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

the thnig otm re: new nightmare

We had no Spencer's in the country. I actually had to fashion metal blades out of steel in the shed out back and murder several teenagers before anyone anyone even bothered to lock me up in my kill-house and burn me alive.

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High-5, Thnig. We had no Spencer's within...50 miles? of my home, but we had plenty of sheet metal and tools, and not much parental intervention (which I do not say as a criticism at all).

I was Freddy for Halloween.

Je55e & The Thnig, I humbly bow to your superior level of childhood awesomeness.

ringu and the ring - the american remake is surprising good
ju-on: the grudge and ju-on 2 - in this case, skip the remakes

related and perhaps of interest, all dealing with ghosts, curses and/or "haunted" technology:

dark water - again, original only
shutter - thailand, inspired another worthless remake
noroi: the curse - recent, damn good
the eye - hong kong, somewhat different in theme & approach, but similar enough to mention here
pulse - not a personal favorite, but enough people like it that i figure it deserves mention
marebito - interesting variation on similar themes
uzumaki - weird & wacky low-budget curse flick, a personal favorite

oh right on, thank you! pulse is the only one on here that I've seen. (liked it, voted for it.)

actually, I've seen the american ring. don't remember much but I liked it at the time.

The Ring is, in a bunch of ways, my platonic ideal for a horror movie

There are some people around here (me) who think The Ring is better than Ringu. Ju-on: The Grudge is fantastic and v. creepy. But I can't agree w/ contenderizer enough on the Ju-on remakes. Those are absolutely dire.

I like The Ring far better than Ringu and I feel like I have to defend that opinion by saying that it is not b/c of an overriding taste, but b/c I think it's a better movie.

I assume The Ring will turn up; I also liked it better.

geatest scenes with bathtubs?

there can be only one!

http://coosacreek.org/mambo/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/diabolique-4.jpg

I watched the original NOES -- which was #6 on my ballot -- on VHS when it first came out, just me and my mom home together on a Friday night. I would have been 15 at the time. She fell asleep on the couch during the movie, some watched alone and it scared the ever-loving shit out of me. I had seen tons of scary movies by then, but that one just really got under my skin, especially the Johnny Depp death and the scene in the sleep clinic.

Wish Craven could have kept his original ending and stopped the franchise before it got started, even if as noted above most of the sequels at least have a set piece or two to recommend.

many xps - The Ring is objectively better than Ringu IMHO.

I liked The Ring better because I didn't have to read it.

is the first NOES the one with the kid in the body bag walking through the high school's halls? that was an image that really stuck with me.

Yes, when...what's her name (Lisa?) falls asleep in class.

I always forget Johnny Depp (blech) was in NOES!

BLECH???!?!????

Friendship over.

Although that Tonto bullshit going on now is pretty racist.

Okay, friendship back on.

No, blech in general, since I can remember. I hate seeing him. Except the aversion broke when I saw him in previews for Dark Shadows. I liked Edward Scissorhands, but that was IN SPITE OF Johnny Blech.

this thread isn't the place for it, but burton's dark shadows is so incredibly bad :(

That is disappointing yet feels inevitable.

Burton and Depp keep on Burtoning and Depping in...Dark Shadows!

Depp has a cameo in Freddy's Dead, too.

I'm very disappointed that all I hear are bad things about that stupid movie. I'll get off the subject ITT now.

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<I>it also works because the ending is so, so dark that it makes you kind of go back over the rest of the movie and realize that it is just as dark, hidden under the tropes of a teen slasher camp movie. i mean, the whole movie is about children killing other children, adults joking around about wanting to sleep with children, and killing adults trying to sleep with children, but its done in this bizarre low budget campy almost silly tone.</I>

So wait, people are discussing it as sosodark because it's a kid rather than because of the genderswap? NB all I know of the film is it's Wikipedia page.

many xps - The Ring is objectively better than Ringu IMHO.

so objectively better in your opinion?

Depp has a cameo in Freddy's Dead, too.

Not to mention Roseanne and Tom Arnold, and Alice Cooper as Freddy's dad!

Really not a very good movie at all. The Breckin Meyer "death by videogames" sequence might've been the low point of the series.

i too preferred the ring, guessing it'll show up right about...

