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

Should be double-billed with In a Year with 13 Moons.

i love that contenderizers description is basically exactly why i love TCM as much as i do

totally -- the world is mean, and man uncouth!

one of the most abrasively unpleasant cinematic experiences available

And your point is ... ?

After 93 posts, I fear we're starting to take Eric's amazing crypt keeper intros for granted, I think. I'm amazing and awed that you were able to think of this many puns! And that they are so good!

lol xpost jjjusten

i know that this is not a very popular opinion around here but the fact that the wicker man is beating some of these is really astonishing to me.

not astonishing to me, but slightly surprising, maybe? i like it a lot, was my #29, and i hate the word "overrated" on principle, but there's something about its elevation to all time best-of-the-best status that mystifies and even bothers me a little. seems like it naturally oughtta be this creepy little low-key cult oddity that sneaks in somewhere in the mid-twenties and surprises everybody, not universally praised as the best horror movie ever made. eh, but why not? taste is unpredictable, and it is pretty damn great.

I've totally been recycling throughout the poll, carl a.

I'm relieved to hear it, frankly.

Eric's not into pleasence, cept for Donald.

Next up is the one I allegedly kept outta the top 5 with my ballot! I pray it's what I think it is!

The Wicker Man is seriously not better than this last run of half-dozen entries

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:33 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, it pretty much is. Except maybe Suspiria. And if Repulsion was in the last six. Also, TCM is way more lolsome than TWM.

i am looking forward to when eric gets to step down as impartial poll master and gets to opine on a lot of this

man e.mily i am totally baffled by the idea that TCM is ever ever lolsome

And your point is ... ?

just that. not hating on the film or its fans, just explaining why it's not a personal favorite of mine. now that it think about it, it is somewhat similar to possession, which makes a similar virtue of unrelieved tension, disorder and discomfort.

save "polemaster" for whatever genre Showgirls is in

It's a big old rampage of weirdo hicks cutting up annoying teens, how is not lolsome?

man e.mily i am totally baffled by the idea that TCM is ever ever lolsome

grampa trying to hit the girl over the head at dinner is p funny

I had Chainsaw 10th. I first saw it in the last 10 years, and the theater was rocking with laughter.

man e.mily i am totally baffled by the idea that TCM is ever ever lolsome

well, it does have sick-funny parts (grandpa's dinner), and there's a blackly comic tone to the whole thing, but yeah, the gross grim tension never lets up enough to permit actual laughter.

My fave TCM story is that they only had something like 20 feet of dolly track, so all that running through the woods is supposedly just the same stretch of woods over and over again.

Next up is the one I allegedly kept outta the top 5 with my ballot! I pray it's what I think it is!

If it's Alien or The Shining I'm donating $100 to the NRA in your name today.

LOL

texas groundhogs day massacre

so we're left with the Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Psycho and the Wicker Man eh

I recognize the spots that could be lolsome, but I've never been able to lol at TCM. The stumbling block I can't get past is the screaming and how it never, ever stops. But I can see how even that could be funny to the right person.

It's a big old rampage of weirdo hicks cutting up annoying teens, how is not lolsome?

well, by that measure, the wicker man is a wierdo loser farting around for a while before coming afoul of hippies

I do like that the hitchhiker is doing Bobcat Goldthwaite years before he was even a thing.

the Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Psycho and the Wicker Man
would see this movie

well, by that measure, the wicker man is a wierdo loser farting around for a while before coming afoul of hippies

^^^exactly

nothing remotely scary/horrifying about it

lol @ Lechera

I recognize the spots that could be lolsome, but I've never been able to lol at TCM. The stumbling block I can't get past is the screaming and how it never, ever stops.

otm. on that level, it's as distressing as any "torture porn" film.

All credit goes to Pillbox, including the decision to make the Top 10 rotating gifs.

I've been doing the assembly, sure, b/c that is what I *do* - but esp in the final stages of the rollout, I just wanted to point out that the selection process etc. was all very collaborative.

i am looking forward to when eric gets to step down as impartial poll master and gets to opine on a lot of this

Already broke this rule a lot, but mostly to praise the movies I love here, which is less a problem since it's a "top 100" list and all.

the Alien, The Thing, The Shining, Psycho and the Wicker Man
would see this movie

They Solve Crimes!

well, by that measure, the wicker man is a wierdo loser farting around for a while before coming afoul of hippies

Cult hippies are way scarier than hicks.

Anyway, don't get me wrong, obviously I can pinpoint the bits of TWM that are also lolsome, but I guess this is my preference for creep rather than slash coming out...

The Alien, The Thing, The Shining, the Psycho, the Wicker Man, the Cook, his Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

"Psycho and the Wicker Man" really does sound like some 70s cop/private detective joint.

xp ROFL

Been desperately searching for "TCM" bit in "Summer School," but I did find this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPGROgL-b2s

Cult hippies are way scarier than hicks.

is this some sort of Manson vs. Gein binary

That's like asking which is scarier: my family or my 20s?

I get the black humor in TCM, but not one frame of that movie is lolsome to me. It hits me in a very deep and nightmarish place.

Next up is the one I allegedly kept outta the top 5 with my ballot! I pray it's what I think it is!

"It WAS ... until Mr. Hal Jam's MOTHER'S ballot SWITCHED them back around! Hee-hee!"

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8141/7262257888_2790462214_o.gif

06. PSYCHO
Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1960
(1049 points, 28 votes, 1 first-place vote)

Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO, now 50 years old -- great 20th-century art or mere "carnivalesque" shocker?

re the shrink's monologue: Try to imagine what the average American thought about crossdressing in 1959.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Sunday, March 7, 2010 2:49 PM (2 years ago)

it's pretty audacious that the movie spends 1/2 hour with Marion and her plot before she gets killed off, I can't imagine a movie going that far just to fuck with you these days
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, March 8, 2010 9:48 AM (2 years ago)

Wicker Man beating this is some bullshit

this post to be c+p'ed as necessary

my parents saw Psycho on a date without knowing much about it and it scarred my mother to the point where she almost cries at any type of jump scare

"If it's Alien or The Shining"

oh, MUST RESPECT canon, eh Phil, just like all the silent and Sturges stuff in the comedy poll?

well, this was my #2, so somebody lied. Also, TOO LOW.

I agree with that. "Psycho" is never dull, even when the psych is babbling at the end. But "Wicker Man" ... I dunno. She does have sex with a door, I guess.

xpost.

also my dad took baths instead of showers for like a week afterward

Eeeeeg, that shot of the body shape in the mattress!

To be honest, I'm starting to wonder if The Wicker Man is actually going to be perplexingly missed out. I can see it beating a bunch of these, but... beating Psycho? Really? But then... surely it can't have been beaten by everything else here, including a film that only came out a week before voting? Surely?