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

Haven't seen the remake but I'd give it a chance.

you may want to adjust yr expectations before viewing

personally i could give a fuck about the technical standpoint

Morbs' ballot at the end pushed PSYCHO back up to #5 and TWM down to #6.

But, ah, that is not how they are listed.

i dont think i can really accurately appraise TWM because that room to room sexytime suddenly its a musical thing just absolutely ruins the movie for me, and i have never been able to get past that.

huh, that's one of my favorite parts. i love stylization, unreality and sudden textural shifts though. think you're more attracted to consistent realism?

Nonetheless, I have always thought TWM to be a far more interesting take on the intersection of horror and religion than THE EXORCIST.

You know what's even better? PRINCE OF DARKNESS, which nobody but me voted for. ;_;

My point is that Mr. Hal Jam's ballot (which was slipped in even after yours) changed them back, Morbs. So yay!

STILL TALKING ABOUT WICKER MAN
In many (most) horror movies, the person who has sex dies. In TWM, sex could have saved our protagonist's life. That's a positive message about sex that you just don't see in a lot of movies, much less horror movies.

Walking around the locations in Scotland, man, it feels like this thing really happened. They sang and danced and killed people. There's just nothing else like the Wicker Man.

In TWM, sex could have saved our protagonist's life.

ANOTHER reason this movie freaks my shit out.

are people just in love with the basic premise + twist ending of TWM? from a technical standpoint it seems completely unremarkable, which is not the case with the rest of the top 10.

this is true to some extent, but i think misses the point. did you see those stills that pillbox put together? whether by accident or by careful cinematic craft, it's wall-to-wall with striking, evocative images. the photography, editing and narrative construction are often rather drab, but in a way that suits the fuddy-duddy protagonist and makes the slow accumulation of real weirdness all the more unsettling.

regret voting.

The Wicker Man is extra special to heathens, so big zurprize.

blows my mind that there are people who actually get freaked out by TWM

wait, so Rosemary's Baby isn't even going to place?

There's already two Polanski movies in the results, right?

i approve of everything that's in the Top 10 so far (even though i didn't vote for suspiria, which i actually kind of regret).

Christopher Lee is AWESOME in Wicker Man. And his singing voice is dope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcB39PeoZyY&feature=BFa&list=PL0ABE85C6B0F09C0D

regret voting.

Can it. Your ballot was about .00004 points of deviation from the norm on this one.

I swear I didn't paste in Man of "La Macha".

Try again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcB39PeoZyY

Let's not forget the GENIUS OF INGRID PITT (this is from a different movie but I had to find a good one without nudity)

http://cache2.artprintimages.com/lrg/30/3005/Y6GBF00Z.jpg

How can all you people keep up in this thread? At least with terrible kneejerk tasks at work to do.

TWM at the #2 here, so fuck the haters.

In 2006 me and friends decided to do a vacation in Kerry, of all places, the rather rural and remote south-west region of Ireland (yeah, not Scotland, but nm). Just four days of cruising around the forlorn countryside while listening to Badalamenti, finding sheep bones at every possibility, rummaging through derelict houses, nearly getting in fistfights with strange Irishmen not really keen on meeting tourists, getting invited to 65th birthdays of local frolicking innkeepers with adolescent nieces in white dresses and avoiding the creepiest most fucked up slasher-friendly camping ground this side of the Atlantic (called The Peacock, eerie stuff, managed by Dutchmen, be warned).

About half a year later we watched The Wicker Man entirely by chance for the first time (it's got basically 0 reputation here in Germany, doesn't get shown on TV etc.) and suddenly everything made sense.

I'd better bookmark this thread, there's gonna be like 800 flippin' posts by the time I bike home.

Can't remember the thread, but there was a good discussion of religion in The Wicker Man vs. The Exorcist in one of them.

Can it. Your ballot was about .00004 points of deviation from the norm on this one.

"Bates? Baits?"

regretting placing Wicker Man on my ballot at all now

i def dont have a bent towards staunch realism or stylistic consistency, i just think that scene is just absolutely terrible in every way. its ridiculous (not in a good way) and it just yanks me completely out of the movie and i never get back in. and given the people who dig WM, i want to get back in but it is just this awful hippie dippie thing that gets vomited into the middle of the film and i cant get past it.

im really not trying to be insulting or overstate the case here, its been a thing ive kinda wrestled with because i really do want to get the movie more.

regretting placing Wicker Man on my ballot at all now

i don't. though i don't think it's one of the top five horror movies ever made, it's great, and i'm glad people like it.

Nonetheless, I have always thought TWM to be a far more interesting take on the intersection of horror and religion than THE EXORCIST.

You know what's even better? PRINCE OF DARKNESS, which nobody but me voted for. ;_;

― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Thursday, May 24, 2012 7:35 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, right on. also voted for prince of darkness! left off the exorcist, which I like alright, but y'know, not as much as house of wax (2005) (which I am getting a little worried is not going to show up).

when this is done i would love to see all the title cards in sequence, all together, because they are amazing. can we get a (locked) thread for that, or something?

