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

I think cat's eye was an HBO staple for ppl a little younger than me cuz it seems like a lot of folks recall it fondly

Bingo!

"horror = gory" is pretty lame imo

since prob most of my ballot is arty-farty pussy shit i was being ironic.

"On stage tryin' to recite like me
But what I really see is Creepshow 3"
- Roxanne Shanté, "Deadly Rhymes" (Livin' Large, 1992)

Saw Cat's Eye recently. Definitely fond HBO memories, but it's about on par with a so-so episode of "Tales from the Darkside."

I think Trick R' Treat's chance has long since passed here. But it was a pleasant enough update on the formula. I kinda do wish, however, that it had avoided the pitfall mentioned in Eric's Creepshow III review and presented everything as discrete, unconnected segments. i like trick 'r treat! not enough to vote for it, but it's a good time and holds up to at least one rewatch. final segment's a bit of a letdown (needed more raimi-style kinetic snap to really pull the combat sequence off), but i was on board with everything up to that point, especially the bit with the witchy weird girl and the sunken schoolbus. i like the way the stories interconnect, too.

remember nothing about cat's eye other than the cat getting an electric hotfoot (which looked way too real and disturbed me as a kid), the cat wandering around from segment to segment, and the final cat vs. little monster battle. i think i'm just really into cats.

lol, "kid", i was 18. too old to be disturbed by fake cat electrocutions, but so be it.

i liked trick r treat more than creepshow, but I actually saw the former first

ok so i think thx to creepshow romero might be top director on this poll, which eases the lynch worries a bit. altho there is always cronenberg, which angers me less than the lynch potential but still arrrrrrrgh

xpost trick r treat is another one in the list of modern stuff that i do not get the love for. speaking of which hoping to get drag me to hell out of the way soon.

I seem to remember Cat's Eye having a strikingly bad score in addition to being overall ugly and mean spirited (not in a good way)
The HBO thing explains why I seem to remember it as well as I do, even though we didn't have HBO, I assume it was taped during a free sample and watched multiple times.

good news for everyone - i will be away from computers from tomorrow until sunday, so you wont have to put up with my uncontrollable whining for at least a few days

I liked Trick R' Treat enough to throw it a few points. No gloss on Creepshow, though. The masters of horror made it! The masters!!

I think as a child I did kind of like the last segment with the little bedroom monster.
(xpost)

subtracting the nostalgia factor from Creepshow (which tbh is probably impossible, but whatev), I think Trick r Treat was a substantial improvement on the formula. lt's a shame that it didn't really seem to catch its audience, but then that's how cults get started I suppose.

oh shit also, wrt way upthread, yes AP, i think i was in that basement!

don't understand why cronenberg topping a horror poll would anger you. shivers, the brood, the fly, all great horror movies, I'd even accept videodrome on the basis of outlandish gore.

ok so i think thx to creepshow romero might be top director on this poll, which eases the lynch worries a bit.

Four Romeros and four Lynches on my ballot. And only one Cronenberg, I think.

Just went searching for movie with the giant cat that fascinated and scared me as a child. Found it:

http://www.treknicalities.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/catspaw3.jpg

"Is that a NUCLEAR BLAST I hear in the distance or the sound of IS THIS HORROR pedantry reaching SCREAMING new heights? KA-BOO-M!"

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7218/7211435830_54c3a5142c_o.jpg

74. THREADS
Mick Jackson, UK, 1984
(251 points, 6 votes)

I was convinced the world would end EXACTLY ilke it happened in 'THREADS', back in the day. Rape scene, ew, and also the moment when the woman pisses herself in the street when she realises what's coming in a minute.
― darren (darren), Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:52 PM (8 years ago)

Oh god did Threads ever fuck with my head as a teenager. I can't believe my year 9 english teacher MADE US watch both it and the Day After. Cold War my arse. It scarred me for years, I still have nightmares about hiding in bunkers waiting for the shit to go down now and then. Very depressing scary film. Day After wasn't anywhere near as bad (poss. because Threads continues on for years after the blasts and gets all Mad Max).
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:49 PM (8 years ago)

the most shocking thing i've ever seen on tv. have thought about little else since.
― piscesboy, Thursday, October 30, 2003 7:02 AM (8 years ago)

Cannot parse this line from Eric's overall sharp review:
"Where Creepshow III really fails (well, the most ruinous failing point, anyway) is in its post-Crash attempt to complicate the diverse stories' connective tissue."

Even though I think Crash is one of the ten greatest films of the 1990s, I never thought it loomed so large as to necessitate dividing up eras into pre- and post-Crash. Did it really influence horror films that much? And even if it did, does it complicate diverse stories' connective tissues? Story isn't what Crash is after in the first place.

Or did you mean that crappy Oscar-winning Crash?

lol britishes followed through!!!

xpost, yes, the crap Crash, not the sexy one

Ah ok makes sense now. Great review!

Three more movies remain today, but I need to step away from the computer for a couple hours.

Just wanted to make sure I got around to posting Threads before britishes's bedtime.

sexy?

subtracting the nostalgia factor from Creepshow (which tbh is probably impossible, but whatev), I think Trick r Treat was a substantial improvement on the formula.

I mean...in a way, it's an apples and oranges comparison. Creepshow was as much a pastiche as it was a straight horror anthology. A large part of what I love about it is the visual style and the music and the overacting. Combined with the super-realistic effects and the horror host who just hovers without ever speaking and lots of other weird and creepy elements that subvert the goofy, heightened atmosphere.

*remains silent*

What I love about Creepshow is that despite all the overblown acting and musical score and ridiculous lighting and all that -- there are STILL moments of coming-right-at-your-face horror that, despite all odds, work. Quite an achievement.

Threads is the first film here I hadn't heard of, which is awesome.

jjjusten, have a FRIGHTFULLY good vacation

you missed the threads debates on the nom threads

xp

sexy Crash was so sexy that I had to turn it off for fear of vomiting.

takes all kinds

starting it off with a tour of the infamous site of the congdon murders so i will still be in the spirit of things from afar

yah, nuclear problems, woo

sexy crash is a genuinely terrible movie. intermittently funny though.

Enjoy the smell of it, jjj!

why hello inviting vacation getaway!

http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/coldspots/073-01.jpg

whudda perfect psychobiddy getaway

hey, have a good weekend, jjj, see you back here on monday

sexy crash is a genuinely terrible movie.

EG Marshall says, "Your rongness is irrevocable."

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.

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2012 22:05 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As discussed before, I happen to be in the exact same situation and just wanted to inform all you good folks here that I therefore finally found time to kick of the endlessly delayed execution of my "Must under all circumstances see before submit ballot"-list. What can you do.

So I started things of smoothly with Possession earlier in the day. It's about 8 hours later now and I don't even feel even remotely articulate enough to form a reaction that goes beyond a startled "Wha...?".

Just wait til I post the photo of myself with the Wicker Man feet...again

don't get crushed by the lift bridge or impaled by falling masonry

you arent the boss of me jerk

contenderizer, love ya, babe but you're rong about Crash (1996) and rong about the end of Rosemary's Baby

Just saw a trailer for a flick called The Good Doctor. Dead Ringers fans might bite.

#73 Dr. Giggles

britishes must've gone to sleep early or are playing darts b/c there's no threads discussing yet!

contenderizer, love ya, babe but you're rong about Crash (1996) and rong about the end of Rosemary's Baby

people gots all kinds of ideas

wah wah, my eyes melted, nuclear winter, wah

that's ok they can just discuss threads later on other threads