THE VAULT OF ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Voting Thread (voting closes May 9 *~*~*~*2012*~*~*~*)

Ernest Thesiger in Bride of Frankenstein.

^^^yes

Also, a bit of an ott performance, but I really liked Brad Dourif in Excorcist III. This association made Doc Cochran super creepy for me.

Ugh why do people like Exorcist III?

Because it's not any of the other Exorcists that were produced after the first? Also it's pretty decent (if no match for the first).

cosign isabelle adjani. the acting is fascinating in that film. and i do love ewar woowar in the wicker man.

acting apparently not too important to me when it comes to horror films because I don't see too many performances I'd call "great" on my ballot. some interesting performances maybe? I'll rep for these tho...

karloff's frankenstein, the greatest monster perf ever, taken for granted because of its cultural ubiquity, but just amazing and transcendent
max schreck in nosferatu
klaus kinski in nosferatu
angela bettis in may
jenny spain in deadgirl
terry o'quinn in the stepfather
ryo ishibashi and eihi shiina in audition
dieter laser in the human centipede
michael moriarty in Q
candace hilligoss in carnival of souls
goldblum and davis in the fly
burstyn and miller in the exorcist
mitchum in the night of the hunter

Sherman "Bub" Howard in Day Of The Dead. So underrated. He commited so hard to that role.

I would say Goldblum, farther down your list, is the greatest monster performance ever. xp

hah, xpost!

goldblum and davis in the fly

yeah, definitely my favorite goldblum performance. prob davis too.

Yeah, Burstyn's great in The Exorcist--I love the scene where she curses out all the shrinks.

HOLY CRAP I NEED TO SEE PHANTOM DER NACHT

me too! I even own the dvd but haven't gotten around to watching it. what is my problem?!

probably you're an alchoholic and a wife-beater

like karloff, kinski gets both the savagery and the pathos of the beast

love how sudden + intense the physical intimidation is in this scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3upuBWl2Xq4#t=245s

sutherland and christie - don't look now
angela bettis - may
anthony perkins - psycho
laura dern - inland empire
von sydow and ullmann - hour of the wolf
catherine deneuve - repulsion

Was just talking with my brothers about Society today. Kind of wish I'd voted for it, in a way. It's one of those films where the beginning just does not get you interested, but by the end it is so horrific, and that change of pace is superb. (I find Spoorloos a bit like this in that the bulk of it is very prosaic, but the end, oh god the end. More artistic/less teen movie than Society, though, obviously.)

and karloff! there's just such beauty to what he's doing here w/ stillness and quiet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uDkpJPNhrF4#t=1912s

The kid who plays the psycho in Jack Ketchum's The Lost. That movie would be nothing without his performance.

angela bettis is pretty much great in anything she does actually.

Agreed!! She's a real fan favorite.

One big motif I realised is missing from my ballot: the ageing melodramatic actress as a horror unto herself. Need to investigate that trope more, I think.

implied in daughters of darkness, perhaps, but that's loving tribute as much as monstrification, so she's still a beautiful horror. certainly not baby jane material.

are we talking sunset blvd here or

Sunset Boulevard is more on the thriller side of the spectrum, but one of the most high profile; Whatever Happened to Baby Jane is probably the epitome of that trope on the horror end.

yup

But, as I say, I don't know that many of the films - I have friends who talk about a lot more that fit in to this schematic, but I remain mostly in the dark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-biddy

Half amused, half appalled at 'psycho-biddy' and 'hagsploitation'. I like 'Grande Dame Guignol' as a name, though.

the wiki examples are pretty broad, like, in no way is trog a psychobiddy film

however I wouldn't argue with anyone who voted for mommie dearest in this poll

I have seen zero films with angela bettis in them. If I were to rectify that, what would I watch? Can't say any of them are calling out to me.

hagspoitation is a very gross term.

MAY you should watch May.

May is prob the best starting point, but if you want something a little more hardcore and unpleasant theres always The Woman

xpost

Thanks, guys. This has been a very informative thread.

may, absolutely

La Lechera and her lurker gave me this book and it is wonderful and I recommend it: http://www.amazon.com/Grande-Dame-Guignol-Cinema-History/dp/0786445696/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

sunset boulevard may not be a horror film, but norma desmond certainly fits the criteria for the sort of character you're talking about. a lot of movies do this implicitly by casting an iconic older actress in a monstrous role (joan crawford in both strait-jacket and berserk), but few do it explicitly, making the character an actress herself.

good lord i always forget that she was carrie in the carrie remake. almost makes me want to watch it, but not quite

Not to get all into this, but I have no problem with hagsploitation -- hag horror is my favorite term for this sort of movie because anyone who enjoys these movies isn't like "yuk she's a hag" -- the hag is the draw, the hero. When else do women in their 50s get to be the hero?!

watch may!

long live the crone, in other words

I heard not-bad things about the carrie remake, I imagine these were related bettis' involvement

wish somebody would invent cronecore

That book is going straight into my wishlist. Definitely have mixed feelings about the use of 'hag', I think it depends on who's using it: in some ways it seems like a reclamation of the term - as LL says, the hag is the hero of the film...

xpost You mean cronerock, surely?

What do you guys think about May, though?

totally sucks

Thought so. Carrie remake it is.

bettis was great, movie itself was only OK.

Yeah, it's not that great of a movie, and the boyfriend character is inane, but it's entertaining and Bettis is super weird and memorable in it.

Sunset Boulevard is more on the thriller side of the spectrum

smh

It's a vampire comedy