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

Oh oh oh, before I forget: long and hearty peals of real-life lolling over the one-two punch of Ghost/Ghost Dad and Fozzie Bear doing the nasty. I was expecting some sort of #1 trolling, but y'all outdid y'selves.

"Devil Dog: Hound of Hell" (with Richard Crenna!).

pretty sure I have seen this! I think it was kinda disappointing because there wasn't enough dog.

Wow, it just occurred to me that this thread went by with very, very little discussion of the music in these movies. Considering how crucial the scoring is in most horror films, that's kind of amazing, and except for the talk around Howard Shore and his 7e7en/SOTL work there wasn't much. The top few, especially, do some amazing things: One of Goldsmith's top 3 or 4 scores EVAR for "Alien," Wendy Carlos's arrangement of Berlioz's "Dies Irae" in The Shining, Ennio Morricone doing John Carpenter doing Ennio Morricone in "The Thing" . . .

These "no votes received" films would've made it on my ballot if we'd been allotted, say, 75 picks:

13 Ghosts (1960)
Bloodsucking Freaks
Eaten Alive (1977)
Hospital Brut
It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive
Legend Of Hell House, The
Toxic Avenger, The (1984)

I'm actually legitimately shocked that no one voted for Legend Of Hell House. Aside from its kinda goofy ending, it's a really effective little haunted house movie. And what with its old-school British classiness and all, I really thought it'd get at least a little love from this particular voting bloc.

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Well, the earlier discussion in the voting thread introduced to me the idea that I could actually own the Creepshow music as a thing separate from the movie, which I will always always always be thankful to have finally realized.

Thanks to the fun I've had following along in this poll especially the Top 20 I picked up a copy of Carnival Of Souls for $3 today...and I realized with dismay that I don't have a copy of TCM but my horror-fiend coworker is going to give me a loaner

Eric, Pillbox: outstanding job

And thank you ILXORS for putting stupid Jason Voorhees back in that stupid lake where he belongs. Stupid Friday 13th.

i considered voting for the toxic avenger -- partly b/c i went to high school w/ someone who had a (very very small) role in the film and lol NJ pride but also b/c i genuinely liked it -- but then i said, "nah, too cheesy."

eric, are you going to post the list of everything that got a vote i.e. the sub 150 list? or did I miss that somewhere?

was I the person who had the lowest percentage on my ballot place? 14 out of 50.

you might well be! mine was pretty centrist, 32/50. even e.mily got like 25 or something.

Wow, it just occurred to me that this thread went by with very, very little discussion of the music in these movies. Considering how crucial the scoring is in most horror films, that's kind of amazing, and except for the talk around Howard Shore and his 7e7en/SOTL work there wasn't much. The top few, especially, do some amazing things: One of Goldsmith's top 3 or 4 scores EVAR for "Alien," Wendy Carlos's arrangement of Berlioz's "Dies Irae" in The Shining, Ennio Morricone doing John Carpenter doing Ennio Morricone in "The Thing" . . .

― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Friday, 25 May 2012 02:07 (35 minutes ago) Permalink

Well, the Horror Soundtracks thread on ILM was started because of this poll. I'm still trying to finish my personal undemocratic 'Top 50 Horror Scores from the Horror Poll' so I can post it there. (A lot of my favorites are for films I've never even seen, LOL).

looky horror soundtracks

jon did provide helpful commentary here and there itt about soundtracks of particular note

anyone beat 38? think this is the closest i've ever been to the centre of the ilx hivemind, not sure how i feel about it tbh.

Thanks so much for running this, Eric/Pillbox/&c - after all my wittering in the nominations thread, I failed to turn in a ballot due to some RL drama w/my partner, blah; was initially trying to do a "no US/UK horror films" ballot and would have probably helped Haxan/Tetsuo/Valerie make it in. Oh well /

Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972)
DUMPLINGS!!
Dunwich Horror, The
Dust Devil (1992)

wait what?

Haven't seen these, probably only about half of them I'm interested in seeing really. I may catch up by making this The Year Of Horror, not sure the missus will be too pleased about that, oh well.

021. Braindead [Dead Alive] [1992, 598 points, 19 votes]
023. Possession [1981, 565 points, 17 votes, 2 first-place votes]
050. Sleepaway Camp [1983, 350 points, 10 votes]
058. Martyrs [2008, 319 points, 10 votes]
063. Shaun of the Dead [2004, 301 points, 11 votes]
068. Cure [1997, 289 points, 9 votes]
069. Cemetery Man [Dellamorte Dellamore] [1994, 288 points, 8 votes, 1 first-place vote]
070. Let's Scare Jessica to Death [1971, 272 points, 11 votes]
072. (tie) Drag Me To Hell [2009, 261 points, 9 votes]
075. (tie) Creepshow [1982, 250 points, 10 votes]
085. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me [1992, 218 points, 8 votes]
089. Wolf Creek [2005, 205 points, 7 votes]
090. Dressed To Kill [1980, 202 points, 8 votes, 1 first-place vote]
095. The Cabin in the Woods [2012, 189 points, 6 votes]
096. May [2002, 186 points, 8 votes]
097. Rec [2007, 178 points, 7 votes]
099. Pontypool [2008, 176 points, 7 votes]
107. Anguish [160/7]
110. Messiah of Evil [152/7]
111. Cabin Fever [152/5]
113. Inside [151/5]
117. The Human Centipede: First Sequence [149/4]
118. (tie) The Reflecting Skin [148/5]
123. Alucarda [140/4]
125. American Psycho [139/4]
127. (tie) The Others [138/5]
130. (tie) The Mist [131/5]
134. Eden Lake [129/5]
135. The Changeling [128/3]
144. The Strangers [118/4]
145. (tie) Scream [117/4]
149. (tie) Ginger Snaps [113/4]

eric, are you going to post the list of everything that got a vote i.e. the sub 150 list? or did I miss that somewhere?

