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

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)

I mean Campbell writes

Eagerly Blair was stripping back the ropes. A single throw of the tarpaulin revealed the thing. The ice had melted somewhat in the heat of the room and it was clear and blue as thick, good glass. It shone wet and sleek under the harsh light of the unshielded globe above.

The room stiffened abruptly. It was face up there on the plain, greasy planks of the table. The broken half of the bronze ice-ax was still buried in the queer skull. Three mad, hate-filled eyes blazed up with a living fire, bright as fresh-spilled blood. from a face ringed with a writhing, loathsome nest of worms, blue, mobile worms that crawled where hair should grow.

And we get

http://www.gunsmokenet.com/GunsmokeTGAW/Marks-Stuff/Gunsmoke/thing.jpg

<3 u forever Howard Hawks but gtfo with Marshall Dillon in a bald cap.

The Beyond should be on there.

Also, I really disliked Don't Look Now so you are not alone D.W.H.

Dead and Buried (1981)

― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, April 5, 2012 4:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Watched this recently on Netflix, super-creepy!

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

yes, yes you do

high tension - yes
the legend of hell house - it's a little slow and lol 70s but some great creepy atmospherics
don't look now - yes yes a thousand times yes
last house on the left - you don't see it as much as survive it but as part of horror history it's pretty critical

the beyond already on the nom list

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.

nah, sleepaway camp also has amazing 70s fashions, a couple great wft?!? deaths, and an AMAZING opening act ("Aunt Martha" is a fucking icon)

high tension is great. and stupid. and great.

agree abt don't look now.

prolly won't vote for dead & buried but wholeheartedly support its inclusion

duh, i searched for "the beyond" instead of just "beyond" or "beyond, the"

my bad

hey Phil D, u never see Arness anywhere that close or in focus in the film, thx for playin'

I'm gonna morbz out y'all and vote for the thing from another world and not the thing

not kidding

Prince of Darkness your #1, Phil? That movie. It was one of the few Carpenters I'd never seen, and about, 5 or 6 years ago I was bored and decided to watch it. I couldn't stand it. Any of it. Except the Alice Cooper parts.
but it's funny because I know SOOO many people who love it. I just don't get it AT ALL.

xxxxxp High Tension actually made me angry with its stupidity. It's making me angry with its stupidity just thinking about it!

Sleepaway Camp's definitely worth seeing, irrespective of the quality of the bulk of the film.

Don't care, still not a gloss on the Campbell story or Carpenter's version. This is one where you're just flat out wrong, and your preference for old-over-new regardless of merit is a handicap.

Can I have my kewpie doll now?

XXP Maybe my #1. We'll see.

Was just gonna try to get a read on how much favor The Sentinel has but I see it was already nominated. It's not particularly good, but it's certainly batshit enough to be in the running. Although, to be honest, I just enjoyed watching it because Cristina Raines was the most gorgeous actress ever in the '70s.

blood for dracula
flesh for frankenstein

What about some of the other Stephen King movies? I didn't see any of these so I don't know if they're any good, but:

Christine
Cujo
Firestarter
The Dead Zone
Pet Sematary
The Night FlierChildren of the Corn
Cat's Eye
Silver Bullet
Maximum Overdrive
Sleepwalkers
Graveyard Shift
The Dark Half
Needful Things
The Mangler
Thinner
Dreamcatcher
Secret Window
Riding The Bullet
1408

I did see The Lawnmower Man and Misery; not sure I'd call Misery a horror movie and The Lawnmower Man was fucking terrible

it's a shame they never made shampoo for werewolf

Yeah, Edward, good call on the Paul Morrissey flicks.

High Tension actually made me angry with its stupidity. It's making me angry with its stupidity just thinking about it!

It was probably so stupid because it was ripping off one of the stupidest horror writers ever.

ha I thought about nominating Dreamcatcher but its appeal is more LOL for me. If The Mist isn't nominated it should be though.

stephen king on screen is almost universally terrible except for carrie, the shining, and the dead zone

a lot of ppl like pet sematary I guess but eh

would support the mist nom but only the b&w version

DJP you have to watch Maximum Overdrive, which finally answers the question "What if you gave King a fuckton of coke and let him direct one of his own adaptations?"

I mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn83VuCzP1k

Maximum Overdrive opens so fucking awesome but pretty sure I'd zoned out by the end

apt pupil is a really underrated king adaptation but not sure it counts as horror

I will rep for a number of those Stephen King movies. Cujo, Dead Zone, Christine, and Pet Sematary are all good value.

The Mist is nominated but there's no mention of which one it is

Edward otm, Stephen King and movies = cheesy lols and/or sadness usually, except for the 3 that Edward cited

Thinner is one of the most grotesquely racist and sexist films i've ever seen in my life. I'd go along with the idea that only Carrie and the Shining are worth seeing - and i think both are fairly over-rated.

Or the longer clip, which segues from slapstick death-by-soda to a child being run over by a steamroller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K44PqV2Idk

creepshow, creepshow 2 blah bloo blargh

apt pupil is a really underrated king adaptation but not sure it counts as horror

yeah, I had it on the list but pulled it for reasons similar to Misery not really fitting into a horror poll (despite being a mainstream precursor to what would end up being called "torture porn", lol)

Both Creepshows are already nominated.

SHOULD I SEE: the dead zone? Always avoided it due to STEPHEN KING MOVIE (with aforementioned quality exceptions)

Thinner is one of the most grotesquely racist and sexist films i've ever seen in my life. I'd go along with the idea that only Carrie and the Shining are worth seeing - and i think both are fairly over-rated.

― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, April 5, 2012 4:27 PM

rewatched a ton of classic 70s horror pix w/ my teenage brother-in-law years ago, was kind of shocked to come out realizing carrie is a stone cold classic

I liked but did not love the shining, until the recent DVD remasters restored it to some sort of eyebreaking glory

otherwise you are otm

dead zone totally worth it for walken's perf

The Dead Zone is a must-see.

xpost I wouldn't put it on my top 50 horror ballot, but it's a great movie-length Twilight Zone starring Christopher Walken.

"The ICE . . . is gonna BREAK!"

get those SCISSORS out of your MOUTH

Seconds (1966)
Crimes of Passion (1984)
Stepfather, The (1987)
Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Reflecting Skin, The (1990)
Naked Blood (1996) - aka Splatter: Naked Blood
Wishmaster (1997)
Wishmaster 2 (1999)
Stacy (2001) - aka Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies
Suicide Club (2001)
Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
Thirst (2009)