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

"I hope they send Hannibal to the E-LECTER CHAIR!"

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37. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
Jonathan Demme, USA, 1991
(445 points, 16 votes)

surefire way to break up any serious situation: "oh yeah, was she a great big fat person?" in the buffalo bill voice
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, August 26, 2004 6:13 PM (7 years ago)

The lead singer of Q Lazzarus is a girl?!?!
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Friday, August 27, 2004 7:04 AM (7 years ago)

there is no scene in seven as good as the one in silence of the lambs when jodie foster and scott glenn are in that house and they dab that weird stuff under their noses and have a conversation. i'm not kidding
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, August 27, 2004 8:40 AM (7 years ago)

I didn't rate Manhunter much either to be honest. Cox wasn't scary either in my opinion. But anything is better than Hopkins. He's so utterly dreadful in the role that I cannot get over awarding him an Oscar when the Academy wouldn't dream of doing the same for superior performances from Hess, Rooker ("Henry") or Robert Englund in the first "Nightmare".
― Ceezar, Tuesday, January 4, 2005 7:56 AM (7 years ago)

what the hell, I didn't vote for this either??????

never bought Hopkins in this for a second, Claricccccccce

On the one hand TOO LOW!!!!! On the other hand, it's maybe not really a horror movie. Regardless, I love this movie like a great big fat person (me) loves cake (I love cake a lot). It was my #3.

The sdtk for the musical is pretty good iirc

The number of ILX threads about the soundtrack to SOTL = the number of ILX threads about the movie itself.

Love the suit.

I'm going to try to make an observation about the directing in this movie, which I probably shouldn't do because I lack the vocabulary, but it's a thing I really like about Silence of the Lambs so here it goes: the shots of people talking tend to be really close in on just the speaker's face, which makes the movie feel REALLY CLOSE and stifling and intense.

this is my jam

Hopkins recalls, "I read the script and - boom - I knew intuitively how to play him. There were two, maybe three voices that I heard. I thought of Katharine Hepburn, Truman Capote and Hal.

As gender-bending creepy-house movies go, I prefer the one I saw last night where George Kuchar fucks a gorilla.

So super gay.

Shameful admission corner: I didn't vote for Silence Of The Lambs (which I do like a lot but which, overall, doesn't feel terribly "horror"-y to me), but I did vote for Hannibal (which I'm sure won't place at this point but which does the "slow slide from one type of movie into pretty much outright horror" transition better than almost any other movie I can think of).

I'm pretty sure I say "PUT THE LOTION IN THE BASKET" at least once a week.

As gender-bending creepy-house movies go, I prefer the one I saw last night where George Kuchar fucks a gorilla.

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 5:32 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3 Thundercrack

Man I just put the lotion in the basket and go about my business. Got to keep your head down to get ahead.

as I saw this once in '92, I don't associate the hateful tranny killer with the police captain on Monk

There's probably a correlation between this movie's placement on my ballot and its repeat quotability, and the extent to which certain lines from this movie have become part of my every day life.

never bought Hopkins in this for a second, Claricccccccce

^^^

I made a thread once where I complained about this kind of character

I didn't rate Manhunter much either to be honest. Cox wasn't scary either in my opinion. But anything is better than Hopkins. He's so utterly dreadful in the role that I cannot get over awarding him an Oscar when the Academy wouldn't dream of doing the same for superior performances from Hess, Rooker ("Henry") or Robert Englund in the first "Nightmare".

I like SOTL and voted for it but this is very, very OTM.

I'm going to try to make an observation about the directing in this movie, which I probably shouldn't do because I lack the vocabulary, but it's a thing I really like about Silence of the Lambs so here it goes: the shots of people talking tend to be really close in on just the speaker's face, which makes the movie feel REALLY CLOSE and stifling and intense.

This is very much A Jonathan Demme Thing. See also Philadelphia, Beloved, etc.

