Lugosi vs Karloff in The Black Cat > Dracula
Also, Tod Browning's silents with Chaney.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Drgoodfootos.jpg
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
i realize it's not a horror movie. i just like posting that.
clearly Fabian is an alias
he's just 'FABIAN'
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, I've got a Bela Lugosi box with The Black Cat--it's go time! (Should clarify that I didn't expect all three to place--I thought maybe one besides Frankenstein would make it. I assume Freaks is Universal too?)
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
feel like i need to do a quickie AIP poll
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
Masque of the Red Death, you mothers
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:10 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^ this
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
God, I hope so. But I doubt it at this point.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
In The Mouth of Madness? for serious?
I'm absolutely serious! Although I wonder between viewings, "Was I serious? Is it really that good?". Because it kinda seems like it shouldn't be? And then I watch it again and I'm like, yep, it really is that good.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
oh ha yeah i missed the frankensteins i guess? would also stan HARD for phantom of the opera
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
This might be food for another thread, but after seeing a couple of the Saw/Hostel/etc. films I have to raise the "I don't get it" flag on all of them. I'm annoyed with myself because it's such a cop-out answer, but I never found any of them to be particularly boundary-pushing, mind-buggering, or old-fashioned transgressive. Otherwise, they're all just a filmed mashup of Joel Peter-Witkin and Grimtooth's series of D&D trap books.Martyrs may be the only exception, but that one is playing with a completely different deck of cards.― H.P. Hovercraft and the Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:14 AM (24 minutes ago)
Martyrs may be the only exception, but that one is playing with a completely different deck of cards.
― H.P. Hovercraft and the Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:14 AM (24 minutes ago)
this might be just the thread for you actually:
Enjoying horror films - why do we (or don't we)?
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
I know we're in the premature whiny hangover mode here, but I do want to point out the multifaceted and well-rounded results. good spread across decades, more silents than I was expecting, not competely dominated by US films, some classics (and not just the obvious ones), some extreme horror (between martyrs and wolf creek placing you managed to please both myself and jjjusten, who have extreme taste but frequently disagree on this type of stuff), most of the major hotel trends represented. most of the things folks are missing prolly suffered due to vote splitting and under-nomming (universal, bava, coen, corman, hammer).
(tho I am hoping against hope that return of the everloving dead shows instead of last house)
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
hotel = horror
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
there's a good bit of stuff I haven't seen yet so I'm pretty grateful for the results even there's a lot of cronenlynch
― da croupier, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
I think the mix has been excellent--especially for someone like me whose tastes run more to the '70/'80s end of things. There's been newer stuff scattered throughout, but not nearly so much that I ever started to feel really out of touch.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, aside from just, like, butthurtdom over the absence of personal faves, I'm really impressed with the diversity and quality of these results. Very pleased, and not just because I have a big, new list of stuff to watch. ILXors in having good taste shocka!
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
Don't suppose anyone wants to do a full recap? Not up for it myself tonight.
― emil.y, Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
Black Christmas is not available at all on Netflix >:(Any recommendations on where I could stream it? (or if some kind soul would send me a copy that'd be sweet)
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
kinda loved the hotel typo, not gonna lie, like it was some sort of offbeat trope for the big horror franchises or something
― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_14WDfduvc
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
btw Larry Cohen films are hard to see now if you don't do that downloady thingy
wtf? It's Alive, God Told Me To, The Stuff and Q: The Winged Serpent are all on DVD
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
whoa seriously, last i checked it was streaming
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
uh thats black christmas im talking abt there
well, my library don't have em
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
shakey's post pointing out why there's no cohen here, don't think any of those films stands head and shoulders above the others, god told me to prolly had the best chance of showing tho my fave is Q (which I didn't vote for)
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
black christmas is on netflix dvd for sure because i just checked. possession, on the other hand, which i have never seen, is not :(
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
the stuff is on netflix streaming and i know this because i watched it yesterday
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
that's odd, considering the recent zulawski renaissance
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
re: possession
Re Evil Dead 2: I saw the clip below on the Fangoria TV show when was in 6th grade but I didn't catch the name of the movie (and I didn't know about Evil Dead), but I was immediately in love and subsequently obsessed with it. The laughing gooseneck lamp was exactly what I wanted to in a movie and really in all art. I asked kids at school about it, I pored over covers in every video store I went into, and for 17 years I thought about that lamp. Then, in late 2003 I was 29 and drunk, watching a DVD on Jeff and carl agatha's couch in Greensboro, North Carolina when I finally reunited with my BELOVED laughing lamp!!!! Remembering that reunion still makes me grin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghnxsbzwK_Y
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
Oops! You're right! Black Christmas is available on DVD, but Possession is in "Saved."
