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

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

Got all these stats prepared at the moment:
By Decade
Most Popular Years
Top 10 Passiondex (most points per vote)
Bottom 10 Passiondex (least)
Movies That Would've Been In Had I Weighted Votes
Movies That Would've Been Out Had I Weighted Votes
The Next 25
First-Place Votes That Missed The Top 100

Don't suppose anyone wants to do a full recap? Not up for it myself tonight.

011. The Fly [1986, 871 points, 29 votes, 1 first-place vote]
012. Repulsion [1965, 863 points, 26 votes, 1 first-place vote]
013. The Exorcist [1973, 862 points, 25 votes, 1 first-place vote]
014. Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn [1987, 849 points, 26 votes]
015. Eraserhead [1977, 790 points, 22 votes]
016. Dawn of the Dead [1978, 728 points, 22 votes, 1 first-place vote]
017. Videodrome [1983, 673 points, 23 votes]
018. Halloween [1978, 662 points, 21 votes]
019. The Night of the Hunter [1955, 610 points, 17 votes]
020. Poltergeist [1982, 603 points, 23 votes]

021. Braindead [Dead Alive] [1992, 598 points, 19 votes]
022. Jacob's Ladder [1990, 565 points, 17 votes, 4 first-place votes]
023. Possession [1981, 565 points, 17 votes, 2 first-place votes]
024. Carnival Of Souls [1962, 560 points, 20 votes, 1 first-place vote]
025. Let the Right One In [Låt den rätte komma in] [2008, 547 points, 25 votes]
026. Don't Look Now [1973, 547 points, 19 votes, 2 first-place vote]
027. The Ring [2001, 536 points, 17 votes, 1 first-place vote]
028. The Blair Witch Project [1999, 526 points, 20 votes]
029. Audition [Ōdishon] [1999, 519 points, 18 votes]
030. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [1978, 511 points, 15 votes]

031. The Evil Dead [1981, 501 points, 17 votes]
032. Inland Empire [2006, 482 points, 14 votes]
033. Freaks [1932, 475 points, 18 votes]
034. The Descent [2005, 471 points, 20 votes, 1 first-place vote]
035. House [Hausu] [1977, 467 points, 19 votes]
036. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari [1920, 467 points, 18 votes]
037. The Silence of the Lambs [1991, 445 points, 16 votes]
038. Black Christmas [1974, 437 points, 14 votes, 1 first-place vote]
039. The Haunting [1963, 434 points, 14 votes]
040. The Birds [1963, 431 points, 17 votes]

041. Nosferatu [1922, 417 points, 16 votes]
042. Peeping Tom [1960, 392 points, 12 votes, 1 first-place vote]
043. A Nightmare On Elm Street [1984, 384 points, 16 votes, 1 first-place vote]
044. Ringu [1998, 382 points, 12 votes]
045. Pulse [Kairo] [2001, 375 points, 13 votes, 1 first-place vote]
045. Deep Red [Profondo Rosso] [1975, 374 points, 15 votes]
046. Eyes Without A Face [Les yeux sans visage] [1960, 371 points, 16 votes]
047. An American Werewolf in London [1981, 368 points, 11 votes]
048. Jaws [1975, 363 points, 12 votes]
050. Sleepaway Camp [1983, 350 points, 10 votes]

051. The Brood [1979, 348 points, 13 votes]
052. Re-Animator [1985, 342 points, 13 votes]
053. The Tenant [1976, 338 points, 11 votes]
054. 28 Days Later [2002, 331 points, 13 votes]
055. Candyman [1992, 326 points, 14 votes]
056. The Vanishing [Spoorloos] [1988, 326 points, 11 votes]
057. The Bride of Frankenstein [1935, 326 points, 9 votes]
058. Martyrs [2008, 319 points, 10 votes]
059. Cat People [1942, 316 points, 12 votes]
060. Vampyr [1932, 314 points, 8 votes]

061. M [1931, 312 points, 9 votes, 1 first-place vote]
062. Frankenstein [1931, 301 points, 13 votes]
063. Shaun of the Dead [2004, 301 points, 11 votes]
064. Gremlins [1984, 299 points, 12 votes]
065. Mulholland Dr. [2001, 299 points, 9 votes]
066. The Innocents [1961, 298 points, 10 votes]
067. Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen] [1968, 292 points, 10 votes]
068. Cure [Kyua] [1997, 289 points, 9 votes]
069. Cemetery Man [Dellamorte Dellamore] [1994, 288 points, 8 votes, 1 first-place vote]
070. Let's Scare Jessica to Death [1971, 272 points, 11 votes]

071. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1986, 272 points, 10 votes]
072. (tie) Curse of the Demon [Night of the Demon] [1957, 261 points, 9 votes]
072. (tie) Drag Me To Hell [2009, 261 points, 9 votes]
074. Threads [1984, 251 points, 6 votes]
075. (tie) Creepshow [1982, 250 points, 10 votes]
075. (tie) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [1956, 250 points, 10 votes]
077. Pan's Labyrinth [2006, 246 points, 9 votes]
078. Hellraiser [1987, 232 points, 10 votes]
079. Dead Ringers [1988, 228 points, 8 votes]
080. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht [1979, 226 points, 8 votes]

