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

don't look now first movie w/ more than 1 first place vote?

The viewers did all the heavy lifting for Blair Witch.

I don't disagree with this. I don't think the filmmakers were especially talented (notice the subsequent lack of projects) and their methods were messy and their ideas simplistic. I think it was almost by accident that it happened to all click--the improv, the shots, the noises--into something that legitimately scared a shitload of Americans. Like I said, lightning in bottle.

oh come on now - 26?!?

great screencap for don't look now, pillbox!

love that movie. was one of my top 10, and though i knew it'd do pretty well in this poll, i'm still glad to see it show. top 25 would have been nice, but 26 is just fine, imo.

don't look now first movie w/ more than 1 first place vote?

yes

thanks!

xp

i fell asleep the one time i tried to watch don't look now

should probably try again

The viewers did all the heavy lifting for Blair Witch.

I don't disagree with this. I don't think the filmmakers were especially talented (notice the subsequent lack of projects) and their methods were messy and their ideas simplistic. I think it was almost by accident that it happened to all click--the improv, the shots, the noises--into something that legitimately scared a shitload of Americans. Like I said, lightning in bottle.

Yeah-- all of the above affects my opinion of the filmmakers but not at all my opinion of the film.

The red-coat from Don't Look Now should get together with the yellow-coat from Alice Sweet Alice and the snowsuits from The Brood and that right there would be a party.

scary, stylish, and donald sutherland got to bone a hot young Julie Christie ... HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE THAT SHIT?!?

I didn't fall asleep during Don't Look Now, but wish I had. I just don't get it.

iirc it was made very clear throughout the movie that the audio microphones were not on/in the camera

I don't recall this at all. They had a DAT machine and the camcorder mic but my memory is that it was obvious a bunch of shit was added in post, like people shouting dialogue across a river, etc.

xp

i was one of the #1s here. the bit that freaked me out almost as much as the ending was the midnight phone call where it takes a while to connect "hello... hello?". it's a beautiful film and unsettling. amazed not top 20.

we've entered the sutherland portion of the poll, a landscape of lip hairs and beige corduroy

Did not vote for Don't Look Now because it's just been too many years. All I can remember is that goddamn terrifying dwarf

xpost LOL OTM. 70s horror sutherland is like an animus of some kind. He will always be there.

From Wikipedia, re: the sex scene:

Christie commented that "People didn't do scenes like that in those days", and that she found the scenes difficult to film: "There were no available examples, no role models ... I just went blank and Nic (Roeg) shouted instructions."

Can you imagine? Rolling around naked with Donald Sutherland while Nicolas Roeg yells instructions at you? I'd go blank, too.

there are 3 films i'm praying show up sooner rather than later but somehow i doubt it.

xp. the ending with the dwarf almost made me sick the first time i saw it. this was back in my student days when i'd have the odd smoke.

Julie Christie, the rumors are true.

I like don't look now a lot, great atmospherics, but the placing seems right. was in the middle of my ballot.

between raincoat dwarf and karen black killer doll, my fear of small things appearing suddenly was cemented for life.

a few things (i was in a meeting)

* Mr Thnig and I went to see Blair Witch on our first date <3
* I'm not sure if I like DNL or BS '78 more, but Donald Sutherland and his capable-and-sensitive 70s man thing never gets old
* Here is a picture of me in the Paris catacombs in a hood waiting to scare the next available customer by merely standing there a la DLN. It worked!

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6145/5976942808_da6ecfa400.jpg

lol

Don't Look Now was mostly a lovely little low-key '70s picture about coming to terms with grief (and with one of the legit hottest sex scenes ever in a mainstream movie). Shame that Roeg had to go and and Shyamalan the ending.

Hahaha, brilliant.

xpost

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

How very flattering to be compared to Reagan!

The short story that DLN is based on isn't bad, but it lacks the Sutherland/smut. Generally I like Daphne DuMaurier even if her plots are a bit samey after a while.

the ending of DLN was just like, bizarrely dumb

Challops!

xxxp i can't tell if you're being serious or not dwh. xxp RONG

more challops: controversial sex scene in DNL hasn't aged well imo, soundtrack sounds like music on hold

"I always get this movie mixed up with SCHINDLER'S LIST!"

LOLOL just noticed this

I thought the end was kind of dumb, too. And I did not enjoy the sex scene, but I am not remotely interested in seeing Donald Sutherland have sex.

never even occurred to me that the sex scene was actually "sexy". mostly just bizarre. ending was left-field and genuinely frightening.

that was a good one, Eric xxp

the climax of Don't Look Now (I don't mean the Julie-Donald scrimmage) is the only horrific thing about it.

what number you going to today, eric?

the climax of Don't Look Now (I don't mean the Julie-Donald scrimmage) is the only horrific thing about it.

I thought the scene where sutherland was doing... um, architect things... at dangerous heights in the church was nice and tense. not really 'horrific' but cool scene.

venice setting really makes DLN imo.

Done for the day. Xpost

thx!

big day for me, audition and nosferatu in my top 5

evil dead, freaks, ringu, and don't look now also on my ballot

I should have voted in this. Don't Look Now would have been my Number 1. It is a beautiful and haunting film. One of my favourites of any genre.

Love the Schindler's List gag btw.

I'm sad that it's looking like The Uninvited (the one from 1944) won't make it, as it would have been easily in the top 5 on my ballot. But I can't imagine that it has so many fans here that it would ever break the top 25.

La Lechera wondered about Wicker Man... I will be irl shocked if it is not in the top 10 and think it has a good chance at top 5. Maybe not in the wide world but on ILX, yeah.

DLN was my #1. The mood (not necessarily teh scares) connects with me like nothing else in film.

Won't say it placed too low, just relieved that it outpaced BWP by a narrow margin. That is maybe the only film on this list which I haven't seen and don't ever plan to do so.

Also, until Audition got featured, I dug the probability that Hausu could end up being the highest placing Asian film on the list.
Though only for chuckles, not for legitimacy.

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.

some dude already addressed, but yeah, I feel like I want to get all nit-picky/nerdy here, because IIRC they had a camcorder, a 16mm camera and a Nagra tape recorder, so this statement does not carry a lot of weight without some specificity.

my 15 yo memory is that there is a scene early on where they're crossing a river - the camera(wo)man and soundguy are back on one side and the other person is across the river on the other side talking and you can hear them clear as day. there was a bunch of incidental shit like this that was annoying.

and yeah they had a camcorder and DAT machine, like I said.

loving eric's spooky schtick with the intros btw