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

I placed 26/50, and 8 out of my top 10, not bad

Aw, shoot, I took too long writing about my "The Shining and it's unintentional feminist subtext theory" and now we're into stats.

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

FANGS so much, Eric HATE-CH and KILLbox

Too DEAD tired to do it right now.

^this - but yeah. I have such a wealth of extras, backups & what not, and it would be a waste not to post those on such a thread as well, but I'm def done for the day!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh1jac75Av1qhtovio1_r1_1280.jpg

The Shining.

Alien:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lirbjrEzN21qhtovio1_1280.jpg

Just got to this line in Marabou Stork Nightmares on the way home:

"In Muirhoose nae cunt can hear ye scream...well, they can hear ye, they just dinnae gie a fuck."

Aw, shoot, I took too long writing about my "The Shining and it's unintentional feminist subtext theory" and now we're into stats.

By all means, post away. I'm working my way up to the most interesting stats (i.e. what just missed).

Thanks to Eric and Pillbox, and thanks to all the people who took time out to write lengthy posts explaining/defending their choices. I was mostly at work during this, so was often posting hurriedly during the day--appreciated all the thoughtful commentary. I had 24/35 place, which I expected; I always knew my taste in this genre was on the conservative/consensus side of the spectrum.

MOST POPULAR YEARS
1968 -- Rosemary's Baby; Night of the Living Dead; Hour of the Wolf; Witchfinder General
1979 -- Alien; The Brood; Nosferatu: Phandom der Nacht; Phantasm
1982 -- The Thing; Videodrome; Poltergeist; Creepshow
2008 -- Let the Right One In; Martyrs; Paranormal Activity; Pontypool
(1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1992 and 2001 all had 3 films place.)

Brilliant rundown, I even rinsed the 3G on my non-smartphone to keep up. Awesome work all round!

38/100, p high i'd imagine so i shouldn't gripe. there was something about 2008 i think, i also had a couple on my ballot from that year that didn't plsce.

That MAD Shining parody!!! I read that as a kid long before I ever saw the film & even MAD's version freaked me out!!

The 1982 entries seem like a perfect encapsulation of what I imagine 1982 to have been like.

Supposedly horror films get better during anxiety-ridden times: '68, '79, '82 (major recessions) all qualify. Will leave 2008 jokes for Morbius.

I think 19 of mine placed.

It has been great fun. Thanks to all involved.

The 1982 entries seem like a perfect encapsulation of what I imagine 1982 to have been like.

the list of films I saw in the theaters when I was 11/12 is mindboggling. saw the thing, poltergeist, and creepshow from this list alone. had to settle for reading the novelization of videodrome.

1968 -- Rosemary's Baby; Night of the Living Dead; Hour of the Wolf; Witchfinder General

kind of mind blowing to me that these 4 came out in the same year.

THE SHINING: http://maxgif.com/3pO

would love just a link to a flickr gallery where you could scroll through the images fullscreen

Not 100 percent sure these are all in the right order, but they should be close:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leechlake/sets/72157629754853602/

ALIEN: http://maxgif.com/3pR

great work Eric.

MOVIES THAT WOULD'VE BEEN IN WITH WEIGHTED VOTES
The Beyond (#88)
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (#100)

MOVIES THAT WOULD'VE BEEN OUT WITH WEIGHTED VOTES
The Cabin in the Woods (#105)
Curse of the Cat People (#107)

25/100

Saddest omissions: Child's Play, From Beyond, and The Human Centipede.

"Weighted Votes" in this context would've taken away some of the power of rankings. Each vote would've counted for the number of points in the normal system + the average of all potential points put together (25.5). This would've theoretically given a little more favor to the movies that received more votes, even if they were toward the bottom of people's ballots.

Oh, and for the record, no movie came even close to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for number of first-place votes. In fact, the next three down on the list -- The Shining, Alien and Jacob's Ladder -- only got half as many at 4 each.

all hail pillbox and eric, most fun i've ever had with an ILX poll

Yaaaay. Now, who's starting the ballot thread?

On the train now but the executive summary is that The Shining is a metaphor for domestic violence and Wendy is the hero of the story.

we pushed hard to get in as many votes as we could, but i wonder if the results would have been a little less predictably canonical if the poll had closed as originally scheduled, with fewer ballots in

Yaaaay. Now, who's starting the ballot thread?

why not just do it here?

Not really. The last-minute people were pretty evenly split between the canon devotees, the lunatic fringe and the general non-fan.