So: Anyone got ideas where one could stream it?
i ended up watching evil dead 2 because the local video store had a huge cardboard standee of the skull w/eyes so we rented that and monster dog because of alice cooper and then watched ed2 like 8 times in the next 24 hours.
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
totally interested in reading contenderizer's ballot when the time comes
it's pretty boring, really
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
have you checked amazon/hulu?
xp
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
Isn't there a general feeling that Eli Roth is an ass? Wonder if he's suffering here from backlash while the anonymous makers of, say, Wolf Creek get a pass.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
Everyone should probably just buy a copy of Possession. And on the off-chance that you find yourself never wanting to see it again (likely, regardless of how good you think it was), you can just hand off your copies to unsuspecting innocent souls whose brains will be put through the ringer while they sit there wondering when Gwyneth and Aaron are gonna show up.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
as usual I'm looking forward to the reveal of other ppl's ballots, the sub-100 placings, and the #1 votes that didn't make the list as much if not more than the top 10
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
uh, i meant to post something after that...
anyway, i dunno what the consensus on roth is these days, but at the time, the hostel films attracted a fair amount of negative attention for their supposed xenophobia and misogyny, deserved or not. as a result, i'm not surprised that they aren't high on ILX's list of favorite things. personally, i was put off by the fratboy douchiness of the characters in cabin fever, and moreso by the sense i got that i was supposed to see them as cool and funny. this was compounded by the annoying, fratboy douchiness of roth himself on the commentary track, and by the use of similar characters and "humor" in hostel. something about the dude's sensibility just rubs me the wrong way. wasn't until hostel 2 that i started to warm to him.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
also, I'm glad we got mr hal jam 9000's ballot in, but wish he had provided some color commentary itt
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
Not streaming on Amazon and I forgot that you can watch movies on Hulu. Just checked and not available on Hulu, either.
PS: Fuck you, Gwenyth Paltrow. Get out of my important web searches.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
The cheapest copy of Possession on DVD on Amazon is a used one for $28.
I'll just wait for it to come to me.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
Je55e, did you vote for Gods and Monsters?
― Jeff, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
i'm sure night of the living dead will be in the Top 10, more so than last house on the left.
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
y'all should have recorded it of TCM a few weeks back.
Bullshit to put Wolf Creek on the same level as Hostel imo.
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
ambiguous!
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
This, although these results have been so all over the map that I'm inclined to believe that there may still be a surprise or two in the top ten.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
Possession is totally worth $28, btw.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:26 PM (8 minutes ago)
there may be a couple surprises but unless something insane happens it's likely I will have seen everything in the top 10 once if not multiple times
however, I often find interesting nuggets in the sub-100 with high passion scores, or in the doomed hail mary passes of no-chance #1s
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
I'm probably the only person who cast a vote for the OG "Amityville Horror," huh?
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
That's been a surprise to me--what seems to be a general assumption that a different Living Dead film other than the original might make the Top 10. Maybe it's a generational thing, and I'll hold off commentary till we see, but for me Night is the one by far.
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 May 2012 01:46 (eleven years ago) link