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

that may be so Eric, but not to many want to actively identify that way

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lol emil.y :D

lol emily

anyway

so Butterfly Effect at #1, right?

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

Well, they're scary cuz there's an undertone of darkness to their songs & their deeds & their swapping of corpses with rabbits & burning of humans, which you may not notice if you've lived there all of your life or if you're swept away the fun-time singing. Buuuuuut if it don't scare you, it don't scare you, obvs.

and xposts to Stevie: yes but imagine how boring it would be if all that was left out though, lol

touché

I guess what I'm saying is that TWM is only frightening if you identify with the puritan. I do not, never have and never will and am kind of suspicious of people that do.

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lol emil.y

All I'm saying is: I wouldn't have been able to have sex with Britt Eklund either.

puritans who live in suburbs, eh

the thing well on its way to potentially becoming the most overrated ilx movie of all time. and i like the thing! but jesus it cant win all the polls

And I'm guessing they wouldn't have accepted Christopher Lee being her substitute.

Hey look, Rosemary's Baby!

I see Rosemary's Baby as an inadvertently feminist movie (lol Polanski amirite?), where a good portion of the horror of it isn't that Ro is having the devil's baby, but that something bad is happening and nobody will believe her. And not because she's not credible or there's anything wrong with her - just because a lot of the time, people just don't believe women.* That, more than any concept of evil or Satan or whatever, is what makes the movie so effectively frightening to me.

*It's such a common horror trope as to be almost invisible now, but in the vast majority of horror movies, the first person to notice that something is amiss is a woman, and her concerns are always initially dismissed. Moral to dudes: shut up and listen to women and you'll live longer.

I guess what I'm saying is that TWM is only frightening if you identify with the puritan. I do not, never have and never will and am kind of suspicious of people that do.

It's true, you have to be a pious virgin police offer to enjoy this film.

TWM is also the fear of being the stranger in a group and everyone being in on it but you.

I've only seen like 30 min of this film :(

Anyway, obvious zingitude aside, the whole point to me is that there's a real tension about who to root for, and what that says about us and our impulses and our potential for cruelty. In a sense, the islanders are the good guys, but they have to sacrifice something for their bucolic world to continue. Is it worth that sacrifice? Well, maybe. But that loss of 'civilisation' for the greater good, it is still a scary thought.

It's true, you have to be a pious virgin police offer to enjoy this film.

way to not read

Watch Carrie first, then watch the rest of Rosemary's Baby. xp

ftr I enojoyed TWM. it's funny

yeah, how bad could the islanders have really been? they gave uptight Christian dude an awfully attractive escape clause ... pork Britt Eklund and you live!

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

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I've bit my tongue the entire time, but I fully expect the thing to be #1. it might be the shining, but there is a near religious love of the thing on this board.

people just don't believe women.*

That and she's depicted as being perpetually at the mercy of men (and post-menopausal women).

another nice cryptkeeper line there folks

rosemarys baby doesnt do it for me at all but i can see why its here

basically at this point I assume that 80% of the board has masturbated while watching The Thing

I really like The Wicker Man. I also really like Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Didn't vote for either.

Why would you have to identify with the puritan or be an uptight asshole to find TWM frightening? I'm not saying it is or isn't but I don't understand this in theory.
Just because you wouldn't be a target yourself does this make them unfrightening regardless of the principle involved?

That and she's depicted as being perpetually at the mercy of men (and post-menopausal women).

Yeah, for sure. Her only act of autonomy is cutting her hair short. She doesn't even get to have agency in her own sex life. (insert terrible Polanski joke here)

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.

I had this reaction for a bit when watching TWM until I remembered that you could make any religious culture/ritual look creepy in this way

(actually don't insert Polanski's anything into anything)

(insert terrible Polanski joke here)

Mostly took care of that when posting quotes, ftr. (That thread still pisses me off.)

I guess what I'm saying is that TWM is only frightening if you identify with the puritan. I do not, never have and never will and am kind of suspicious of people that do.

my sense of what's scary has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not i rationally believe in the source of threat, and my ability to identify with characters isn't wholly determined by the extent to which i like and/or agree with them. i fault the anti-hero protagonist of the wicker man for his christian priggishness, but that doesn't make me any more happy to see him burned alive. he's not the greatest guy around, but i don't really hate him.

Most religious culture/ritual is creepy. That's why it features so strongly in horror films. I just don't see why people are discounting paganism when they accept Catholicism.

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still pissed about return of the living dead tbrr

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

I don't accept Catholicism thank u very much

i think of Morris dancers as being more dorky than creepy (much less dangerous). obviously, Morris dancing and spinning round the maypole would be REALLY weird anywhere in the USA but it's not as organic over here as in the UK.

Her only act of autonomy is cutting her hair short.

yeah but she def looks better with the bob tho.

there's actually quite a bit of paganism in Catholic rituals, traditions, etc.

Per my previous commentary, the scariest part of Rosemary's Baby is when she goes to see the regular OB/GYN and tells him her concerns, and you think that she's going to get some help... but nope. He calls the Demon Doctor and her dumb husband and it's back to Satan's High Rise with you. It's like the scene in TCM when the one woman almost gets away but gets pulled back into the house. Ugh.

its late enough in the game now that even i think ive got this figured out but if i could design this ranking it would def be alien>the shining>the thing

im not forgetting anything right

It's like the scene in TCM when the one woman almost gets away but gets pulled back into the house.

Oh yeah, at the roadside gas station/sausage market! Totally.

i remember never having heard of The Wicker Man before coming to ilx and seeing it just referenced constantly

by la lechera

by everyone!

hate to break it to you but we're all la lechera socks

i never watched the OG wicker man until after the Nicolas Cage lol-fest had come out.

when she goes to see the regular OB/GYN and tells him her concerns, and you think that she's going to get some help... but nope. He calls the Demon Doctor and her dumb husband

ugh i remember first seeing this scene and feeling absolutely sickened by the betrayal

maybe Nicolas Cage should be involved in a Rosemary's Baby/Night of the Hunter remake!

there's actually quite a bit of paganism in Catholic rituals, traditions, etc.

I was gonna say - Catholicism is totally pagan!

you eat jesus for fuck's sake!

i haven't seen the remake, but nicholas cage can pierce the actorly veil and be truly frightening in a way that nobody in the original wicker man could be (out of propriety? dignity?)