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

"Running zombies? Thanks for that, Danny BOIL!"

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54. 28 DAYS LATER
Bernard Rose, USA, 2002
(331 points, 13 votes)

28 Days Later is still the worst film I have seen this year. Lumpen, uncinematic stupididity spread thickly over a two hour movie.
Don't go in the transport cafe, don't go in the transport cafe. He goes in the cafe, there is a zombie. SHOCK!!!!
― Pete (Pete), Monday, December 2, 2002 7:26 AM (9 years ago)

28 Days Later is very good.
Millions: Worst Film Evah!
― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:50 AM (7 years ago)

28 Days Later : Worst Film Evah!

Er, yeah, Danny Boyle, not Bernard Rose.

love the atmosphere, goes some really stupid places in the final third

xp mm less said about that Vic Morrow episode the better i guess :/

This holds up. It also has one of the best sequels ever to have a different director from the first.

Would never have occurred to me to vote for either of the 28 X Later movies.

so the 'gremlin' portion of The Twilight Zone Movie was based on an actual episode of the original show? well you live and learn.

yeah, if you haven't seen the original "it's a good life", that is highly recommended. much scarier than dante's cartoonish segment, one of the alltime great TZ episodes.

Anyway, why does the gremlin figure look like it's wearing a costume?

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, May 21, 2012 11:11 AM (7 minutes ago)

pretty faithful to what he looked like in the show?

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i'm ok with 28DL but i was like 'ilx is gonna overrate that no matter what' and didn't vote for it

I overlooked Candyman! Went back and checked out the synopsis and realized I'd melded the storyline with that godawful urban legends movie. Definitely deserved consideration for the list. ;_;

I like Candyman fine but didn't vote for it. But this is probably the last chance on the poll to rep for the other Bernard Rose film on the noms list, so ... see Paperhouse!

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i heard an interpretation to the ending to 28DL (spoilers): whenever someone says hello in the movie, something bad always happens (i didn't notice this), so when they have a huge banner saying hello at the end it means shit is about to start

oh that's kinda cool

love the atmosphere, goes some really stupid places in the final third

otm. once they show up at the army base you might as well stop watching

"I wonder if PolanSCARE eventually made Simone GHOUL, ahem, SPLIT the utilities!"

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53. THE TENANT
Roman Polanski, USA, 1976
(338 points, 11 votes)

Trailer tag-line is gold: "No One Does It to You Like Roman Polanski!"
― circa1916, Sunday, March 7, 2010 4:50 PM (2 years ago)

Wish I had some friends who'd claim they were Simone Choule every six months.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, March 7, 2010 5:13 PM (2 years ago)

Am I the only one who, after seeing The Tenant, thought: "So this is where David Lynch got his ideas from."
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:42 PM (8 years ago)

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It's not entirely unlike The Descent in that respect. Also in terms of a protagonist seemingly 'turning' in the midst of their inadvisable endings.

NOOOOOOO!!!!!! TOO LOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!

as far as jogging zombie fare goes, I'll take the dawn of the dead remake over 28 days later.

funniest of the ones i've seen on the list so far

I was surprised -- tho maybe shouldn't have been -- by how good Polanski is in The Tenant. He's so sort of hapless and anxious, it's a great diminutive performance.

didn't vote for this particular Polanski entry but yeah it's great

The Tenant was #3 on my ballot. Horror directors should be forced to watch it as an example of how to slowly both ratchet up tension and pick away the seams of the sane and stable world of a film. It does so very many things just absolutely right.

28 days later isn't perfect and the last third isn't as strong as the beginning, but it's a killer ride, and it totally kept me on-edge. Very fun! SPOILERS The army scene was much less fun and very cliche. But the infection is released again and woo-hoo, RUN!

Re: Candyman: I've been trying to see Rose's Paperhouse for years. I have the soundtrack, which is great.

Re: 28DL: Love this movie's energy, but for me the final act is disappointing enough to take it out of the running for a "great" movie. Now Alan has me worried the Dawn remake could make the list. Surely that's not possible. Surely?

yeah, I doubt it. obv all speculation but I can't imagine anyone would vote for the remake over the original and how many people would vote for both of em?

