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

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

lol @ cronerock

anna faris also great in may

pre hollywood makeover too

It's a vampire comedy

Ha, I can totally get with that interpretation.

CARRIE remake is dire. Nearly as bad as the late '90s teensploitation sequel.

oh, shirt. guess i missed this. need to check in more regularly. ):

that was the sound of eric's head hitting the table

i'm not about to plead for an extension. i snoozed, i loosed.

You snoozed, the g-d results lost!

Tho I really like the way these results turned out on the whole, in the end.