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

Frankenstein - Dracula - Wolfman are THE monster movies!

seeing Jaws as a little kid totally wigged me out - I didn't even want to go into swimming pools for a year or two.

Venn diagram time again LOL.

Frankenstein - Dracula - Wolfman are THE monster movies!

"Um, corr-ICK-tion."

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48. AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
John Landis, USA, 1981
(368 points, 11 votes)

I owe this film a great deal, it got me laid.
― Matt (Matt), Saturday, October 16, 2004 9:46 AM (7 years ago)

Some Monster Movies have more horror elements than others. Is Godzilla under consideration?

okay that's a pretty remarkable coincidence

er n/m

;)

I did find American Werewolf to have a couple genuinely frightening scenes, and the best transformation scene ever, probably. However it starred the Dr Pepper guy, and the wind kinda went out of the last third, didn't it?

(haven't seen since '81)

Aw, c'mon, this is Jaws! It's untouchable. The salty on-location atmosphere; the authentic, crowded, talking-over-each-other living room scenes; the breathless opening kill; how most of it unfolds in broad daylight; the Muffin Man; the jet of blood from the kid on the raft; the relationship with the 3 guys; Roy Fucking Scheider!; the slow, believable sinking of the ship; the boy & Dad copying each other's postures; etc, infinity.

Sweet. The bird's-eye shot of the werewolf in the underground is one of my favorite shots in any horror movie ever.

watched it recently, it's okay. sdtk jokes aren't really that funny. didn't vote for it.

#24 on my ballot. Pure classic, everybody in it is great.

I consider Godzilla (e.g.) more sci-fi, but I can see someone including it as a horror film.

I didn't vote for Jaws for genre-hedging reasons--I can see arguments for and against--but I don't think there'll be a film on here that makes me laugh more. To the many moments cited above, I'd add one more: when the mom, flipping through the book, does a 180 and shouts, "Get out of that water now!"

watched it recently, it's okay. sdtk jokes aren't really that funny. didn't vote for it.

^^^^

American Werewolf in London was a childhood cable favorite of mine. I just rewatched it last week and it holds up well. The scene in the underground is fantastic, and Griffin Dunne showing up in ever more rotten condition is delightful. I didn't vote for it, but if i had rewatched it before submitting my ballot I might have.

as far as lol-dumb-americans-abroad-wandering-into-weird/gruesome-foreign-shit films, hostel is scarier ... eastern europeans are scarier people than britishes, it's proven by science.

didn't vote for either werewolves or hostel.

Also: "A naked American man stole my balloons."

i don't think of sleepaway camp as having a "deeply disturbed" core under the meatballs exterior. it's perfectly titled, in it seems driven by a campy, sick-funny, dragshow-horror sensibility. seen through that lens, it all makes sense: the trashiness, the half shirts, the ending, the melodramatic mystery plotting, the ott misogyny of death by curling iron, friggin "aunt martha".

Speaking Americans wandering, I hope Children of the Corn is coming up.

Still love the joeks in American Werewolf. "Mummy, a naked American man took my balloon!" But there are some really good scares and something close to real pathos, e.g. when Naughton realizes how doomed he is and tries to call home. Now that I think about it, maybe Landis's best movie.

lol xp

:D

Also, Rik Mayall! Brian Glover! John Woodvine! Jenny Agutter!

Best Landis: 3 Amigos.

my favourite horror film and one of my Top 10 films of all time. watched it with my Grandfather aged 11 on VHS and the only scene he insisted on fast forwarding through was the shower scene. if i could name my fave scene in any film EVER it may well be the transformation.

Actual best Landis: Thriller video

"Voulez vous coucher avec mo-AHHHHHH (ce SEWER)?"

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47. EYES WITHOUT A FACE [aka LES YEUX SANS VISAGE]
Georges Franju, France, 1960
(371 points, 16 votes)

Well, I'm tight on the sake I had for dinner and I'm watching a Georges Franju movie in French where all the characters are wearing pigeon heads while writing my posts.
― Momus, Sunday, April 14, 2002 7:00 PM (10 years ago)

THIS is very good imo for any fans of the nazi/ nightmare/ home invasion scene from 'American Werewolf..'
http://www.kindertrauma.com/?p=352

hey, an actual klassik

Also on my ballot!

my 16th

I watched a little bit of Eyes w/o a Face over the weekend and yup -- STILL GREAT. The music is goofy, but when you're cutting off people's faces, something has to lighten the mood.