So happy to see Candyman. I love Tony Todd so much.

(My only beef, and it's unquestionably an irritatingly nerdy beef, is that they have Candyman running to safety in a field known as Cabrini Green when really, the housing project was named after Francis Cabrini and William Green.)

Dawn remake isn't on the nominations list, so you can probably draw your own conclusions.

(My only beef, and it's unquestionably an irritatingly nerdy beef, is that they have Candyman running to safety in a field known as Cabrini Green when really, the housing project was named after Francis Cabrini and William Green.)

the field was named for their forbears, Lucius Cabrini and Willingsford Green

in his defense, clive barker is british.

Are we feeling like Wait Until Dark is gonna make it?

Bernard Rose, too. xp

Tuomas's Tenant quote is onto something, albeit wrong. It's excellent proto-Lynch, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if Lynch has seen and was inspired by it, but his sensibility is pretty different from Polanski's (there's usually very little effort on Lynch's part to create such a concrete and believable reality before unleashing the batshittery, for a start).

xpost Cabrini Green is pretty peaceful these days. And by peaceful, I mean converted into mixed income housing and fancy condos.

Well...the fact that no one has anything to say about The Tenant goes some way towards explaining its too-low placing, I guess.

Also: lunchtime.

the Tv version of Salem's Lot better show up!

"Stuart GORE-DON sure lives up to his name!"

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52. RE-ANIMATOR
Stuart Gordon, USA, 1985
(342 points, 13 votes)

I'm just writing a review of "Beyond Re-Animator" (n.b. don't ask), and found this quote, from a Ebert's review of the first Re-Animator: "One of the most boring experiences on Earth is a trash movie without the courage of its lack of convictions." -- This pretty much sums up my thoughts about most films in the past year.
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, December 15, 2003 1:42 PM (8 years ago)

RE-ANIMATOR APPRECIATION THREAD

whoah this is WAY too low

TOO LOW.

one of the best comedies of the 80s too.

Threw my Stuart Gordon vote to Stuck instead.

I've never seen it, so I can't say for sure, but I'm going to hazard a guess that Kael's preference for the sequel captures her at her loopiest:

Directed by John Boorman, this picture has a visionary crazy grandeur (like that of Fritz Lang's loony METROPOLIS). Some of its telepathic sequences are golden-toned and lyrical, and the film has a swirling, hallucinogenic, apocalyptic quality; it might have been a horror classic if it had had a simpler, less ritzy script...it's winged camp--a horror fairy tale gone wild, another in the long history of moviemakers' king-size follies. There's enough visual magic in it for a dozen good movies; what it lacks is judgment--the first casualty of the moviemaking obsession...

Pauline Kael OTM. Exorcist II is a total mess but a powerful one. It was on my ballot, not high but on there. Morricone's main title music might be my favorite MT for any horror movie ever.

I watched Candyman last year and didn't dig it at all. Y'all are making me feel like I was in the wrong frame of mind or something...

Dawn of the Dead remake was pro-level worthless garbage on every level, can't imagine it getting any votes.

xpost I gave my vote to Dagon.

Re-animator is one of those movies where I don't think there's a single misstep - everybody in it is great, excellently paced, disturbing and hilarious in equal measure, classic ending. wtf at this low placing.

Aw, yeah, too low. But I'm also happy to see it place. But there probably wasn't a chance it wouldn't. Anyway <3 Stuart Gordon, Jeffrey Combs (there's probably a lot of crossover on my horror poll ballot and Star Trek guest stars if we're being honest here) (voted From Beyond, too).

And speaking of Kindertraumas, I watched this way too young and was... disturbed by severed head cunnilingus for a long time. Shit, still, today.

The scene in R-Animator where Dr. Hill hypnotizes Dean Halsey at the dinner table is one of my favorite ott scenes ever.

Re-animator was awesome.

I probably should have spoiler tagged that since I would hate for someone who didn't know that was coming to be forewarned. xp

i think this movie was where i learned about cunnilingus tbh.

yeah the severed head bit when she's on the table is that perfect combination of the ridiculous, disgusting, and genuinely disturbing

kael's review of reanimator is pretty gushing iirc