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

*stares at all these 21st century voting fools*

xpost - ooh, not seen that one, sounds good.

its amazing, and from what i know abt your tastes emil.y you would love it

not familiar w/this one but it sounds great.

lol at "the se7enth victim"

If I can get the interminable Public Enemies over and done with, I think I'll watch (for the first time) The Seventh Victim tonight.

I def saw Kim Hunter do a Q&A at Film Forum, I think it was for this!

Apparently when someone asked Lewton what the 7th Victim was about, he said "death is good"!

*adds to list*

lol ditto

One of the most satisfying endings I've ever seen too.

every positive review I've read of the seventh victim seems to be tempered with some kind of hedging, that lewton line sells it tho

Hmm. Literally do not think I've ever seen/heard discussion of that movie prior to this poll. Intrigued.

still haven't seen the seventh victim. with onibaba, one of the films these results have convinced me i need to see.

jjjjjj, you are a silly. much love to la lechera. school's done so i can outloud it more often. xo

i support justen's ballot as a political choice but given these results so far if you're the reason like tcm places outside the top ten or something i swear to god man

love jjj's voting strategy. admirably odd, but also just crazy pyrrhic.

it's all but guaranteed that most of his choices won't place

Somebody had the good sense to choose this as their #1! Not me, though.

thats ok! although i am glad that i got rec in here prob, and gave a boost to wolf creek xpost

anybody who's seen my ballot reveals on the ilm year end polls is prob familiar w/my general vote vs place ratio. in fact i'm sure i'll do better here than i do usually!

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87. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE
Jacques Tourneur, USA, 1944
(208 points, 8 votes)

The ending of The Seventh Victim is so [SPOLIER] depressing.
― Eric H: not a troll, with one exception (Eric H.), Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:36 PM (6 years ago)

why did you have to go and tell us that it was DEPRESSING, now it's ruined!
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:59 PM (6 years ago)

I couldn't believe it when [SPOLIER] she walked with a zombie!
― Eric H: not a troll, with one exception (Eric H.), Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:35 PM (6 years ago)

aargh I guess that's about a bazillion movies I have to see now

being remade btw

Mr Thnig and I watched this movie at like 6am iirc?

The lower-100s glut of Lewton seems to suggest what? Maybe voters felt obligated to honor Lewton even though true maniac love isn't there?

well he's got a higher hit rate than anybody else in the poll

I voted for it. I have no maniac love for the genre.

vote splitting prob as well

this one barely missed making it onto my ballot.

digging the possibility that lewton might be the most represented figure on this poll

The lower-100s glut of Lewton seems to suggest what? Maybe voters felt obligated to honor Lewton even though true maniac love isn't there?

that's sort of how i feel, tbh, and i do feel sort of bad about it, but i had to go with my heart here

I should watch I walked with a zombie again. was kinda turned off by the racist subtext when I was in lol college, but after all, it was lol college.

when I was all about SUBTEXT

Tourneur also directed what, for my money, is the scariest ep of Twilight Zone, "Night Call."

my #38. a beautiful, modest tone-poem of a film. not as easy to pull off as it sounds. see an interesting failure like Neither the Sea, Nor the Sand.

The Seventh Victim wasn't my #1 fwiw but I have true maniac love for it and other Lewtons including The Ghost Ship which wasn't nommed iirc.

jj, not sure my ballot will have any films you don't already know about. But I do keep a list of serial killer films (most stolen from Bill Krohn and most pre-Halloween) that I like so I can share those during the reveal if you want.

Are cat people, seventh victim & walked w/a zombie the best films produced by lewton? What should I see first?

The Seventh (lol "Se7enth") Victim is the only one w/ a #1 vote so far, right?

scarier than Mirror Image? Or the After Hours? or Five Characters in Search of an Exit? or Talkie Tina? gtfo

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I cut I Walked With a Zombie, I think - it's been a long time since I saw it, so couldn't remember many details, but what I do remember is very good.

I'm sure this list will, re Lewton, deliver the parallel to the comedy poll's "Wet Hot American Summer > all of Buster Keaton"

Yes! All those TZs are established classics, but the lesser-known Night Call is the only one to give me the oh-fucks.

xpost

things I didn't know about lewton: responsible for my favorite scene in gone with the wind

Lewton also worked as an uncredited writer for Selznick’s Gone with the Wind, including writing the scene where the camera pulls back to reveal hundreds of wounded soldiers at the Atlanta depot.

The Seventh (lol "Se7enth") Victim is the only one w/ a #1 vote so far, right?

Dressed To Kill, also.

lol yeah that is a great scene in GWtW

I'm sure this list will, re Lewton, deliver the parallel to the comedy poll's "Wet Hot American Summer > all of Buster Keaton"

Morbs, I believe the phenomenon you describe is referred to colloquially as a "truth bomb".

you're the kind of low-rent komik who shd be doing Ghoulardi intros for these

Oh, what a BITING retort!

"night call" TZ-episode is the one where this dead guy calls his now-elderly girlfriend from the grave amirite?!?

A+

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Boris, yeah, that's it. Oh, Christ, the noises he makes over the phone...

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