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

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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?

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

the nightcomers! always loved the name of the film but can't remember a damn thing about it

Love the ambiguity of The Innocents, no succumbing to temptation and having some fatherly type explaining everything at the end.

the broken frame thing, taken right from james

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Been meaning to watch both The Innocents and The Haunting forever.

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!".

i place a wall between "things that are deeply disturbing" and horror as a genre. i do this mostly because i am a dedicated fan of the latter, and am at best ambivalent about former. i don't dislike "things that are disturbing" (TTAD) movies on principle, but i'm not specifically attracted to them, either.

as i said upthread, the sensibility that is specifically attracted to TTADD is primarily an exploitation/grindhouse/sleazeball sensibility, not a horror sensibility. it might find satisfaction in grisly footage of a child being burned with a cigarette, but would find none in, say, the bride of frankenstein. the more genre horror becomes defined by people's interest in TTADD, the more debased it becomes, imo.

i say this because horror is a pop genre. as such, its dedicated fandom is inherently trivializing, inherently desensitized. if we encounter threads as fans of cinema in general, then it has the power to move us, it's horrors can be substantial. but if it's just another tickbox next to salo, guinea pig 2 and a serbian film on some superfan's list of "the most disturbing shit EVER!", then it becomes meaningless. i just don't like to see horror defined in those terms.

^ sorry if that was redundant. this is my hobbyhorse, and i will ride it.

man those clothes look SO uncomfortable
i've never seen the innocents, so that's all i have to comment on

haven't seen it in eons, but made it #34 on strength of Kerr

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.

you see that's the thing, love both, thought it would be catnip, was more like nytol.

the innocents far too low, the ghostly figure by the lake one of my favourite images in horror.

is this at all like village of the damned?

nope

I'm loving the stills and the taglines so much. Great job, Eric!

today is starting off GREAT, btw! very happy to see cemetery man, cure and hour of the wolf place.

agree with sarah on the appeal of cemetery man both as an existentialist splatterfest and as a gothic romance. some of the comic aspects are a bit trying, but everything else about the movie is just great. one of my all-time favorites.

cure is still my favorite k kurosawa flick. pulse will apparently place higher, but cure is lynch-like in its ability to conjure inexplicable dread - and to make the inexplicability resonant.

The Innocents waaaaay too low.

"¡Yo que pensé que te olvidé, pero es verDEAD es la verDEAD!"

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65. MULHOLLAND DR.
David Lynch, USA, 2001
(299 points, 9 votes)

That version of "Crying", though, was certainly a memorable moment (if you can separate it from the rest of the god-awful movie).
― David Raposa, Sunday, January 6, 2002 7:00 PM (10 years ago)

Mulholland Dr is Lynch's best work, and maybe the best feature film made by an American in the '00s.
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, October 19, 2009 4:21 PM (2 years ago)

"Tuomas it's like you didn't see Mulholland Drive at all."
I'm not sure he saw Lost Highway (there are tons of boobs in that movie!!!)
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:42 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, but not a lesbian sex scene.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:45 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You didn't specify more lesbian boobs.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, October 20, 2009 2:51 PM (2 years ago)

but cure is lynch-like in its ability to conjure inexplicable dread

agreed. remind me of this if i start up again on the "why are people voting for david lynch movies in this poll" issue!

Mulholland is a TV pilot with an "it was all a dream" tack-on finish.

"TTAD" (thanks for the shorthand, btw) is a fairly different thing than what I was referring to, contenderizer. I don't like that stuff, either. I'm mostly referring to movies which may not have consciously been made to fit the strict definition of horror or subsequently marketed as such but which achieve the same net effect horror films ostensibly strive for (and far too often fail at, largely thanks to a focus on an adherence to genre trappings over a genuine attempt to evoke horror/terror/dread/etc.). I'm not discounting straight horror movies. I'm just saying that movies that are more obliquely horror-ish shouldn't be discounted out of hand.

Mullholland is obv. great but it's not among the Lynch that qualifies as horror in my brain.

xxxpost

Best TV pilot ever, in that case.

Yeah, I'm with the 'not horror' crowd on Mulholland Drive. But not gonna piss and moan about it too much.

Mulholland Drive would have been an amazing opportunity to explore the ideas of Lost Highway in more depth over the course of a series, had it been commissioned. As it was, i think it just ended up being a really great opening episode with a lazy coda tacked on to the end to make it releasable that did nothing to advance what he's already said before.

Bah xxxp, beaten to it.