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

Ooh, new films, have we had Amer yet? More giallo than horror, again, but very much a tribute to both genres.

Somebody please recommend movies like Possession so I have some new and amazing stuff to watch and maybe vote for.

Ooh, new films, have we had Amer yet? More giallo than horror, again, but very much a tribute to both genres.

yeah, i nominated it a little while back

recommended to fans of possession (though they don't have anything directly in common)

xp - The Stuff has been nominated, right?

amazingly, it has not!

but you just nominated it, i guess...

I would be comfortable seconding a nomination, but I haven't seen it since...3rd grade? 4th grade? (saw it at a birthday party along with Nightmare on Elm Street) and I definitely can't nominate it on that basis. Wanna watch it again soon! It didn't make the cut at friends' horror movie marathons the past couple years.

it's p bad but definitely entertaining, no competition to Q or god told me to

Society (1989)

^ kind of amazed this wasn't nominated earlier

the stuff is on netflix instant, fyi

As is Full Moon High, Larry's precursor to Teen Wolf.

so how many of you will also be voting for gross-out low-budget gorefests with no redeeming social value

i don't want to be throwing my votes away here

i mean like guinea pig movies, not the dorm that dripped blood

please note that i nominated the butcher so you are at least in safe company here

so how many of you will also be voting for gross-out low-budget gorefests with no redeeming social value

i will be voting for plenty of low budget gorefests. i will not be voting for gross, depressing torture shit.

speaking of that, anyone nominate the untold story?

^ not that i'm nominating it, mind...

i will not be voting for gross, depressing torture shit.

one man's unwatchable fake snuff film is another man's lol

of course, of course

and snuff - that's gotta be on the list, too, right?

huh, neither has been nominated. kind of happy to see that, tbh.

the thing is that i have a bottomless appetite for the cruddiest crud in this genre, but i know right now my list is gonna be all the usual suspects, some "prestige" shit, and a handful of cruddy lo-fi outliers.

i just watched a serbian film (after getting all high & mighty abt my refusal to do so a little while back), so i understand completely

^ this is NOT a nomination, btw

haha a serbian film was shit but because it was a shittily made film

that said, i presume a decent film could be made about [UNSPEAKABLE ACTS REDACTED] but i probably wouldn't put money on it

super stoked for this!

I'd originally hoped to poll the winners of all the yearly horror film threads, but never got around to it since:

a) folks seemed to be losing enthusiasm
b) work got super busy and my fuck about time got seriously compromised
c) the notion of pitting forgettable late 90's horror flicks against heavy hitters like Rosemary's Baby or Alien or whatever seemed pointless.

Thanks for doing this, Eric!

so how many of you will also be voting for gross-out low-budget gorefests with no redeeming social value

i don't want to be throwing my votes away here

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, April 5, 2012 7:56 PM (31 minutes ago)

follow your heart, man. follow the grue-drenched still-beating heart freshly ripped from your chest cavity with eyes slowly glazing over in eternal darkness.

Phase IV is awesome, dudes. Mind blown at ability to create a visual narrative using live photography of ants. Is it horror, though?

my initial instinct is no, but an argument could be made. def a lot creepy imagery, any malefic creatures are a form of monster I guess. if stuff like frogs or jaws are horror, why not ants? tho it does have a very sci-fi bent and the psychedelic ending doesn't really have a horror feel? I dunno

Yeah, I'm not nominating it. This is the last time I will bring phae iv up on this thread because I wouldn't classify it as horror, but OH DANG I LOVE THIS FLICK

I mean, there are some eye-rolling moments around the writing, but you know, still awesome

Huh. Just watched Phase IV. I should watch more 60s and 70s sci-fi in this vein.

The end negated the horror elements I think. Also the end was disappointing - the twist was good, but the narration at the very end was way facile. A lot of the rest was surprisingly good, e.g. what you, AP, said re the great use of film of real ants.

Glad to hear that The Stuff is streaming. I'm going to go to bed early and at least start watching it on my laptop. It will be interesting to see what kind of inappropriate stuff my friend's parents let him and his very young friends watch. (We also watched Nightmare on Elm Street that night...that one left an impression. Enough that I borrowed my dad's tools and made a pretty rad glove.)

here's a good guide to 70s sci-fi

The 1970's Science Fiction Movie Poll

rituals (1977)

is there a movie like the descent without the cave monster stuff, ie a thriller where people are trapped in a cave and have to shimmy through tiny collapsing spaces oh my god i'm getting chills just thinking about it

i have noticed over my years of horror/thriller movie-ing that it i am usually more partial however to those where the scares come from supernatural elements.

xpost there was a British film called The Hole from 2001, I think Thora Birch was in it, kind of along those lines...but it's not good, in fact it's pretty dire. Buncha kids stuck in a bunker or something.

oh yeah i hated the hole, it's one of those movies with the chronology topped like we didn't figure out they killed each other in the first five goddamn minutes

chronology chopped

I'm trying to think of some others that did it well. The Ruins kind of has a similar 'trapped by nature' thing, it's a bit cheesy compared to the book but unfortunatley not underground, just stuck on top of a weird jungle mesa

The Descent was one excellent horror movie idea and one decent horror movie idea smooshed into a single movie that was much, much less than the sum of its parts. As much as I loved the first half, I honestly don't know if I can bring myself to vote for it. It hedged its bets so unforgivably.

Just want to say that The Stuff was not good (except sort of for nostalgic reasons). It started off sort of amusingly bad but the last 1/4 or so was a mess of a different sort than what preceded it. If the whole movie's editing had been that haphazard, it might have been acceptable, but after about 60 minutes of being just dumb, it turned unintentionally Birdemic (which is an adjective, BTW). It reminded me of essay exams I turned in for 8 a.m. summer courses when I showed up 15 minutes late, clammy, and cracked out.

holy shit I just had the weirdest dejavu. Either we've had this conversation before or you all featured recently on ILX Dreams, lol

Well, that might explain why all my teeth just fell out.

feel like the noms list should only be movies talked about itt: jus wanna talk 2u abt JAPANESE HORROR FILM

That is a great thread that i had totalky forgotten about! I might use evil mod magic to find mr Hal jams email and ask him to show up for these noms actually.

ASK HAL JAM TO SHOW UP, srs, that dude is a wizard, a true star

plus yeah, the stuff is real bad, but funny in that somehow

i have noticed over my years of horror/thriller movie-ing that it i am usually more partial however to those where the scares come from supernatural elements.

― humba (NZA), Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

am 100% in agreement. love atmosphere, absurdity, otherworldly dream nonsense. the more horror skews towards "thriller" the more brutal and depressing it gets. i blame psycho, though i love that and lots of knifey maniac movies.

I don't think anyone has nominated:

10,000 Maniacs
Perfect Blue
Lisa And The Devil
La Bete (Borowczyk)

10,000 Maniacs

Possibly because it's called 2000 Maniacs instead - which is nominated. Ignore me.

Although 10,000 Maniacs were horrific in their own way.

Just updated the Google doc. Currently 571 titles.

- Changed 7th Victim to Seventh Victim, because I think that's the more commonly accepted spelling
- Included Phase IV because the four or five of you enthusing about it were just waiting for someone else to nominate it
- There might still be doubles; haven't gone over the list with a fine tooth yet

Where is the doc?