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

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
Fucking
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.

Jacob's Ladder is my favorite of the Dead Culkin Trilogy.

Jacob's Ladder will probably be on my list somewhere. Great movie. Plus genuine freak-out moments throughout.

SPOILER ALERT the second half of Jacobs Ladder>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>the last two seasons of Lost. The latter is pretty derivative of the former. As far as I can be on board with the whole, "all this shit was about prepping you for heaven" stuff, Jacobs Ladder executed it competently where Lost went pffffft.

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

totally! imo TH is the best short from either Creepshow. The Raft has its merits, but the characters are so cliche '80s college student' that it hasn't aged very well.

Just wanted to keep the nominations list light.

― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Friday, April 13, 2012 12:58 PM (7 minutes ago)

if this is in re: bishop of battle, it's making the list longer. you've got both the bishop of battle and the film it's from, nightmares (1983), on the list.

and I guess now is the time to ask about classic monster movies - I know this is a can of worms, but the nom list is missing things like king kong and godzilla (though we have included them!).

leaving monster movies off seems weird (where else are you going to vote for king kong? sci-fi poll?), but leaving them on seems a little weird too, considering they will have to compete with the likes of suspiria and texas chainsaw massacre.

I would nominate the Godzilla-esque Cthulu movie which probably only exists in my head but which has no good reason to not exist.

Ah, I see what you mean. I'll take it off.

I remember there being some weird plotholes in Jacob's Ladder that annoyed me but it's been at least 15 years since I've seen it

I must've missed it if anyone actually nominated Godzilla and King Kong.

My hunch is that they're probably as valid for inclusion as Jaws, but I dunno.

Yeah, I kind of feel like they're applicable, but that I wouldn't vote for them. For what it's worth, imdb classifies them as 'Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi' and 'Adventure, Fantasy, Horror' respectively.

was kind of stunned to see Joe Dante's #2 horror film is The Devil and Daniel Webster.

Jacob's Ladder is bad.

You know it. You know.

I will shred my Jacob's Ladder DVD tonight and burn my eyes in shame.

are any of Showtimes Masters of Horror series gonna make anyone's ballots?

imprint would be the only thing with a chance in my book, not sure if I'd include it in a top 50 ballot tho

I just found out about this series, haven't seen them yet. Kinda awesome that one is an adaptation of my favorite Berni Wrightson comic

a lot of them are up on youtube... including imprint. it's not for the squeamish but the last half is totally batshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C248DmRYbqU

Was waiting for someone to bring the MoH's up. Of what I've seen, only Cigarette Burns and Pro-Life would even be in the running for me.

Had a "lol election year 2004" reaction to Homecoming when I finally got around to seeing it. Thought it was pretty meh compared to the raves it got.

among Adrian Lyne shit, Fatal Attraction works way better than Jacob's Ladder, caveman kill-the-bitch politics or no.

and if it's big-screen Twilight Zones your after, there's M Night Shyamalan's good movie.

Only moh I even like is the fair-haired child, and only because the monster is triple a creepy

The Don Coscarelli one wasn't bad. THe one with the girl driving through the mountains?

I watched that on netflix the other day. Not sure I ever need a rape scene in my movies tbh, but other than that it was alright. The more Angus Scrimm, the better, I say.

should prolly indicate which incubus is nommed, 1966, 1981, or 2006

(1966 I'm assuming)

it was me, yes 1966.

Dead of Night (1974) - aka "Deathdream", "Whispers"
Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974) - aka "Deranged"

two weird and creepy horror films from the mid 70s. both written by alan ormsby and featuring some of tom savini's earliest gore effects work. dead of night is a vietnam-themed variation on "the monkey's paw", while deranged is a fairly closely based on the life and crimes of ed gein. i especially like the latter, which teeters on the borderline between black comedy and extremely grim horror like few others films i can think of.

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

Will give this some thought before submitting my ballot. If I can talk myself into agreeing, it'll definitely be on there.