THE BEYOND!!!! ;_;

the executive summary is that The Shining is a metaphor for domestic violence and Wendy is the hero of the story.

otm, but it's as much a depiction of domestic violence as a metaphor

TOP 10 PASSIONDEX IN TOP 100
01. Threads -- 41.83
02. Curse of the Cat People -- 40
03. Vampyr -- 39.25
04. The Shining -- 38.6
05. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- 38.19
06. Psycho -- 37.46
07. Kwaidan -- 37.33
08. Alien -- 36.63
09. Rosemary's Baby -- 36.37
10. Carrie -- 36.35

BOTTOM 10 PASSIONDEX IN TOP 100
01. Seven -- 18.9
02. Witchfinder General -- 20.9
03. Phantasm -- 21.875
04. Let the Right One In -- 21.88
05. Near Dark -- 21.9
06. Blood on Satan's Claw -- 22.125
07. Frankenstein -- 23.15
08. Eyes Without A Face -- 23.1875
09. Hellraiser -- 23.2
10. May -- 23.25

(I'm as surprised as any that there are so many of the overall top 10 finishers in the top of the Passiondex.)

Incredible work, Eric! Those stills are amazing!

Horror Poll Ballots, post them.

OK, what you've been waiting for:

THE NEXT 50
101. The Beyond [174/9]
102. Haxan [173/7]
103. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders [173/6]
104. Tenebrae [171/5]
105. The Dead Zone, The [170/7]
106. Tetsuo: The Iron Man [164/7]
107. Anguish [160/7]
108. Blood and Black Lace [160/5]
109. Basket Case [156/5]
110. Messiah of Evil [152/7]
111. Cabin Fever [152/5]
112. The Omen [151/7]
113. Inside [151/5]
114. Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? [150/8]
115. Scanners [150/6]
116. The Masque of the Red Death [149/6]
117. The Human Centipede: First Sequence [149/4]
118. (tie) The Old Dark House [148/5]
118. (tie) The Reflecting Skin [148/5]
120. The Devils [146/6]
121. God Told Me To [145/5]
122. The Black Cat [143/5]
123. Alucarda [140/4]
124. The Return of the Living Dead [139/6]
125. American Psycho [139/4]
125. (tie) The Body Snatcher [139/4]
127. (tie) The Others [138/5]
128. A Tale of Two Sisters [137/5]
129. Throne of Blood [136/4]
130. (tie) Cube [131/5]
130. (tie) The Mist [131/5]
132. Black Sunday [131/4]
133. Seconds [130/5]
134. Eden Lake [129/5]
135. The Changeling [128/3]
136. Inferno [127/5]
137. Aliens [126/6]
138. The Unknown [126/4]
139. Altered States [124/6]
140. Ju-on: The Grudge [122/5]
141. Cloverfield [121/5]
142. The Golem [121/3]
143. The Host [119/6]
144. The Strangers [118/4]
145. (tie) Scream [117/4]
145. (tie) Shivers [117/4]
147. Blue Velvet [115/4]
148. Dracula (1931) [113/7]
149. (tie) Dementia [113/4]
149. (tie) Ginger Snaps [113/4]

And ...

FIRST-PLACE VOTES WEREN'T ENOUGH FOR
121. God Told Me To [145/5]
149. Dementia [113/4]
198. Dead of Night [78/3]
201. Wake in Fright [78/2]
270. Marebito [50/1]

, but it's as much a depiction of domestic violence as a metaphor

In terms of isolation (figurative in most dv contexts, literal here), Wendy's attempts to appease Jack. Plus the movie more or less excuses Jack as an abusive alcoholic (it's more explicit in the book that he abuses Danny for sure and prob Wendy) by making it the hotel's evil influence. Although aside from the photograph in the last shot, the movie leaves it open to the possibility that Jack is just unhinged while the book is 100% evil hotel. (Given his penchant for autobiographical writers as main characters in his books, I wonder how much of that was King's attempts to forgive his own actions.)

Thanks, Eric - this has been a blast!

Also I think Jack N doesn't go totally ham from the start in the movie. I think viewers are picking up on him being a bad person who emotionally abuses his wife and broke his kid's arm. He's a villian without the evil hotel.

103. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders [173/6]
106. Tetsuo: The Iron Man [164/7]
107. Anguish [160/7]
108. Blood and Black Lace [160/5]

this stretch right here, this is killing me

THE BEYOND!!!! ;_;

I repeat ^^^

This is my iPhone background btw

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/7ed66078.jpg

I wanted so many of those movies that were just bubbling under to bubble over, and I felt like I opened Pandora's Box by nominating (somewhat tongue in cheek) The Cabin in the Woods in the nomination thread, never realizing that it would get enough points to actually land inside the top 100.

You need to charge your phone. xp

wow, Eric, so Phase IV didn't even make it into the next #50? - early votes for that one made it seem likely to place..