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

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.

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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...

i always reply to Haircare in VEIN!

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

Morbs, that's the sweetest thing anyone's said to me all week.

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eric how many are you rolling out today?

One more today. It's going to go 15-15-15-15-15-15-Top 10.

ok let's get this next lewton out of the way then

lol ed

"Nothing restarts my heart as much as watching Vincent PRISS camp it up! He can CONQUER my WORM any day of the DEAD! Work those cute long locks, Miss THE THING!"

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86. WITCHFINDER GENERAL [a.k.a. THE CONQUEROR WORM]
Michael Reeves, UK, 1968
(209 points, 10 votes)

i like Witchfinder General a fair bit but i'm not sure it has the mechanics of a horror film really. lots of cool cinematography. Reeves' film of the year before, The Sorcerers is better I think. weirder anyway.
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:57 PM (11 months ago)

I generally find Price too campy for my taste (Witchfinder General being the other exception)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 6, 2006 9:42 AM (6 years ago)

witchfinder general: another one that's been in my Netflix Instant queue since forever. is it like the masque of the red death (which i liked a lot but didn't vote for).

so far a fine mix of camp, kitsch, shlock, gore, crud, old people movies, and that's-not-really-horror

i mean this as a compliment. i think.

WG is nothing like the masque of the red death

I mean aside from vincent price

so far a fine mix of camp, kitsch, shlock, gore, crud, old people movies, and that's-not-really-horror

and some of these films are a mix of any or all of these categories!

subliminal/accidental Wishmaster ref there? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Wishmaster.jpg/225px-Wishmaster.jpg

lol @ witchmaster general

budget cuts forced merge w/ the postal service

we deliver the mail, and take away yr witches

i liked vincent price's i am legend/omega man flick more than either the Charlton Heston or Will Smith ones, so that's something in his favor.

I generally prefer things-that-can-happen horror.

(not always by any means)

the reason witchfinder general didn't make my ballot was that it's difficult to justify as a horror film, aside from the proto-torture porn trappings

To recap:

086. Witchfinder General aka The Conqueror Worm [1968, 209 points, 10 votes]
087. I Walked with a Zombie [1943, 208 points, 8 votes]
088. The Seventh Victim [1943, 206 points, 6 votes, 1 first-place vote]
089. Wolf Creek [2005, 205 points, 7 votes]
090. Dressed To Kill [1980, 202 points, 8 votes, 1 first-place vote]
091. Curse of the Cat People [1944, 200 points, 5 votes]
092. Onibaba [1964, 191 points, 7 votes]
093. Se7en [1995, 189 points, 10 votes]
094. Paranormal Activity [2007, 189 points, 7 votes]
095. The Cabin in the Woods [2012, 189 points, 6 votes]
096. May [2002, 186 points, 8 votes]
097. [rec] [2007, 178 points, 7 votes]
098. Blood on Satan's Claw aka Satan's Skin [1971, 177 points, 8 votes]
099. Pontypool [2008, 176 points, 7 votes]
100. Phantasm [1979, 175 points, 8 votes]

34 point spread from 100 to 86 is pretty tightly packed!

2-for-15 so far ... i feel like a Phillies slugger this season ;_;