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

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

I have done this. I'm still not sure why.

wait what? NINE hellraiser movies?

From Wikipedia & I'm sure you can attribute this to all the direct-to-video sequels:

When comparing the Hellraiser film series with the other top-grossing horror franchises—A Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Saw, Scream, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre—and adjusting for the 2008 inflation,[13] Hellraiser is the lowest grossing horror franchise in the United States, at approximately $84 million.

man if pan's lab places and cronos or devils backbone dont i swear you tweemo lotr fuckers

ok enough with the art films guys can you please let the next one be some shrieking grindhouse nightmare

I've watched up through Hellraiser In Space. After that GTFO. In fact, there isn't another franchise I can think of with more rapidly diminishing returns after the first installment.

ha i'm taking no guff about any movie I voted for if Pan's Labyrinth makes the list. That said, I'm excited how many movies are on this I haven't seen.

if I thought Pan's Labyrinth was a snooze should I still check out Cronos and backbone?

devils backbone would have been my GTD if i had been forced to have one but yeah i dont want to be that guy here but this is shaping up to be a dark fantasy poll and not the horror poll i expected

xpost devils backbone is great, and far more horror than PL, i still havent gotten around to seeing cronos

In a horror poll, it's Cronos > Backbone > Pan's, but they're all top-drawer flicks.

just glanced over my list, and while there could some debate as to whether they're "thrillers" or "horror" all of them have somebody dying violently, usually suddenly and disgustingly

backbone is more horror than dark fantasy imo

still have to check out cronos sometime.

77. Pan's Labyrinth
76. Cannibal Holocaust
75. Antropophagus
74. The Others

man i just reread a bunch of my posts from today and apologize, i am not a dick i promise! and i actually liked pans labyrinth, i just get way too wound out about horror stuff because i spend so much time thinking abt/consuming it and so this poll is prob more important to me than it should be.

i would like a good palate cleansing human centipedeish placement moment here soon tho for the good of humanity

phrases that have never been uttered before for good reason vol 1. "good palate cleansing human centipede"

I just checked and something like 3/4 of my ballot is composed of straight-up, unambiguously-horror horror films. I think a lot of the oddball, not-quite-horror films are gonna show up near the bottom of the results, so no fear, jjj.

yo i heard that human feces was good as a palate cleanser

Bring on fear.com!

Yo, I heard that human feces was good as a plate cleaner.

Cronos is the only del Toro I voted, and if Pan's is placing this low I doubt if it'll make the top hunnert. Good movie, tho.

i voted for pan's labyrinth (though it wasn't high on my ballot). more b/c it was a good movie overall than because it was oooooooh scary -- though i kept thinking that that faun thing would snap and commit some really vile act of ultra-violence but never did.

Surely our fave Cronenberg cameo is as the surgeon who delivers the maggot-baby in The Fly

Sorry--think I got the two confused.

Pan's Labyrinth is most interesting for trying to embed horror in a key historical event; in Hollywood we only are getting that, it appears, with this Lincoln Vampire Hunter bullshit.

this is shaping up to be a dark fantasy poll and not the horror poll i expected

i'm okay with that, as at least half my ballot arguably falls into the "dark fantasy" category. i like what i like, what can i say? i also like moody, arty, atmospheric shit. and gore, but i'm weird that way. the idea that horror fandom isn't legit if it isn't sufficiently bloodthirsty and nihilistic is bullshit, imo. those are exploitation aesthetics, and they're not precisely the same as horror aesthetics. i'm kind of bummed by the tendency to confuse the two, tbh. i like grindhouse/exploitation/sleazy dirtbag movies, but i also like horror movies that have nothing (or just a little) to do with that.

rant rant rant

xxpost

Yeah, but I think it'll actually be pretty interesting to see a filmed account of the vampire battles he fought around the time he signed the Declaration of Independence.

i'm okay with that

i'm not okay with that.

oh just to be clear i am not calling anyones fandom into question here or questioning their legit horror cred, these last ten or so have just been kind of a rough patch to my particular brand of horror interests

we have 76 more films to go!

plenty of time left for corpse grinding and buckets of blood and disturbingly mutilated bodies etc.

