Tales From The ILX Top 100 Horror Movies Poll Discussion/Nominations Thread

So anyone can add to that doc?

Yeah. I'll keep a separate .xls for myself in case people try to throw tricks.

Also, what makes me like a horror movie or think it's good is not how much it scares me.

For anyone that wants nothing to do with a google doc, this is what I currently have in the nomination pool:

Alien
Audition
Birds, The
Black Sunday
Blair Witch Project, The
Bride of Frankenstein, The
Brood, The
Candyman
Cannibal Holocaust
Carnival Of Souls
Carrie (1976)
Cat People (1942)
Dawn Of The Dead
Descent, The
Devil's Rejects, The
Devils, The
Don't Look Now
Dressed To Kill
Evil Dead, The
Exorcist, The
Eyes Without A Face
Fly, The (1986)
Freaks
Halloween
Haunting, The
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Hills Have Eyes, The (1977)
I Walked With A Zombie
Inland Empire
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
Irreversible
Jaws
Last House on the Left (1972)
Martin
Night of the Demon
Night of the Hunter, The
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Nightmare On Elm Street, A
Nosferatu
Old Dark House, The
Omen, The
Outer Space
Peeping Tom
Poltergeist
Possession
Prince of Darkness
Psycho
Pulse
Repulsion
Ring, The (2001)
Rosemary's Baby
Seven
Shining, The
Silence of the Lambs, The
Sleepaway Camp
Suspiria
Tenant, The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)
Thing, The (1982)
Vampyr
Vanishing, The (1988)
Videodrome
Wait Until Dark
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Wicker Man, The
Witchfinder General/The Conqueror Worm

Drag Me To Hell
Paranormal Activity
Planet Terror

Teeth
Brain Dead/Dead Alive
28 Days Later

Does Threads count?

TV movie? Sure why not.

I just added Hausu into the spreadsheet, but I feel like doing it that way may confuse me as I'll have no record of it here.

Just Plain Top 100

^ this

Friday The 13th Part II
Rabid
Shivers
Ringu
The Haunting Of Hell House

Will I be the only person voting who still covers my eyes when a film scares me? Seriously. And I'm 50. (I even covered my eyes through a lot of No Country for Old Men the first time I saw it.)

Yeah, I was just realizing what a Pandora's box I opened up with that google doc.

For sanity's sake, I think doing it the old-fashioned way might be better for me to keep track.

woops, I meant The Legend Of Hell House. Different movie!

Will I be the only person voting who still covers my eyes when a film scares me? Seriously. And I'm 50.

It doesn't happen much, but I'll admit at the end of Paranormal Activity 2 I was worried what they'd do for an encore and watched between fingers.

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDES: pulse

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286751/

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Sooo...are we keeping track here of stuff we added to the spreadsheet? If so:

An American Werewolf in London
Blob, The (1988)
Brain Damage
Creepshow
Dawn of the Dead (1978) (Dates are gonna be crucial with some of these entries)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Eraserhead
Exorcist 3, The
Fog, The
From Dusk Til Dawn
God Told Me To
Gremlins
Hausu
Hellraiser
Howling, The
In The Mouth of Madness
Inland Empire
Legend of Hell House
Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Phantasm
Pieces
Return of the Living Dead
Salem's Lot
Shaun of the Dead
Testament
Tingler, The
Trick r' Treat

(Dates are gonna be crucial with some of these entries)

I'd also like to see a distinction between the Haunting (1963) and The Haunting (1999). While I can't imagine voting for the latter, someone might.

Yep, I closed off edit access to all for that doc, but I'll keep adding stuff to it myself. It's just easier for me to keep track of new entries that way.

Oh, man, yeah...this might be a PITA for you, Eric. Like, I was trying to pare down my list as I noticed people mentioning stuff in this thread, but I still managed to add some dupes. Plus an unintentional string of bbcode (which I watched someone delete in real time and didn't realize was a thing Google Docs did...creeeeepy).

Oh, never mind. Ha ha.

LOL, yeah, when I was trying to edit and saw two other users adding stuff, I thought: This is a mistake.

So, to recap. Nominations doc is available for all to read. I'll add titles that are listed in this thread, and the ones that received votes in the yearly horror movie polls (later).

