The Haunt Of Fear: ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Results Thread

"The first film in our countdown really GRABS you by the BALLS!"

100. PHANTASM
Don Coscorelli, USA, 1979
(175 points, 8 votes)

The first Phantasm broke my brain into eight pieces. Do the sequels just, like, dance on the pieces or something?
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:56 PM

S/D: Horror film sequels

― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

(clears work calendar for rest of day)

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh, man, that graphic looks great. If that's what we're in for . . . BEST POLL RESULTS EVER.

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

I've still never seen this...was thinking it might be pretty high.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

I've watched it a few times. nice atmosphere, tall man is unique, but I find it a little... boring, I guess?

how are the sequels, anyway?

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

I re-watched it again recently and it's still pretty good, if a little bonkers. The sequels are mostly crap, in my view. Still, it may be the only horror movie whose resolution relies on a character knowing how to tune a guitar.

My favorite little detail, which most directors would never think of: When the dude in the funeral home is killed by the flying silver sphere, he voids his bladder when he dies.

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

lots of great stuff in Phantasm. didn't vote for it as it's a bit nonsensical.

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Our next SINISTER selection is sure to send jjjusten off the DEEP END!"

99. PONTYPOOL
Bruce McDonald, Canada, 2009
(176 points, 7 votes)

I think pontypool is rampagingly adequate.
― Rango Unchained (jjjusten), Sunday, April 15, 2012 1:19 PM

im sorry but theres a million miles more legit depth to martyrs than pontypool, pontypool just wears "look at me i am thinking" right on its surface but thats all there is.
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:15 PM

"According to McDonald, the writer hashed out a script in 48 hours."
gee i would never have guessed
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:14 PM (3 months ago)

ok lets all shit our pants to something new: post 2005 horror film thread

― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

hahaha YES

^poll results thread

― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

<3 the screencaps

― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

I always liked the scene where the kid stumbles b/w the prongs of a gigantic tuning fork into some Martian negative-world where zombie dwarves attempt very slowly to harm him or make out w/ him or something.

Phantasm is a weird movie.

― Troll 3 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

The best part about pontypool was the running gag with the chopper reporter.

― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

Also some good jokes around the mechanism the language virus. I liked it when the studio assistant kept running forehead-first into the recording booth window. Mostly though, the script was a mess, and about 15 minutes of solid movie maybe 30-40 minutes in.

― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

Also one of the two heroes of Phantasm is a prematurely balding ice cream-truck driver who plays crappy folk rock. <3 that movie.

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Before I reveal the next title, I have to double check the CLAWS in my CONTRACT!"

98. BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW [a.k.a. SATAN'S SKIN]
Piers Haggard, UK, 1971
(177 points, 8 votes)

di wrote this on thread who has the best job in the world? on board I Love Everything on Oct 10, 2001
Satan

Ned Raggett (Ned) wrote this on thread Which film critics do you trust (if any?) on board I Love Everything on Feb 3, 2004
SATAN!

Larry wrote this on thread Cornicelli on board I Love Everything on Nov 15, 2002
Satan?

Chris V. (Chris V) wrote this on thread How come I always got red eyes? on board I Love Everything on Mar 10, 2003
Satan

chrisco (chrisco) wrote this on thread Funniest possible things to say during moment of climax. on board I Love Everything on Sep 2, 2004
"SATAN"

NA (Nick A.) wrote this on thread Carnies vs. Circus Folk on board I Love Everything on Sep 15, 2003
Satan.

Nicolars (Nicole) wrote this on thread Charisma on board I Love Everything on Nov 11, 2003
Satan.

― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

Also one of the two heroes of Phantasm is a prematurely balding ice cream-truck driver who plays crappy folk rock.

What the world needs now, is another folk singer, like I need a hole in my head

^SPOILER

― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah but then in Phantasm 2 bald ponytail dude trades up for a shotgun which has FOUR BARRELS, so I think he learned his lesson about trying to combat the forces of evil w/ his shitty hippy songs.

― Troll 3 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

This is already the best ILX film poll ever!

― Simon H., Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

Wow, the screen caps are amazing! "Screen caps" do it do them justice. This is some next level shit.

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

I've watched it a few times. nice atmosphere, tall man is unique, but I find it a little... boring, I guess?

Me, too. Phatasm is one of those movies where I understand all the love, but just can't love it myself.

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

xxp "And that's how, with a few simple modifications, you can turn a regular gun into five guns. Thank you."

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

man, I am lolin' hard at the cryptkeeper lead-ins to each entry

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Be kind! Re-DIE-nd!"

