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

With each passing movie revealed, I get nervous the next one's gonna be The Human Centipede. The higher we get, the higher go the nerves.

With each passing movie revealed, I get nervous the next one's gonna be The Human Centipede. The higher we get, the higher go the nerves.

lol it's like the napoleon dynamite of horror movies!!!

with more segments

Would watch a version with Napoleon, Kip and Pedro sewn together. In that order.

"These two DEAD RINGERS put the DEAD in DEAD RINGERS! And the RINGERS too, they put the RINGERS in DEAD RINGERS! And they sure solve that pesky RING around the COLLAR ... you know, down there. THAT collar!"

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79. DEAD RINGERS
David Cronenberg, Canada, 1988
(228 points, 8 votes)

I always get dead ringers confused with raising cain for a moment.
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, January 28, 2003 5:06 PM (9 years ago)

Dead Ringers is his funniest film! Also: Genevieve Bujold is hawt.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:35 PM (2 years ago)

will never understand the love for Dead Ringers. someone offer a defense of this terminally boring, one-trick movie
― a triumph in high-tech nipple obfuscation (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, December 9, 2009 6:05 PM (2 years ago)

Meh. Recently realized I own this on VHS. Maybe I'll give it another shot.

BOOO

movie wears out its welcome so quickly for me. I've seen it several times and at the end of each my main takeaway has just been irritation.

haven't seen this one, so no comment.

"gynecological instruments for operating on mutant women"

^ sometimes the idea is all you need (or want)

"What is it with you, chum?" -- Genevieve Bujold, Dead Ringers

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^^^Shakey

love dead ringers, and though i didn't vote for it, i'm happy to see it here. so creepy. pillbox's screencap could not be more perfect.

Great movie, but I always felt the title was too Tales from the Crypt for such a movie (no offense to the Cryptkeeper).

Original title was Twins, but Reitman beat him to the punch.

so then is this thing similar to DePalma's Sisters?!?

"gynecological instruments for operating on mutant women"

yeah see this just isn't interesting to me. the women aren't mutants, the gynecologists are just mysogynists. okay.

and the "instruments" don't even come into it at all apart from a few scenes towards the end. most of the movie is dedicated to Irons' talking to himself - always had the impression we're supposed to be engaged/amazed by the double-acting going on than anything else, and I just find it boring.

like "oooh which is which!?" who cares when they're both such vacant characters

somebody's a little sensitive about his trifurcated cervix

I voted for it, even though I'm still not sure if it's really a horror film or not. I think it's an exceptionally sad film. Great use of "In the Still of the Nite."

nothing itt makes me want to see this.

I could barely tolerate Dead Ringers and it gave me nightmares for a good long while. (I love Sisters though.)
There's something about the twins and the gynecological instruments that makes my disturbometer go haywire, like dental work does. It's the only thing I remember about the movie, and I can't unremember it even 20+ years later.

But fans of the movie should definitely check out the Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago -- lots of really super messed up looking medical instruments there.

Director cameo worthy of Hitchcock.

Great Irons performance(s). Scene of Bujold being 'examined' is pretty horrifying.

Surely our fave Cronenberg cameo is as the surgeon who delivers the maggot-baby in The Fly. It's kind of crazy that I can type that sentence and have it not be a spoiler.

Great production design all around in that movie (by Cronenberg's wife IIRC?). Like the Spanish Inquisition medical scrubs and exam room.

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looks cool and yet makes no sense

haven't seen it since it was in the theaters, liked it but never really understood the universal love. not really horror either? but I guess who else is going to enjoy it besides horror fans

I loooove Dead Ringers.

"There's something about this one that RAISES one HELL of a headache, but I can't quite PIN it down!"