081. Duel [1971, 224 points, 8 votes]
082. Kwaidan [1964, 224 points, 6 votes, 1 first-place vote]
083. Picnic at Hanging Rock [1975, 220 points, 7 votes]
084. Near Dark [1987, 219 points, 10 votes]
085. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me [1992, 218 points, 8 votes]
086. Witchfinder General [The Conqueror Worm] [1968, 209 points, 10 votes]
087. I Walked with a Zombie [1943, 208 points, 8 votes]
088. The Seventh Victim [1943, 206 points, 6 votes, 1 first-place vote]
089. Wolf Creek [2005, 205 points, 7 votes]
090. Dressed To Kill [1980, 202 points, 8 votes, 1 first-place vote]

091. Curse of the Cat People [1944, 200 points, 5 votes]
092. Onibaba [1964, 191 points, 7 votes]
093. Seven [1995, 189 points, 10 votes]
094. Paranormal Activity [2007, 189 points, 7 votes]
095. The Cabin in the Woods [2012, 189 points, 6 votes]
096. May [2002, 186 points, 8 votes]
097. Rec [rec] [2007, 178 points, 7 votes]
098. Blood on Satan's Claw [Satan's Skin] [1971, 177 points, 8 votes]
099. Pontypool [2008, 176 points, 7 votes]
100. Phantasm [1979, 175 points, 8 votes]

Thanks, Eric. Super excited for stats, too. I never want to expect them as I know it's lots of extra work, but I love me them stats.

Can tell you for sure right now that there are some real heartbreakers (for me, and I presume for many others as well) in the #101-125 range.

Movies That Would've Been In Had I Weighted Votes
Movies That Would've Been Out Had I Weighted Votes

Stats that will cause riots fyi

'Movies That Are Legit Scary' would be a great (and fairly slim) sub-list. I mean, there are maybe only five or six of mine that fit that bill imo.

By my count, 25 of my 50 have placed already, and there are three that are definitely still to come. Possibly the most in tune with ilx poll results I've ever been? Though I guess having 50 picks rather than, say, 25, makes that more likely.

Probably not, hausu chicken. Somehow, only two movies would be swapped out for a different two. I was surprised too.

I mean, given how much of a bottleneck there was of almost-same point totals toward the bottom.

27 for me, and i'm guessing i voted for pretty much all of the top ten, too.

i can't tell if that makes me part of the problem or what.

Can tell you for sure right now that there are some real heartbreakers (for me, and I presume for many others as well) in the #101-125 range.

― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:18 PM (5 minutes ago)

was always a massive long shot but if one of them has the initials lhodes I'll go a lil crazy inside

I do feel slightly bad for not including loads of out-there weirdo trash movies

you should! (n.b. a lot of my ballot was stuff like this)

Also, I voted for both versions of The Fly and both Invasions of the Bodysnatchers.

Probably not, hausu chicken. Somehow, only two movies would be swapped out for a different two. I was surprised too.

― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:24 PM (2 minutes ago)

wow, that's some consensus... tho the pool of voters was significant enough I guess

27 of my picks have placed thus far, with at least another surefire 5 still to place in the top ten. So I'm pretty in-tune with these results, I guess, despite being a little more low-class and a little less Oldie Oldson.

only 10 out of 50 of mine have placed.

25 of mine have placed.

11 for me so fat

stuff on my ballot that's appeared so far ... 31 of my picks, so i'm doing quite well indeed:

011. The Fly (1986) (#24 on my ballot, 27 pts)
012. Repulsion (#13 on my ballot, 38 pts)
013. The Exorcist (#19 on my ballot, 32 pts)
014. Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn (#33 on my ballot, 18 pts)
015. Eraserhead (#9 on my ballot, 42 pts)
016. Dawn of the Dead (#44 on my ballot, 7 pts)
019. The Night of the Hunter (#1 on my ballot, 50 pts)
024. Carnival Of Souls (#46 on my ballot, 5 pts)
025. Let the Right One In (#39 on my ballot, 12 pts)
026. Don't Look Now (#11 on my ballot, 40 pts)
030. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) (#38 on my ballot, 13 pts)
033. Freaks (#48 on my ballot, 3 pts)
035. House (Hausu) (#27 on my ballot, 24 pts)
036. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (#4 on my ballot, 47 pts)
037. The Silence of the Lambs (#32 on my ballot, 19 pts)
040. The Birds (#12 on my ballot, 39 pts)
042. Peeping Tom (#21 on my ballot, 30 pts)
045. Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) (#45 on my ballot, 6 pts)
046. Eyes Without A Face (Les yeux sans visage) (#47 on my ballot, 4 pts)
059. Cat People (1942) (#35 on my ballot, 16 pts)
060. Vampyr (1932) (#3 on my ballot, 48 pts)
061. M (#5 on my ballot, 46 pts)
063. Shaun of the Dead (#23 on my ballot, 28 pts)
067. Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen) (#18 on my ballot, 33 pts)
071. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (#49 on my ballot, 2 pts)
075. (tie) Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956) (#31 on my ballot, 20 pts)
077. Pan's Labyrinth (#36 on my ballot, 15 pts)
080. Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (#10 on my ballot, 41 pts)
082. Kwaidan (#14 on my ballot, 37 pts)
090. Dressed To Kill (#37 on my ballot, 14 pts)
093. Seven (#20 on my ballot, 31 pts)

