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

well, they're punishingly "intense", but little more than that, imo. i've seen most of his films now, and those are still the only two i really hate. haven't seen benny's video though...

Original Funny Games is just Haneke stomping on the audience's head repeatedly and shouting "YOU LOSE!" over and over again. Didn't bother with the remake. (Benny's Video pretty much a warm-up to FG and pulls the same bait-and-switch with audience loyalty, just with a little less Jim Carrey making the world's most annoying noise amplitude.)

Most of the time I'll take the punker shit over the mainstream efforts, but in this case, give me Time of the Wolf and Code Unknown any day.

... though I think Haneke maybe killed a horse in Wolf?

yeah, i wonder about that. pretty great movie on the whole, but that scene bothered me to no end.

or, well, i don't wonder. it's p clearly real animal snuff.

just checked the internets. the throat-slashing scene was supposedly shot in a slaughterhouse. not sure about that, as i seem to recall it being an outdoor shot, but w/e.

Praying Haneke never remakes Animal Farm.

Wouldn't mind a Haneke Muppets tho.

Hahaha. Well, if it makes you feel any better I probably won't vote for Funny Games in this poll, as the arbitrary 'what is horror' decider in my brain thinks it isn't a horror film.

just b/c it's horrible doesn't mean that it's horror.

Has "The Ugly" been nominated yet? If not, please include that.

I would like Funny Games a lot more if it weren't for the winking fourth-wall stuff. I mean, it was already pretty heavy-handed to begin with.

i'm sort of ashamed to admit that, even this deep in, i've seen something like 2/3 of the films nominated so far

impulse (1984)

^ one of my favorite 80s b-movies, another borderline horror film. meg tilly returns to her quiet hometown and everyone suddenly loses their impulse control, society slowly and violently decays into chaos. for some reason it puts me in mind of dead & buried, maybe it's the nefarious goings-on with small town claustrophobia, tho I find impulse a more accomplished film with a lot fewer supporters.

never seen impulse, and i do like meg tilly. will check

also: The Sender (1982)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I encourage everyone to vote for both Wild Christmas and A Sunday Kind of Love, super-8 student splatter films I made in the early '80s. Trust me, they're excellent.

watching anguish tonight, if peeps have other must see recommendations make them known, i will netflix the shit out of this stuff prior to voting

Holy
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You should all watch this before voting. This might make my top ten.

For the record, I'm going to continue to hold nominations throughout the weekend and will post the poll open on Monday. Going to give this one a relatively long lead, too -- 3 weeks?

(Could go even longer if people think that's OK, tbh.)

Most of the time I'll take the punker shit over the mainstream efforts

OK, you're only talking horror here, right?

Naturally. Though house is way punker than indie folk.

This is crazy well-timed: http://www.timeout.com/london/feature/2494/best-horror-films

That's great. Joe Dante voted for The Wolf Man. The Omen at #20?

right off the bat, considering Come and See horror is a huge WTF. Why not every unflinching war film?

Good to see Inferno in there! Doesn't get enough love.

Okay, Threads is in there, that's cool. I think I'm bumping it down from its deserved #1 slot due to 'not really horror' problems (though the end could definitely count, and it *is* the scariest film in all the world) but it'll probably remain in my top 10.

Don't mean to turn this into another Cronenberg is-it-horror? detour, but personally I draw a line at Dead Ringers. Great film, but I just don't see it as horror.

Threads never played theatrically in the UK or OS, did it?

Naturally. Though house is way punker than indie folk.

Couldn't make head of tail or this until I realized you think the Moldy Peaches are my all-time fave band or something. They're just my fave that makes you retch.

Threads never played theatrically in the UK or OS, did it?

TV movies were explicitly given the go-ahead much earlier in the thread. Not sure if Threads did in fact get a theatrical release or not, but I suspect not.

watching anguish tonight...

Holy
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Shit

You should all watch this before voting. This might make my top ten.

― Rango Unchained (jjjusten), Friday, April 13, 2012 12:22 AM (7 hours ago)

I know! Crazy, right?

Ooh, that sounds pretty good. I've got a fairly definitive list of what I want to (and am able to) watch before I vote, though, so not sure it'll get done, but I'll definitive put it on a list for future reference.

I draw a line at Dead Ringers - I don't. It may not be a true to type genre effort (Cronenberg's films rarely are) but the final act is macabre as fuck!

nice to see a nod for let's scare jessica to death on that timeout list

rookie mistake tho: using a still from the evil dead 2 for the evil dead

I have a very short list of stuff I'm gonna try to watch before voting (mostly stuff that's available on YouTube or Google Video like Haxan, Vampyr, Threads, Nosferatu) because I'd rather discover movies via the poll results rather than stuff my ballot with movies I've just discovered. I guess I'll add Anguish, though, because I'm always intrigued when multiple people rave about stuff I've never heard of.

Oh, and <quiet voice>I'm gonna try to get around to finally watching Rosemary's Baby</quiet voice>.

Gawd I still need to watch Suspiria and Repulsion (not to mention Phantasm 2!)

rookie mistake tho: using a still from the evil dead 2 for the evil dead

Totally.

huh Anguish sounds amazing, will have to track that down. Michael Lerner!

it's genuinely amazing. i'm not sure it works, entirely, but it's brilliant and p much sui generis.

if you have Hulu Plus, that's where you should watch Dreyer's Vampyr ... the versions on Netflix Instant and elsewhere are awful.

my list of films I'd like to see before voting is over 50. guess that's not gonna happen huh.

I just wanted to remind people that Jacob's Ladder is on the nomination list and is a stone-cold bad-ass movie (for a long time I considered it my favorite movie)

The bigger the island of knowledge, the greater the shoreline of ignorance. I've been spending every evening closing the major gaps in my horror knowledge but I keep finding more and more I want to see. And then Netflix sent The Apartment DVD and if I don't watch it soon, I'll never watch it.

Tonight: Fright Night (a friend wanted to watch it plus it seems like an important part of cultural literacy).

xp DJP OTM. For a long time I considered it my favorite movie ever, too! Not sure what my favorite is anymore, but I still love Jacob's Ladder to death.

lol @ Bishop of Battle, The on the nom list

are you planning to let people vote for segments of anthologies

Rosemary's baby might make my list, but if so, I think it will be low-middle. SPOILER ALERT the creeping into the apartment through the secret door scene totally made me flip out.

I really loved jacob's ladder for the first half but couldn't really get with the whole thing

was always kinda hoping some director's cut would emerge that would redeem it but

Just wanted to keep the nominations list light.

Also, would totally vote "The Hitchhiker" before I'd ever consider voting for Creepshow 2.