all horror movies should have upside down crosses in them
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Which is, I swear, not a preemptive disenfranchisement of Morbs' ballot.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Well, it's kind of a hodge-podge after the first ~ 20, and it's not necessarily a bad idea, but it might make the latter half of my list a little more desultory than otherwise. @ Eric
― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
xpost -- oh i see
well if the rules say vote for 50, i'll vote for 50. I didn't realize ppl just go 'fuck i'm only voting for 10' or whatever
all horror movies should have Jaco Pastorius in them. esp. because he's DEAD.
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
well especially because of that
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
This is going to be hard, hah... One of those things like the all time metal poll where getting my ballot down to 50 choices will be maddening.
― I will transmit this information to (Viceroy), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
it's gonna be difficult for me to get up to 50 movies, lol
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
^yeah
― a lot of seriously talentless bassists out there (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I can get away with the ascending point value plan, but it will irk me to see some ballots come in from people who can't muster anything beyond 10 or 20.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
But honnnnnnesty's not your strong suit...
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
Added this:
Visitor QSuicide ClubHuman Centipede, TheLet Me In (2010)House of the Devil, TheBugWar of the Worlds (2005)Halloween II (2009)
From this:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/the-25-best-horror-films-of-the-aughts/281/
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
what if both Let Me In and Let the Right Ones In place?
― a lot of seriously talentless bassists out there (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
honnnnnnesty'sold movies suuuuuuuck soooooo muchhhhhh
Did you just have a stroke?
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
oh War of the Worlds counts? huh
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
sure you have your full complement of silent horror? all the Tod Brownings?
(like anyone who hasn't seen them wd watch)
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
(Magnetic Fields ref lost on Tony Manero)
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
I think that's better than the alternative, wherein people with only 20 or so favorites pack a bunch of garbage into the back end of their ballots in order to give their number one pick more heft.
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
i'm hoping this poll proves *once and for all* that The Omen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Exorcist.
― piscesx, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe you think this is a slam.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Deric, that's true.
Taking War of the Worlds off. That was just clumsy cut-and-pasting.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
Also, I always think the guy on this cover:
is that not a gal
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
I don't believe you (are gay any longer)
xp
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
xposts Tho it's a zillion times scarier than Pan's Labyrinth imo.
I'd contest it more because I didn't particularly care for it than because it's not a straight-up horror film. But it does have some scary-ish stuff (inasmuch as it approaches the concept of genocidal aliens with a much more gravid brush than does Mars Attacks! or Independence Day), so I don't have a problem with it being in the running.
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)GhostWatch (1992)
― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
(Joke too subtle.)
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
btw did Forbidden World aka Mutant get vetoed because it's unbelievably terrible
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
My misuse of the word 'gravid' = most horrifying thing in this thread thus far.
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
(I'm semi-okay with that, I just wanted to know)
OH DANG gargoyles (1972)
This is another movie I saw once on tv as a kid. I remember being really into for a week but have only wierd shadowy memories of it. The first half of the movie was spooky and isolated and what are these strange happenings, and then iirc the second half was just like conversations with gargoyles, and like "we're people too" boo-hoo type stuff around monster genocide ot w/e
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
lol I didn't even notice the gravid brush until you pointed it out
what the hell have you been doing with that brush
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
as spastic as I get about genre shenanigans, DJP I have to say I kind of love you for nomming Interview With The Vampire
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really understand why a movie would be pulled from the nominations for not being "horror" enough. If it doesn't belong people won't vote for it. Plus, as the comment re: Pan's Labyrinth points out, it's a slippery slope.
― da croupier, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
also that description of Gargoyles the movie makes it sound like Gargoyles the mid-90s cartoon show
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
there should be a minimum # of movies on the ballot. 20 votes minimum I think has been standard
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Kz6G8174w
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
City of the Living Dead aka The Gates of HellFinal Destination 2Prom Night (1980)Wes Craven's New NightmarePsycho 2
― picture jean rollin (Pillbox), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
I almost nominated War of the Worlds but it straddles a weird sci-fi/horror/action axis where I'm not comfortable placing it in any of them. That said, if it's on the ballot, it'll get a vote from me somewhere. That first scene with the tripods is straight-up pants-shitting horror.
xp oh well n/m
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
if there's a minimum, it needs to be much lower than 20 IMO, otherwise you are either fucking up the poll with noise or you are de facto filtering out the people who are interested in participating but aren't as well-versed in the genre, or you are forcing them to vote for things they may not have voted for just to meet the minimum count
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
Really? I can think of 20 movies easily and I'm not a big horror buff
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
It's still on the list.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
Cat and the Canary, TheHands of Orlac, TheLe Manoir du DiableUnknown, TheWaxworks (1924)
from this list:http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-under-appreciated-silent-horror-films.php
― I will transmit this information to (Viceroy), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
DJP's right. I love horror, but only my top 20 are going to be meaningful.
― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I've got no love for people who vote in a horror movie poll that can't name at least 20 movies.
I can easily think of 20 canonical horror movies but I haven't seen all of them so I therefore wouldn't vote for them
like, I've never seen the entirety of the first Friday the 13th, or the first Halloween, or the first Nightmare on Elm Street, to throw out some obvious from-our-generation examples
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think you should go with ascending points. That would just lead to the crappier well-known films getting a few more votes that they don't need and sending me into extra-Morbsian apoplexy.
Not sure about minimum votes, either, but wouldn't necessarily oppose it.
And Picnic at Hanging Rock is definitely a horror film.
― emil.y, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
So is Walkabout ^
― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
it's a list of 20 horror movies you enjoyed, not "20 canonical horror movies"
― da croupier, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link