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

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?

Here.

Also, I was the one who nominated Cabin in the Woods because I previewed it and it's def worth checking out.

First thing I think of waking up today: OMG I haven't nominated Night of the Bloody Apes. So...

Night of the Bloody Apes

Tourist Trap
The House on Cuckoo Lane
Watcher in the Woods
Shiver of the Vampire
Vampyros Lesbos
Alice, Sweet Alice
Through the Looking Glass
Don't Deliver Us from Evil
The Evil
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Phenomena

some grindhouse/sleaze in there, one surreal porno, Czech psychedelia, and a '70s Disney flick, but they all def qualify as horror

Nice spread.

I'm not sure how to manipulate the Google doc so I'll just add here in the hopes that someone else will. I'll probably have more to add later this weekend once I go through my DVDs.

Absentia
Death Line/Raw Meat (not sure how to handle this one - different titles per U.S./U.K.

I saw it in the US on a print that said Death Line, so good enough.

Also saw Valerie and Her Week of Wonders a few years back and remember absolutely nothing.

A fair few of those were already nominated, Chris. I nommed Valerie - it suffered from being over-hyped for a while, but it is exceptionally well-shot and dreamy. And yes, horror, despite not being scary, ha.

beachville - the experiment in having the google doc open for anyone to edit failed, so it's back to just posting on the thread.

Does Threadscount?

― emil.y, Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:38 AM (

this will easily be top ten, maybe top five for me.

thanks emil.y

Got rid of a few doubles. 580 total now.

Y'know...I think Freeway might fit in this thread.

I feel like there's a whole host of horror comedy we're ignoring (The Burbs? Death Becomes Her? Nothing But Trouble?), but maybe there's a reason for that? I'm okay with continuing to ignore it if y'all are. At least until I think of some unassailable horror comedy that's truly worthy of nomination.

well i think its safe (?) to say we're gonna see re-animator, one of the evil deads, one of the early p. jacksons, etc etc

which are all "horror comedies" to me

plus the bulk of takasi miike's movies have lolz, even if audition is the one that's gonna place

Yeah, I would def file things like Death Becomes Her in comedy first, horror a distant second. (I had DBH in my top 10 on the comedy poll, btw.)

Yeah, there are lots of worthy horror comedies already nominated. I guess, for the sake of clarity, I was thinking more of comedy horrors. If that makes sense.

Ha. Apparently it does.

i probably woulda voted for visitor q on both comedy and horror polls

am psycho and planet terror fit here too

xpost nah it totally makes sense

Watcher in the Woods
Vampyros Lesbos
Alice, Sweet Alice
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Phenomena

― Chris S, Friday, April 6, 2012 5:38 AM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ these are those already on the list, fwiw. i nommed watcher yesterday.

The Fourth Man (1983) - aka The 4th Man, Die Vierde Man

^ paul verhoeven's last dutch film (prior to his recent return). bizarre & awesome hitchcockian thriller w lots of gore and surreal dreaminess. echoes of de palma & argento, anticipates ken russell's crimes of passion. little seen these days?

Anguish (1989) - aka Anguista

^ seriously odd spanish meta horror. again, strong debt to hitchcock & argento, but even more surreally bent than the fourth man. kind of falls apart just past the halfway mark, but up to that point, one of the best horror movies of its era.

The Wayward Cloud (2005) - aka Tian bian yi duo yun
The Isle (2000) - aka Seom

hardly genre horror, but both horrifying in their way

Holy shit guys. RE-CYCLE. I see that it's been nommed. Who's voting for it? I WANT TO MARRY THIS FLICK

I must see: The Eye

tried to watch re-cycle a couple years back on netflix streaming, but the video quality was so poor i couldn't take it (had a super-slow internet connection at the time). looked promising, though. it's really that good?

and, yeah, the eye is p great. not "i'm gonna vote for it" great, but worth a no pun intended.