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

this is my favorite thread

there is one wild card left in this deck imo and every reveal is kind of nerve wracking

I honestly can't tell if Thnig is joking...

*scared*

well his name used to be Thing

wait, my deck needed to be reshuffled. no wild cards left, as you were...

Thing One or Thing Two? xp

I didn't know him in college, but he does have a very unusual mark on the side of his head.

:D

I was going to post the still from the Omen showing Damien's 666 tattoo but it's kind of gross looking out of context.

Haha, I was looking for that too. Great minds, etc.

:D

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2074/2383222393_b0683eb95f.jpg

xpost oh goddamnit

it's a birthmark! he wouldn't be much of a badass antichrist if he'd had it tattooed on

have I told the story about how Omen II totally fucked me up as a kid because I completely misread/misunderstood the movie and thought that all of the adults basically badgered and hounded Damien into becoming the Antichrist and that if they'd just been nice to him, none of those awful things would have happened?

well I guess I have now

"BUZZ has it this is the most unsettling movie many of you ever SAW!"

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8004/7262257666_4cc62188cb_o.gif

07. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
Tobe Hooper, USA, 1974
(1031 points, 27 votes, 8 first-place votes)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the original.
― David Merryweather (DavidM), Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:36 PM (7 years ago)
All new ILE movies poll: THE WORST FILM OF ALL TIME, EVER, WITHOUT ANY QUALIFICATION. Nominations thread.

i had never seen the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and i started it last night...and i had to turn it off. it was totally making me paranoid.
― the table is the table, Friday, January 18, 2008 10:24 AM (4 years ago)

wd've been fine with orig Texas Chainsaw Massacre finishing waaaay ahead of Ghostbusters in comedy poll, btw
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:39 AM (1 month ago)

Ditto.
Of course, I'd root for that movie in a romance poll.
― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:41 AM (1 month ago)

I have lived my entire life being afraid of seeing Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
― Sara R-C, Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:04 PM (3 years ago)

The worst scene in Texas Chainsaw is where the girl gets out of the house, runs down the porchsteps, the Texas sky is so blue, and nope, Leatherface catches her and takes her back into the house.
― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:40 AM (3 years ago)

xp In your searches, did you come across the photo where somebody got "666" tattooed underneath his fingernail??!?!?! That's some dedication to a thing right there.

Omen 3: Damien Sees a Counsellor

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay TCM

ok now this poll is getting ridiculous

omg a gif?!

I would like to congratulate Boxing Helena on its surprise win

This was #5 on my ballot. I cannot think of two movies that would place in between this and the top five.

well that's good because there's only space for one

I would like to congratulate Boxing Helena on its surprise win

lollllll if there's anything that would make me leave ILX forever, this would probably be it.

Marilyn Burns is the all-time fucking greatest. That screaming and her run through the woods after Leatherface kills Franklin . . .

xp Quiet, Professor Math

For a while I was pretty convinced that Julian Sands was actually Bob.

(everyone else actively wanted Franklin to get killed, wheelchair or no wheelchair, right?)

Oh yeah.

SALLY THEY TOOK THE KEYS SALLY DO YOU THINK HE COULD FOLLOW US SHOULDN'T WE GO LOOK FOR THEM SALLY SALLY IT'S GETTING DARK SALLY LET ME GO WITH YOU SALLY

8 number ones??? Bloody hell. A good film, though I mostly found it amusing rather than scary.

omg a gif?!

― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:03 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

All of the top ten have been gifs - you need to go look again, they're brilliant.

The avoidance of the Noble Cripple trope is one of the many things I like about this movie (nb: this is one of the cannon selections I didn't vote for, assuming (correctly) it would do fine without me).

sorry, i had to catch up after that meeting that bored me TO DEATH

knowing the circumstances around the actors experiences in TCM makes lars von triers notable abuse of actors seem kinda huggalovable

Actually, on repeated viewings the family creeped me out much more than they did the first time. Not entirely sure why it'd work that way round, maybe more time to stew on the actual fucked-upness of humanity.

Other avoidances of Nobel Cripple:

http://twitpic.com/40iirb

I should probably watch TCM

aw u made bjork cry, heres some rotting meat to hang out w/while you cook in the texas heat

xpost wait waht

xxpost jjjusten I don't know much of the behind the scenes stuff, was it a bad scene for the actors on set?

This scene will never NOT scare me.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyl8csLi9p1qb7328o1_500.gif

Fun Fact: Hooper's actual first feature, Eggshells was re-discovered in 1969 and can watched here:

http://mubi.com/films/eggshells

per Wikipedia:

The primary filming location was an early 1900s farmhouse located on Quick Hill Road near Round Rock, Texas, where the La Frontera development is now located. The small budget and concerns over high-cost equipment rentals meant the crew filmed seven days a week, up to 16 hours a day. The environment was humid and the cast and crew found conditions tough; temperatures peaked at 110 °F (43 °C) on July 26. Hansen later recalled, "It was 95, 100 degrees every day during filming. They wouldn't wash my costume because they were worried that the laundry might lose it, or that it would change color. They didn't have enough money for a second costume. So I wore that (mask) 12 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week, for a month."

Pretty much everyone on that crew vomited once; some had to be hospitalized after they lit a bunch of dead dog carcasses on fire out back and the smoke seeped into the set.

crap, sorry, Eggshells was rediscovered in like 2004. XPOST

oh god yes, the modern interviews are full of still lingering rage at the shit they had to put up with on set. also franklin and sally apparently legit hated each other which i think adds to some of the chemistry you see on screen.

Guy who played the Hitchhiker claimed he was in Vietnam and it wasn't as bad as being on set for the dinner sequence.

TOO LOW

I didn't vote for TCM but I really should have

some had to be hospitalized after they lit a bunch of dead dog carcasses on fire out back and the smoke seeped into the set

I heard they did this on the set of Tom Hanks' "The Terminal" but they were professionals about it and walked it off.

This is my #1. No movie has ever filled me with the sense of dread like this one. Love the degraded roughness of it, the bleakness, and of course the black humor (that I didn't get when I viewed this as a teen but now just adds to the awesomness).