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

I actually like pt 5 more, but Crispin Glover's nerd dance is the bomb

this poll should be put on hold until 1408 is removed from the nominations list

irl lol

I don't think To The Devil...A Daughter is on the list. It's excellent.

Also, House Of Whipcord.

Late nomination for At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul.

dead kids aka strange behavior (1981)
beast within, the (1982)
see no evil aka blind terror (1971)

When I was a lass, I almost exclusively read (mostly) terrible horror paperbacks (and Circus magazine) and I think I've read The Beast Within at least three times. Then the movie hit heavy rotation on cable and I watched it pretty much every time it came on. I don't think I can handle a rewatch so I probably won't vote for it, but seeing it nominated is making me nostalgic for my 'tween years.

when I was a lad... same thing

I mean I read the novelization of THE BOOGENS

And we've crossed the 700-film mark.

only 3 more days to nom right? fuck i promised myself to go through the pants shitting thread and make sure nothing got overlooked, so i guess im not fixing guitars tomorrow, fuck it
― sfdgafhtehw (jjjusten), Tuesday, April 10, 2012 2:32 PM (Yesterday)

If it helps, I'll probably hold open nominations over the weekend and post the official "ballots in" thread on Monday.

paring down to a manageable number is easy when there is CANON RESPECT

Genre Respect > Canon Respect

(Which is not to say my ballot won't probably strike many here as cripplingly conservative.)

Beast Within is worth it for the looonggg miserable transformation scene at the end.

Can we pls have the awful/fascinating Frankenheimer Dr. Moreau in here? I might throw it a vote just because I think about certain scenes so often.

Also, late nom:

Burn, Witch, Burn

That one was nominated early. Love that movie!

There is supposed to be some other movie which is also based on Lieber's Conjure Wife-- do you know what it is?

Two more Italian films that would definitely make my longlist:

The Black Belly Of The Tarantula
Autopsy / Sunspots (1975)

Hills Have Eyes, The (2006)
My Little Eye
Burrowers, The
Cremaster 3 (i am willing to debate this one but i feel pretty strongly that it fits)

lol @ cremaster 3. i'll probably vote for it though.

Yeah Burrowers!

What about his faux-documentary about the snuff guy?

was that S&Man? i wasnt super crazy about it which is why i didnt nom it

Yyyeahhh i guess you're right. Like I'm rly glad I watched it but I wouldn't vote it in a top 50.

Slurpees and Star Trek for eeryie

There is supposed to be some other movie which is also based on Lieber's Conjure Wife-- do you know what it is?

No but Wikipedia says Weird Woman (1944) and Witches' Brew (Which Witch is Which?) (1980).

The Witch Who Came From the Sea (1976)

Well that is a weird little post box artifact at the beginning of my last post.

wondered abt that

i've been really busy this past week, so forgive my dumb questions: but we're not putting together a ballot and voting for any of these films just yet? this poll/thread is just for nominations?!?

yup

class of 1984 (1982)
pit, the (1981)

shatter dead (1994)
boy meets girl (1994)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Still never really felt Class of 1984 as a horror movie tbh. But nonetheless, it's nominated.

agree it's a borderline case, I guess the gory stalk-and-kill conclusion tilted me in that direction. it's a weird movie, a melange of sci-fi, rape/revenge, and punxploitation.

*dystopian sci-fi*

Yeah, I just wish I liked it better. Tim Van Patton is too cute to be threatening.

I'd give Geir the benefit of the doubt that it's just a dig at Yoko's non-melodic tendency rather than a dig at her race. Wack opinion nevertheless.

Haha, wrong thread. Though Geir on ilx is often a psychodrama-style brain-melting horror.

WTF, how did that happen! Geir on the horror movie thread is apt though.

I am a big fan of hilarious typos and mis-posts. There should be a thread for them.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/34/Yoko_Ono_Yes%2C_I%27m_a_Witch_.jpg

American Psycho
Exte
Funny Games (2007)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

still haven't seen exte, really ought to rectify. i've nominated three other sono movies here, only one of them as much-seen as exte (probably).

fire walk with me is already on the list, and i can't imagine that many people will vote for the funny games remake over the original. genuinely shocked that american psycho hasn't been mentioned once in this thread, though. seems to be a huge semi-recent horror favorite for a lot of people.

American Psycho, weirdly, doesn't feel like a horror movie to me

I mean, it obviously IS when I think about it, but that's not how it scanned to me when I saw it

Yeah, I put it on my comedy ballot, but I doubt I'll vote for it this time 'round.

American Psycho isn't horror. I don't feel like having a genre argument tho, so, here's my flaming bag of opinion.

I prefer the funny games remake to the original

Never saw the remake.

I loathe the original

I was all tense at first and then I was just worn down by the end.

I was all "oh shit, this is bleak" at first and then the movie entirely undercut itself with blatant narrative cheating and ranting soapboxism that IMO undermined the point it was trying to make