...balls.

xxp Correct. My opinion = objectivity. It's a paradox, dealwithit.gif

i also prefer the american ring. #jingoism

did not vote for eithet, though. pulse is the only non-scatalogical sicko fest japanese film on my ballot i think.

I am a huuuge NOES fanatic. Craven was way anti-sequels but they made them anyway, and 2 was so campy and hilarious and bad (and also totally gay) that he was all "omg stop ok I'll work on 3", which he wrote the script for and is imo the second-best sequel (behind New Nightmare). 3 was the first film in which Freddy showed any humor and it p much went all downhill from there and by 6 he was a cartoon character without any wit or scariness. 6 is beyond abysmal btw. But yeah they all have really gnarly kill sequences (except for 6)

I've watched ringu many times, the ring only once. the latter is good but iirc too slick and wants to make sure everything is explained.

^ i'm not sure that those things are faults, but i do like (not necessarily prefer, but enjoy) the rough and cryptic qualities of the original

So, this day's reveal has my #3 (The Tenant), my #4 (Ringu), my #7 (Deep Red) and my #10 (Kairo/Pulse) and of all days that I follow this thread now, it was chock-full of all work no play for me, what a letdown.

Would have loved to repped for them as curiously enough they also seem to be one the least talked about entries yet. Wonder what that makes me (guy who destroys the natural order of your canon, i guess).

Add me to the liked the ring better than ringu camp as well

Not going to have time for the last 2 on today's agenda until well after most people's bedtime (mine included), so tomorrow will be a 17-movie day.

So, this day's reveal has my #3 (The Tenant)

Welcome to the club!

So wait, people are discussing it as sosodark because it's a kid rather than because of the genderswap? NB all I know of the film is it's Wikipedia page.

Nope, I'm saying it's dark because it's a semi-slapstick camp film that is actually all about terrible violence being perpetrated against children, and not post teen camp counselers but pre-teens. Also good lord people stop basing your movie interpretations off of Wikipedia plot summaries!

on my ballot: the tenant, re-animator, the brood, an american werewolf in london and deep red

should have been: eyes without a face and a nightmare on elm street

Re: Edward, I was just writing the same, I think of The Ring as a film entirely on rails in the scary spectrum, which equals to complete ennui for me. Although I can see why that would appeal to many, but on the contrast I absolutely love the melancholic matter-of-fact happenings in the original. It's gloomy, mournful atmosphere and especially the fact that the film seems to be out of pace sometime, for which is the thing that unsettles me the right way when done competent.

Only one or two films on here so far that I don't like, and even they I can defend, so I'd say good voting so far! Except jaws should have been top ten.

Also, if anyone wants to talk about The Tenant anymore, feel free to do so.
Perhaps the only film on this list I would happily look forward to seeing it ten times and upwards in a row.
So many (not necessarily frightening) great scenes, endless potential to discuss its ambiguities and Isabelle Adjani in a charming role diametrically opposed to that batshit one in Possession.

there are these weird little touches in ringu that I adore. like when the boy and his father encounter each on the rainy street and just stand there with their umbrellas staring at each other. the relationship between them hasn't been established by the film at this point, so it makes for this odd moment that becomes melancholic once you understand what's going on.

and the change from the pitiful, victimized sadako to the evil rage monster samara lessened the impact.

btw anyone seen the girl who played samara lately?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Daveigh_Chase_LF_adjusted.jpg

*feels old*

interesting tidbit this IMO that i'll post while it's quiet. in a late 1990's docu on Channel 4 (UK) Mark Kermode goes on an anti censorship rant and makes the usual fair and valid points, but to elaborate on why 'horror films can't be made safe for everyone' and how we're not all scared by the same things etc, he shows a still from a Rupert The Bear annual. Ramsey Campbell ('Britain's most respected horror writer' - Oxford Companion To Horror) said the still was 'the most frightening thing (he'd) ever seen' and it had given him 'months of nightmares' as a child.

this is the picture (sorry its so small!)

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/579499_10150932792719273_813524272_9870125_1209256195_n.jpg

also, where's m.eily?!?

― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Monday, May 21, 2012 8:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hello! I was off in London at a show, so missed most of today. Voted for Eyes Without a Face, The Tenant and Ringu... think that's all, though I'm working off skimming this thread while drunk.

We done for today?