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

M. White used to be a location scout iirc

but sure I can play dead. I am also good at rolling around in corn syrup & red dye no. 5, if necessary

the saddest lol is that i already have the script written.

Uh oh, I fear a Demon Lover/Demon Lover Diary situation coming on...

and s1ocki knows a thing or two about moviemakin iirc

I'm in if I can die an absurdly creative death sometime in the second act.

if i ever get this thing off the ground, i promise to have my c.a.a. rep give each of you a call.

I have blue and red gels, so let me know if you want some 80s lighing effects in there.

i will do this as long as craft services includes booze

can I sing on the soundtrack?

i can bake cookies

I can review it.

I can make a documentary about the making of it and then not let anyone see it while it's tangled up in decades-long distribution legal battles.

Or I could work the craft services table. That's what I usually get stuck doing anyway. That, "transportation coordinator" or managing the online store.

I can saw into cables so that the catwalk mysteriously falls on the leading man

i wanna read this script now.

okay aside from someone fronting us five million to make it, we're like almost there folks.

just putting it out there, i will act in anyones horror movie as long as they fly me to where it is being filmed and provide booze. lodging and food would be nice, but with enough booze i can work around that.

really glad that i specified horror movie there before DJP enlisted me to star in his magnum opus "1 Guy 1 Cup"

okay so far we got:

justen as lead
slocki to direct (presuming we can meet his fee)
djp as music director
austerity ponies as lighting director
shakey and carl in starring victims roles
la lechera as les blank on the set of fitzcarraldo
contenderizer for catering
eric as pauline kael

anyone have tom savini's phone number?

xp: I think that would still count as a horror movie tbh

all we need is a final girl and a few reckless venture capitalists.

plus I will learn claymation

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a137/cmhallock/Q_Winged_Serpent.jpg

I know film editors/FX/animation people at ILM, I'm sure I could get at least two of them to help out

"the cabinet of mr. jay batman, an ilx films production"

guys do you all wanna get together and make a horror movie? this is what my life has been building toward since about age 10 but i'm 34 now and in the interest of keeping it really real i'll never get my shit together well enough to pull it off before i'm dead.

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES. I can do the Repulsion-esque psychodrama lady lead, or I can just, y'know, proof the script. Being crazy and being literate are pretty much my only personality traits.

Being crazy and being literate are pretty much my only personality traits.

hey, me too!

*high fives*

I can do your credits, strongo. Just downloaded a 'scratchy film' filter for Premiere and a Marilyn Manson song, so I'm good to go.

I would make a great extra, I'm nondescript and unmemorable and won't pull focus from the lead. And I take instruction really well.

if dan p can't/won't do the soundtrack, i know that m.eily would do a bang-up job.

You can have this one for free.

can I be script doctor? I always wanted to be a doctor. also recommend that music director djp approve emil.y's soundtrack for use.

hey strongo I don't have savini's number but why buy a burger when you can learn to hunt

http://www.dec.edu/pages/makeupeffects.html

he's in your neck of the world, too

Yeah, I have a friend who went to the Pittsburgh Art Institute to study under Savini, and he's doing effects in Tarantino movies and stuff now, so his programs are presumably the Real Deal.

Obv I can't list everything I've seen but assuming I'm a pretty big horror fan and have seen most of the canonical ones, does anybody have personal recommendations for something I really, REALLY need to see before the deadline?

― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, April 26, 2012 3:51 PM (Yesterday)

you've done a lot of good homework already! some last minute recommends:

a tale of two sisters - I stopped repping for this years ago because it went from being an obscure korean film to one of its more well-known exports. it's a super creepy ghost story, but also verrry well-made, great cinematography and set design, top notch acting. it stumbles a bit during the conclusion but its gothy swampy dreamy sumptuousness is something else. streaming on the netflix.

homebodies - a 1974 black comedy about a group of seniors who start bumping off the people who plan to demolish their apartment building. kind of obscure, never on DVD, but it's on youtube. a weird mix of funny, poignant, and chilling.

last house on dead end street - a carnival of souls for the nihilist grindhouse set, as bottom of the barrel production values manage to produce some transcendent eerie effects and memorable, iconic images. the soundtrack of the last 10 minutes is dominated by drug crazed laughter. must've been some hard tonic back in 1973. US DVD is out of print, happy hunting.

polanski's macbeth / the tenant - the first two films in the apartment trilogy are going to suck up most of the polanski love in this poll, but don't overlook these two gems. his macbeth is brutal, gory, and darkly beautiful. the tenant is identity paranoia par excellence and proves there is nothing scarier than roman polanski in a dress.

haxan / vampyr - assuming you've already seen nosferatu, these are other worthwhile silent era treats.

^^^ SPOILER ALERT re: The Tenant

Found this through the Damage contrololz thread. Video is good. Skip to ~ 2:00.

http://movieline.com/2012/04/26/great-moments-in-baseball-the-rings-sadako-throws-first-pitch-at-japanese-game/

looooool

hahahaha

It would have been pretty funny no matter what, but what she does post-pitch made me laugh aloud at my desk.

Ok so putting together my ballot is basically making me feel terrible for doing a shit job in the nominations process, because there is no Jim van Bebber nominated. Fuck me.

xxxp thanks for the recommendations edward. Vampyr will be pretty high on my list and The Tenant prob 3rd in a list of 4 polanski's that might make it but haven't seen any of the others so I'll get looking, unfortunately hampered by access to only the shitty uk versh of netflix tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNUr__-VZeQ

Mid-polling period slump. I've only gotten two ballots in the last 4 or 5 days, bringing it up to a total of 13 with the early birds. I'd hate for 50 ballots to come in the last day (hint, hint).

I'm gonna be a late bird, as is my lurker.
Give me a day or three and we will get our ballots in, and they will be full of HORROR.

Imma get mine to you in the next day or so. Watching all of these movies I intended to watch just totally isn't gonna happen before the ballots are due.

dude I guess I should get mine over to you then as well, for one very obv reason & also to spare you my portion of the last-minute clusterfuck

In the interest of fairness, I have every intention of extending the voting period an extra few days. But if your ballot is basically set, don't procrastinate.

i'll get my ballot to you in a day or two, eric, not just to spare you the last-minute clusterfuck but also b/c i'm at the "law of diminishing returns" portion of watching/evaluating horror films for this poll.