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

PICNIC always reminds me of FORTRESS (1985). Remember that horror-movie ending with the jars? YIKES.

wai u no like david lynch?!?

i like him! but there is no way in hell that FWWM is a horror film.

:/

Phase IV is pretty horrifying as a picnic movie.

actually i will go ahead and say it - i dont think any of his stuff is horror, with the possible exception of inland empire and lost highway. and i had forgotten that he dominated a bunch of the yearly horror polls, so i should have known better, but the possibility (dont have the nom list in front of me) that he could have more films in the top 100 horror poll than any other director is kind of infuriating.

parts of fwwm are 800 times more terrifying than a loy of stuff that's placed and will place.

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.

saw picnic at hanging rock during its revival in the 90s after years and years of anticipation and didn't like it very much. I dig the last wave a lot more, tho that does have some colonial black-man-as-boogeymonster issues.

also cosign on all the home movie love. didn't vote for it but it's one of the creepy high points of the last decade, something I always recommend to folks who don't dig the extreme horror trend.

Eraserhead is so a horror. I'd count Inland Empire, too. Not seen Lost Highway, don't think any of his others are horror. FWWM is on the verge.

FWWM is one of maybe three Lynch films that, while perhaps not straight horror, I have a hard time understanding why anyone would expend much energy rejecting as horror. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway...fair dos. They have horrific elements, but could easily be argued away as Not Horror. But FWWM, Inland Empire, Eraserhead...c'mon, dude.

i didnt vote for fwwm but more because i was trying to do not do more than two movies per director

i think i may have done three cronenbergs

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i also think eraserhead would qualify as a horror film (it's about Lynch's own horror at his becoming a father after all!). anything else is kind of a stretch, i would agree.

omg you didn't

sorry, i dont mean to be a dick about this, its just something that irks me. and horror is whatever for whoever, but every time someone says their favorite horror movie is eraserhead i tend to think hmmmm maybe you should watch some actual horror movies then

haha sorry dudes, xposting there

Peter Wier! Sigh, these unseen movies are breaking my back.

my ballot has several two-fers (including Cronenberg) so i can't complain about anyone else doing same.

Guess Lynch needed more zombies and chainsaws.

PS: Pretty sure I voted for four Lynch things (one of which I know with complete certainty won't show up). Sorry, jjj. Although I guess these poll results could wind up being your own personal horror movie, so that's exciting, yeah?

i guess to me theres a difference between strange and shocking images (the whole lynch eye of the duck deal) and horror. guy behind the dumpster moment in mulholland drive is scary as hell, like jump out of your skin scary but that doesnt make a horror movie.

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hanging rock, described as a mesmerising, brooding landscape without a solution, sounds like my thing

I think the reason why Lynch is so effective for me as a "horror" filmmaker is that he delivers on the dread and awful, disassociative moments that are a large part of what I love about horror but that straight horror films so often fail to deliver.

a real-life chick looking like a cross b/w a younger Madonna and a old-timey mutton-chop-whiskered baseball player would scare the living shit outta me, that's for true.

re: david lynch, it's kind of inevitable that he'll be all over this thing since he is one of our greatest living directors and he is preternaturally good as creating atmospheres of total terror. plus some of his films wouldn't place in any other genre poll.

I don't classify him as horror generally, tho I did vote for eraserhead, partly because I grew up reading about it in books about horror films. at the time I think a lot of his fanbase were horror fans. and it is a waking nightmare after all.

yeah lynch does dread, unease, dream-logic, terror in the face of awe, despair, and even shocks too well for me not to consider him a horror director.

I think the ambiguity of Hanging Rock in a way is what makes it horror (though admittedly of a ruminative sort). The lack of resolution, all of the things implied but unsaid. I didn't have any problem including it on my list.

Like, Lynch makes horror films for adults.

(Countdown to villagerswithpitchforks.jpg in 3...2...)

I was thinking about this yesterday because of witchfinder general actually - I'm not sure what exactly makes it a horror film, but I can't see it getting traction in any other poll, so why not?

David Lynch often draws upon a similar old-school expressionist visual style that a lot of (old-school) horror films also draw up. that's not conclusive proof of Lynch being a horror film-maker (lest we think that john ford's the informer and woody allen's shadows and fog are also LOL horror films) but it does lend itself to seeing Lynch as using horror-film elements in his films.

Basically I'm feeling jjusten on this one. There is a feeling to me that Lynch on here (multiple times, especially) takes space from "real" horror films (even though that's a can of worms I can barely imagine containing) rather than films containing horror moments. Can films be horror films by sort-of accident? Open question.

also, i consider eraserhead and blue velvet to be as much comedy films as horror films ... so blah blah blah.

That might be a fun list: "Horror Films That Weren't Intended as Horror Films." (Potential nominee: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.)

i mean i'd argue carpenter, hooper, romero, craven, cronenberg, maybe even polanski and kubricks more central to modern horror-as-horror, but at the same time i dunno where else i'd slot lynch.

several films yet to place are unquestionably comedy and horror

eraserhead is one of the few movies I've seen that delivers oodles of heebie-jeebies and actual hair-standing-on-end sensations.

I didn't vote straight "movies that frighten or terrify" but that was definitely a factor, because there have been so few that have successfully affected me this way

eraserhead also delivers laughs (I think intentionally) but that doesn't disqualify it for me

delivering laughs is a non-issue for me, some of the best horror movies of the 80s were also comedies

Sybil!
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I just want to put in an early fingers-crossed for Let's Scare Jessica to Death. Surely we can all agree on that, right?

I guess I've said it so many times that I shouldn't continue hitting my head against this wall, but the next time someone suggests Eraserhead is not a horror film I'm gonna scream and scream until I'm sick.

I think the ambiguity of Hanging Rock in a way is what makes it horror (though admittedly of a ruminative sort). The lack of resolution, all of the things implied but unsaid.

I totally agree with this, but I'm still unsure about whether it is *enough* to make it fully-fledged as a horror.

picnic was my number 2. can obv see how many wouldn't consider it horror but for me 'uncanny' and 'weird' are up there with 'terror' and 'horror' as what i want from a horror film. once i'd decided to consider it a horror i had to place it high. xp. i voted jessica, i can't see it not placing either. zohra lampert is fascinating in it.

"Between three to five CHILLING tales, each more BONE-DRYING and EYE-PRESENTING than the last!"

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82. KWAIDAN
Shigeru Wakatsuki, Japan, 1964
(224 points, 6 votes, 1 first-place vote)

Not a big Kwaidan fan. Lovely but rather inert, imo.
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Thursday, April 19, 2012 2:09 PM (4 weeks ago)

Takemitsu's score for Kwaidan is the only soundtrack that is, to me, genuinely scary in the context — especially during "The Black Hair" segment when all sound drops out but the music.
― Daruton, Wednesday, December 2, 2009 6:24 PM (2 years ago)

there are enough oddities popping up in the list that I still hold out hope for jessica and some other offbeat picks

not a big kwaidan fan. it's not bad but the appeal was lost on me.

would've liked to see onibaba place above kwaidan but apparently it doesn't have a very high profile considering some of the responses when it did place

yay i picked kwaidan -- placed it high on my ballot, too.

gah. OK FINE I WILL SEE KWAIDAN TOO

i like lets scare jessica a lot but i am not so sure its going to place

By the by, I've always described I Can See You (Graham Reznick, 2008) as "Blair Witch directed by David Lynch" so that film might be of interest to some of you. xpost

a certain poster here will retch, but "the woman in the snow" portion of kwaidan works in a similar way to hausu (e.g., the almost exaggeratedly artificial backgrounds and colors).

this was my #7