so fat

I think I have 2 more that will make the top ten, but that's it

me so fat

chicken fat

PS: Fuck you, Gwenyth Paltrow. Get out of my important web searches.

haha, the exact same thought went through my head earlier today

27 of mine have placed

Oh, I discovered a treat for those of you who feel that YouTube is the ideal way to watch a movie:

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

i'm sure night of the living dead will be in the Top 10, more so than last house on the left.

yeah, i was saying this earlier. by far the best film romero's ever made, and one of my all-time horror favorites. there's no way that last house on the left is beating it out for one of the remaining slots.

27 of my votes have shown up so far, and i expect to have 32 on the list by end of day tomorrow

16 so far, I believe. 21 by poll's end for sure.

this movie is fat iirc

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NL2Gd68XOeo/T4yr17kezuI/AAAAAAAAFHk/puJavYNC-34/s1600/l_93990_37413efa.jpg

Just watched Possession. It was very good.

I watched it at the Yerba Buena in SF a few weeks ago. It messed up my brain.

How would the weighting votes work?

My impression is indeed that Hostel is being punished rather than celebrated for it's influence, but I am a little surprised at Saw. But then I guess if influence was king we'd be seeing Friday the 13th somewhere in here?

As a near-complete ignoramus I am intrigued by finding out different levels of respect for what I'd absorbed as Those Horror Films, like the Friday 13th thing - what is the reason Last House of the Left should be top 10 when Amityville / Child's Play / Basket Case / The Hitcher don't make the top 100?

no reason at all, and it won't be

i want a reverse exacta on the shining and the thing.

Oh no I got that, but some people seemed to think it might be, I was just curious.

Ok here's a brief Exorcist story. I've seen it once, in the cinema. It might be hammy but it scared the living fuck out of me and I couldn't go to sleep without the light on for literally weeks afterwards. I was 21 at the time. Even thinking about it now, in broad daylight - e.g. when reading about the spiderwalk scene upthread, which i happened to catch on tv one evening - can give me the shivers. And that is why i'm not a horror film afficionado. (Other films that have shitted me up good and proper: The Haunting, Ringu/The Ring, the 1980s Granada TV production of The Woman in Black.)

ledge i thought you were a hardcore rationalist, what's happened to you man?

I went to see The Exorcist on its rerelease ~7/8 years ago - I just had one of those "see 7-8 films" weekends, and the Exorcist was last thing on Saturday. And then again first thing on Sunday, arguing with the cashier to let me in an hour into the film, where I fled the night before :)

xp I don't know man! Well of course not believing something doesn't always make it any less scary. Also I think the Exorcist is an incredible depiction of pure evil, distilled and exaggerated obviously but all the more effective for it; and although I don't believe in the form it's presented in that doesn't mean I don't believe in the idea or its ability to scare.

Loving the poll though. Quite a few on here I want to check out - and a few I know I should stay the hell away from.

I've seen 11 of these which is surprsing to me. i remember watching Eraserhead in a lecture hall at uni with about five other people. my housemate had her eyes covered for the whole of the second half lol.

The Hitcher! Would have made a fine addition to the list. Or Basket Case, for that matter.

Really glad Day of the Dead never appeared. That movie is dull as fuck, with a great beginning, a great ending, and an hour of talking and yelling in the middle.

A couple of other great Romeros, of course, won't make it (Martin, Crazies). Same with Carpenter. The question is, which inevitable surprise of the top ten will get the biggest reaction? I predict Nightbreed.

The only thing I expected to place which hasn't and probably won't now is Carpenter's 'They Live'. I thought that was fairly well regarded, though perhaps not enough 'horror' in it for some.

I might have expected Tenebrae to place but i can't see two Argento films being in the top ten. Too much vote splitting, perhaps.

Spoilers: Tenebrae missed out on my vote as I already had two Argento films on my ballot.

xp I'd love to see any surprise of course, but particularly Lost Highway.

rmde

there's no way the argento isnt suspiria but who knows with this list anymore

Martin is Romero's best flick, maybe second best, so obv it won't place.

predicting Frankenhooker ftw

no Demons either? honest to god fuck this i knew i shd've voted

David Lynch but no fucking Demons poll is dead inside