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

Yay Kiyoshi Kurosawa! Haven't seen Cure yet. ;_;

there are plenty of horror films with a social conscience wtf. quite a few more are going to show up here, I reckon.

xp

there's a difference between a horror movie with a social conscience and a film of social conscience that is horrifying

which is...?

tho assisting Eric in this endeavor has been rewarding on multiple levels, I have to say I'm a little ashamed at how few of the placing pre-1960s, Asian & European genre essentials, in addition to other misc. cult obscurities, were on my radar at all before recently - the holes in my genre familiarity being compounded as I've searched out imagery from these films and discovered how incredible a lot of it is. LSJTD & Cemetery Man are the latest examples of this (I really dig the photography of both, for almost completely different reasons), though the same could be said for much of what has placed thusfar. If nothing else, once the dust settles, my Netflix queue will be spoken for for some time!

if you're saying the intent of the filmmakers is a non-issue as long as the sum effect disturbed and horrified you, then why not vote for pixote, midnight express, apocalypse now, titicut follies, boys don't cry, etc.

Yeah, I actually would say the intent of the filmmakers has limited importance with respect to how the finished product is viewed by audiences. Particularly when total hacks can half-heartedly dabble in genre conventions and crank out garbage that somehow earns a 'horror' label just because it has features some crazy dude with a chainsaw. I still haven't seen Threads, but I'd argue that people's general reaction to it earns it a horror designation more readily than, say, Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan's boilerplate snoozery does.

xpost - even if the latter is more horrifying than the former?

I feel like this conversation always turns into, "No way is The Long Goodbye film noir! It's not even in black and white!"

Cure my #11, had a diff KK ahead of it...

Fires on the Plain might be more horrifying than anything on my ballot. It's still a war film.

Man, I still hate "thrillride" in any cinema context.

^^^prefers snoozefests

xp - I feel like it turns into "THAT's not metal"

I appreciate that y'all are working hard to try and top the Action and then Comedy polls boundary contentiousness, but I am frankly worried about what the 100 All-time Porn Film arguments will look like.

I was wondering about romantic movies. What does ILX think is romantic? I don't think I want to know.

Dead Alive

I will never, ever get some people's "you got chocolate in my peanut butter!" allergy to genre cross-pollination. I'm gonna start referring to Saving Private Ryan as a horror film in y'all's honor.

Taxi Driver iirc

man, only on ILX would somebody debate the categorization of a film they haven't seen

well, while watching the opening of saving private ryan, all I could think was "spielberg's favorite movie is texas chainsaw massacre, he must be trying to top it here", hope it shows up on the list soon

When I was going through my ballot and trying to figure out which movies did and did not end on a nihilistic note, I realized that Dead Alive actually is pretty romantic.

I also do not with to learn how highly ILX rates Amelie.

it's also odd how my opinion on whether or not a movie is horror is somehow "enforcing boundaries", I'm not the ballot police

man, only on ILX would somebody debate the categorization of a film they haven't seen

I'm not stumping for the classification of Threads as a horror film. I'm arguing that, in general, if the audience reacts to a film as if it were a horror film, it should qualify as a horror film at least as much as the rote garbage that's only accepted as horror because it sports a big neon sign flashing "I IS HORROR, BOO!".

xp Okay, you know quotes only go around things people actually said, right?

Dude, come on. Don't scare quote stuff nobody even said. We're just discussin' stuff here. Ain't nobody mad atcha.

i feel much better calling "Threads" a horror movie than most David Lynch films tbh

haven't even heard about these last 3 movies, much less watched them.

I found CURE to be kind of a snore, myself. Maybe the pacing of the movie just threw me off.

Cemetery Man is also v romantic - i saw it in the theater on a date!

I saw the first bit of Cemetary Man at a friend's late at night and it did less than nothing for me, but maybe it's not the kind of film that rewards being drunk and sleepy.

I agree that the intent of the creators of the movie weighs in very heavily. Intent isn't always clear, though, and there are a lot of intentional horror movies that are clearly dramas and were not designed to act as thrill rides.

Having said that, PETA documentaryies are designed to horrify, but are not horror movies. I mean, is Threads more like a PETA documentary or Texas Chainsaw Massacre?

http://www.scotsman.com/news/end-of-the-world-revisited-bbc-s-threads-is-25-years-old-1-773083

cure is good but kk's done better, one of which i expect to place.

and by expect i mean demand.

I find this shocking - more commonly known as dellamorte dellamore in europe?

Yes, at least here in GER. Quite surprising to see it place and then so comparatively high (although it's good, from the parts I can remember).

"All you FART HOUSE SICKOS will just WOLF down our next selection!"

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67. HOUR OF THE WOLF [aka VARGTIMMEN]
Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1968
(292 points, 10 votes)

wow, Hour of the Wolf is about the worst thing he did in the '60s, amirite?
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I'm no fan of The Silence, which desperately needs Woody Allen.
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at least there are no bargain-basement vampires in that one, and Erland Josephson walking on the ceiling.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:56 AM (4 years ago)

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 2:50 PM (Yesterday)

If I've learned nothing else in my time on earth, I've at least come to realize that comedy and horror are as easily-definable as obscenity and that any attempt to draw boundaries is just about as likely to achieve consensus approval.

Must...not...post...SCTV parody. (I've done it five times already.)

shrimpken

I will watch any movie where Tim Blake Nelson sets his eye on fire.

Boy, are you in luck! (pulls out box of videotapes)

2 for 33!

Yay Vargtimmen. Was getting a bit worried that it might not show. Bloody great.

I forgot that I hated this. In fact, I forgot it.

Dude, come on. Don't scare quote stuff nobody even said.

can't understand why you have such conservative ideas about scare quotes

i also suggested the virgin spring, mainly b/c it directly inspired the last house on the left. but in the end i didn't vote for it b/c it wasn't as clearly "horror" as hour of the wolf in my mind, at least.

xpost

What can I say, I'm a punctuation prescriptivist.

cries and whispers is more horrifying than hour of the wolf but, oddly enough, not a horror movie

Bah I have only just remember my joke I meant to post yesterday, after Edward III's line about having Company of Wolves and Hour of the Wolf on the ballot, about how I was anticipating the reaction to Brotherhood of the Wolf's top-10 placing.

i really expected to like hour of the wolf but it bored me shitless.

lol xp

voted for 3 of the last 4

obv these lists always skew towards US and recent films, but this seems pretty well-rounded in terms of era and country, moreso than the action or comedy polls

if you're already a fan of both bergman and horror, time of the wolf is undeniable. if you're one or the other it can become a shaky proposition.

"Another BONE thrown to the Brit-ISH-es in the voting BODY! This one comes from Henry James' The Turn of the EWWW!"

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66. THE INNOCENTS
Jack Clayton, UK, 1961
(298 points, 10 votes)

The Innocents - Classic or Dud?