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

The Criterion transfer of Häxan is in my queue on Hulu. Must watch before this gets to the voting stage.

I am adding all these titles to the doc. Will do cleanup later when I'm not pretending to work.

oh, i do hope to bring the lolz w/ my Italian-free list.

What else will your list be devoid of, aside from scares?

oh, i do hope to bring the lolz w/ my Italian-free list.

So no Taxi Driver on your ballot?

It's perfectly possible to do an amazing Italian-free horror list, but I don't know why you'd purposefully want to cut off your naso to spite your faccia.

Funny Games (1997)
High Tension aka Haute Tension
The People Under the Stairs
The Hitcher (1986)
Cabin Fever
The Lost Boys
Creepshow 2
Lost Highway
The Serpent and the Rainbow

Sorry, didn't realize I added so many duplicates...it was taking so long to post as it was.

Clean, Shaven
Cure (Kyua)
Inside (À l'intérieur)
Jacob's Ladder
Session 9

Night of the Demon & Curse of the Demon are the same Tourneur film, right? that's a goodie.

I believe so but there are a couple Night of the Demon's IIRC...

What else will your list be devoid of, aside from scares?

two of the most boring films of the Carter Administration, Alien and The Shining.

Eric and I both like Kiyoshi Kurosawa a lot, strangely.

that reminds me -

Night of the Hunter, The

really confused about the lack of distinction between horror and suspense/thriller itt. if M. and NIGHT OF THE HUNTER are nominated without remark, can i nominate FRENZY (1972)?!

idk i will just vote from the list you ppl draw up.

wait did anyone say

Mulholland Dr

?

hahaha too late marc I already nominated Frenzy...

Now let's pummel genre definitions to death!

I know what you mean. I might also have to be quite strict on the distinction between horror and giallo. Maybe. Depends on quite how full to bursting my list gets. Night of the Hunter has been accepted into the horror cannon for a while, though.

xxpost

The Strangers
Antichrist
Night of the Creeps
They Live
The Fly (1986)
Shallow Grave

oooh I need to rewatch Shallow Grave. The one time I saw it was when I had the worst/first hangover of my life when I was like 14. I don't remember it much except for a guy drilling holes in the ceiling.

k-horror

r-point
tell me something
acacia
memento mori
the quiet family

j-horror

ju-on: the curse (2000)
ju-on: the curse 2 (2000)
ju-on: the grudge (2003) - this is the one most ppl have seen
ju-on: the grudge 2 (2003)
cure
dark water
jigoku
kairo aka pulse
marebito
onibaba
one missed call
versus
tomie (this is a series, doubt anybody would vote for them tho)
uzumaki aka spiral
audition
MPD psycho
happiness of the katakuris
hiruko the goblin
tetsuo: the iron man
gemini
ichi the killer (horror? or just horrific?)

hk
the eye
DUMPLINGS!

some other asian stuff
three
three... extremes
shutter (2004)

wd've been fine with orig Texas Chainsaw Massacre finishing waaaay ahead of Ghostbusters in comedy poll, btw

MPD Psycho isn't a film, it's a TV series! It's one of the greatest TV series ever, but still, it doesn't count for this poll.

Also, I thought The Eye was a bit rubbish.

wd've been fine with orig Texas Chainsaw Massacre finishing waaaay ahead of Ghostbusters in comedy poll, btw

Ditto.

Of course, I'd root for that movie in a romance poll.

the awful dr orloff
let's scare jessica to death
les yeux sans visage aka eyes without a face
lemora: a child's tale of the supernatural
shock waves
messiah of evil
last house on dead end street
calvaire

many of my nominations are probably pushing what could be called a "horror" movie:

Jacob's Ladder
Naked Lunch
The Grudge
Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight
Saw
Dracula (1931)
Interview With The Vampire
Blade
Underworld

xxp Best Movies w/Fat Guys in Wheelchairs

MPD Psycho isn't a film, it's a TV series! It's one of the greatest TV series ever, but still, it doesn't count for this poll.

Also, I thought The Eye was a bit rubbish.

― emil.y, Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:40 AM (2 minutes ago)

TV movie? Sure why not.

― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:41 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

last house on dead end street

Awesome nom!

TV movie = OK
TV series = No

:( no Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Although it was a TV movie pilot first, right?

Rocky Horror Picture Show

nominations threads are good just so it gives everyone a chance to talk about a bunch of movies before they vote, imho

fair enough

xps

Edward III - there is a whole world of difference between a TV movie and a TV series. I shake my head at thee.

eh kinda think of MPD as a miniseries so

warning: last house on dead end street will place high on my ballot

A miniseries is still a series! There is no way you can get around the fact that it just isn't a film.

I'll keep it on the list if you're really going to vote for it, edward iii. But, yeah, it's not going to get much support.

dude I've been wanting to see a bunch of these (God Told Me To, Blue Sunshine, Suspiria, Tetsuo: the Iron Man) forever

The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
Pumpkinhead

I kind of want it struck from the list because I don't want to see it languishing at the bottom like an unloved film, when it should instead be seen as a much-loved TV programme.

liked Tetsuo: the Iron Man.

horror is way cleverer, has better cinematography, more plot, deeper characterisation

B+ trolling, but shitty tech qualities actually HELP many horror films... early Romero, Cronenberg before he moved to the adults' table, etc.

Hmmm . . . maybe at some point we should poll "monster movies" separately from "horror movies."

Pan's Labyrinth?

Morbs sort of makes a valid point, but I'd argue they're expertly deployed shitty tech qualities.

A stupid choice but one that scarred me for life as a kid because it dealt with two of my worst fears: live burial and anthropophagy

Blood Beach (1980)

Really want to veto Pan's Labyrinth, ftr.

B+ trolling, but shitty tech qualities actually HELP many horror films... early Romero, Cronenberg before he moved to the adults' table, etc.

Not trolling. And yeah, I used cinematography rather than 'technical qualities' because I think that's a strong point with a lot of horror (but by no means all - I guess I was suggesting that the pinnacle of horror cinematography is far far superior to the pinnacle of comedy cinematography). But I adore low rent lo-fi tech stuff just as much. Hence why in my next post I am going to nominate Herschell Gordon Lewis' The Wizard of Gore.

man, the VHS cover to Blood Beach used to freak me out.