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

Wicker Man is more like a comedy to me

The asshole who complains that the basement is the only safe place is ultimately proven correct.

Well, yes, but no.

watching the zombies chowing down on dead person innards irrevocably scarred me as a young 'un.

i mean, i went vegetarian for a week b/c of that scene ... it didn't take long-term, but still!

had Night at 17th.

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This was my Halloween costume c. 2005.

goddamn I love NOTLD so much. It's just so freaking GREAT, and nothing is wasted and that it was made when it was made for the budget it was made it's just, fuckin god bless human creativity right?? I rewatched it recently and honestly I think I walked away liking it EVEN more than I did to begin with.

and the Night of the Living Bread short is hilar

carl agatha you are my hero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktD27xVIncg

After decades of seeing this on TV, VHS, and DVD, I finally got to see a pristine 35mm film print a few years back and wowza. It's a gorgeous film. I haven't seen the subsequent Romeros on the big screen (There's Always Vanilla, Season of the Witch, The Crazies) but I can't imagine they look this good, probably bc low-budget sometimes can look classier in black-and-white.

xpost it's stuff like that that makes me say college film students rule! (and then there's all the shitty stuff that makes me want to stab myself in the eye but let's pretend those don't exist for a moment)

nowadays ppl seem more inclined to discuss the meritrs of dawn or day, so I'm suprised and pleased to see NotLD place so high. like a lot of other horror franchises, ubiquity and over familiarity have dulled its impact, and I don't think very many ppl *love* it (note no #1 votes). explains why it's nowhere to be found on my ballot.

but it's one of the first widely successful horror movies that just *went* for it, in all directions - with gore, with taboo smashing, with race, with its coldblooded nihilism. I'd go so far as to say it's the first modern horror film, and romero made it all palpatable by wrapping it in familiar howard hawkesque trappings. except this hearty adventure story ends with the precious child cargo stabbing mommmy to death and eating daddy, and the leader of our intrepid band killed by the good guys and roasting on a funeral pyre. it's an early example of what I love about modern horror, the terror not just of events unfolding on a screen, but of whose hands you've put yourself in trust of. how far are these people going to go? oh my god! they went there! ah! ahhhh! noooooooooo

a million xps

hate to say it but Crazies remake >>>> original Crazies.

I don't care what kind of crap Romero does anymore, because honestly, NOTLA and Dawn give him carte blanche to whatever the fuck he wants for the rest of his life. Those two movies are almost perfect to me.

Ben Hervey's book on NOTLD is one of my very favorite BFI monographs.

man i love how horror movies trick people into saying stuff like "that one character didn't deserve to die in a telekinetic bloodbath"

hate to say it but Crazies remake >>>> original Crazies.

otm

The denouement of this being told with grainy, documentary-style stills is absolutely brilliant. After what you've been through, seeing it all in motion would just be a bridge too far.

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hate to say it but Crazies remake >>>> original Crazies.

Really? Hmmmm. Must watch. OG Crazies very flawed but compellingly watchable.

Helps to have a Tim Olyphant crush, mind.

Am I the only person here who watched that insane 30th anniversary DVD where co-writer Russo went back in and inserted new scenes? Mostly to add backstory for the first zombie, add gore scenes from the oft-mentioned Beakman's Diner, and add a quasi-religious epilogue. It was hahahahahhahahahhahahahahahaha NO.

rainbows were popular in the 70s guys

So were gay people.

Didn't Betty Buckley do a bunch of successful Lloyd Webber horseshit on stage?

Forgot about Cats (which always makes me think of Paul Newman on Letterman: "Where the hell's the singin' cats?").

I think that's the saddest thing to me about NOTLA, is that it wound up in public domain because as Romero put it (iirc), hell they were students, they didn't know any better.

But at the same time, it's kind of gratifying that despite all the horrible things that have been done to that poor movie, all the iterations with color and updates and alternative endings and remakes all just serve to remind everyone how great the original truly is. It's unfuckwithable.

goddammit this thing should be #1

Duane Jones should have become a star.

