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

ok glad we got that out of the way

hahaha

this was a great film to watch in a mostly empty movie theater

Audition was a last-minute cut. I really liked it at the time, but I think the Wikipedia summary of Imprint probably cast all of Miike's output in a different, less pleasing light.

i like a lot of things about miike, but i recently watched full metal yakuza, and the extremly graphic rape, torture and murder of a sympathetic female character - presented as little more than "colorful" set dressing - left a bad taste in my mouth. imprint tends in the same direction, and it's not a rare device in his films, overall (e.g., tubgirl in dead or alive).

then again, i like audition and visitor q, so the consistency of my standards is dubious at best.

this film is fucking stupid and you're all stupid for voting for it

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:43 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ co-sign. also, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG2KMkQLZmI

This movie deserves respec' knuckles just for basically inventing viral marketing.

it's not a rare device in his films, overall (e.g., tubgirl in dead or alive)

um

actually I thought the blair witch project was ok but #28 pffft

at last, the true napoleon dynamite of horror movies!

what does that even mean

Just gonna c+p what I wrote in the Blair Witch thread years ago:

I was lucky enough to stumble onto free passes to a preview screening. Having no idea what I was in for, it scared me shitless. One of the most effective horror movies I ever saw. My second viewing of it, after all of the hype, was significantly less impactful. It probably doesn't hold up past the initial viewing (and only then if you don't know much about it), but it did the trick that one time.

http://home.earthlink.net/~steevee/top99.html

When I saw THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT on opening day, I never expected it to have a shot at a 140 million dollar gross, much less provoke the kind of widespread anger it subsequently generated. Six months later, I'm most impressed by the way it brings together several strands of North American independent cinema: the B-movies of Val Lewton and the later examples of regional horror directors like George Romero and Tobe Hooper, the 60s work of Shirley Clarke and John Cassavetes, and Atom Egoyan's reflexivity and fascination with video technology. (As a cautionary tale about video, it certainly trumps Michael Haneke's self-righteous tirades.)

I read the first few chapters of the girls memoir about quoting Hollywood and moving to a pot farm. Unreadable.

The one dude was good in humpday.

at last, the true napoleon dynamite of horror movies!

― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:46 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what does that even mean

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:47 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh ... that it's very divisive, people either love it or hate it and the folks who hate it REALLY hate it.

Ugh, quitting Hollywood.

I voted Blair Witch, but somewhere down the bottom of my ballot. I think it's a good film, and pretty effective.

i imagine that the reputation of the blair witch project (like that of the usual suspects) is aided immensely by the fact that it's got a killer ending. not much of a movie up to that point, but damn if it doesn't go out with a bang. a movie that starts poorly but ends well, will generally, i suspect, be more more fondly remembered than one that initially shows promise but falls apart in the home stretch.

fwiw, i don't love or hate the blair witch project. thought it was okay, but nowhere near great.

"Be kind! Re-DIE-nd Rehash!"

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8157/7248903426_d253c10d9f_o.jpg

27. THE RING
Gore Verbinski, USA, 2002
(536 points, 17 votes, 1 first-place vote)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m31tnsnqOM1qb5tj7o4_250.gif
― dayo, Friday, April 27, 2012 8:53 AM (3 weeks ago)

OH SNAP

love this fucking movie

lol @ baseball sadako A++++

And A+++ for the inclusion of the gif.

XP!!!!

what does that even mean

there's a terrible scene in dead or alive in which a girl is drowned in a pool of, um, stuff...

I saw BWP twice in the theater when it first came out (the second time because the first time I went with a friend who clutched my arm, screamed, and buried her face in my armpit every time anything remotely scary happened and that was really distracting) and have been wanting to rewatch it to see if it still holds up, but never got around to it so didn't vote for it.

I remember being gutted at the thought of being trapped in the woods, probably going to be killed, and then running out of cigarettes. I also really liked the bit where they find that guy's teeth wrapped up in a piece of fabric.

I am one of those guys who can get hung up on distracting technical details and on that level BWP completely failed to engage me it was such a mess. For ex: multiple shots where someone is far away (ie, 50 ft or so) from the camera but can still be heard clear as day on the audio track - completely violates the "found footage" conceit. And the lead was so irritating, constantly found myself wondering why anyone was taking directions from her. was hoping her friends were either going to ditch her or turn on her and murder her but instead they just wander around being lost in the dark. so stupid.

xp

contendo, I was talking to Eisbaer there

i went to see blair witch in the theater with my wife (before we were married duh) and at the time i didn't really drive but she got motion sickness from the movie and i had to drive us back to her apartment at night, that was pretty scary

Shakey otm on Blair Witch con

buried her face in my armpit every time anything remotely scary happened

WHEN DID ANYTHING REMOTELY SCARY HAPPEN?????

She screamed when they were packing the car!

I also really liked the bit where they find that guy's teeth wrapped up in a piece of fabric.

yes this was fantastic, rivaled only by the actual ending

hahahaha okay wait

teeth/fabric was like a cheap second-hand version of Lynch's ear in the field in Blue Velvet

Hold the phone are you accusing the Blair witch of being cheap

you can hate it on it if you like but you can't deny it's been v. influential, basically creating a new little horror subgenre

xp She didn't like horror movies and was so keyed up about even being in the theater in the first place that she was a complete mess by the time the people were heading into the woods.

I find irritating people in films to be more realistic, so had no problem with the lead.

yeah, Reagan has been very influential too let's put him on Mt fucking Rushmore

xxp

can't remember being particularly scared while watching the blair witch project but I do remember thinking about the ending a lot the following day, I kinda dug its elegant simplicity

"it was a total ripoff of a completely different scene with a completely different narrative purpose and context that I'm only connecting because they involve severed body parts in nature"

yeah why does "influential" matter again

Blair Witch is amazing, lightning in a bottle.

Most surreal celeb sighting I've had is shortly after the film debuted the cast was eating at the next booth in a diner & I was like "NO THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE, THEY'RE DEAD!"

I also really liked the bit where they find that guy's teeth wrapped up in a piece of fabric.

alternate screencap:

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5319/tbwp02.jpg

I will say that being lost in the woods and hunted by an unknown predator has to tap into some ur-level human fear

if dr morbius and shakey mo collier are disagreeing with me, i know i'm doing something right

I also found Blair Witch very annoying, and it seemed lazy to me, like the filmmakers used the framing device of the found home video footage as an excuse for it to be badly shot with annoying characters & bad dialogue. Yes, if these three idiots went into the woods and shot this footage it would look bad, boring, and annoying but that's not what I look for in a movie.
99% boring, annoying and bad looking with a couple of eerie moments is not worthwhile for me.

I don't disagree that it was influential, I just don't understand why that's a criteria for placement in the poll

yeah i found large portions of blair witch to be kinda grating but the teeth in a rag thing was a pretty effective moment

I will say that being lost in the woods and hunted by an unknown predator AND RUNNING OUT OF CIGARETTES has to tap into some ur-level human fear

(I don't even smoke anymore.)

I admit to a full on belly laugh in the theater when that one dude was all "I got mad so I kicked the map into a stream"

A woman asked me after BWP "What happened in the end?" and I said "They got our $11."

The US Ring was good but it is not one of the 30 best horror films.

..it may be the last good Naomi Watts film tho.