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

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?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:39 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm no fan of The Silence, which desperately needs Woody Allen.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:49 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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?

Real curious to see if Last House on the Left shows up on this list.

Henry James' The Turn of the EWWW!

ROFL

Like, I figured there would be a whole slew of these results that I hadn't seen, but I'm really taken aback by how many of them I wasn't even aware of. It honestly makes me really happy. Lots of new stuff to check out!

Hahaha, love The Turn of the EWWW! And great image choice, too.

I considered The Innocents but cut it, I just don't find the main actress particularly great. Does have some great moments, though.

Argh, I fucking hate not checking my posts and then realising I've just got stuck on a single word all the way through.

I'm unfamiliar with this one, but that image selection is definitely compelling.

I'd be surprised if last house on the left doesn't show up. it's not enjoyable but I expect it will get a lot of begrudging respect votes, like henry did.

I just don't find the main actress particularly great.

^Most tragic opinion in the hitory of ILX. "THE MAIN ACTRESS"??????

(a candidate for the greatest actress in English-speaking cinema)

the innocents was something I wanted to watch again before voting but didn't, so it got cut

saw it as a kid on TV but I have to imagine seeing a 'scope presentation would have a big impact on its effectiveness, especially when looking at that screengrab

yeah that screen shot compells me to watch the innocents

wait, how do you not like deborah kerr?

Someone get Morbs a tisane!

I dunno, Morbs, I disagree. I just didn't find it particularly compelling. Maybe it's more the character writing that was the problem, I just didn't like her or care about what happened to her or the annoying brats. I'll take it up with Henry James.

Clayton also directed Something Wicked This Way Comes, which I like way more than I should.

is this at all like village of the damned?

I like Deborah Kerr alright, but ... better than Vivien Leigh? Bette Davis? Edith Massey?

it's an argument worth having.

there was a sort of prequel w/ Brando that is not. good.

innocents is the movie last year at marienbad wishes it cd be. (controversial) i love the long, lush silences by the poolside / gazebo, and my impression of the film is of long menacing takes of oily, stagnant water with bugz buzzing in the background.

Edith Massey vs. Karen Black

Candace Hilligoss

q: is preminger's laura plausibly a horror movie?