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

woah dawn is crazy low

eh, night of the living dead deserves to go top 10, maybe even top 5. somewhere in the lower half of the top 20 is fine for dawn.

re: roth: looks like he's directing the first ep of a tv show due out this year called Hemlock Grove? will watch imo...and something called Green Inferno due out in 2014

Does this mean Day of the Dead could place ahead of Dawn?

Love this film to bits. And it has tense moments. But certainly not a scary film overall, and the make-up is hilariously lousy and low-budget. Doesn't matter: the concept is genius, and it's the only possible sequel that could have so successfully followed Night.

I love that whole stretch where they're just living in the mall, going out to dinner in the empty restaurant, walking around in fur coats...

"Here's a movie I imagine jjjusten would like to ERASE from the HEAD of these results!"

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15. ERASERHEAD
David Lynch, USA, 1977
(790 points, 22 votes)

My Dad honestly thought that my sister's Eraserhead video was a tape head cleaner...
― Jez, Friday, September 20, 2002 6:08 AM (9 years ago)

I always get frightened by the part where Eraserhead runs around the house wearing a hockey mask.
― jeff, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:20 PM (4 years ago)

I think my favorite story from that doc is how lynch had a paper route while making eraserhead and iirc he solicited money to finish the film from the ppl he delivered to
― the manarchist cookbook (Edward III), Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:32 PM (11 months ago)

the only Dead entry I voted for was Return of the Living Dead as it is my sentimental favorite. I assume it's not going to place now.

Not Videodrome, but I once had a course in French film with a guy who had his head exploded in Scanners.

went to a cronenberg q&a session recently and he told a story about filming that iconic head explosion scene from the beginning of scanners. effect just was just not working out at first and the head was just fizzling and not exploding in a very satisfactory way at all. this happens a couple times and the head effects guy (who's from nyc) eventually gets frustrated, says, "WE'RE GONNA DO THIS LIKE WE DO IN NEW YAWK!" and grabs a shotgun. they use that instead and they get the take we all know and love.

eraserhead is the other genuinely frightening movie i can think of. i tried to watch it by myself at night and had to turn it off after the mutant baby scene.

AWESOME, i had legit fears that would like place in the top 5 or worse win this whole thing

I would imagine that Night and Dawn would have taken the votes; would be surprised if Day makes it at all.

Eraserhead IS TOO HORROR. Also wonderful, of course.

lol @ jez's quote

it's so weird to me that Eraserhead came out in the 70s. it seems like such an 80s (or even early 90s) film

Question for Pillbox -- is that a single typeface you used for the film titles, with the serifed lowercase characters and sans-serif capitals?

"Here's a movie I imagine jjjusten would like to ERASE from the HEAD of these results!"

LOL

i tried to watch it by myself at night and had to turn it off after the mutant baby scene.

Did you finish it? Cuz the mutant baby scenes get a whole lot worse.

this happens a couple times and the head effects guy (who's from nyc) eventually gets frustrated, says, "WE'RE GONNA DO THIS LIKE WE DO IN NEW YAWK!" and grabs a shotgun. they use that instead and they get the take we all know and love.

not to be the jerk i clearly am, but is this true? can it possibly be true? i ask cuz i spent a lot of time still-framing through that head explosion as a kid, and it looks like an inflation effect. the guy's head swells up like a balloon before it bursts. maybe they did both, air pump and shotgun blast?

Did you finish it? Cuz the mutant baby scenes get a whole lot worse.

yeah, eraserhead goes on a very short list as one of the most distressing and depressing films i've ever seen. the first two-thirds are sort of grotesquely, blackly funny, but the last act is soul-crushing.

I think I've told this story before but my college roommate has a super obsessive mother who rented Eraserhead one weekend and made the entire family watch it 10 times in quick succession. She also painted Disintegration-inspired murals all over their bathroom after my roommate brought home copies of my Cure albums.

good lord!

I think his youngest brother was 12 at the time...?