Night obviously owes a lot to The Birds, though I think it's a much better film.

the best remake of night of the living dead is called assault on precinct 13

Ah yeah, but the public domain thing did lead to NOTLD: Re-animated, which I thought was a pretty cool and fun project.

I know I'm opening myself up to ridicule ("They're all going to laugh at you!"), but I thought Signs was an honorable addition to the Birds/Night tradition of assault-on-the-home horror films.

noooo, Assault on Precinct 13 is a mediocre remake of Rio Bravo

I would agree you until the last third xpost

There's a shit-ass documentary called Fan of the Dead that it, you know, shit-ass, but it does go to all the original NOTLD locations, and it's kinda fun to see how the basement looks now, the cemetery, the house location, etc.

I honestly wish I had been alive and old enough to have seen this in 1968. It must have been a real punch in the balls, even by the standards of drive-in fare.

I think if I ever saw George Romero in person I'd have to fight the urge to give him a great big bro-hug.

Agree, de croupier--the baseball bat/religious stuff was bad.

Read Ebert's original review for a good sense of someone sitting in a theatre in 1968, numb with shock.

Signs is like if it turned out the zombies in Dead were allergic to water even though they were eating bodies that are at least 50% water.

I've given Romero a bro-hug and can report two things: dude is like 8 feet tall and smells like 1000 cigarettes. xpost

noooo, Assault on Precinct 13 is a mediocre remake of Rio Bravo

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:13 PM (32 seconds ago)

hawks obv a huge influence on NotLD but I would imagine romero loomed pretty large in carpenter's world in 1976

xpost Thnig: dunno, sounds p awesome to me :)

xpost and that the murderous zombies were put on earth to bring the world's flightiest minister back to jesus

hate to say it but Crazies remake >>>> original Crazies.

i mostly agree with this right up until the absolutely horrible cheapout ending of the remake

not for any good reason, but i was absolutely shocked when i found out that romero is this huge tall dude.

While we're on Romero, have we ever had a thread about "Monkey Shines?"

well, according to wiki we're both right

The story was inspired by the Howard Hawks western film Rio Bravo and the George A. Romero horror film Night of the Living Dead.

I'm afraid to see the Crazies remake because it just looked like it would be disappointing, olyphant crush notwithstanding

i mean i had seen a ton of interviews with him but he was always sitting down i guess.

hawks obv a huge influence on NotLD

Don't say like that.

"A must for fans of ARRRRRGH-ITECTURE!"

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08. SUSPIRIA
Dario Argento, Italy, 1977
(1014 points, 29 votes, 2 first-place votes)

what does Dario do that others don't? Well, he practically invented the mis en scene of the contemporary horror film that is the killer's eye view point (as seen from the camera) not to mention quietly revolutionising the use of widescreen in the genre, his 360 degree camera trickery in Opera was genuinely groundbreaking and without Suspiria and Deep Red there would be no John Carpenter or Brain DePalma and Tim Burton as we currently know them. Without Suspiria it's probable that Sam Raimi and Nicholas Roeg would not be the same either - and the Robert Zemeckis film What Lies Beneath was pure Argento, as was From Hell and pretty much every other 'mainstream' genre film of recent years. I could ramble on, but as one postee mentioned there has been a ton of literature devoted to his influence on American cinema.
― Calum, Friday, May 2, 2003 7:25 PM (9 years ago)

the opening sequence at the airport alone is as perfect a fusion of image/sound/movement/colour as anything that the archers achieved
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, October 27, 2010 10:53 AM (1 year ago)

can you imagine if suspiria and solaris were scored by ornette coleman?
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, May 13, 2003 10:18 PM (9 years ago)

xxposts yeah I don't think I knew how tall Romero was til I watched that Simon Pegg behind the scenes thing on Land of the Dead.

VG the remake is great, though i saw it before the original. if you can resist a movie that opens with olyphant, in a police uniform, sipping coffee and saying "i don't care what you say, the first day of spring is the first day of high school baseball season" you are not a true Olyphant fan.

Well, he practically invented the mis en scene of the contemporary horror film that is the killer's eye view point (as seen from the camera)

oh bless him i know what film he hadn't seen

Somewhere Olyphant has a Dorian Gray painting stashed away.