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78. HELLRAISER
Clive Barker, UK, 1987
(232 points, 10 votes)

b-but being a hideous dark monstah of the ever-evil underworld is an allegory for being gay!!
― mark s, Friday, June 14, 2002 7:00 PM (9 years ago)

"In its original incarnation, Barker's adaptation of his own novella The Hellbound Heart touched upon something genuinely unsettling: not just the pleasure of pain, but also the pain of sex," me, on Slant

cool monsters but hated it otherwise

dead ringers is the cronenberg joint I gave the most points to on my ballot. I found the hallucinatory unease in its final third to be so vexing that I haven't had a desire to rewatch it, but is very effective at what it does!

That's about where it should be. I enjoy the first two Hellraisers (and the first well enough to have voted for it), but I couldn't stir up the energy to argue for either as, like, the cream of the horror crop. They're good at what they do, and what they do is basically a thing that no other horror movies do, so that's maybe noteworthy in and of itself.

barker always seems to put concept before characterization and it never works for me

yeah I can respect Hellraiser - there's enough good ideas in there - but I don't really enjoy it. didn't vote for it. Ed OTM about concept vs. character. Movie practically doesn't even have characters.

the cenobite that shoots CDs was some kind of high point for the series...

Agree -- first two Hellraisers were really something different when they popped up. Kind of a shame Clive Barker didn't go on to become a very interesting filmmaker overall.

I really dig a lot of the imagery in Hellraiser, but I always found it to be fairly dull otherwise. I remember the second one picked up the pace a bit & was sorta awesome, but my critical acumen at age 13 hasn't aged too well, so./.

My memories of Pinhead's backstory as sketched out by I & II are fuzzy to me now, but I remember finding them fascinating and original at the time (ie, long ago).

I'm a sucker for movies about masochism, the nature of pain, and weirdo surrealism, so while watching hellraiser all I could think was, "this is checking all my boxes. why isn't it pushing my buttons?"

the cenobite that shoots CDs was some kind of high point for the series...

Hellraiser III is to the Hellraiser franchise what Michael Keaton's mentally-handicapped third clone was to Multiplicity. And the rest of the Hellraisers are what would have happened if Michael Keaton had just kept cloning his clones.

(I just watched Multiplicity for the first time the other day, so I was also mentally comparing Jeremy Irons' performance in Dead Ringers to Michael Keaton's. I'm sure I'll find some parallel when Human Centipede shows up, as well.)

There are 9 Hellraiser films. NINE. Watching them all would be a Cenobite-level experience in masochism, I suspect.

Andrew Robinson, y'all. Without him Hellraiser would not have worked at all.

Prefer hellraiser 2 to one, but one is def nice to see here. 3 is a terrible abomination.

"You remind me of the BOO! What BOO? BOO with the VOODOO! Who BOO? BOO BOO! BOO what? Remind me of the BOO!"

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77. PAN'S LABYRINTH
Guillermo Del Toro, Spain, 2006
(246 points, 9 votes)

When Tool videos come to life. Or should that be the Brothers Quay?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, February 23, 2006 6:44 AM (6 years ago)

yes, this film also struck me as being a crudely mechanistic and obvious riff on Spirit of the Beehive
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, January 5, 2007 9:00 AM (5 years ago)

(2) The audience reaction was quite interesting; I'm not sure if they understood their own feelings. When Mercedes enacted her vengeance on el Capitan, the audience applauded as if it was a Dirty Harry movie; it was cathartic and, for them, necessary. But when they realized that Ofelia was NOT going to live the theater went still. It was the quietest exit I've seen all year.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, January 13, 2007 4:35 PM (5 years ago)

I can't even figure out how I feel about his movie, but a half hour after watching it last night I had an uncontrollable crying jag–the kind of deep sobs that don't make sounds. I normally like ambiguous endings but this one hurt (not to say I didn't like it). It was kind of like THE PLAGUE DOGS–inability to exist in this certain world coupled with a cruel and sad fantasy of an uncertain nature, just too bittersweet a rescue.
― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, January 15, 2007 4:09 PM (5 years ago)

By my personal estimation it's roughly the 9th-best film in the worst year of commercial cinema since the nickelodeons opened
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, February 6, 2007 1:24 PM (5 years ago)

not a bad movie but blargh

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