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

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

nope that's creepshow 2 xp

not really a creepshow lover but it at least broke up the monotony of the criterion collection.

also <3 invasion of the body snatchers. I must've vaporlocked over choosing between the '56 and '78 version, neither on my ballot.

this:

http://popsmut.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/bodysnatchers.jpg

vs. this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RkGzuaWTW2s/TqqylWXoD-I/AAAAAAAAGWQ/TeQxn-e58CM/s1600/1bodysnatchers.jpg

at least the nicole kidman piece of shit doesn't look likely to make it!!

Creepshow is really fucking goofy but it is fun, breezy and full of great moments. I didn't vote for it but it's placement here is fine with me.

xp

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THANKS FOR THE RIDE LADY

^ the best Creepshow short by several miles, I'd say - but that one's in #2 & the other stories in that one are pretty dreadful, so I voted no creepshow, tho I'm happy to see it around nevertheless.

i'll take the '78 Body Snatchers every day of the week, pls!

still gives me the shivers!

the first creepshow is the one with the thing in the crate right?

?!?! Uh, yeah!!! I love this movie more than life itself. Sorry, life.

co-sign w/ everyone else who voted for both the 1956 and 1978 invasions ... quite different, both effective.

vaporlocked

lol is this actually, like, a thing people say now

I voted Creepshow because it is a family favorite and also the soundtrack is really good.

dunno, I've been saying it for decades xp

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

― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:50 PM (1 minute ago)

well I am part of the grindhouse lot and I'll be pleased as punch

Bodysnatchers is the first thing on my ballot to appear so far

love love love creepshow. was only #32 on my ballot, but of the movies to show up so far, it's probably the nearest and dearest to my heart. watched it so many times when i was a snotty teen. "bedelia! it's father's day! WHERE'S MY CAKE?"

would take the 78 body snatchers over the original, but didn't vote for either.

Man I remember my mom taking me to see Creepshow and having no idea what to expect. I had already read the comic adaptation so I was excited as hell. I thought by the time the cockroaches busted out of E.G. Marshall in the last segment that she was going to puke.

2nd invasion also has Evil Spock, so that has to rate!

'56 is better especially without the wraparound they imposed on it.

I think the first time I saw this the final scene was of the lead guy on the highway, freaking out, surrounded by trucks filled with pods...? this is the original ending, right?

and the tide coming in. man i might need to go buy creepshow tonight. xposts

i do like the thanks for the ride lady part and the raft from creepshow 2 but the rest of it is pretty soft

love invasion '56. never saw '78

<3 Leslie Nielsen. "I can hold my breath . . . for a LOOOOOONG time!"

Also, Gaylen Ross in the only other thing I've ever seen her in.

xp WAHT?! AP you have to watch the '78 version like tonight.

jjjusten, I think I saw creepshow 1 & 2 back-to-back in my basement with friends. Were you there for that?

CREEPSHOW TOO LOW! I love that movie at least as much as Thnig. It was my number five. In a way, it's kind of a love letter to and celebration of the horror genre.

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

That's cool. Have a feeling that many, many more points went to the latter.

fyi I once wrote a song that included the following lines

never got along with my coaches
like upson pratt hates roaches

i do like the thanks for the ride lady part and the raft from creepshow 2 but the rest of it is pretty soft

There's only 3 segments in Creepshow 2, so 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

General Service Announcement: AVOID CREEPSHOW 3 AT ALL COSTS.

xp WAHT?! AP you have to watch the '78 version like tonight.

― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:59 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

For real, even if it's only to sink into the soft, sedated 1970s only to be wrestled awake by killer houseplants.

i do like the thanks for the ride lady part and the raft from creepshow 2 but the rest of it is pretty soft

LOL, there was only one other segment ('Chief Woodenhead').

Oh, xposts...

i vaguely remember a 1980 SNL sketch w/ Strother Martin where they had Republican door-to-door volunteers handing out pods and turning ex-hippies into Reaganites.

General Service Announcement: AVOID CREEPSHOW 3 AT ALL COSTS.

DID YOU KNOW (because I didn't for the longest time): the Tales From The Darkside series was initially supposed to be a Creepshow series but wasn't because of rights issues or what have you? So you can just pretend that Tales From The Darkside: The Movie is the real Creepshow 3

Also, they're apparently working on a new, legit Creepshow that is apparently (and fittingly, in the age of the confusingly-named sequel) going to just be called Creepshow.

Aside: I'm home sick and watching horror movies on Netflix all day and if I had seen Daughters of Darkness before sending in my ballot, I would have voted for it.

Don Siegel's IotBS obscenely low; had it #5.

I've read about Creepshow, I've had cockroaches, and I ain't ever watchin' that shit.

Oh, jesus:

Taurus Entertainment (rights holders of the original Creepshow) have licensed the rights to Jace Hall, of HDFILMS, a Burbank, California company, to produce Creepshow: RAW, a web series based upon the original film.

The pilot episode for Creepshow: RAW wrapped on July 30, 2008. The pilot was directed by Wilmer Valderrama and features Michael Madsen.

Tales From The Darkside: The Movie has a cat forcing itself down someone's throat (sort of roaches-in-reverse) so, yeah, I'm cool with that being Creepshow 3.

carl agatha please email me some horror movies on netflix streaming i should watch while sarah's out of town.

oh ha i was thinking that the thanks for the ride thing was a framer ala ackroyd in the twilight zone. also i didnt even know there was a creepshow 3

'78 in my queue

n/a: okeydoke

A further sequel, Creepshow III, featuring no involvement from Stephen King, George A. Romero, or anyone else involved in the production of the first two films, was released direct-to-video in 2007 (though it was finished in 2006) to mostly negative reviews. This film, in a fashion similar to the original Creepshow, features five short darkly comedic horror stories.

Creepshow make-up artist and Creepshow 2 actor, Tom Savini, has said that he considers Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) the real Creepshow 3.

speaking of horror antho stuff, anyone else have fond memories of Cat's Eye?

also preemptively if trick r' treat beats out creepshow i will bring the hate so goddamn hard on this thread

I've read about Creepshow, I've had cockroaches, and I ain't ever watchin' that shit.

You should know, once in awhile, I read your posts in the voice of E.G. Marshall.

I know some of you might take this as a weird recommendation but resist the urge. Do NOT see Creepshow 3. It will make you feel bad about yourself and the world in which you live.

(My review of Creepshow III, fwiw.)

xxpost

Thank you for that gift, Eric.

speaking of horror antho stuff, anyone else have fond memories of Cat's Eye?

no because it is a terrible terrible movie

xpost That 2.5 star rating is because the DVD had reasonably good a/v marks. The movie itself gets negative 23 stars.

I remember it fondly but haven't seen it since I was a kid and prefer to remember it as it was. xp

looking through all the films that have placed so far, i do get where jjj is coming from. out of 25 finalists, more than half skew towards art film, metafiction and/or dark fantasy. only a handful are both squarely in the genre and seriously gory.

metafiction?
more like MALEDICTION