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:34 PM (Yesterday)

I think he's going to upload the whole spreadsheet.

Yep, only I have the wrong draft here at work. Will have to upload the final version when I get home later.

The only bad thing about this poll is how few of the movies are available to stream on Netflix.

I was not expecting 31 out of 50 to place. Things I voted for and was surprised to see place:

The Descent
Pulse
Night of the Hunter
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Hour of the Wolf
Jacob's Ladder
The Vanishing
Pan's Labyrinth

Especially Jacob's Ladder with all the hate in the noms thread.

I'm beyond shocked that Jacob's Ladder didn't score in the top 10 on Passiondex. You people who are nuts for that movie are NUTS for that movie.

cool thx

xp

watched Threads last night, damn that was grim. easily belongs here, should've been higher.

^^ learned what was up... too late

Well, I suppose that if all we've done is spread the awe at the greatness of Threads then at least we've achieved something.

I totally understand why Apaches didn't make it but I was really hoping for a placement around 98 or so

the way it goes from comical to horrifying is amazing (although maybe it helps to share a name with one of the kids)

Yeah, I didn't vote for Apaches as although it's only ten minutes shorter than my shortest vote, it still feels too much like episodic content in the series of 'public information broadcasting'. It is great, though.

That train safety video is pretty good too.

I love Apaches and, really, all public service announcements/public information films that use horror for effect, but I would've been kind of rmde a little if any of them slotted, if only for the "you people don't actually like real horror movies" gag reflex that jjjusten was unsuccessfully stifling throughout the rollout.

i didn't even vote, so Threads didn't miss out

Well, I suppose that if all we've done is spread the awe at the greatness of Threads then at least we've achieved something.

Also, the interest piqued by Possession's placement is quite heartening to see. I don't know that I ever would've discovered that amazing, horrifying gem of a movie without ILX, so I'm glad to do my part in paying it forward.

you people don't actually like real horror movies

I was going to vote for the one where the puppy made out of cancer vomits into a razerblade vagina that flies around and cuts the eyes out of children being raped by cadavers animated by cockroaches, but it got bumped off the list by Meshes of the Afternoon.

It's abt coming to terms with aging parents iirc

I was going to vote for the one where the puppy made out of cancer vomits into a razerblade vagina that flies around and cuts the eyes out of children being raped by cadavers animated by cockroaches,

this comes eerily close to describing the plot of Where the Dead Go to Die.

No I think that one, too, was about how you shouldn't jump in front of farm tractors.

Holy crap! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2095004/

"Where the Dead Go To Die" revolves around a troubled group of children living on the same block. They are haunted by a talking dog named Labby who brings them on surreal hell-rides between different dimensions and time periods. On the night of a lunar eclipse he informs Tommy about the devil fetus living inside his mother. The same night he attempts to help Ralph court the girl across the street, who is an unwilling participant in her father's child porn tape trading ring. Add in a memory stealing junkie living inside an abandoned church and you have 90 minutes of pure mind melting insanity.

Whoa that sounds GOOD.

It started out as fan fiction around the Swayze character in Donnie Darko.

I was much more interested before I watched the trailer and realized that it's like someone turned a Sims hack into a movie.

Samesies.

yes, But. i scribbled: "Horrorcore musician turned multithreat film auteur? full-length animation feature executed on a PlayStation III? I had good reason to expect the worst. Yes, the aesthetic and voice casting are very hard to get used to, and the perversity seems calculated to offend. But push through all that, and you'll find a very intriguing piece of outsider art-cinema. Against a psychedelic backdrop that's part Bosch, part Jerry Garcia tie, Jimmy ScreamerClauz (can I just, ugh) coaxes complex emotional responses to his woeful CGI cast of abused children, degenerates, demon dogs, and memory junkies. It shouldn't work, on any level, but it does, sucking you into the vortex of its hyperbolic melodrama and psychedelicized sadness."

Started off as a Ressidents video.

more maggots. more dogf*cking.

All I ask is real maggots, real dogs.

alas. you might have to option the rights for a stage version.

lol, just spent half an hour investigating this based on hal jam's initial post

alas. you might have to option the rights for a stage version.

No seriously, this has to happen

Like I almost think the next ILX compilation shd be the score to this, even

Watched Carnival of Souls this evening. I think I'm with Shakey -- I don't get the appeal either. It didn't scare me or make me care about the heroine, and the acting was incredibly bad. There were a lot of beautifully framed shots though.