97. [rec]
Jaume Balaguerò & Paco Plaza, 2007
(178 points, 7 votes)

the skinny zombie was freaky as fuck.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, October 12, 2009 12:01 PM (2 years ago)

you're welcome
― cankles, Friday, October 10, 2008 2:01 PM (3 years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=60114

― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

I think I saw Phantasm. I certainly remember long boring chunks of the movie. Plus the molesting satan dwarves and pants pissing. I was probably drunk, so maybe that was me.

― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

I didn't vote for rec, but it way exceeded the nonexistent expectations I had when I watched it.

― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

I need to rewatch Phantasm. The best word I can think of to sum up my memory of it is 'unmoored'.

― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

holy cats, the internets are pretty much stanning for rec. adding this to my must-see list

― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's not a gamechanger or anything, but it's pretty damn fun. Best enjoyed in a packed theater w/ skittish young women sitting behind you.

― Simon H., Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

[rec] and Blood on Satan's Claw -- Both were movies i voted for so HOORAY!

― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

also this is just about the best possible way to pass time while proctoring an exam

― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

enjoying these results so far.

phantasm was on the shortlist but just missed my ballot. a great, great b-movie, the ideas and scope are way beyond what they had the budget to pull off but they still went for it with a madness.

I like pontypool, maybe for the reasons jjjusten hates it, tho I think it's more effective in creating a creepy mood than he's giving it credit for. recency handicap kept it off my ballot.

blood on satan's claw was my #45. this and witchfinder general did bloody battle for the tigon spot on my ballot. I guess the fact that satan is actually afoot won the day, even though it looks like they spent about 10 quid on his costume. entire thing's on youtube btw.

[rec] has been in the to-watch pile on my shelf for a while.

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

[rec] set the bar embarrassingly high for other pretenders to the whole 00s shakey-cam/found footage thing

― Troll 3 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

So far Blood on Satan's Claw the only one I voted for. Haven't even seen the others.

― MrDasher, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

Only saw the American remake of [REC]. (shameface)

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

They're practically identical.

― Simon H., Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, Wikipedia says it's a shot-for-shot remake.

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

In that case, that movie sucked.

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:31 (1 year ago) Permalink

"You know what they say about MAY-DECEMBER romances: half plus seven ... FEET UNDER!"

96. MAY
Lucky McKee, 2002
(186 points, 8 votes)

so i suppose its too late for Lucky McKee to have any auteur left in him huh?
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, October 22, 2010 4:58 PM (1 year ago)

ok lets all shit our pants to something new: post 2005 horror film thread

― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

also pillbox's screengrabs are some pro-level shit

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^ I want these as a series of trading cards

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, no kidding!

― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

Collectible lobby cards.

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

I think despite its flaws The Woman bests May a 'lil bit through sheer intensity. But they're both good and distinct.

― Simon H., Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

yay, may! another late cut from my ballot, glad to see it made it. angela bettis is to may what de niro is to taxi driver.

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

May! Next time you hear a girl is "super into crafting" you might want to inquire further before you pursue...

― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

creating a creepy mood

Yes! Which was built up and then lost in last half of the movie. I was distracted by a lot of awkward scripting and clunky, unnatural dialogue. I really wanted to enjoy the word-association bit, but was coming down and feeling less engaged by that point. Felt like a promising first draft, but flawed in its execution.

― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

"You know what they say about MAY-DECEMBER romances: half plus seven ... FEET UNDER!"

ahahaha genius

― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

Can't believe I still haven't seen MAY. McKee's episode of "Masters of Horror" w/Bettis was just o_O.

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

The images are amazing, my god.

Bit sad that Blood on Satan's Claw is so low - didn't it do quite well in one of the year polls? I guess it's different when you have the whole history of horror to choose from.

Phantasm was a fair way from making my final list, but it is enjoyable and a bit odd at times. But yeah, I remember it as something that doesn't quite hang together.

People repping for May on the other thread, and now it appearing here, hmm. MAYbe I should see this film.

― emil.y, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

MAYbe you should

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, seriously. It is a terrible film.

― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 00:06 (8 months ago) Permalink

guess you had to be there

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 01:56 (8 months ago) Permalink

sucking yr vampire girlfriend's blood in an oil field by night

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 02:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

i have no idea what some of you see in that movie.

vampire bar slaughter with Cramps sdtk, basically

watched De Palma's Sisters last night, feel like that maybe should've placed - wild movie

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 September 2012 02:13 (8 months ago) Permalink

I like it a lot ... it's just that I think just about everything I like in that movie he did better later on.

