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

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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.

i, on the other hand, watched where the dead go to die this evening. utterly wretched no-budget digital animation, colorful hallucinations galore, psychological disintegration in response to unspeakable trauma and abuse, sickening perversion enacted by crappy sims, unrelieved misery, lovercraftian misogyny, dogfucking, corpsefucking, childfucking and rivers of blobby low-rez gore.

whether or not it's literally true, AP otm in that it really, really does look like something that began life as a residents video. crossed maybe with a rinse dream movie (paging dr. caligari) and filtered through some sort of survivors' therapy group meeting. it's horrible in a million ways, like 96-minute korn video, but i does manage to cough up some striking imagery along the way.

reminds me of comics by folks like mike diana, an artless vomiting of vile imagery and ideas that attempts to make up for what it lacks in aesthetic sophistication with wounded, crackpot intensity - and occasionally succeeds. heavy al columbia influence too, whether direct or indirect. or maybe like watching blood brothers lyrics come to life. ugly, repulsive garbage of the worst sort, and not really recommended to anyone, but...

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That very much looks like a movie I will not ever watch.

probably a good idea

xposts: LOL WmC I watched "Carnival of Souls" tonight too -- but I had the total opposite reaction. When the movie started I was like, oh this is going to be really hard to get into, it's really awkwardly done. And then that scene where she's driving to Utah and the creepy music starts up and she sees that scary dude in the window reflection OKAY I'M IN.

Was it talked about upthread how proto-Lynch this movie is? The long closeups, the weird humming noises and use of silence and the hallucinated figure in the crowded room... I was getting such a Lost Highway/Bob from Twin Peaks vibe from the scary guy's appearances. I read afterwards that Lynch was a big fan so I guess it all makes sense now, haha.

And I really did end up invested in her as a character. Especially just with her terror and paranoia and she's still getting hit on by the across the room neighbor who either doesn't notice or doesn't care that um she's really not been okay since you met her so I don't know why you're surprised when she really DOES freak out. And that closeup of his eye when he's watching her put on her robe through the door....bleeeeehhhhhh

It very successfully gave me the creeps a great number of times, and I definitely am adding it to my new list of favorites. Thanks ILX!

Overall just a very creepy, sadly beautiful movie. Lack of dialog combined with the music/sound really did it for me.

Though that movie definitely highlights the benefits of a good foley artist. Holy crap could her footsteps have sounded more club-footed?

*** just wanna make clear that my long post up there is in no way an endorsement of where the dead go to die. i watched it cuz, i dunno, it sounded unusual (and it was). i took about 100 screecaps while watching it, cuz i love that kind of exaggerated, camp-surrealist horror imagery, but the movie itself is a turd. boring, ugly, dumb, obvious and whiny, with terrible performances and depressingly lazy animation/design. it flaunts a high school shooter's "satanic" nihilism and despair, but even the angst seems second-hand. avoid.

Though that movie definitely highlights the benefits of a good foley artist. Holy crap could her footsteps have sounded more club-footed?

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, May 26, 2012 6:54 AM (1 hour ago)

I saw a "live" performance of Carnival of Souls where they had musicians, voice actors and a foley artist on stage below the projection, replacing all the sound. A vast improvement tbh!

― etc, Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:05 PM (1 month ago)

It took me four hours to read this thread and it was the most informative four hours in recent memory.

be sure to catch the 2 prequels

There's a 3D remake coming out in August.

There will be a "Coward's Corner" accessible to those too faint-of-heart to brave all 8,000 posts.

When I was a kid, we used to pass around a VHS tape with only the best bits of this thread, edited down.

55 ilxors went into the woods, and this thread is all that remains...

someone said two people actually died on set while they were making it

Somewhere between science and superstition, there is another world. The world of this thread.

Wasn't Ilxor the name of that tentacled God conjured by Lovecraft?

ilx is built on an indian burial ground

The real reason ILX is scared to take showers has never been told.

whatever you do, don't go in the basement

built from the code of an indian message board

the phone call is coming from inside the thread

wow, i hadn't even thought about mike diana in many years