One of my fave movie memories is seeing Eyes w/o a Face in a crowded theater, and when they get to the face-peeling scene the entire audience looked away. Plus, the place was dead silent -- and so is the scene, so all you could hear was everyone's horrified breathing.

But if you REALLY want to be haunted forever, watch Franju's short "Blood of the Beasts" that is on the Eyes Criterion DVD. Warning: it's about a Paris slaughterhouse and cannot be unseen.

Travolta surprisingly good as a French teenager in the American remake.

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But if you REALLY want to be haunted forever, watch Franju's short "Blood of the Beasts" that is on the Eyes Criterion DVD. Warning: it's about a Paris slaughterhouse and cannot be unseen.

omg THIS X a jillion
it's horrifying -- granted, i haven't watched Wiseman's MEAT but it's as close as i ever want to come to seeing it

good companion piece to blood of the beasts is brakhage's the act of seeing with one's own eyes

"To watch Argento is to submit to window PAIN!"

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46. DEEP RED [aka PROFONDO ROSSO]
Dario Argento, Italy, 1975
(374 points, 15 votes)

"Deep Red" was (David Hemmings') finest two hours. Much better than "Blow Up".
― C-Man (C-Man), Thursday, December 4, 2003 9:03 AM (8 years ago)

Deep Red is the one that seems to treat the Argento non-fans best.
― Miss Garrote (Eric H.), Thursday, November 18, 2010 12:13 PM (1 year ago)

the scene in Deep Red when the midget murder doll warbles thru the door is one of the most disturbing things i've seen on film.
― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Friday, May 2, 2003 3:05 PM (9 years ago)

eyes w/o a face my #18, reanimator my #29, american werewolf shortlisted but didn't make the cut.

started watching deep red once but didn't finish. argento's real hit or miss for me.

ok, last two (franju and argento) were on my ballot ... so yay.

very very happy to see the tenant, re-animator and the brood place. some of my favorite movies of any kind, though i kind of slighted the brood on my ballot, placing it in the mid 30s (boo, me). too many movies vying for just a few slots...

i want to defend the off-center awkwardness of early cronenberg and especially the brood. intentionally or not, cronenberg seems to cast leads who transmit a quality of alienation and emotional disengagement. he also situates them in physical environments that are un-home-like and inhospitable: dull color schemes, unpleasant dwellings, drab commercial and industrial spaces, aggressively sharp modernist offices to denote wealth and status. he pays a lot of attention to the built environment in these films, but isn't always trying to make it look slick and inviting. this may simply be a product of a careless eye, but i like the weird, industrial-film texture. the brood is his most satisfying film in this regard. basically ever shot documents some weird but distinctive place in which you wouldn't really want to spend any time.

he's also documenting the fallout of midcentury modernism's optimism about the extent to which human society and behavior might be happily mechanized. in his view, the brutalist apartment block might well be a hive, but it's not necessarily a happy and harmonious one. this gives the mechanical, off-kilter quality of his films some real thematic bite.

also, where's m.eily?!?

I have approximately zero idea of where these results are going, given the fact that I'm barely even aware of the past two films' existence. It's a rolly-coaster!

Profondo Rosso was no.3 on my ballot. It's probably my favourite giallo - all the classic elements but put together in new and alarming ways.

i prefer deep red to suspiria (suspiria's awesome soundtrack/title song notwithstanding).

i'm really spoiling some of these films for myself by going to You Tube and watching the scenes that folk are saying are the scariest in each.

Don't do that!

stop doing that immediately

i like a lot of things about jaws, but it's never been a favorite. apostasy, i know.

an american werewolf in london, otoh, i love to death. watched it a billion times during my teen years, still quote lines all the time. griffin dunne is so great as the progressively rotting jack.