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

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Yeah, no kidding. I have no idea what to do with a football.

ha, when my boy was younger he was super into sports and didn't like scary movies, I was like how am I gonna relate to this child lol

THREADS got jipped. by Christ that film..

actually he's growing out of sports naturally, kids his age are starting to take things very seriously and he gets turned off when they get all butthurt about what are, to him, just games that are supposed to be, like, fun

oops sorry for turning horror poll into daddyblog, please resume getting butthurt over what is and isn't a horror film

One year I took a chance and showed my grade 6 class Cujo for Halloween. I didn't screen it ahead of time, and I winced when some language I'd forgotten about popped up. Sure enough, a parent called the principal the next day. I thought I'd really messed up, but it turned out the parent (who was well known in our community for adopting numerous stray pets) objected to the negative portrayal of St. Bernards in the movie. I've been a lot more careful since then. Basically I tell them, "If it's something you'd want to see, I can't show it; if I can show it, you wouldn't want to see it." Last year we watched The Others, which was pretty mild.

sure sign that a film is rubbish; no dialogue from it in the trailer. this makes it look more like Phanton Of Paradise or something

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

I've never seen it, so I can't say for sure, but I'm going to hazard a guess that Kael's preference for the sequel captures her at her loopiest:

Directed by John Boorman, this picture has a visionary crazy grandeur (like that of Fritz Lang's loony METROPOLIS). Some of its telepathic sequences are golden-toned and lyrical, and the film has a swirling, hallucinogenic, apocalyptic quality; it might have been a horror classic if it had had a simpler, less ritzy script...it's winged camp--a horror fairy tale gone wild, another in the long history of moviemakers' king-size follies. There's enough visual magic in it for a dozen good movies; what it lacks is judgment--the first casualty of the moviemaking obsession...

yeah the others is a good choice for kids. unless pictures of dead victorian children freak them out.

A lot of that was probably thanks to my fascination with that making of "Thriller" behind the scenes thing and subsequently watching as much stuff about, like, Tom Savini as I could get my hands on. I was totally into all that special effects stuff.

Me, too!!! Also my cool aunt was really into pulpy horror paperbacks so I read some awful stuff starting early. I did a fifth grade book report on Christine and the teacher called my mom. Hmph.

it turned out the parent (who was well known in our community for adopting numerous stray pets) objected to the negative portrayal of St. Bernards in the movie.

This is just beyond hilarious.

"It's not so much that I'm bothered with you showing my child a movie where teenagers get murdered in a number of gruesome ways. It's just...I coach a youth hockey team, so hopefully you can understand my concern that these kids might somehow get the wrong idea about hockey masks."

Re: Exorcist II, I will rep to some extent for every Exorcist film I've seen (which includes Dominion but not The Beginning), but I will not rep for Exorcist II. I agree that the trailer and a number of clips I saw made it seem like it would at least be an interesting failure or pretty to look at, but it is an almost irredeemably terrible movie.

yeah that kael review of exorcist ii always struck me as an excellent pre-internet troll job.

Yes, I read Kael's review before watching it. And then I re-read it after I watched it to make sure that the portion of my brain which interprets written words had not died at some point without my realizing it.

Finally had a chance to re-check my ballot and I'm doing pretty well: The Vanishing, Seven, Duel, OG Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Hellraiser, Henry and Phantasm all on my ballot.

there seems to be a.. kind of *glam rock dance number* in the trailer for Exorcist 2? is that right?

Whatever it is, I don't recall its presence in the movie itself.

I can't believe how many these are not available on Netflix right now.

Oh did we skip the weekend?? Here I thought I'd missed two days of stuff bcz of work

Exprcist II has a p good Morricone sndtrk? Kael isn't the only one who thinks it improves on the first, I think. (I've never seen any of em.)

ever seen the action figure of the gremlin from nightmare at 20000 feet?

Is there a sweaty Shatner (or Lithgow) figure?

I have seen the Norman Bates one.

As a kid there were particular scenes that haunted me so much I'd live in terror of accidentally encountering them by flipping through the TV dial. There scenes were so random: what happens to Chocolate-Chip Charlie at the end of The Stuff, the head explosion in Deadly Friend, the guy getting fried in Halloween III, the episode of "Tales from the Darkside" when the zombie grandpa sneezes off his own nose. I'd get physically sick if I thought of any of this stuff for too long.