Tied with Fast Times for the best use of "American Girl" ever. (Only, probably.)

Oh, not too long ago I was playing "Draw Something" ON IPHONE, and the word I had to draw was "lotion." I drew a girl down in a hole, and a dude with a basket on a string, and the person with whom I was playing guessed correctly.

many xposts: carl otm, re the stifling/intense directing in SOTL. and he stays on ppl's faces a lot longer than normal.
and I still love the way he does that switcheroo at the end, where the FBI are coming up on one house and she's in the other, it perfectly captures the OH SHIT SHE IS SO DEAD feeling

also I'm huge Demme stan so I'll rep for almost anything

I like Hopkins in it, but it's not a believable character in any way. It's an amped up caricature, and it works as that. Just whether you decide to accept that or not.

"Nothing turns my stomach like sonam-PUKE-lism!"

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36. THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
Robert Wiene, Germany, 1920
(467 points, 18 votes)

The Pantry of Dr. Caligari
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, May 6, 2003 10:45 PM (9 years ago)

florence and the cabinet of dr caligari.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Sunday, November 6, 2011 2:26 PM (6 months ago)

The Clavinet of Dr. Caligari
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, October 30, 2005 7:57 PM (6 years ago)

wrong director/year info in the post

xpost I think it's hard to take Lecter now because that Hopkins performance became such a punchline, and now it feels unnecessarily ott. but I dunno, at the time I thought he was straight out of the book. for a long time that was the only thing I liked about the movie.

xp hey, there's a whole article about it: Jonathan Demme and the Close-Up

Robert Wiener, Germany, 1920

I only saw the top quarter of that Caligari still when I refreshed and was all like, "Oh, no fucking way did The Crow place in this thing."

One thing I love about A Hopkins' speech in SOTL is the way he uses an alveolar flap instead of a retroflex lateral /r/ in "Clarice." V memorable!

xxpost sweet, thanks Phil!

Stephen Sayadian, United States, 1989

xxxp

I like Hopkins in it, but it's not a believable character in any way. It's an amped up caricature, and it works as that. Just whether you decide to accept that or not.

^ this is otm, but so is this: xpost I think it's hard to take Lecter now because that Hopkins performance became such a punchline, and now it feels unnecessarily ott

(really shoulda went with triple-x-post. missed opportunities ;_;)

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp should remake "Caligari." That would be a really good idea.

for me to poop on.

Thanks for that article, Phil D.!

didn't Hopkins do kinda the same voice for his dummy in Magic? (not that I've ever seen that, but I heard the radio spots)

I made a thread once where I complained about this kind of character

The genius serial killer, or me?

I think all serial killer movies more or less make me roll my eyes, save I guess "Henry" or "Man Bites Dog" or whatever. But the super-genius serial killer ones particularly chafe.

Jinx.

Dr. Morbius: Genius Serial Killer.

If "Caligari" taught me nothing else, it's that you can be a very effective soothsayer by predicting peoples' deaths, then killing them yourself.

I have mad respect for the brain scene in Hannibal.

I liked this album a lot in 9th grade:

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last thought: The other thing I love about SOTL is how for the most part it's such a *quiet* serial-killer movie. All those intimate closeups, quiet conversations, no-one's really shouty or hotheaded...and yet it's still intense as hell.

re: wiene

His most memorable feature films are the 1920 horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Raskolnikow (1923), an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, both of which had a deep influence on the German cinema of that time.

<3 Caligari, esp the insane set design, & am curious about his version of Crime & Punishment

I made the mistake of reading the book "Hannibal" when it came out. It is a sloppy piece of shit.

predicting peoples' deaths, then killing them yourself.

The Dead Pool of Dr Caligari

It is, but I kinda wish the movie "Hannibal" had kept the tank full of eels, and the bodybuilding lesbian sister, and all the other craziness. If you're gonna go Grand Guignol, go for it, you know?

lol xp

BTW this book is awesome reading:

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