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

yo my kid coulda made Mulholland Drive

Already put in a req, Eiii.

you sound kinda like a cranky old banker looking at abstract art, "what do you mean he just dreamed it up! balderdash!"

um, except i know i'm not looking at abstract art?

This would be the first of two films that I voted for in both the comedy and horror polls and which will, deservedly, show up in the results of each. Do not get the SotD reactionaries, but that might be because I'm a 'Murrican.

i'm not at all upset about anything that's placed so far. i love shaun of the dead and am happy to see it show up among the finalists. just explaining why i didn't vote for it.

um, except i know i'm not looking at abstract art?

well, yes and no...

like, i dig eraserhead and inland empire. the commercially-forced seams on mulholland are pretty transparent in comparison.

Frankenstein was on Fellini's Top 10 in the '92 S&S poll. I know the sequel's wilder, but there's something very pure and very beautiful about the original.

i'd say that all of david lynch's recent films use a sort of structural abstraction to their advantage, mullholland dr. no more (and no less) so than lost highway and inland empire.

like Shaun of the Dead and put it on my comedy ballot but left it off here (where i did include Dead Alive and a few other horror comedies) when it failed the 'will i feel like part of the problem when it places?' test

I see the same seams in MD but it doesn't dull the power of what he accomplished in the face of a difficult production situation. if anything I respect it more for those reasons.

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Ugh, fuck off.

― emil.y, Friday, 18 May 2012 19:15 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

I am one of the Proud 11 voting for Shaun of the Dead. (I always feel compelled to acknowledge voting for a movie when the first reaction after it's posted is something akin to "Ugh, fuck off.")

Mulholland Dr is not structurally abstract. it's a multi-plot tv pilot resolved with a dream ending when producers asked him to wrap the thing up for cinematic release. he just didn't bother removing the plots the dreamer wasn't in. Again, if you enjoy it, great. And you can respect it plenty! It just feels like every BEST MOVIE EVER rave is a lot like very BEST MOVIE EVER rave of Donnie Darko, willfully ignoring what was really going on.

huh, just checked and I didn't vote for bio zombie and I love that silly movie. it's got heart.

the commercially-forced seams on mulholland are pretty transparent in comparison.

i guess i agree, but i disagree that this is a problem or a deficiency. the movie's about movie-making, among other things, and the compromises that filmmakers are forced into. that makes a kind of digetic sense of the ways the production narrative you're describing impact the film, and i like the textural variety for its own sake.

no bio zombie on the noms list. mystery solved.

Mulholland Dr is not structurally abstract. it's a multi-plot tv pilot resolved with a dream ending when producers asked him to wrap the thing up for cinematic release.

those two things don't seem mutually exclusive to me. the circumstances under which the movie was made were whatever they were, but my experience of the events onscreen ultimately has very little to do with that.

very glad to see Cemetery Man placing. now just need Evil Dead II and Jacob's Ladder to turn up and my 3-vote ballot (had i turned one in) will be 100% represented!

love Colin Clive's "It's alive!" swoon.

42 of you didn't vote for Frankenstein? You of Earth are idiots.

Shaun of the Dead is overrated. doesn't belong here imho

I totally respect and appreciate the Whale-era Frankenstein films, and this totally belongs here, even if it currently serves more as a historically-significant relic than something watched all that regularly. Still though, as a monster, karlov's Frankenstein was probably robbed its last remaining scare potential by Phil Hartman.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eosGkndaIFM/R6obscETvRI/AAAAAAAACCA/fXQYYP9o1jc/s400/frankenstein.jpg

FIRE BAD

I don't think I've seen the original Frankenstein since I was like 10. didn't vote for it.

the book is all-time material obviously

Just watched Let's Scare Jessica to Death and it was everything I was hoping for.

I would hate for Lynch to have removed the "Sum'n bit me BAD!" scene from MD just to hide seams.

Thank god del Toro gave up his quest to make yet another Frankenstein.

I'm not even sure I've seen the entire throws-the-little-girl-into-the-lake scene since it was restored, what, 10-15 years ago?

Frankenstein was on Fellini's Top 10 in the '92 S&S poll. I know the sequel's wilder, but there's something very pure and very beautiful about the original.

― clemenza, Friday, May 18, 2012 2:37 PM (1 minute ago)

42 of you didn't vote for Frankenstein? You of Earth are idiots.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Friday, May 18, 2012 2:45 PM (1 minute ago)

it tore me up to leave the original off my ballot. the sequel is overall the greater film, but karloff's performance in the first movie is a gold standard for horror films. the balance he strikes of pathos and animal brutality is like magic.

The little girl scene has always been in it; I've been watching that movie for 30 year and I've never not seen it.

just the original's creation/lab scene is worth voting for.

Frankenstein! High on my list. Beautifull! Haunting! (and still a little scary, too)

doesn't belong here imho

This is an odd sentiment to have. This is a poll of a few people's favorite horror movies, not the All Time Forever No Changes Horror Cannon. If enough people liked it enough to vote for it, then it belongs here. You might wish people had different opinions, but this is how these polls work.

I'm not talking about Shaun of the Dead specifically, I just mean that sentiment about any move on this list.

ok, the restoration was done 26 years ago... meeee ollllld.

In 1986, Universal restored three censored segments, including Maria's death scene, lengthening the movie to 72 minutes for videotape/laser disc release.

(I know I saw the film on both commercial TV and the PBS outlet and never saw that scene in my youth)

Was going to say, I feel like that scene was always there. Because it has been since I've first watched it.

the scene was there, the specific shot of him throwing her into the water was cut iirc

carl agatha otm

I definitely saw that when I first watched it on TV as a kid, cuz I remember asking my parents to explain what was going on

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Will the other usual Monster Mash folks show up? Dracula, Mummy, Phantom of Opera, etc? If I had to pick from the classic monsters, I'm a Creature from the Black Lagoon guy all the way.

it tore me up to leave the original off my ballot. the sequel is overall the greater film...

that's how i called it

when I say "doesn't belong here imho" what I really mean is that I'm sending an army of zombies to rend your flesh in retaliation for sullying this poll's results

it was cut in '37 apparently, and its absence leaves the door open that Creature killed her intentionally, tho that makes no sense for his character.

right Noodle, it cut when Karloff gestures that she come toward him.

anybody who hasn't seen frankenstein since they were 10 is due for a rescreening

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/the_monster.jpg

Looking forward to Bride placing high. Voted for both.

"I'll never hear FEAR GYNT the same way again!"

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61. M
Fritz Lang, Germany, 1931
(312 points, 9 votes, 1 first-place vote)

M is my favourite film ever. Amongst many wonderful things, it pre-empts modern Policiers with a vengeance.
― Noodle Vague, Thursday, September 6, 2007 5:29 PM (4 years ago)

Just saw M for the first time. Damn, that's a film.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:38 PM (3 years ago)

M and Testament are both monuments to how to convey information via a combination of off-screen action and sound or lack thereof.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, July 23, 2010 9:29 AM (1 year ago)

Karloff was a damn interesting actor. He's really great in The Body Snatcher.

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M is still probably my favourite film ever and i have no idea why it's in this poll

btw: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe4xw_boris-karloff-carol-burnett-sing_news

Didn't consider M horror, but a psychothriller.

M was quite high on my ballot so yay

tho i guess there's a kind of "peasants storming the castle" reference in the crooks' court