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

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.

silence of the lambs is great, so's se7en. i'd vote for both in thriller poll, but like most responding here, i don't personally consider either "my kind of horror film".

that said, i agree that se7en belongs here, mostly due to it its massive and obvious influence on the saw franchise, "torture porn" and the cinematic vocabulary of 90s/00s horror in general. it's the godfather of distressed fonts & scratchy noises, grim and gritty filth pit mise-en-scene, and elaborate yet rusty torture implements.

agree w scott seward about the sensibility on display in fincher's early films, but i think se7en pulls it off. and SOTL is full of great performances.

yay for art-snobbery i voted for onibaba.

oniwhatwho

Yay Onibaba!

jjjusten it's good you should see it

onibaba my #40

I've told this story a couple times on ilx, but my first viewing of onibaba is colored by the memory of my wife walking in during the conclusion and observing "you watch some weird shit, man"

oh ha i just looked it up and i have walked past that film like 1000 times at my local library because i just assumed it was another 8 hour samurai epic

that said, i agree that se7en belongs here, mostly due to it its massive and obvious influence on the saw franchise, "torture porn" and the cinematic vocabulary of 90s/00s horror in general. it's the godfather of distressed fonts & scratchy noises, grim and gritty filth pit mise-en-scene, and elaborate yet rusty torture implements.

I never traced Saw et al back to 77777, but this seems pretty otm

first thing I voted for that has placed. my #45. it's very grim. xp

itt thread a david fincher movie becomes a boredoms song

Now hoping that having filled the word, stray 7s will start appear7ng in other posts throughout this t7read...

my queue grows

onibaba is a fairy tale told in a savagely brutal way, with beautiful cinematography. desperately in need of a blu-ray release.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/ink_prod/photos/0232/5254/n1208885751_30710694_785503.jpg

I never understood why ppl started writing the title as Se7en, fuck the credits.

Will endeavor to watch Onibaba when I have time (mebbe 3 years).

i have never seen onibaba. get it confused w kwaidan, which is lo7ely but rather dull.

it's almost a given that art-house Japanese films from the early/mid 1960s have stunning cinematography ... the woman in the dunes (which i debated including on my ballot) is also stunning in that regard.

i always confuse onibaba/kwaidan/jigoku. I've seen none of them.

i have never seen onibaba. get it confused w kwaidan, which is lo7ely but rather dull.

I much prefer onibaba to kwaidan

"The CURSE of the CAT PEOPLE was the CURSE of BLOOD!"

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7243/7209113742_f5a95f25eb_o.jpg

91. CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE
Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise, USA, 1944
(200 points, 5 votes)

did any other film of its era deal with a child's POV so effectively?
― J.D., Friday, January 18, 2008 1:26 AM (4 years ago)

I love Curse for many of the same reasons I love Night of the Hunter. It doesn't read as "horror" as well to those who didn't enjoy the thrill of horror as kids.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:40 PM (7 months ago)

I really find it hard to believe that anyone prefers Curse to the original Cat People film.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Thursday, October 20, 2011 11:40 AM (6 months ago)

i'm the opposite ... i prefer kwaidan to onibaba.

Hip hip hooray for Onibaba. Great great film. The rustling grasses, the thundering storm, the cautionary tale of lust, the deep dark depths of the pit of despair.

curse is a very good film, but i see it as more of a ghost-story than a horror film.

Got Onibaba around 2005, viewings since: 0. Places highly on my phantom list of "Sure favorites if i'd only come around to actually watch them".
I feel a bit awkward having voted for (most probably) far inferior stuff in the lower ranks of my ballot for the sake of "not cheating".

onibaba goatse

I had never even heard of Onibaba until I went looking for source images for screencaps & found that literally every image I came across was some combination of beautiful, unnerving and haunted as fuck. It has since rocketed to the top of my list.

Haha, grauschleier, I made sure to get around to a bunch of films on my similar list just before voting closed. Many of them make an appearance on my ballot.

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

And SOTL and 7 both have Howard Shore scores which are very akin to one another. Shore's 7 music is perhaps even more amazingly black than his SOTL but unfortunately has never had a decent CD.

(abandoned my horror ballot early on bc I realized I hadn't seen enough horror movies to warrant voting so now I'm just along for the ride...however this results thread is awesome and Eric H your PUNgent humour is CUTTING me up)

curse is a very good film, but i see it as more of a ghost-story than a horror film.

― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 5:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait, how are ghost stories not horror?

i do regret that i only had one Val Lewton on my ballot ... and i am sure that the one i voted for will make it.

Both orig cat ppl movies remain HUGE gaps in my watching history. God I need to remedy that.

Wait, how are ghost stories not horror?

― emil.y, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 12:56 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

b/c this is also a ghost story (and it's not a horror film):

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxNzk3NDQ3OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODU3MjE0MQ@@._V1._SY317_CR5,0,214,317_.jpg

The Ghost and Mrs Muir

Topper

xxxp

A broken image link? Chilling...

I had two Val Lewtons on my ballot -- I'm pretty sure at least one will show up later. Also def need to see Onibaba now. I did no studying whatsoever before voting, just went with my cold dead heart.

then again, it may be a meaningful definition to myself only.

Ghost

it is not a horror movie.

Wait, how are ghost stories not horror?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-glwTnsFe0QA/Tp0JzXfA0AI/AAAAAAAACLM/YrAginokzzw/s1600/ghost_chase.jpg

e.mily ... it was a .gif from patrick swayze's ghost.

But neither are they mutually exclusive (ghost story/horror film)

Ghost is pretty horrifying

My memories of Onibaba are really smeary. I think I must have been falling asleep while watching it. Remember it being hella freaky

But no, point taken, I guess. Though maybe I'm more picky on the semantics... I wouldn't call the Ghost & Mrs Muir a 'ghost story', really. And I definitely wouldn't call Ghost a ghost story. More a romance that happens to feature a ghost...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NEW9asMBG6Q/S7FjuBbJaoI/AAAAAAAAAFw/0asmrF_O69U/s320/ghostdad.jpg

The prosecution rests, yer honor.

Ghost will have a new life someday as a comedy.

Again, not a 'ghost story'. A comedy that features a ghost.

xpost

So saying "it's a ghost story, not horror" doesn't really explain why something isn't horror. It's not the presense of ghosts in Topper, Ghost, etc that makes them not horror.

Ghost Dad was a comedy which involved a dad who was also a ghost.

patrick swayze's mullet was pretty frigthening.