TCM was my #1 btw. thought it had a decent shot at #1 for the poll too. oh well.

its ridiculous (not in a good way) and it just yanks me completely out of the movie and i never get back in. and given the people who dig WM, i want to get back in but it is just this awful hippie dippie thing that gets vomited into the middle of the film and i cant get past it.

yeah, i guess i might be bothered by it, but then i remember that she is nude (plus i love the song)

wait, so Rosemary's Baby isn't even going to place?

― Chris S, Thursday, 24 May 2012 20:42 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

course it is.

whoa crazy according to wikipedia the wicker man opened its us run in...minneapolis? now i have to try and find a way to like it out of hometown pride. plus i really dig anthony schaffer.

with the wicker man there is the sense that the usual movie rules don't apply and anything could happen. this is a key ingredient for horror imo.

i actually rather like Shakey's take on wicker man as a dark comedy -- which it really is. b/c in reality, it would be far more likely for a neopagan/non-believer to stumble across a community of hardcore evangelicals who don't exactly have a reputation for tolerance and peaceful cohabitation w/ heretics, blasphemers, Papists, Christ-killers whatevahs and would be more than happy to burn such miscreants at the stake themselves if they could get away with it.

i mean, it's sort of like a trading places of horror films.

ok so there are 4 spots left and i feel like rosemarys baby makes 5 expected films? also if the thing wins this poll too i swear to god

i think either the shining or rosemary's baby are the most likely to be the #1 pick (hatas be damned).

Um. The Wicker Man actually isn't anything to do with hippies, you guys. You do realise that, right?

I realize there are contexts where The Wicker Man could be eerie, scary, esp if you're religious, British, who the fuck knows, but I mostly enjoyed it as a comedy. Pious dude winds up burning alive because he didn't nail Britt Eklund when he had the chance.

TWM is basically how I imagine Britain viewed the empire. You send your best men out to straighten out the backwards heathens and what do you get in return? And they do it all with a smile. The thick-headed bastards.

personally, the omission that most shocks me the most is the omen ... which freaked me out far more than the exorcist did back in the day (though i think that the exorcist is the better film overall). kinda hard for me to believe that damien et. al. has fallen so out of grace over the years!!

i mean, it's sort of like a trading places of horror films.

lol love this

I sort of love how we're 12 years into a board filled with contrarian-ass motherfuckers and strategy voters and ppl all know this and are still all "OMG WHY AND HOW IS THIS POLL DEVIATING FROM THE CANON?!?!?!?"

"POE-CREATION, not WRECK-REATION!"

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04. ROSEMARY'S BABY
Roman Polanski, USA, 1968
(1091 points, 30 votes, 1 first-place vote)

rosemary's baby is one of my favorites of all-time
― Surmounter, Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:21 AM (3 years ago)

Rosemary's Baby. I saw it in June again and, again, I thought it was the funniest, scariest horror film ever. Alarmingly well-cast too.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, September 28, 2008 10:00 AM (3 years ago)

The greatest trick that Anton LaVey ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't play the devil in Rosemary's Baby.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, August 8, 2005 2:38 PM (6 years ago)

rosemary's baby is great but i can't imagine anyone watching it now and not dying with laughter at the ending.
― J.D., Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:23 AM (4 years ago)

What's kinda fucked up is:
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #482 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV) for Rosemary's Baby.
The highest ranking for Chinatown is in the 1,000s, but there are 4 or 5 different versions of that you can buy.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:27 AM (2 years ago)

maybe they're assuming rosemary's baby is an erotic study of said infant.
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:29 AM (2 years ago)

Sorry dude: Rosemary's Baby > Rock n Roll Pt. 2
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, October 2, 2009 3:49 PM (2 years ago)

Um. The Wicker Man actually isn't anything to do with hippies, you guys. You do realise that, right?

murder druids symbolize libbers & hippies

I don't take Wicker Man as a comedy. But even if you do, you're laughing at the chaste, straight-laced protagonist as much as the villagers are, having fun with him, which seems a more sly, complicit kind of comedy than, say, TCM when we're laughing cuz fucked-up Grandpa can't quite pound the hammer on the innocence girl's head hard enough. You almost want to join the Wicker Man islanders--they're having a blast and have a pretty sweet, song-filled life.

One more thing on The Wicker Man - is everyone just ignoring that half of its creepiness... well, we actually did that shit (still do, in some cases/places)? Maypoles and morris men and animal costumes and fertility dances are real, and they tap into a sense of England that is both pastoral and primal, bucolic and highly dangerous... We're a strange people in an ancient land.

You almost want to join the Wicker Man islanders--they're having a blast and have a pretty sweet, song-filled life.

exactly! how are these people scary at all? the only people they're a threat to are uptight assholes

evangelical Jesus Freaks don't distinguish b/w hippies and Wiccans/neopagans. and for once, their world view actually does have some basis in reality.

Maypoles and morris men and animal costumes and fertility dances are real, and they tap into a sense of England that is both pastoral and primal, bucolic and highly dangerous.

this kind of shit happens all over the world and still does today. most of it isn't even remotely dangerous.