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

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?!"

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7074/7263436354_8ded5f9fb3_o.gif

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!"

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7075/7264151058_c2df5fc03c_o.gif

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.

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.

― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Thursday, May 24, 2012 6:08 PM (1 minute ago)

keep in mind that you + VG are debating the perceptions of 11yo me lol

'50s Thing From Another World is fine (they're watching it in Halloween!) but it's still pretty strictly b-movie TV grade, and not scary/intense. I don't think of the remake as macho, necessarily. Dudes are scared and panicking, not to mention, you know, losing.

Alien a satisfyingly canonical non-canonical pick.

lol 7 first place votes

Alien did terrify me when it came out, but whatever it is that brings me back to a horror film once the scares are registered, that was missing.

A+ inclusion of still from wrong film too

xp

looool @ Cosby, well played

"I hope that rug was CROTCH-guarded!"

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7221/7264151606_ca054a40b2_o.gif

01. THE SHINING
Stanley Kubrick, USA-UK, 1980
(1467 points, 38 votes, 4 first-place votes)

The Shining

I'm trying to think if any other Great Director's Worst Film has inspired such slavish devotion...
― Dr Morbius, Monday, November 26, 2007 8:01 AM (4 years ago)

I'd remix this movie by using it as kindling
― El Tomboto, Monday, November 26, 2007 2:18 PM (4 years ago)

If anybody here could provide me with information regarding the paintings/posters of nude women with afros on Scatman Crothers' character Dick Hallorann's walls, I would greatly appreciate it. Extensive Googling has turned up nil so far.
― Stuart, Wednesday, January 29, 2003 4:47 PM (9 years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/IhOqq.jpg
― Chris S, Friday, March 2, 2012 11:53 AM (2 months ago)

can't front, I love alien so much

there's a thread around here where I wax nostalgically about the many alien toys I was able to buy cheap in 1979 because really who was going to buy alien toys for their kids

my gf just got really excited reading over my shoulder when ghost appeared.

the hawks 'thing' is great and classic for what it is (great credit sequence, evil blood-sucking plants, archetypal scientist who sympathizes with the alien over humanity, 'KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!'), but it's kind of silly to act like carpenter invented all this 'gory' stuff as a crass desecration of the original film when virtually ALL of the mindfuck/gore stuff is in john w. campbell's original story.

no posts from sexydancer in re: the shining seems cruel

hahaha The Ghost Dad bit is precious and adorable.

dying @ Shining stills

Love that carpet in the gif.

Even though Ridley considers the theatrical cut his "director's cut," I think Alien does benefit from exactly two additions in the longer cut: The scene where they listen to the alien beacon, which is an amazing piece of sound design; and the longer version of Harry Dean Stanton's death, where Kotto and Weaver run in at the end and his blood splashes down on them.

Yeah, but you see too much monster.

The Shining opened Memorial Day weekend, 1980.
32 years ago on May 23 … another mirroring … another memory.

http://kdk12.tumblr.com/post/23620658431/32-years-ago-on-may-23

disappointed the shining won, was kind of hoping ilx would throw up something a bit diff like anguish or something. but, beyond all that, bravo and thank you to eric and pillbox for a, frankly, classy thread.

All those pentagons in the carpet conclusive proof that Kubrick directed the fake-moon-landing footage.