqueror Worm's in the first Danny Peary cult-movie book, so maybe that's where I first found out about it.

Just scanning over a list of Hammer films, and yeah, most of them do blur into one for me. For some reason I thought Theatre of Blood was a Hammer, but noooo.

peary's cult movies turned me on to so many movies in the 80s

i missed all the threads/testament discussion earlier, but like i said in the noms thread, threads is a lock for my top ten. and unlike e3, it totally fits my definition of horror, or at least one of them. i can't think of anything much more horrifying than the complete breakdown of human society, especially since [SPOILERS?] the ending hints at a slight hopefulness for survival that's even more horrifying than the entire destruction of all organic life on the planet, and in the best horror movie tradition it makes the whole thing gripping (if not thrilling).

plus it's available to watch in its entirety for free on google video. #hintsfromstrongoise

I nommed Dracula: Prince of Darkness. It's got a lot more action than a lot of Hammer Dracula films, and Christopher Lee is in fine form. Also nommed The Woman in Black, which I'm not expecting a lot of support for but I loved it.

Nine ballots so far. No movie shows up on more than six, and only two boast that number.

Almost wish I could've preserved the results in amber at four ballots. The number one movie would've shocked the hell out of everyone.

it's i accidentally domed your son amirite?!?

Original or remake?

i missed all the threads/testament discussion earlier, but like i said in the noms thread, threads is a lock for my top ten. and unlike e3, it totally fits my definition of horror, or at least one of them. i can't think of anything much more horrifying than the complete breakdown of human society, especially since [SPOILERS?] the ending hints at a slight hopefulness for survival that's even more horrifying than the entire destruction of all organic life on the planet, and in the best horror movie tradition it makes the whole thing gripping (if not thrilling).

plus it's available to watch in its entirety for free on google video. #hintsfromstrongoise

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 9:03 PM (Yesterday)

I can see why somebody would consider threads a horror movie, it's pretty horrific, and I've gone back and forth on it myself as y'all debate. but for some reason threads feels more akin to bleak desolation fests like pixote or come and see. they all depict hell on earth, it's just in threads it's a hell that hasn't yet occurred.

OK, so I just copy-pasted the nom list into Word so I can start winnowing out the ones I haven't seen and go from there, and it runs 16 pages.

cutting one of 2,000 Maniacs! and Two-Thousand Maniacs could help bring it down to 15

Who's the joker who nommed Donkey Punch?

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it is a horror movie. maybe theres 2 w/the same name or something, but this was abt bad things happening on a bout

man my ballot is just embarrassingly m.o.r.

Mine's in progress, but it's looking pretty much like this will be the case for me, too. I wish I could vote anonymously. Eric, are you judging voters?

Not at all. My own ballot is probably apt to strike a few participants here as ... well, whatever the horror movie equivalent of Biskand is. I think all of my top 5 are American horror movies 1968-1979. Can't help it.

dont worry i am working up some totally strange internal rules for my ballot that will make mine a glorious mess

btw on the "hey give this a shot before voting" tip both deadgirl and session 9 are on streaming netflix

also i just started narrowing down my list and good god this is a fucking nightmare

Drew down to 100 before making the hard choices.

Sadly I winnowed down to 6 pages by eliminating what I haven't seen. And expect mine to be pretty MOR as well.

I actively hated Session 9 and I thought it was pretty clearly garbage but then people whose opinions I value told me they liked it. That was surprising.

thought it was pretty great until the end. atmospheric, scary as hell, great soundtrack, decent performances - all undone by a predictable and heavy-handed conclusion.

I liked Session 9 but I think it's going to get cut from my ballot.

as I generally don't like gore or the '70s, I will be filling in your dead zones.

I openly welcome your ballot.

well shit even with my wacky rules i still have 88 left, plus a bunch of stuff i feel terrible about excluding

and i have a bunch of stuff lined up to watch before voting that i havent seen

arrghhhhh

^ same here, have threads and marebito ready to go for tonight. can't imagine that threads will make the cut, as "horrific" does not = "horror" in my book, but who knows?

fyi I have reversed my decision and will not be putting screaming racist cake on my ballot

btw on the "hey give this a shot before voting" tip both deadgirl and session 9 are on streaming netflix

heartily second the deadgirl recommendation. very well done, but not for the squeamish. will prolly end up somewhere on my ballot?

did not much care for deadgirl but maybe i need to (ugh) rescreen

mostly i find myself wanting to rewatch films on my ballot i havent seen in ages

henry: poask you fucked my shit up at age 12. will you still do so at age 34? etc etc.

my votig strategy turned out to be some lame (but apt given the subject) what had the most impact on first seeing and maybe thereafter thing

btw i will prob give anything that is on streaming a shot if people want to pimp particular movies. i would say the same thing about netflix but my queue is sitting somewhere around 500 already so that way lies madness. if anyone knows an easy way to get a hold of noroi: the curse that is one that i desperately want to see before voting but netflix doesnt even have it on disc so angryface

That's a pretty good strategy, actually. xp

not sure how to get ahold of noroi, jjj. i, uh, cataracted it.

would also like to rep for messiah of evil - had never even heard of it until it got some votes n love in darin's 1973 poll. at a historical midway point between carnival of souls and suspiria, it brings to mind the former's horror-in-everyday-life and the latter's color scheme and shot composition. while I wouldn't put it on the same level as those two, it's worthwhile if you dig slow-paced creepy arty horror flicks from the 70s. I know I do.

FUN FACT: walter hill plays the guy who gets killed in the first scene.

WARNING: don't watch the version on youtube. it has a goofy alternate soundtrack, and it's cropped which really impacts one of the film's strong points, those great 'scope setups.

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also just noticed that entrails of a virgin is on the nominations list. slay classy, ilx ;)

dang, that looks nice, edIII. big pix tho.

I like big pix and I cannot lie

fyi I have reversed my decision and will not be putting screaming racist cake on my ballot

I don't think this joke is getting the credit it deserves.

'Messiah Of Evil' is fucking great, especially when Albino Jandek dude asks his passenger 'Do you like...Wagner?' (Wagner prounced like Robert Wagner, not Richard Wagner). Love.

^ yeah I love that bit

Craig stole my post.

Just wanted to mention that the wonderfully-named Twitch of the Death Nerve is A) great, and B) perhaps better known today as Bay of Blood (original Italian title, Reazione a Catena). It's a 1971 film by Mario Bava that's sometimes credited with kicking off the "body count" or slasher sub-genre. Clever, suspenseful and funny, with excellent gore effects by Carlo Rambaldi. Recommended to fans of Argento, Bava, De Palma and bloody mystery thrillers in general.

http://bt.eutorrents.com/imagehost/images/reaziohmh.jpg

Huge influence on Friday The 13th. I like it a lot but it missed my ballot in the end. Still went with lots of Bava though.