Carry on Screaming
Deep Red
Dog Soldiers
Hellraiser
Kill List
Let the Right One In (2008)
Lifeforce
Psychomania
Sleepy Hollow
Theatre of Blood

I have 4 types of things I generally look for in a good horror movie (but not necessarily in the same flick):

* terror/fright
* tension/thrills/accelerated heart rate
* unease/despair
* lols

there are probably going to be a few movies that are just classic or great that I'll include on my list (and I probably have more criteria than what I listed), but this is what I think of first when I think of horror/comedy horror.

I don't scare easy, so I love a good fright. Maybe a half-dozen movies have legit scared me.

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?

wait, what?

Does Threads count?

Testament will be very high on my ballot, so I'd say horrifying Reagan/Thatcher-era nuclear war nightmares absolutely count (maybe this will be the kick in the seat I need to finally watch Threads). And I think TV movies should probably get a huge pass in this poll to allow for the inclusion of stuff like Salem's Lot and It.

Speaking of which, I nominate:

Ghostwatch

Okay, some more noms:

Häxan (1922)
Vampyr (1932)
Suspiria
The Stone Tape
Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
Blood on Satan's Claw
Eraserhead

Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Tenebrae
Angry Red Planet
It! The Terror from Beyond Space

Evil Dead II
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II
Ringu
Phantasm II
The Changeling
White Zombie
Frailty
Halloween III
Zombie
Rec aka [rec]
Black Christmas (1974)
Slither
Martyrs
Scanners
Zombie aka Zombi 2 (1979)
Eraserhead

^ oops @ Zombie repeat

I love how many times Eraserhead is getting nominated. :)

will be an easy ballot cuz there are only about 20 respectable horror films ever

and one of the top 5 is Kobayashi's Kwaidan (1964)

figure it will get 3 votes.

Added that boring movie to the nominations list.

also..

The Changeling (1980)

(not the one w/ Angelina Jolie)

Horror = a gazillion times better a genre than comedy. And often funnier, too.

know-nothingism reigns, it is the Year Zero!

Oh. Oh, oh, oh. I started watching Cathy's Curse last night (from the same 10 for $10 box set that introduced me to the wonderful God Told Me To and Pieces) while going to sleep, and I'll have to finish it to see whether it belongs here, but what I saw was the most jaw-droppingly :O sub-Ed Wood ineptitude which was somehow so inept that it started crossing over into something surreal and unnerving even while it made me laugh. It doesn't feel like something made by human beings or anything with the capacity for conscious thought.

(Also, horror is way cleverer, has better cinematography, more plot, deeper characterisation... I could go on...)

Oh, god, yeah, The Changeling. That movie scared the ever-living crap out of me when I was like 12 and saw it on HBO.

k, emil.y added to enemies list

Glad to see that Morbs will be maintaining the complain-a-thon throughout this poll, as well.

Haha, like months ago.

Morbs is going to take it to the next level on this one.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
M
Let the Right One In (2008)
Bloodsucking Freaks

You've admitted repeatedly that you don't enjoy being scared and don't like horror movies generally, Morbs, so I suspect the thread will give your cavils all the attention that they merit.

actually I won't DWH, since it's my least fave genre and I don't care what you guys think about anything

*into Carrie Weiss's grave*

So I really love ringu, dark water, pulse

Any other Japanese horror movies you folks can recommend?

Also loved A Tale of Two Sisters (and The Host which is of a different sort than what I'm looking for here)

So obv looking for recommendations for Korean horror as well

omg Carrie Weiss :)

think I'll save my dark horse agitating for the voting thread

the marc loi in you might object tho? (no shots fired)

lol, no worries. i've avoided the shaun costello & zebedy colt 70s roughies, mostly due to presumed rapeyness.

OK, last call for nominations. Will open the poll for ballots a little later today.

Wtf, this wasn't nominated yet?

Troll 2

I didn't want to vote for it in the comedy poll, because I decided to exclude unintentional comedies, but it certainly was intended to be a horror movie.

It's either a great comedy or a rotten horror movie.

I may just give Troll 2 one point on every poll.

turner classic movies held a film festival last weekend in hollywood with a midnight screening of phase iv on friday, kinda funny to see it positioned among the likes of singing in the rain, the searchers, and vertigo...

http://www.tcm.com/festival/programs/481842/index.html

tbh it's been years and years since I've seen devil inside her, iirc there's one troubling sequence but the rest is pretty standard stuff for the time, albeit dressed up in disturbing facepaint

xp to contendo

last wave, the (1977)

^ weird that classics like this are still getting nommed, down to the wire and we're still missing good stuff but ah well

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