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

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

xp

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!"

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5444/7221145558_2425975b28_o.jpg

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

YESSSSS voted for this. so awesome. another one I saw really young that I found surprisingly haunting and disturbing. Lorre's confession scene at the end is amazing.

OK, now, how in the world is M a horror movie? it's a manhunt movie!

I mean, just because it has shadows? Will The Third Man be in here, too?

it doesn't function exactly as a thriller either unless you disregard huge chunks of it espesh the last half hour or so

M is one of the best damn movies i've ever seen (and in some respects, i prefer the testament of dr. mabuse), but i never even considered voting for it.

pedophiles are horrible

Yeah I'd call horror a pretty broad church, but no way is M a horror film.

(Though the awesome window shot predicts Argento's virtuoso rooftop move in "Tenebrae.")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvxBvqvuY7I

I didn't vote for M and a few of other great films on this list, but I've yet to see a movie on it where I'm actually incapable of understanding why an ILXor would vote for it.

I mean, what IS horror, you know?

Lang is taking the piss out of the Nazis with the whole criminals' code of honour steez i'm sure

Did we really play this "does this count as _______" game with each and every movie in the comedy poll?

Just checking.

M was pretty much the IT of its day, et al.

i don't begrudge y'all mulholland drive, don't begrudge me M.

You people are all fired.

capable of understanding why an ILXor would vote for it.

Well, by this standard, nothing would surprise me.

(And there I go breaking my promise to be the neutral poll mod.)

Waiting for "High Anxiety" to place.

Pan's Labryinth was too much of a mild fantasy, M was too much of a mild serial killer movie, people came here for blooood

hey it doesn't matter, i just like rmde

M was my first Fritz Lang. Walked into it as an obligation. Walked away with a full-body buzz and a sense of euphoria that I only get from a very few great movies.

if i'd've been here when Mulholland Drive placed i mighta lost an optic nerve

jjjusten def. picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. When he gets back he's gonna be pissed.

Pan's Labryinth was too much of a mild fantasy, M was too much of a mild serial killer movie, people came here for blooood

OTM

as others have said, it makes more sense to look at these results as an idiosyncratic snapshot of ILX tastes than as any kind of definitive genre summary. i don't personally think of M as a horror movie, but i prefer a "big tent" to carefully policed genre boundaries, so if others really do think it belongs here, then more power to them.

as classic as the scene of the frankenstein monster w/ the little girl by the lake is, what's truly devastating is the later scene of her father carrying her dead body through the village: the dumbstruck expression on his face, her arms limply swinging with the rhythm of his automaton gait, the way the sounds of joy and music drain away as the revelers realize what's going past them. just amazing.

sorry still talking about F instead of M

Really would like M's first-place voter to drop in and drop some knowledge. I know he's capable.

as others have said, it makes more sense to look at these results as an idiosyncratic snapshot of ILX tastes challopery run amok than as any kind of definitive genre summary.

Did we really play this "does this count as _______" game with each and every movie in the comedy poll?

― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, May 18, 2012 2:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It happened, but not on the comedy thread as much on the action thread.