Deadly Friend head explosion is one of my favorite hilariously WTF movie scenes ever.

"Set in my old HAUNTING grounds of Cab-FREAKY Green!"

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8158/7241656388_5e3a4998e3_o.jpg

55. CANDYMAN
Bernard Rose, USA, 1992
(326 points, 14 votes)

Sorry to come over all Robin Wood, but I liked the way that the first 'Candyman' situated its 'horror' in some kind of socio-economic 'reality', which is quite rare for horror flicks, I think (big exception being 'Dawn Of The Dead', of course.)
― Andrew L, Monday, February 4, 2002 7:00 PM (10 years ago)

okay I just read a description of the "Candyman" sequels and WOW way to fuck up an extremely effective, terrifying movie
― ADVANCED CHORD CHANGES (HI DERE), Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:23 PM (2 years ago)

it is hard 2 sing "knockin' boots" w/ a mouthful of bees.
― you just freaked out more than our director of lols (Pillbox), Thursday, October 29, 2009 2:44 PM (2 years ago)

(Candyman by Aqua = bettah)
― mark s, Sunday, February 3, 2002 7:00 PM (10 years ago)

Huh, I didn't even think about Candyman during voting. I can see why a bunch of people would have put it on their ballot, though I wouldn't ever think of scoring it particularly high.

watched this again a couple years ago, holds up pretty well. virginia madsen's kinda the weak link which hurts it since she's you know the lead.

I didn't vote for it, but candyman gets points just for beserkitude. at least it placed higher than hellraiser.

Candyman is a bomb-ass movie

Great score by Glass, but we all know that already.

Candyman did a lot to make bathroom mirrors in skeevy apartments way scarier than they already were.

ever seen the action figure of the gremlin from nightmare at 20000 feet?

Is there a sweaty Shatner (or Lithgow) figure?

they're pretty awesome, if only because they're reproduced in black & white

http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/BBPGREMLIN_pkg.jpg

Candyman's one of the best US horror films of the era.

I even quite liked the second one.

I voted for it. my #35. maybe overrated it looking back at the things that I slotted after it but it is a very well... EXECUTED film.

...cab-freaky green?

Yeah, I'm totally down with it placing, even if it is above better films... like Threads *sobs*

most of the movie is set at notorious chicago housing project cabrini-green

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Much to my shame I've never watched "Candyman," since I tend to be very disappointed in Clive Barker adaptations.

xpost to all the "things that disturb you" talk, probably my #1 DO NOT WANT as a kid was Augustus Gloop getting stuck in the tube in "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." Frankly, that movie should've been on my ballot.

feel like the setting is like maybe 40 percent of what makes it an awesome movie

RIP Cabrini Green.

Candymam is scary, and yeah, the socio-economic angle is a really interesting tack to take.

The final scene with the crying ex-boyfriend is really effective & it alone goes to a diff emotional place than most mainstream horror.

from imdb: "Exterior, hallway and stairway scenes were actually filmed for a few days in the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects, though the producers had to make a deal with the ruling gang members to put them in the movie as extras to ensure the cast and crew's safety during filming. Even with this arrangement, a sniper put a bullet through the production van on the last day of filming, though no one was injured."

one of the things i like about candyman is that while we're never fully allowed to take the title character/creature's side (except during the flashback describing his creation), there is something sympathetic and even romantic about him, the product both of his tragic story and of tony todd's performance.

Oh I know, it was one of my top votes. It was just perhaps a bit more of a stretch than the other "puns"

oh ok sorry for being accidentally condescending

just fired this up on netflix btw

Candymam is scary

IF YOU THOUGHT CANDYMAN WAS SCARY... YOU SHOULD MEET HIS MOTHER

so the 'gremlin' portion of The Twilight Zone Movie was based on an actual episode of the original show? well you live and learn. you'll have to forgive me but .. Zone wasn't very big on TV here in the UK and they almost never showed re-runs in the 80s/90s (if at all?).

wow black and white action figures; what an amazing idea!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/The_Candy_Man_Sammy_Davis_Jr.jpg-

Ah, nuts.

Anyway, why does the gremlin figure look like it's wearing a costume?

I seriously doubt that Cabrini Green is R-ing in P -- too much history there.