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

thanks for that DLH post, darin, great read

man i would so love it if Salem's Lot beats all the other King adaptations. it damn well deserves to IMHO.

i think you're forgetting about a little movie called...maximum overdrive

crikey i'd never even heard of that.

it wasn't a walrus, it was a bear!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmOoekbK6YI

also still kinda secretly hoping rawhead rex places ahead of candyman.

do you know why i said walrus? it's because the man in the mask is the spitting image of basically all 4 masks from The Beatles I Am The Walrus video mixed together.

i mean.. check it out

http://www.indiewire.com/static/dims4/INDIEWIRE/1a94009/4102462740/thumbnail/485x341%3E/http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/0f/a21ae0698e11e19987123138165f92/file/magical-mystery-tour-03092012.jpg

http://livingwithanerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/the-shining-stanley-kubrick-jack-nicholson-bear-suit.jpg

somebody please shop them over the guy's lap

Discussion/debate will no doubt arrive in full force later, but the biggest problem I have with "The Shining" is similar to one of the many problems I had with "Black Swan:" if you're making a movie about someone going nuts, it doesn't help the narrative terribly to have them more or less nuts from scene one and nuttier from there on out. You need a before to make the after more effective, imo.

But yeah, pretty much everything not with Nicholson in it is pretty tense/spooky.

as a kid i didn't see jack as nuts-from-frame-one but then my dad was a lunatic asshole so those parts were some italian neorealism shit

motel hell gots a number of best things about it:

Don't forget little Rory Calhoun.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9h8qvm28d1qdoghio1_500.png

Busy days at work for me during this rollout =/

My Netflix queue has ballooned in the last two or three weeks! I love horror movies and I can't believe how few I've seen and how many greats/classics I don't know. I need to stop re-re-re-re-re-watching Carrie and branch out.

i think you're forgetting about a little movie called...maximum overdrive Dreamcatcher

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Dreamcatcher Poopcatcher

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hey guys, The Shining was disqualified for inducing disbelief w/ Jack-Shelley marriage

also y'know, Kubrick's worst

I think let the right one in is probably a lock as well. I'll bet it arrives in the next 5.

as a kid i didn't see jack as nuts-from-frame-one but then my dad was a lunatic asshole so those parts were some italian neorealism shit

Not quite "lunatic asshole" in my case, but otherwise sadly OTM. My dad was a huge fan of Jack in general and his performance in The Shining in particular and I'm pretty sure he inadvisably cribbed some mannerisms from that mess as if it were a "how-to" guide to bein' a dad/human being. And yet I somehow don't loathe the movie? Sigh...

also y'know, Kubrick's worst

ok you really need to elaborate here cuz there's no way I live in a world where Eyes Wide Shut or Barry Lyndon are superior to The Shining

Resisting... talking... about The Shining... until it... shows up...

Still, though, any movie that unfailingly incites everyone into howling fantods is doing something right.

EWS is creepier, and BLyndon stands with 3 or 4 other SK masterpieces

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BL is brilliant I didn't think that was controversial anymore

Annoyingly, I missed voting in this but I did want to throw some points to the original The Hills Have Eyes - endless source of "watch out for the mutants!" quotes for desert camping adventures.

motel hell gots a number of best things about it:

head feeding system
pig mask
chainsaw duel
cheerful redneck murder couple
"meat's meat, and a man's gotta eat"

and lol hippies!
I voted for it.

I also voted for Cathy's Curse and Island of Dr. Moreau and The 1977 Hills Have Eyes

Island of Dr. Moreau

Hells yes

Movies like Cathy's Curse make me realize how deeply people underrate Ed Wood's sanity and competence as a filmmaker. But, also, I love it?

Evil children movies fill me with such joy - especially the ones where the children are normal-looking/attractive (as opposed to demonically possessed Exorcist style).

The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut and Barry Lyndon are Kubrick's 3 best features and I claim your prize.

In any case, I'm sort of saddened by the movies that didn't get but 4 or 5 comments today.

what was the name of that fairly recent one with the children that infect each other with evil during the holidays? i think it was british. that was pretty good as far as evil children movies go.

I'm going to go ahead and start being sad that Child's Play will not place.

I'm hoping enough other ILXors share my love of The Omen

Couldn't keep up today. When someone gets a minute, please explain the Schindler's List joke to me. (Does it hinge on familiarity with Don't Look Now? I hope so--I haven't seen it for years and years, so that'll give me an excuse.)

the missing child in Don't Look Now was wearing red; there was the mythic girl in a red dress in Schindler's List

I didn't vote, and there's a list of movies I didn't see but am psyched to do so that I've been rooting for (Tetsuo, God Told Me To, Suspiria, Repulsion, Reflecting Skin*) Suspiria and Repulsion seem like locks. Tetsuo has an outside chance. RIP the rest

*I did actually see Reflecting Skin, and am not convinced it's a horror movie.

^oh yeah, Possession too

oh man, Reflecting Skin was way scarier than a lot of the stuff that placed. I also voted for it.

lol I've been looking for a US DVD release for that movie for like ever, only to find one just chilling at a local KMart for $5 a month ago

(lol @ 'just chilling')

For not being part of the really obvious, mainstream canon, I'm extremely interested to see where Possession falls (I, too, think it's a lock, but maybe only because it's ILX).

Thanks, sarahell. I only feel semi-stupid.

I think I could guess at least 20 of the remaining 25, but I'll hold off. (I was wondering about Basket Case too, even though I didn't vote for it.)

what was the name of that fairly recent one with the children that infect each other with evil during the holidays? i think it was british. that was pretty good as far as evil children movies go.

The Children. That was great. Totally forgot about it for the purposes of this poll.

Speaking of Don't Look Now echoes, the repeated opera house dream sequence in Battlestar Galactica, with the little girl running up and down stairs in her cloak and hat, seemed to me like a direct lift from/tribute to Roeg.

Seconding the love for The Children.

Man, "Barry Lyndon" is sooooo much better than "The Shining." Because, you know, historical accuracy, helicopter shadow, etc.

Just kidding. Except for the "Barry Lyndon" being better than "The Shining" part. But "Full Metal Jacket" is worse than "The Shining," so Morbs is only close to right.

Also, in randomlay recapping the day, the '78 Body Snatchers was my #2 -- partly because I think it's great, partly because of how much it scared me as a kid. I rewatched it recently and still really liked it, it's so cold and creepy from the very beginning (Robert Duvall as the priest on the swing, a great wtf cameo). The San Francisco setting is almost too pat for a death-of-the-'60s allegory, but then again where else would you set it? And I had forgotten how over-the-top expressionistic it is, all those long shadows on the walls and everything. The built-in alienation of the form is right in sync with the story.

'a clockwork orange,' except for the first minute or two, is pretty useless.

whereas 'the shining' has its flaws but is still scary and interesting to talk about, and has maybe the best opening credit sequence in film history.

I'll give you that, to a degree. Regardless, "Barry Lyndon" rules.

you know i'm amazed how popular the 78 Body Snatchers is. it's really under the radar, at least in the UK. i'd never have imagined it even going Top 100, let alone so far ahead of Jaws etc. i do love it though.