The Haunt Of Fear: ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Results Thread

don't understand why cronenberg topping a horror poll would anger you. shivers, the brood, the fly, all great horror movies, I'd even accept videodrome on the basis of outlandish gore.

ok so i think thx to creepshow romero might be top director on this poll, which eases the lynch worries a bit.

Four Romeros and four Lynches on my ballot. And only one Cronenberg, I think.

Just went searching for movie with the giant cat that fascinated and scared me as a child. Found it:

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"Is that a NUCLEAR BLAST I hear in the distance or the sound of IS THIS HORROR pedantry reaching SCREAMING new heights? KA-BOO-M!"

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74. THREADS
Mick Jackson, UK, 1984
(251 points, 6 votes)

I was convinced the world would end EXACTLY ilke it happened in 'THREADS', back in the day. Rape scene, ew, and also the moment when the woman pisses herself in the street when she realises what's coming in a minute.
― darren (darren), Wednesday, October 29, 2003 1:52 PM (8 years ago)

Oh god did Threads ever fuck with my head as a teenager. I can't believe my year 9 english teacher MADE US watch both it and the Day After. Cold War my arse. It scarred me for years, I still have nightmares about hiding in bunkers waiting for the shit to go down now and then. Very depressing scary film. Day After wasn't anywhere near as bad (poss. because Threads continues on for years after the blasts and gets all Mad Max).
― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, October 29, 2003 6:49 PM (8 years ago)

the most shocking thing i've ever seen on tv. have thought about little else since.
― piscesboy, Thursday, October 30, 2003 7:02 AM (8 years ago)

Cannot parse this line from Eric's overall sharp review:
"Where Creepshow III really fails (well, the most ruinous failing point, anyway) is in its post-Crash attempt to complicate the diverse stories' connective tissue."

Even though I think Crash is one of the ten greatest films of the 1990s, I never thought it loomed so large as to necessitate dividing up eras into pre- and post-Crash. Did it really influence horror films that much? And even if it did, does it complicate diverse stories' connective tissues? Story isn't what Crash is after in the first place.

Or did you mean that crappy Oscar-winning Crash?

lol britishes followed through!!!

xpost, yes, the crap Crash, not the sexy one

Ah ok makes sense now. Great review!

Three more movies remain today, but I need to step away from the computer for a couple hours.

Just wanted to make sure I got around to posting Threads before britishes's bedtime.

sexy?

subtracting the nostalgia factor from Creepshow (which tbh is probably impossible, but whatev), I think Trick r Treat was a substantial improvement on the formula.

I mean...in a way, it's an apples and oranges comparison. Creepshow was as much a pastiche as it was a straight horror anthology. A large part of what I love about it is the visual style and the music and the overacting. Combined with the super-realistic effects and the horror host who just hovers without ever speaking and lots of other weird and creepy elements that subvert the goofy, heightened atmosphere.

*remains silent*

What I love about Creepshow is that despite all the overblown acting and musical score and ridiculous lighting and all that -- there are STILL moments of coming-right-at-your-face horror that, despite all odds, work. Quite an achievement.

Threads is the first film here I hadn't heard of, which is awesome.

jjjusten, have a FRIGHTFULLY good vacation

you missed the threads debates on the nom threads

xp

sexy Crash was so sexy that I had to turn it off for fear of vomiting.

takes all kinds

starting it off with a tour of the infamous site of the congdon murders so i will still be in the spirit of things from afar

yah, nuclear problems, woo

sexy crash is a genuinely terrible movie. intermittently funny though.

Enjoy the smell of it, jjj!

why hello inviting vacation getaway!

http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/coldspots/073-01.jpg

whudda perfect psychobiddy getaway

hey, have a good weekend, jjj, see you back here on monday

sexy crash is a genuinely terrible movie.

EG Marshall says, "Your rongness is irrevocable."

Aside: I'm home sick and watching horror movies on Netflix all day and if I had seen Daughters of Darkness before sending in my ballot, I would have voted for it.

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Donnerstag, 17. Mai 2012 22:05 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As discussed before, I happen to be in the exact same situation and just wanted to inform all you good folks here that I therefore finally found time to kick of the endlessly delayed execution of my "Must under all circumstances see before submit ballot"-list. What can you do.

So I started things of smoothly with Possession earlier in the day. It's about 8 hours later now and I don't even feel even remotely articulate enough to form a reaction that goes beyond a startled "Wha...?".

Just wait til I post the photo of myself with the Wicker Man feet...again

don't get crushed by the lift bridge or impaled by falling masonry

you arent the boss of me jerk

contenderizer, love ya, babe but you're rong about Crash (1996) and rong about the end of Rosemary's Baby

Just saw a trailer for a flick called The Good Doctor. Dead Ringers fans might bite.

#73 Dr. Giggles

britishes must've gone to sleep early or are playing darts b/c there's no threads discussing yet!

contenderizer, love ya, babe but you're rong about Crash (1996) and rong about the end of Rosemary's Baby

people gots all kinds of ideas

wah wah, my eyes melted, nuclear winter, wah

that's ok they can just discuss threads later on other threads

or maybe they were so emotionally scarred from threads that even now, almost 30 years later, they STILL can't bring themselves to discussing it.

Still have to see it. Neat points/vote ratio.

oh yeah 40+ points per vote, that might be the highest average so far i think

i still haven't seen it, toying with the idea of youtubing it now, before bedtime.

yeah that's a good idea, sweet dreams

thanks x

i hear that it is a lighthearted romp

2 hours long though? heavy.

How's everyone's ballot doing so far? Of the 40 I voted for, I think 5 are accounted for.

I've only got one! :(

i've placed 4 so far (may, pontypool, phantasm and creepshow)

1/50 (Picnic at Hanging Rock). Super-excited for the rest of the poll.

2 hours long though? heavy.

― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, May 17, 2012 5:13 PM (1 minute ago)

it takes a while for society to completely collapse in 3 generations

I didn't vote for Pan's Labyrinth because it's fantasy to me, but it did blow me away. Interesting that Abbott compared her reaction to it with Plague Dogs, as those are the two movies I think of when I think of times I was reduced to a weeping mess during end credits.

Just took the trouble of dividing my ballot up by threat type. Monster, Witch, Demon and Vampire all tie for the lead with 7 entries each. If I count Psychic and Possession as the same thing, there's seven of those too. Nature only has one and Zombie only has two.

For the record, and so it is known -- I am not a fan of sexy vampire lit or movies outside of Nosferatu. Crap is crap and Herzog's Nosferatu is not crap.

LOL there was a Herzog festival in Seattle in like '95 and I got to write an article for the Stranger about it. I wrote that his Nosferatu was 'the only great vampire movie' (whatev, I was in my 20s and liked proclamations). Stranger film editor Andy changed it to 'one of the greatest vampire movies'.

So I started things of smoothly with Possession earlier in the day. It's about 8 hours later now and I don't even feel even remotely articulate enough to form a reaction that goes beyond a startled "Wha...?".

Ha ha. What a delightfully wrongheaded notion. "Starting things off smoothly with Possession, indeed. Memories of that movie are like PTSD-induced flashbacks.