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

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

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All of the Re-Animator films are worth a look. Though From Beyond is better than all of them.

Most vivid Re-Animator memory is reading the novelization while at church, hidden inside the church bulletin. Yes, I know, I am a hero for the ages.

http://www.amazon.com/H-P-Lovecrafts-Re-Animator-A-Novel/dp/0671637231

aww, jeez. re-animator was my #9. much too low!

and I've only seen the first sequel, but agreed, definitely worth a spin.

I don't think I saw the third one (maybe on TV?) but Bride is definitely a worthy successor

kael's review of reanimator is pretty gushing iirc

Just checked, and yes--she compared it to Bunuel. I'm honestly not sure if I've seen it or not--I have a vague memory of watching it on VHS.

"What to EXPECTORATE when you're expecting!"

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51. THE BROOD
David Cronenberg, Canada, 1979
(348 points, 13 votes)

Yeah David Cronenberg, nothing to write home abt ...oh, apart from Rabid, obv ...oh and Scanners...and Shivers...and Videodrome...and THE BROOD!! etc. etc.
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, June 17, 2004 3:41 PM (7 years ago)

The Brood is actually my favorite Cronenberg movie. Especially the guy, I can't remember his name, the one with the cancer of the lymphatic system who has to keep moving? He's in a bunch of other Cronenberg films, a small but important role in Existenz as well. His scenes in the Brood are amazing.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, September 23, 2005 1:05 PM (6 years ago)

I love every Cronenberg movie I've seen but The Brood is my favorite. I made my girlfriend watch it and not only was she totally creeped out and disturbed but shortly after that she became pregnant. We have a good laugh about that now and then.
― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:53 AM (6 years ago)

this is not a good movie

lol at walterkranz post

Great still; so glad you didn't go with Samantha Eggar flashing.

The Brood is decent, but it's also massively fucked-up, which is where I think most of its reputation comes from.

Oof, misses top 50? Should be top 10. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Wow, EXCELLENT choice of photograph.

yeah, top notch!

the Brood's excessive psychotherapy mumbo jumbo bored me, altho Reed is occasionally entertainingly hammy. but in general it drags and feels aimless, a bit like Scanners imho.

Saw this a long time ago w/ the other pre-Scanners Croneys, all too grotty and grungy to want to re-view. Prefer him classy.

I agree with the criticisms--some bad performances, excessively gross during its key scene--but it's also ingenious and memorably unsettling. I've quoted this before: Cronenberg was going through a divorce at the time, and he called this his Kramer vs. Kramer (same year). My favourite shot from memory is two of the brood trudging through the snow with the little girl.

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

― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, May 21, 2012 11:51 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

lol, i think there is going to be a lot of this in general from here on out (and in many cases, I can't say that I disagree).

Rabid is my preferred early Cronenberg.

My favourite shot from memory is two of the brood trudging through the snow with the little girl.

Is there any other possibilities for favorite shot?? That is classic, iconic stuff.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WT296Ycwut8/SCl8LnHU2QI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/b8OHfWdiPMQ/s400/brood_snow.png

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!

^ yes

Shivers/the Brood/Rabid/Scanners are all sort of clumsy and ineffective in different ways. they get by on a lot of conceptual audacity but I don't think any of them really work that well.

Paperhouse would have been on my ballot. x-post

"The most HYSTERICAL sibling misadventures since The Adventures of PETE and PETE! -- Susan SNOGtag"

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50. SLEEPAWAY CAMP
Robert Hiltzik, USA, 1983
(350 points, 10 votes)

fucking love this movie
― underrated aerosmith logins the rest of u assholes are considering (jjjusten), Sunday, October 17, 2010 6:23 PM (1 year ago)

fan for life
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Sunday, October 17, 2010 7:37 PM (1 year ago)

Guys I am 10 minutes into Sleepaway Camp and WAHT THE FUCK IS THIS
― (Stevie D), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 5:52 PM (1 year ago)

love the scene where the cop and the one counselor are talking at length in morbid detail about what extreme pain the cook must be experiencing
so many half-shirts in this movie
― dude (del), Sunday, October 17, 2010 9:05 PM (1 year ago)

having watched tons of this genre growing up it is weird to me that I only saw this three years ago, and yeah, it's pretty amazing, some really sick/humiliating deaths and the surprise psycho-tweek ending could launch a gender studies dissertation or two
― the tune is space, Sunday, October 17, 2010 7:56 PM (1 year ago)

the death by curling-iron rape is pretty indefensible but it's hard not to appreciate this movie for its other qualities.

it is NOT better than Reanimator tho

I LOVE THE BROOD!!! Hooray!

lol SNOGtag

I thought abt using the penultimate scene for the feature screencap, but then I didn't want to make this thread NSFW.

The thing with most of the Cronenberg I've seen (which includes nothing from the past decade+, it should be noted) is that the films themselves are kinda...boring, I guess? and have mostly faded from memory aside from a handful of really visceral scenes. The Fly and Naked Lunch are the only exceptions I can think of.

Oh jesus i think i just belatedly remembered what Sleepaway Camp is. I have 2x serious damage from this movie (speedboat death plus the ending).

Sleepaway Camp belongs on a list of the top 100 horror movie endings of all time, possibly even the top 100 movie endings of all time. It really, really doesn't belong in the top 100 horror movies of all time, though, and definitely not this high up. So I'mma have to give a really mild "no way!" to this one.

it really is a pretty terrible movie.

kinda like a Meatballs sequel but w/ fucked-up death sequences (which ARE great tbh)

and yeah, the ending

The last shot is both totally indefensible and completely awesome.

Had I properly remembered it I might have given it a vote for the same reason as Trilogy Of Terror (award for damages, basically)

my fav SC blurb and one I tell others abt it constantly:

one of the things i really love about sleepaway camp is that there are like 10 things that happen in it that would never get greenlit today if you were trying to get a movie made.

― Dr. Chuck Klosterman, LLC (jjjusten), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 1:40 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can't argue with that.

I still genuinely do not understand how it got made.

Somebody please find or upload the tune that Angela hums throughout this movie.

The "2" in 28 Days Later looked like a "9" to me and I thought this poll was going in a really awful direction if some sort of sequel to 28 Days Later made the list.

Exorcist II >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Exorcist. Dave Kehr's review nails it:

"Everybody seems to hate this movie, and not without good reason. But John Boorman's 1977 follow-up to William Friedkin's shocker is a much more interesting film than the original, and Boorman deserves credit for trying out some new ideas, even if most of them backfire. Visually, it's fascinating—sort of a blend of Minnellian baroque and Buñuelian absurdity—but the dialogue is childish, the story is incomprehensible, and the metaphysics are ridiculous. Still, an audacious failure is preferable to a chickenhearted success. More than worth a look, if only out of curiosity"

P.S. Shame on all of you who voted for Sleepaway Camp.

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