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

it's so weird to me that Eraserhead came out in the 70s. it seems like such an 80s (or even early 90s) film

Question for Pillbox -- is that a single typeface you used for the film titles, with the serifed lowercase characters and sans-serif capitals?

"Here's a movie I imagine jjjusten would like to ERASE from the HEAD of these results!"

LOL

i tried to watch it by myself at night and had to turn it off after the mutant baby scene.

Did you finish it? Cuz the mutant baby scenes get a whole lot worse.

this happens a couple times and the head effects guy (who's from nyc) eventually gets frustrated, says, "WE'RE GONNA DO THIS LIKE WE DO IN NEW YAWK!" and grabs a shotgun. they use that instead and they get the take we all know and love.

not to be the jerk i clearly am, but is this true? can it possibly be true? i ask cuz i spent a lot of time still-framing through that head explosion as a kid, and it looks like an inflation effect. the guy's head swells up like a balloon before it bursts. maybe they did both, air pump and shotgun blast?

Did you finish it? Cuz the mutant baby scenes get a whole lot worse.

yeah, eraserhead goes on a very short list as one of the most distressing and depressing films i've ever seen. the first two-thirds are sort of grotesquely, blackly funny, but the last act is soul-crushing.

I think I've told this story before but my college roommate has a super obsessive mother who rented Eraserhead one weekend and made the entire family watch it 10 times in quick succession. She also painted Disintegration-inspired murals all over their bathroom after my roommate brought home copies of my Cure albums.

good lord!

I think his youngest brother was 12 at the time...?

I had one of those crazy mid-80s Guild Asbury basses which was the size of a ukelele and had the big fat silicone strings, and we always called it 'the Eraserhead Baby Bass'

xp whoaaa

i never finished eraserhead, no

Question for Pillbox -- is that a single typeface you used for the film titles, with the serifed lowercase characters and sans-serif capitals?

in response to an early incration of the template design for these, Eric likened certain elements to a "silent movie title card," which I thought was cool and just sort of ran with. So I used a mashup of trad Art Nouveau & Deco fonts for the titles & numbering (Fletcher Gothic for #s, Cassanet for large caps, & Arlt for smaller type). The rest of the info is a German sans font called DIN, which is pretty similar to Futura.

wait ..it's behind the jump and the thread's too big to open on my phone...halloween wasn't top ten?

also now that I think about it it might have been 13 times (7 on Saturday, 6 on Sunday)

basically it was a super insane story that made every other story seem normal, like of COURSE she made the entire family camp out overnight for Cure tickets, this was the woman who made her kids watch Eraserhead a dozen times in a row

after the first couple viewings, i think i would have just gone outside

this happens a couple times and the head effects guy (who's from nyc) eventually gets frustrated, says, "WE'RE GONNA DO THIS LIKE WE DO IN NEW YAWK!" and grabs a shotgun. they use that instead and they get the take we all know and love.

not to be the jerk i clearly am, but is this true? can it possibly be true? i ask cuz i spent a lot of time still-framing through that head explosion as a kid, and it looks like an inflation effect. the guy's head swells up like a balloon before it bursts. maybe they did both, air pump and shotgun blast?

― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:19 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe I'm fudging some of the details due to my faulty brain but that's the gist of what cronenberg said. not sure if that makes it true or not, I suppose he could have been messing with us.

damn u guys took Eraserhead personally. It's not real you know. I mean, look at his hair.

First saw this as a teen, on a shitty TV, on a sunny, noisy Sunday morning in my family's busy living room before watching NFL football. And it still freaked me out.

"If at first you don't succeed, DIE, DIE AGAIN!"

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8166/7256881504_9f614553ba_o.jpg

14. EVIL DEAD 2: DEAD BY DAWN
Sam Raimi, USA, 1987
(849 points, 26 votes)

Evil Dead 2 = best film ever, obv.
― DG (D_To_The_G), Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:19 PM (8 years ago)

I can't understand someone NOT liking this.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:58 PM (2 years ago)

also now that I think about it it might have been 13 times (7 on Saturday, 6 on Sunday)

this story is completely insane!

<3 that you chose the 'Farewell to Arms' shot. Awesome.

I liked Eraserhead, blew my everloving mind when I first saw it and I still really dig the freaky sound-design. But it would not be on my ballot for this particular poll, and I can't say I'm not a little bummed that it polled higher than say, Halloween & Dawn

Taking a short break before doing the last 3 titles today.

Evil Dead 2 too low muthafuckas but yaaaay

GROOVY

first one didn't place yet, right? that's cool that it'll beat out the sequel.

first one was #31 in yesterday's rollout.

whoops, my terrible brane at work again. I even posted about it.

Love ED2. But as I get older, I love it less and love the original more.

same here

yeah, ditto.

just hit the 500 movie limit on my netflix queue. thanks a lot, ilx horror poll.

I think I've told this story before but my college roommate has a super obsessive mother who rented Eraserhead one weekend and made the entire family watch it 10 times in quick succession. She also painted Disintegration-inspired murals all over their bathroom after my roommate brought home copies of my Cure albums.

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:24 PM (22 minutes ago)

one question, were you roommates with buff or max?

massive lol

sometimes I worry about those two

hopefully they're not squirrelled away in a hole somewhere

massive lol

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:55 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

o man that eraserhead screengrab

keep scrolling back up to bust a chuckle

More more more, c'mown.

Re: the Scanners exploding head, I can't be the only one who read Fangoria, rights. I thought that was a well known effect - a combination of a rubber head filled with pet food and stage blood, inflated and then blasted with a shotgun.

ps megalolz at someone voting in a genre he explicitly doesn't care for dismissing one of the genre's acknowledged classics as "a silly little horror film."

You'd think that people would have had enough of silly horror films. But I look around me and see that it isn't so.

Nice.

I won't list them, and don't think it would fair for anyone to do so at this point, but I think I've got the last 13. (Of the Top 10 predictions I jotted down a couple of days ago, two have already turned up.)

#11-#13 in a few more minutes.

Re: the Scanners exploding head, I can't be the only one who read Fangoria, rights.

oh yeah, i was a regular fango reader for many years (cinefex too, plus stuff like savini's books). the details have apparently gotten a little hazy with time, though. now that you mention it, i do remember that recipe.

Pretty sure they actually blew up someone's head, iirc.

my 5th grade teacher was so revulsed when he discovered me reading fangoria #12 in his classroom that he tore it to shreds and threw it in the garbage. man that sucked.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ohMEEHvPoY8/ShI16I38OCI/AAAAAAAAABY/l5auQPXZq5w/s1600/fangoria2.jpg

dude seriously had a minor nervous breakdown

my parents never let me buy fangoria :'(

didn't embed that img on purpose, didn't want somebody's boss to walk by and try to tear your monitor to pieces

xxxxpost they blew up a real dude's head while Donald Sutherland was actually fucking Julie Christie