xposts Tho it's a zillion times scarier than Pan's Labyrinth imo.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
oh War of the Worlds counts? huh
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
Also, I always think the guy on this cover:
is that not a gal
(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
it's gonna be difficult for me to get up to 50 movies, lol
and for anyone else employed and out of their teens.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
How many films did you vote for in the comedy poll, Morbs?
― emil.y, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
home movie (2008)30 days of nightwoods, the (2006)woman, the (2011)deadgirl (2008)sauna (2008)sexykiller (2008)
whoever nommed viy I kiss you
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
oh oh wait, I have another controversial nomination:
Beloved
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
I won't put any rules into place until after the noms/discussion period is done.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
man I really hated the Beloved movie. but I think loving the book so much just automatically set me up to be disappointed.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
why are the old and employed making a racket in the kids' yard?
― da croupier, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Eric can we make this a NO OLDS ALLOWED poll?
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
I'm old, employed, and can probably make a ballot of 100 horror movies. Someone's setting up straw dogs men.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
straw geezers
(Tho this poll may kill off my employment.)
Dorian Gray (1970)
― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
13 TzametiSignal, TheShroomsDeadgirlUngodly, The aka The Perfect WitnessBelowCity of the Living DeadHorseman, TheRED (2008)StuckHuman Centipede: First Sequence, TheShadowFeed
Just a jump off list here sourced from a different thread, more when i dont have peeps in the shop trying to buy stuff. dicks.
― sfdgafhtehw (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
Arguably walking a very slippery slope, but I kind of agree. Particularly from the POV of the kids.
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
LOL, oh Feed. :)
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
CloverfieldSuper 8
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yhI2B4K0p8c/Tar_sNczFJI/AAAAAAAAAI4/XxMDtMP-XCo/s1600/grumpy+old+men.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
ah shit i bet theres some duplication there i didnt check all the xposts, sorry man
― sfdgafhtehw (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
clemenza you're young at heart, you can stay <3
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Eaten AliveMeet The Applegates (a possibly controversial nominee that I considered and rejected nominating for the comedy poll)
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
Just know that if Super 8 and Taxi Driver place above Last House on Dead End Street and Deathdream, there will be spillage.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
Oops, forgot I was to remain impartial as the mod.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
man i am obv not a good judge of this, but looking at the expansion of noms i find it nearly impossible to imagine that anyone wont be able to at least list 20 films
― sfdgafhtehw (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
Yay for me!
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link