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

sorta pissed at other polls taking precedence over the romcom poll actually

pleased by it, tbh. comedy followed immediately by romcom would have been a lot less interesting than comedy - horror - romcom.

i will be the reverso me in the rom com poll though and probably not vote for anything made after 1960

please note: Slither is totally a rom com

"lovable scamp" = sloppy as an oversexed sailor

a film of limited imagination with unlimited horror effects

ha, 11yo me and kael on the same page here

Love, Actually's status as "the ultimate romcom" makes any such poll moot

oh man i wonder if i can come up with 20 horror movies that didnt make it here to get into the rom com poll

yeah i was going to pull that out, alien in alien cannot "take any form" wtf

I'm sure Kael's review had something to do with me never having seen it; next time I see a used copy, I'll give it try.

Kurt Russel is handsomely hairy in The Thing.

look if all 56 of us make a pact to vote for Meet the Feebles in the rom com poll we can form a strong voting bloc just fyi

Kael should've had some beers and watched the Thing again. I think she would have felt differently.

DeadAlive has a sweet little romcom plot

xp

Kurt Russell is handsome in almost every 80's movie he stars in, but he's def at his most handsome in The Thing.

He looks like a heavy metal/lumberjack Kris Kristofferson :D

ws Macready

love kael, but that review misses the stoic, western-style appeal of the thing's plotting and characters

Before I see it, can you let me know if Wilford Brimley plays the monster? That might present a problem.

ws Macready

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:52 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

The Thing is so damn manly with all those guys & their beards.

Fans of this need to see the 80s The Blob, which deserves much more love than it gets.

I can't believe Return of the Living Dead didn't even place, and Wicker Man placed this high.

80s Blob is pretty good. not a patch on the Thing tho

ws Macready

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:52 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^

― carl agatha, Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:53 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark

hirsute manliness + snow

Wilford Brimley's awesome in The Thing -- NOBODY GETS IN OR OUT OF HERE! {GUNSHOT} NOBODY! {CRASH}

The Thing is so damn manly with all those guys & their beards.

It is totally a sausage party.

which was intentional, and the right choice imho. it would not work the way it does with a mixed gender scenario.

an all-women cast version of the Thing would be interesting.

Smilla's Sense of Testosterone

I had already seen and loved both assault on precinct 13 and escape from NY, so I was familiar with carpenter's prairie tough guy steez, but comparatively the thing seemed dry and stale, macho by the numbers, a little too stoic imo.

xp to contendo

WNS Macready, personally.

Now imagine it done with CGI & resist shooting self in face.

I think my perfect man is a cross between Jack Burton + Macready, ie Kurt Russell in a truck in the snow , lol

I fear a carpenter fan fic session about to surface

how many of you saw the '51 Thing?

What you ppl wd consider the best ROMANTIC COMEDIES (show respect) is way scarier than anything in this poll.

macho by the numbers? boo

that makes it sound like a crummy seagal movie. The Thing has all that intensity of WHO THE FUCK IS THE MONSTER. I love that. No friends, no nothing, just you and whichever one of you's the alien

I mean it has to be reductive because of the situation, it's a kill or be killed scenario so I personally don't really want nuances and emoting, I want to see decisive actions and impulsive bravery and bizarre outbursts of violence and cowardly behaviour

it's just my kinda movie, lol

I'm okay with The Thing being all dudes, btw. I am not a fan of token women characters; it's pandering and does more harm than good.

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how many of you saw the '51 Thing?

it's okay

YeAh. It's pretty good.

Years ago--phantom-directed by Hawks, right? James Arness looks like a big carrot.

http://www.darkrecesses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/James-Arness-The-Thing.jpg

I would not try to eat this carrot

<3 the hallway scene in the thing from another world

blarch

http://www.darkrecesses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/James-Arness-The-Thing.jpg

macho by the numbers? boo

that makes it sound like a crummy seagal movie. The Thing has all that intensity of WHO THE FUCK IS THE MONSTER. I love that. No friends, no nothing, just you and whichever one of you's the alien

yeah, i don't see the thing as an oppressively "macho" movie. if anything, the tough guy stuff is dialed back relative to both assault on precinct 13 and escape from new york. it's more matter of fact, less wildly imaginative than the horror films i tend to like, but the monster more than makes up for any deficiencies in that department.

don't particularly care for the '51 original.

"If you can just stick a cowboy hat on him, you might have something..."

Carpenter's take on The Thing is almost as amazing as Cronenberg's take on The Fly.

the monster effects in The Thing are my favorite though. God it is still such a trip seeing it even today.

I'm trying to decide if I should go home now or wait out the top two at work...

"Can John HURT get an epidural?!"

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02. ALIEN
Ridley Scott, USA, 1979
(1209 points, 33 votes, 4 first-place votes)

that maternal subtext is HUGE and significantly complicates the subtext of the first (ripley defending her womanhood against the asexual rapaciousness of the alien and the asexual murderous logic of the android)
the sexual subtexts are easily the best thing about the alien movies - why else have giger design the shit?
― vahid (vahid), Thursday, August 19, 2004 11:19 PM (7 years ago)

alien is my comfort movie
― i am not an idle hunter-gatherer, i am a scientist (rrrobyn), Friday, November 14, 2008 4:19 PM (3 years ago)

I am the HR Giger of cock.
― Snappy (sexyDancer), Monday, February 7, 2005 7:39 PM (7 years ago)

"Um, FIENDS … It looks like the RomCom crew already banded together to PRE-COUNTERSTRIKE!"

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01. GHOST
Jerry Zucker, USA, 1990
(1577 points, 42 votes, 7 first-place votes)

Dude, Ghost is mad sad, it's about a dude what gets killed for some reason that I forget and then killer guy macks his wife and she makes pots or something and lezzed up with Whoopi, ok I don't really remember what happens in Ghost but I remember it was damn ass sad.
― Allyzay, Monday, March 1, 2004 7:29 PM (8 years ago)

Ghost gave a really big boost to Whoopi Goldberg's career.
― Aimless, Friday, April 10, 2009 8:25 PM (3 years ago)

The Thing is so damn manly with all those guys & their beards.

Fans of this need to see the 80s The Blob, which deserves much more love than it gets.

That Blob remake is on my ballot.

I had already seen The Thing probably a dozen times before I was married, so the first time I watched it with my wife it was pure delight anticipating how she would react to the scares. During the blood test scene I think she jumped about 85 feet in the air.

I've discussed the 1951 version w/Morbs before, and while it's a fine movie, I have always been a big fan of the original story, and I think Hawks's version simply fails as an adaptation. It ignores the concerns with identity and paranoia and isolation that Carpenter nails so well, and replaces them with what would quickly become well-worn sci-fi/horror tropes about monsters and the pinko scientists who love them/fail to recognize the threat. (And no, it doesn't get a break for helping to invent those tropes.)

Bwahahahhaaa

Alien was my #1 btw.