I had one of those crazy mid-80s Guild Asbury basses which was the size of a ukelele and had the big fat silicone strings, and we always called it 'the Eraserhead Baby Bass'

xp whoaaa

i never finished eraserhead, no

Question for Pillbox -- is that a single typeface you used for the film titles, with the serifed lowercase characters and sans-serif capitals?

in response to an early incration of the template design for these, Eric likened certain elements to a "silent movie title card," which I thought was cool and just sort of ran with. So I used a mashup of trad Art Nouveau & Deco fonts for the titles & numbering (Fletcher Gothic for #s, Cassanet for large caps, & Arlt for smaller type). The rest of the info is a German sans font called DIN, which is pretty similar to Futura.

wait ..it's behind the jump and the thread's too big to open on my phone...halloween wasn't top ten?

also now that I think about it it might have been 13 times (7 on Saturday, 6 on Sunday)

basically it was a super insane story that made every other story seem normal, like of COURSE she made the entire family camp out overnight for Cure tickets, this was the woman who made her kids watch Eraserhead a dozen times in a row

after the first couple viewings, i think i would have just gone outside

this happens a couple times and the head effects guy (who's from nyc) eventually gets frustrated, says, "WE'RE GONNA DO THIS LIKE WE DO IN NEW YAWK!" and grabs a shotgun. they use that instead and they get the take we all know and love.

not to be the jerk i clearly am, but is this true? can it possibly be true? i ask cuz i spent a lot of time still-framing through that head explosion as a kid, and it looks like an inflation effect. the guy's head swells up like a balloon before it bursts. maybe they did both, air pump and shotgun blast?

― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:19 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe I'm fudging some of the details due to my faulty brain but that's the gist of what cronenberg said. not sure if that makes it true or not, I suppose he could have been messing with us.

damn u guys took Eraserhead personally. It's not real you know. I mean, look at his hair.

First saw this as a teen, on a shitty TV, on a sunny, noisy Sunday morning in my family's busy living room before watching NFL football. And it still freaked me out.

"If at first you don't succeed, DIE, DIE AGAIN!"

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14. EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN
Sam Raimi, USA, 1987
(849 points, 26 votes)

Evil Dead 2 = best film ever, obv.
― DG (D_To_The_G), Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:19 PM (8 years ago)

I can't understand someone NOT liking this.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:58 PM (2 years ago)

also now that I think about it it might have been 13 times (7 on Saturday, 6 on Sunday)

this story is completely insane!

<3 that you chose the 'Farewell to Arms' shot. Awesome.

I liked Eraserhead, blew my everloving mind when I first saw it and I still really dig the freaky sound-design. But it would not be on my ballot for this particular poll, and I can't say I'm not a little bummed that it polled higher than say, Halloween & Dawn

Taking a short break before doing the last 3 titles today.

Evil Dead 2 too low muthafuckas but yaaaay

GROOVY

first one didn't place yet, right? that's cool that it'll beat out the sequel.

first one was #31 in yesterday's rollout.

whoops, my terrible brane at work again. I even posted about it.

Love ED2. But as I get older, I love it less and love the original more.

same here

yeah, ditto.

just hit the 500 movie limit on my netflix queue. thanks a lot, ilx horror poll.

I think I've told this story before but my college roommate has a super obsessive mother who rented Eraserhead one weekend and made the entire family watch it 10 times in quick succession. She also painted Disintegration-inspired murals all over their bathroom after my roommate brought home copies of my Cure albums.

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:24 PM (22 minutes ago)

one question, were you roommates with buff or max?

massive lol

sometimes I worry about those two

hopefully they're not squirrelled away in a hole somewhere

massive lol

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:55 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

o man that eraserhead screengrab

keep scrolling back up to bust a chuckle

More more more, c'mown.

Re: the Scanners exploding head, I can't be the only one who read Fangoria, rights. I thought that was a well known effect - a combination of a rubber head filled with pet food and stage blood, inflated and then blasted with a shotgun.