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

We also need to keep Nightmare on Elm Street 2 in mind if we ever do a 'films with a barely disguised gay subtext' poll.

it's not for everybody... even the director hates it!

I thought about voting for The Cat and the Canary in the comedy poll, but I need to rewatch it; been over a decade now :/
Trying to think of the best Lon Chaney films to nominate.

Oh wait, there's already been a bunch of nominations for The Unknown, which tbh is the one which functions best w/our present-day understanding of horror.

Midnight Meat Train sounds promising

reading the wiki entry of Martyrs does not make me want to see it, I gotta say... why is it such a big deal?

Glad to see The Man Who Laughs is up for consideration - more a melodrama, but gloomy'n'Expressionist to count. Conrad Veidt is the dreamiest!

xxp It's based on a Cliver Barker story. Haven't seen it yet.

actually it seems to have decent reviews

Yeah, my ballot is going to very bereft of French new wave horror. And heavy on camp. Apologies in advance.

well 71% on Rotten Tomatoes is probably less than exemplary xp

reading the wiki entry of Martyrs does not make me want to see it, I gotta say... why is it such a big deal?

― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:23 PM (5 minutes ago)

best horror film of the last 10 years imo. brutal & pitiless in its exploration of pain and sadism, nihilist to the core.

tho part of the "fun" is not knowing where it's going, avoid spoilers if possible

Not trying to inject another Taxi Driver diversion, but I don't see Blue Velvet yet. I wasn't going to mention it at all, but I do see Lost Highway on the list. For me, BV isn't just a much better film, it's also much more frightening.

Fire Walk with Me

I think that's a legit horror movie, but I wouldn't put up a fight if it gets rejected.

for about half of martyrs you're unsure who is the victim and who is the victimizer, and once you do it attempts to grind yr soul into a fine powder. how it makes its way out of its untenable plot positions is a vicious thing of beauty.

Like I said upthread, I wouldn't complain about the nomination of pretty much any Lynch film. Might get a bit testy if The Straight Story winds up in the top ten, but we'll cross that bridge once we've slowly driven our riding mowers up to it.

I didn't think either Sleepaway Camp or Black Christmas were that far removed from mainstream notice, tbh? I mean, Sleepaway Camp was used in a Robot Chicken sketch and Black Christmas was remade in 2006

Anyone that hasn't seen Ghostwatch (1992) should get themselves over to Youtube - after reading the back story a little maybe. Really chilled me when it was first shown. I'm glad it is allowed.

The Thing is gonna win this, right?

My fave might have to be Don't Look Now - a beautiful film throughout, and it is a horror. I think.

The Thing is gonna win this, right?

on ilx? probably

btw Black Christmas is one of the few slasher movies I enjoyed watching

I LOVE The Thing and hope to heaven it does NOT win this poll. That one's a monster movie, not a horror movie.

NEED TO SEE black christmas, sleepaway camp, martyrs, the hills have eyes, audition, deep red, hour of the wolf, carnival of souls, videodrome, the changeling, prince of darkness

SHOULD I SEE high tension, insideous, night of the demons, the orphanage, the legend of hell house, pumpkinhead, don't look now, in the mouth of madness, last house on the left?

xpost i dunno when a head melts off, shrieks and grows legs, i'mma forgive someone for being horrified

oh fyi, you want the 1974 Black Christmas

Ghostwatch is probably best watched without knowing any of the backstory. Although, as an American, it was at least helpful to know who the presenters were (and to know that they were real, known people playing themselves) ahead of time. The backstory just adds an extra patina of awesome to the movie after the fact.

High Tension is worth seeing once. I didn't find that it's as amazing as everyone led me to believe but it's certainly fun to watch alone in the house by yourself

Definitely see pumpkinhead, don't look now, in the mouth of madness, last house on the left. The Legend of Hell House was, I thought, kinda meh.

I love The Thing and think it's a horror (or at least a hybrid horror), but I still probably won't vote for it, simply because there are so many other beautiful films to choose from here.

Need to re-screen GhostWatch, I haven't seen it since it was first shown when I was a kid.

Legend Of Hell House is for Roddy McDowall fans only (I'm one). Guess I should finally see the orig last house on the left before making my ballot.

I mean honestly my #1 vote might be Prince of Darkness or Hellraiser. The dream sequences in the former still make my freakin' skin crawl.

xxxp I really, really did not like The Descent. It is one of the only films that I can remember actually turning my head away from the screen to try and get away. This would be good for a horror film ordinarily but I didn't respect it - it felt like it was just pushing buttons akin to, say Notting Hill which thinks it should make me fall in love and cry.

I can't tell you how glad I am that we're having some kind of "official" nomination process. "Just vote for whatever you want" takes all the fun out of it, and would, I guarantee, make compiling the results a massive pain in the ass. Tell you the truth, I really like it when nominations are capped, like you can only nominate 20 or even 10 films. Makes you really think about what you're nominating, instead of lazily nomming any old thing (ha) that happens to pop into your head.

Anyway, I'm not going to worry to much about scariness or "objective quality" or any of that. Just my [however many] horror-type movies.

Almost want asterisks next to the movies currently on Netflix instant

not that anyone should put in the work, obv. but if you know one of your noms is, say so!

da croup, be prepared for one of the all-time musical misfires in Last House on the Left, a silly blot on an otherwise decent movie.

Last House was my #1 Want To See But Too Afraid To See movie for a while, though Martyrs has that top spot now.

Austerity, you should definitely see In the Mouth of Madness, which is one of Carpenter's best and most underrated films, and (a little less emphatically) The Legend of Hill House. Beyond that, I'm probably one of the few people who were disappointed by Don't Look Now. I thought it was a really nice setup to a really dumb punchline.

SHOULD I SEE... The Orphanage

― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:00 PM

My girlfriend WEPT throughout the whole of the second half of this film it got to her so much.

That one's a monster movie, not a horror movie.

^particularly insane

love The Thing, tho, they really knew how to leave stuff offscreen in 1951. "An intellectual carrot" etc.

you're an intellectual carrot, etc

Also - the version of Last House I saw seemed to be cut to shreds. The actual night of the rape etc. isn't seen at all - is this right?

Actually they knew how to crap up a perfectly good John W. Campbell short story.

Claim to fame: I won a copy of Last House on the Left at the first Music Box Massacre (annual 24-hour horror mood marathon).

Watch Insidious definitely but manage your expectations.

lol, basically everything i might possible vote for has already been nominated, but...

Haunting of Julia, The (1977)

which Friday the 13th was the one where Jason's tongue was possessing people

that was a stupid ass movie

Dead and Buried (1981)

Sleepaway Camp's basically terrible until the very last shot, at which point it becomes amazing.

High Tension is one of the worst moderately-well-reviewed horror films i've seen in a long time.

Don't Look Now is super.

wait, did we not nominate I Spit On Your Grave

Beyond, The (1981)