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Thursday, 13 September 2012 02:52 (8 months ago) Permalink

i own the Phantasm boxed set but i was heartbroken when i saw the death orb version

also hell yes the lack of narrative consistency is part of the point, it's pop surrealism at its bestest

― syntax evasion (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 September 2012 11:05 (8 months ago) Permalink

near dark is about 9/10s of a wonderful movie that falls apart catastrophically at the finish line. i pretend the ending didn't happen in order to enjoy the rest. bar slaughter is amazing, and the film is arguably a vehicle for that one scene, but i like paxton and henriksen in general, love the itinerant cowboy vampires concept. i also really like jenny wright's performance as the young vampire girl. the film pays a lot of attention, in her scenes with adrian pasadar, to the sensual texture of ordinary moments. this communicates her supernatural awareness and speed, intentionally likening her to a wild creature, but it also describes adolescence, a rush of impressions and emotions too overwhelming to contain. the thrill of freedom, lust, danger and the world at night. like the lost boys, near dark imagines vampirism as coming of age, a fascinating idea that, unfortunately, only makes the cop-out ending that much more of a betrayal. you can't go home again.

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

Guess I'm gnna have to watch Near Dark, something I've always kinda wanted to do anyway since I really do like Bigelow.

― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:52 (8 months ago) Permalink

it's definitely superior to Lost Boys which is really only enjoyable as camp

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:53 (8 months ago) Permalink

No way is it better than Lost Boys. Partly because it IS enjoyable as camp, whereas Near Dark is just... nothing. No sympathetic characters, no interesting storyline, no scares, no emotion, no great silliness.

― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 16:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

(First 'it' - Near Dark, second 'it' - Lost Boys. I realise that may be confusingly written.)

― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 16:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

feel like whoever voted for it should be responsible for mounting a more staunch defense of it. I liked it allright, but I don't think it's all-time material

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 September 2012 16:36 (8 months ago) Permalink

yeah, i didn't vote for it because my reservations are too strong. what's good is really good though.

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 September 2012 16:50 (8 months ago) Permalink

near dark my #28. saw it during its original + brief theatrical run, was blown away. so many great scenes, the bus station, the bar scene, the motel shootout. also: jenny wright.

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:21 AM (3 months ago)

I love Near Dark, so stripped down and logical -- if there were vampires, this is probably the kind of life they'd have to lead.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:39 AM (3 months ago)

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 16:59 (8 months ago) Permalink

I will concede that the idea of vampires living a sort of peripatetic wild west existence is not a bad one. But the film they made out of that idea is a bad one.

― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 17:01 (8 months ago) Permalink

No way is it better than Lost Boys. Partly because it [Lost Boys] IS enjoyable as camp...

― emil.y, Thursday, September 13, 2012 9:25 AM (25 minutes ago)

yeah, i was talking about this recently, perhaps upthread. both film shy away from the implications of the hero-turned-vampire concept, but the lost boys never takes itself seriously, so this isn't a problem. near dark seems tougher and more intellectually/artistically engaged, so the loss of nerve really hurts the film. disagree that it lacks appealing characters, though. i like everyone except the hero, his pa and the littlest vampire (river's edge weirdo kid).

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 September 2012 17:03 (8 months ago) Permalink

plus contenderizer just did a bang up job of elucidating its high points

xp

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 17:03 (8 months ago) Permalink

I have trouble reading near dark as "bad" - sure it has more good ideas than it can realize in a satisfactory way (puts me in mind of early cronenberg) and its conclusion is troubled, so its placement in the nether regions of the poll is appropriate. its shakier aspects are offset by sophisticated camera + design work, a good tangerine dream score, and some decisions that reveal a thoughtfulness at work (e.g. the word vampire is never used). there's a mean spirited charm to the vampires, but also a sadness.

in the 80s, freak subculture was still really underground. near dark played into this both thematically and in the details - using the cramps during the bar scene was a dog whistle. decades of updated vampires and 80s fetishism have maybe dulled the charms of near dark, but it was pretty unique at the time. it captures the downbeat vibe of drifter life, a certain american lost-ness, while still retaining the poetry of the vampire myth, two poles captured in these stills:

plus bishop, vasquez, and hudson from aliens! don't know what else to say. sorry you didn't like dis movie, guys.

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:30 (8 months ago) Permalink

and I'll take the rough ugliness of near dark's dysfunctional outsider family over the pretty boy nonsense of the lost boys any day

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:37 (8 months ago) Permalink

I even like the little kid in near dark, or at least the pathos in his character - preteen boys can be snarky + annoying, imagine being trapped in that state forever *shudder*

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

Okay, I dunno if it makes any difference, but I had SERIOUS problems with the representation of women in this film. And the storyline runs so very very close to messianic boy-saves-girl bullshit. It's not even sexy-woman misogyny, it's just patronising homespun traditional misogyny. I found it hard to really get past this.

― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:40 (8 months ago) Permalink

I wasn't saying it was bad, i was just expecting a lot more delivery of something from it - there just isnt a lot of movie there in a lot of ways. it seems kinda uncomitted to being anything really, i mean theres a really half-assed love story in there somewhere, and one bar scene of horror, and sort of a little road outlaw standoff, but none of it ever really delivers or gets sustained. it just seemed really aimless and unfocused, and not in an intriguing way xposts

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:43 (8 months ago) Permalink

I call it out upthread for being regressive but mysogynist seems like a problematic term to hang on Bigelow

xp

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

jjjusten, I guess I enjoyed that rambling aimlessness but then again I'm a two lane blacktop fan so

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

Ah yes, the old "women can't be misogynists" defence.

xpost

― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

I wasn't making a generalized statement, I was making a specific statement about a particular woman, the writer and director of the movie, who I think it's difficult to hang the mysognist tag on. she's not exactly Phyllis Shlafly.

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:57 (8 months ago) Permalink

Okay, fair enough. I haven't liked any film of hers I've seen, so never paid that much attention to the rest. This one pretty much just shores up that impression.

― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 18:59 (8 months ago) Permalink

did you dislike the portrayal of the female protagonist generally, or did you primarily object to her "rescue" by the male protagonist and his father at the end?

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:03 (8 months ago) Permalink

Bit of both. The whole 'listen to the night' thing or whatever it was felt a lot like proto-MPDG crap.

― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:07 (8 months ago) Permalink

given the general misogyny in the horror genre, near dark seems a weird item to single out for it. it never set off any warning bells for me, but my last viewing of the film was about 10 years ago. isn't the main character kind of a raffish dick who underestimates jenny wright's character, and then she ends up being tasked with introducing clueless him to the world of being a vampire? she saves him so he saves her, don't think it's a one-sided relationship, and I don't remember the film in general being overly hostile or denigrating of women.

there's some problematic treatment of women in blue steel and strange days, but also strong women characters. not a huge bigelow fan, in fact this might be the only movie of hers I rep for. haven't seen hurt locker.

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:08 (8 months ago) Permalink

She sort of saves him at the beginning (from burning up in the sun), but she's definitely a sappy pixie type who doesn't actually have any control over the situation. She's also incredibly naive about what she does, and has to have her eyes opened by a man/men.

― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:12 (8 months ago) Permalink

maybe, but i was struck in watching near dark (at age 20) by how much attention the film paid to her sense of being in her body, this condition as a source of both wonder and danger. the approach seemed unusual and interesting to me, and i wondered whether a male director would have made the same choices. impossible to say, of course. i want to say that her characterization is in some respects similar to that of the protagonist of amer in that film's second section, but i'd have to see both films again before i felt comfortable about making that comparison.

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:15 (8 months ago) Permalink

That didn't come across to me at all. But I'm gonna bow out of this I think, I didn't like it one bit but I didn't hate it quite enough to enrage myself about differing tastes. 4/10.

― emil.y, Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:18 (8 months ago) Permalink

fair enough. it's been ages (at least a decade, and probably a good deal more) since i last saw it, so i might feel very differently about it now.

― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 13 September 2012 19:22 (8 months ago) Permalink

So, animation results aside, the talk on this thread kinda turned to 'what next?' SF, war, romantic comedy, what's next and who's doing it?

― Irwin Dante's Towering Inferno (WmC), Saturday, 15 September 2012 03:17 (8 months ago) Permalink

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Sisters didn't make the Top 100? Whaaaaaat.

― The Thnig, Monday, 17 September 2012 17:13 (8 months ago) Permalink

Dressed to Kill did instead.

― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:18 (8 months ago) Permalink

ppl too busy voting for dressed to kill iirc

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:19 (8 months ago) Permalink

xp

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:19 (8 months ago) Permalink

I watched The Caller on Netflix streaming and ugh what a risible piece of crap. The whole stalker/abusive ex-husband plot was twice-warmed-over crap, the film was set in Puerto Rico for no discernable reason whatsoever and was oddly devoid of Hispanics not named Luis Guzman, it actually had a scene of the heroine falling to her knees in front of a grave . . . it started strong but just completely went to crap very, very quickly.

― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:20 (8 months ago) Permalink

so where did the caller place in the top 100

― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

lol wrong thread

― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

I wanted the "shit our pants" thread.

― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

No, the other one.

― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Monday, 17 September 2012 17:25 (8 months ago) Permalink

rewatched Candyman the other night. I should've put that on my ballot.

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

I just watched it yesterday. I forgot how much I liked it.

― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:57 (7 months ago) Permalink

Saw Black Christmas tonight. I think I saw it on TV once years and years ago. Definitely scared me--spent enough time covering my eyes that I was a little confused at the end--and it felt like a new kind of horror film on the timeline. Not Night of the Living Dead-new, but it did seem like a blueprint for lots that followed. Best of all, Lynne Griffin (first victim, plastic bag) was there--she must still live in the city. She spoke before and after and was great.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 05:12 (5 months ago) Permalink