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
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
Taking a short break before doing the last 3 titles today.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
Evil Dead 2 too low muthafuckas but yaaaay
GROOVY
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
first one didn't place yet, right? that's cool that it'll beat out the sequel.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
first one was #31 in yesterday's rollout.
― Carnage of PJ Soles (Pillbox), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
whoops, my terrible brane at work again. I even posted about it.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
Love ED2. But as I get older, I love it less and love the original more.
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
same here
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, ditto.
just hit the 500 movie limit on my netflix queue. thanks a lot, ilx horror poll.
― original bgm, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
massive lol
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
sometimes I worry about those two
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
hopefully they're not squirrelled away in a hole somewhere
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:55 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
― Carnage of PJ Soles (Pillbox), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
o man that eraserhead screengrab
keep scrolling back up to bust a chuckle
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
More more more, c'mown.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
ps megalolz at someone voting in a genre he explicitly doesn't care for dismissing one of the genre's acknowledged classics as "a silly little horror film."
You'd think that people would have had enough of silly horror films. But I look around me and see that it isn't so.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
Nice.
I won't list them, and don't think it would fair for anyone to do so at this point, but I think I've got the last 13. (Of the Top 10 predictions I jotted down a couple of days ago, two have already turned up.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
#11-#13 in a few more minutes.
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
Re: the Scanners exploding head, I can't be the only one who read Fangoria, rights.
oh yeah, i was a regular fango reader for many years (cinefex too, plus stuff like savini's books). the details have apparently gotten a little hazy with time, though. now that you mention it, i do remember that recipe.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure they actually blew up someone's head, iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
my 5th grade teacher was so revulsed when he discovered me reading fangoria #12 in his classroom that he tore it to shreds and threw it in the garbage. man that sucked.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ohMEEHvPoY8/ShI16I38OCI/AAAAAAAAABY/l5auQPXZq5w/s1600/fangoria2.jpg
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
dude seriously had a minor nervous breakdown
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
my parents never let me buy fangoria :'(
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
didn't embed that img on purpose, didn't want somebody's boss to walk by and try to tear your monitor to pieces
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
xxxxpost they blew up a real dude's head while Donald Sutherland was actually fucking Julie Christie
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
the fangoria article on how they got julie christie to actually fuck donald sutherland, now that was some classic reporting
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
You guys are grossly underestimating the appeal of Donald Sutherland.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
operative word in that sentence being gross
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
bet you're a big eye of the needle fan, huh
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
I have a weird aversion to Donald Sutherland. I don't mind him as an actor but he doesn't make me say "Oh jeez" if you know what I mean.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
I've never seen it, but he was great in Klute. I'm just saying that he's not a repulsive wildebeest -- he's Donald Sutherland! He's got those eyebrows and a warm way about him.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
Iirc he also has a nice resonant voice.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
"William Peter BLECCHY used to collect for UNICEF in my 'hood!"
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7105/7256881684_6204dc7638_o.jpg
13. THE EXORCISTWilliam Friedkin, USA, 1973(862 points, 25 votes, 1 first-place vote)
The Exorcist" leaves so many gaps - not the least of which is WHO possesses Reagan (in the book it is Captain Howdy, in the film Friedkin never explains) and WHY he has done so. Also - considering the spirits all encompassing power (managing to transform into Jason Miller's mother in a terrible bit of sudden, choppy editing) then it does do a pretty good job of staying tied to a bed and washed away by fake holy water.― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, July 16, 2004 8:05 PM (7 years ago)all of its performances, considered without the central, extreme horror that powers the movie, are ham-fests. Watch it a scene at a time, or twice in a row, and it's laughable. Oh! the tortured mother and oh! the tortured priest and oh! the other *really* tortured priest... if it weren't so scary, it would be the most lampooned movie in history.― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, July 17, 2004 12:52 AM (7 years ago)There was a priest in my high school who allegedly was part of a team of Jesuits who provided counsel to the Friedkin during the making of The Exorcist, and we always used to pester him about it. He'd always get very grave and say things like, "boys, there are certain things that are better left well alone." He may have been just messin' with us, but it always gave us a bit of a chill.(insert predictable but sadly unavoidable naughty priest joke here)― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, July 17, 2004 2:52 AM (7 years ago)
all of its performances, considered without the central, extreme horror that powers the movie, are ham-fests. Watch it a scene at a time, or twice in a row, and it's laughable. Oh! the tortured mother and oh! the tortured priest and oh! the other *really* tortured priest... if it weren't so scary, it would be the most lampooned movie in history.― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, July 17, 2004 12:52 AM (7 years ago)
There was a priest in my high school who allegedly was part of a team of Jesuits who provided counsel to the Friedkin during the making of The Exorcist, and we always used to pester him about it. He'd always get very grave and say things like, "boys, there are certain things that are better left well alone." He may have been just messin' with us, but it always gave us a bit of a chill.(insert predictable but sadly unavoidable naughty priest joke here)― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, July 17, 2004 2:52 AM (7 years ago)
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
o-kay
― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
Oooooh, outside the top 10... very interesting.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
wow had NO idea that Fangoria was still around
http://www.blogofdarkshadows.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/fango313coverscontentsnews1.jpg
― Darin, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
Number 13!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
Not top 10? Now I have no clue what's going to happen. That was my #3.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
I had Fangos as a preteen & hid them under shelves in brown paper bag like they were Playboys. BUT not bc of parents but bc they freaking terrified me. The worst was one with a cover of the melting-face vampire in the tub from Lost Boys. Fleeting in actual movie, of course.
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
Oh jeez. His mustache clasps my hips. It sets a punishing rhythm - in, out, in that order. Oh jeez. I have been studying Quicken.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
really ratcheting up the suspense for the top 10 here!
lol xp
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
It's time to keep your appointment...
― game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
Major surprise for me--major! (I thought it would come very close to winning.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
xxxpost LOL I do want to note that I was not implying anything less than handsomeness for 70s donald sutherland. He was hot (no homo).
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
I think I probably told my story on the other thread about my sister and I wanting to watch The Exorcist when it aired on CBS, but I can't remember.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
Finally I can unburden myself.
UNTIL 1 WEEK AGO I HAD NEVER SEEN THE EXORCIST EVEN THOUGH I'D SEEN EXORCIST II MULTIPLE TIMES
― but he go's to a resturang and then die in a toilet (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
sob