Just to infuriate everyone, one of the films I found most unnerving in the past year or two was Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers.

"Ooh, check it out, KIDDIES! A DIE, er, tie ranking!"

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75. (tie) CREEPSHOW
George A. Romero, USA, 1982
(250 points, 10 votes)

75. (tie) INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Don Siegel, USA, 1956
(250 points, 10 votes)

I can't get enough of Ed Harris' disco dance moves in the first Creepshow segment.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, June 23, 2004 10:58 PM (7 years ago)

man the cover of creepshow freaked me out so much as a kid
just watched it... it's adorable!
― ksha (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 26, 2010 12:57 AM (2 years ago)

Ooh. Creepshow. I don't know what it is about that movie, but it gets me a little. It's very overtly cartoonish for long stretches, and then there are these very vivid moments of horror that offset the cartoonishness in an unsettling way. And the Creep, just soundlessly standing outside of that kid's window. I love it.
― Deric W. Haircare, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 6:11 PM (4 years ago)

I tried to watch Creepshow last night; I got through the one where Patsy Stone's dad crawls out of the grave and kills her while she lies there immobile for 30 seconds, and about 10 minutes into the one with the green moss, and just couldn't do it anymore. OTT dumbed-down shit grates on me so hardcore.
― Time, a group with Jam and Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, April 23, 2012 10:13 AM (3 weeks ago)

The '78 version is about New Ageism. '56 is better especially without the wraparound they imposed on it.
YOU'RE NEXT!
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:11 PM (7 years ago)

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jjj, we are on opposite ends of the color wheel, horror fandome-wise, and I've been a little :| about some of these, too.

xp I AM HAPPIER NOW

yay to OG invasion, pfffffft to crapshow.

I think I get the dark fantasy distinction. And the objections make sense to me, but I am rebellious against rigid genre definitions. Sincere apologies, horror geeks, but a third of my votes are for non-horror horror, including extreme cinema, sci-fi, art films, suspense, and I guess dark fantasy.

So far, you only have Pan's Labyrinth to pin on me.

the first creepshow is the one with the thing in the crate right? i have many fond memories of that segment.

love pan's labyrinth, and it's certainly a dark fantasy flick, but i went with the devil's backbone for my del toro pick. it's less fantastical, more straight-up spooky, though neither is fully dedicated to horror. they're both great movies though. need to see cronos again, as i was underwhelmed the first time around (when it first appeared on video).

agree that the devil's backbone and pan's labyrinth are unusual in the way they tie fantasy horror elements to real-world historical horrors. would be interesting to see more filmmakers try this with the horrors of US history.

I've got shit like a company of wolves and hour of the wolf on my ballot, but that last stretch of films was a little heavy on the arthouse approved list for me

ok that's more like it

actually fuck it, i unreservedly dig creepshow when i think about it, i just havent seen it for a long long time. even the stephen king bumpkin segment has the crazy shotgun thing.

i'm admittedly not a huge horror fan ... at least, not the buckets-of-blood-and-gore stuff ... so my ballot was probably chockful of stuff that would piss off fans of the really bloody stuff. like kwaidan, pan's labyrinth and eraserhead. i will argue that all of them are horror in a sense, but whatever.

invasion (56)was another las min cut. But close!

Yeah, the thing in the crate w/ Adrienne Barbeau as a shrill harpy. I love Creepshow.

was really torn about which of the first two versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers to vote for. went with the first one.

I've got shit like a company of wolves and hour of the wolf on my ballot, but that last stretch of films was a little heavy on the arthouse approved list for me

lol i wonder if hour of the wolf will make it and how the grindhouse lot here will react!!

I voted for both Body Snatchers -- '78 higher, on the subjective basis that it actually kept me awake for a few nights when I was 9, but the original is supremely creepy too. I think it's just one of the great horror concepts, it works on various socio/political allegorical levels, but also on this really fundamental psychological freak-out level of identity and alienation.

was the raft in the same one with the meteorite moss?

I went with both the 1956 and 1978 Body Snatchers, because they're quite different movies; which led to my Nosferatu conundrum mentioned above.