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

would've voted for this if I considered it horror.

was gonna make that joke, thx jjj.

may kinda reminds me of secretary (both came out in 2002 incidentally). quirky damaged girl seeks love in the modern world, except secretary is a comedy which means it ends in a wedding (of sorts), and may is a tragedy which means, well, you know. la lechera otm about it being very late 90s/early 00s indie, there are some cheesy music video editing choices, but bettis' performance was on my alltime great list.

"All SEVEN and we'll watch them fall ... down DEAD!"

roflz

kinda resent this movie for foisting Kevin Spacey on us all

Even if I had liked Se7en enough to vote for it (I didn't), I wouldn't have voted because I wouldn't call it horror, either. However, scott seward's comment there is so great that I can't gin up any irritation at its appearance on these results.

really, we'd be fine if Kevin Spacey had been limited to this amount of screentime in everything.

thought cabin in the woods was pretty weak as satire and didn't work at all as horror. some fun, chaotic times in last act but give me something sincere over ironic meta lols.

this review (which I found via the ilx citw thread) really nails everything that's wrong with it imo:
http://outlawvern.com/2012/04/17/the-cabin-in-the-woods/

se7en dances on that crime procedural/thriller/serial killer line. it's so gothy and grand guignol I can see why ppl would consider it horror. its lack of a sense of humor is prolly its greatest crime.

ehh seven (not doing that 7 thing sorry) has definite elements of horror - gasping thought he was dead dude on the bed rivals the better moments of most horror films actually

Much like the comedy poll, movies wound up closer to the bottom of my ballot either because I favored them less or because I felt their status as 'horror' was a little more tenuous. Seven (yeah, fuck a number in the middle of the title, indeed) fell victim to the latter rationale, but I'm glad it made it. It is creepy as fuck, horror or no.

really, we'd be fine if Kevin Spacey had been limited to this amount of screentime was asked about masturbating in his own feces in everything.

and the uh lust gauntlet or w/e it was

xps

Seven is appropriately grim, but it didn't hold up to a second viewing for me.

One strike against it, it gave us Leland Orser as "Twitchy Dude" in like EVERY MOVIE for a couple of years. (cf. Alien: Resurrection)

we'd be fine if Kevin Spacey was asked about masturbating in his own feces in everything.

woulda perked up his Bobby Darin biopic

I find Se7en embarrassing for some reason, probably because it reeks of 1995 and also what Scott said.

I anticipate silence of the lambs placing fairly high here, and it'd be tough to pinpoint much differentiation between that and se7en tbh

Like this could be a still from ANY of his roles from 1995-2000.

http://www.actionmoviefreak.com/images/Alien/alien-resurrection-leland-orser.jpg

was pretty impressed by seven when I was 13. especially by the credits scrolling UP instead of down.

and by that I mean in formal mechanics, silence of the lambs >>> se7en obv

xps

The difference is Jodie Foster and that is a huge difference!

xxp Wait until your seven-year-old self sees Irreversible.

I put Se7en toward the back of my ballot b/c, even though it is mostly a police procedural in form, there is also plenty of awesome grotesquery in the unveiling of its many dark corners & the nasties who inhabit them .

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Bobby, when you're just sitting around, reading "Guns and Ammo", masturbating in your own feces, do you just stop and go, "Wow! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!"?

I have not seen irreversible but do the end credits scroll sideways? because that's just crazy! xxp

Don't most credits scroll up?

Good point about Silence of the Lambs. I don't think it's properly horror, either, but I placed it on my ballot in accordance with its place in my heart.

I also told myself I wasn't going to care about whether something was horror or not, so pretend I didn't post what I posted about Se7ven.

Ebert on Bettis in May:

Bettis makes May peculiar but fully human. There are scenes here of such close observation, of such control of body language, voice and behavior, evoking such ferocity and obsession, that we are reminded of Lady Macbeth. It is as hard to be excellent in a horror film as in Shakespeare. Harder, maybe, because the audience isn't expecting it.

probably because it reeks of 1995

Things that aren't new suck so much!

Seven is the dark fairytale of the '90s that has some actual menace. So much better than that squishy Welshman hissing about the lambs.

i like seven more than silence of the lambs

Sesevenen, call it by its name.

The difference is Jodie Foster and that is a huge difference!

Agree with that--I think she's so affecting in Silence. (Also much prefer Hopkins to Spacey.)

I'm beginning to think that I overestimated the awesomeness of the ilx horror fan contingent.

Don't make me go Morbs on you all.

the only really great performance in silence of the lambs is Ted Levine.

Was he a great big fat person?

i know it seems insane to say this at this point but i think that my plucky little ballot is not going to place very many more things. which is ok! i just think that like 90% of mine only had a shot in the bottom rungs - we'll see tho.

(I made a promise to myself that I would avoid all editorializing that didn't involve puns until the results were entirely unveiled. It's KILLING me!)

hahahahaaa

you can just email me a running log of them if you like

Don't love seeing Cabin in the Woods here. Liked it a lot, but it's not a horror movie, right? There's nothing scary in it. Just icons of scare used for action & laughs & general smartness.

Love seeing Paranormal Activity here, though. The entire series is, to my constant surprise, top-notch. Interestingly, they are video-cam movies but work WAY better in a theater where you can hear every little tense whisper of white noise. Loses a lot of that through home viewing.

The opening credits of 7eve7 looked like what would happen if you tried to make a flipbook animation using nothing but old copies of Raygun magazine.

huh, thats interesting, because i never saw any of them in the theater, so maybe thats part of my sorta eh reaction to them. altho i stand by not liking 2, which felt a lot like those touchscreen bar games where you have to scan the screen to find whats different (oh shit did that chandelier just mov...oh nope) over and over again xpost

kinda surprised you put se7en above silence of the lambs, morbs. I find the latter to be a pretty charming and human film (has a lot to do w/ jodie foster's presence I guess), while se7en feels like a tale told by someone who listened to one too many NiN records.

plus silence of the lambs features the fall on the soundtrack so

I didn't vote for either of them but SOTL at least made the shortlist

Let's give 7e7e7 some credit: not a lot of us saw that box at the end coming. & Brad Pitt was never better than with that crew cut wrestling around with his dogs on the apartment floor.

Seven is the dark fairytale of the '90s that has some actual menace.

This movie totally belongs on this poll. I didn't think to vote for it, but it has as much or more horror in it than most serial killer movies. Very solid and well crafted. I never went back for a rewatch, though, because I felt that the droning unease seven evoked, which is it's strongest quality, would be lost in a repeat.

seven is the only one of these that made my ballot so far ... i had my doubts about it being horror, though.

tbh I don't remember much of anything about 777en aside from the overwhelming dudeliness of it

"Our next movie comes from the FAR EEK-ST, where at least SE7EN SAMURAI get ONIBBQ'ed!"

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92. ONIBABA
Kaneto Shindo, Japan, 1964
(191 points, 7 votes)

“I’ve never seen anything really beautiful since the day I was born” is probably the only indispensable bit of dialogue in Kaneto Shindô’s 1964 horror classic Onibaba.

Not Coming To A Theater Near You

I don't think I could argue too strenuously that se7en is not a horror film. obv it's a police procedural but the crimes are designed to horrify, general feeling of unease and dread permeates, doesn't shy away from gory details, evil wins, etc. it ain't dirty harry.