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

I don't feel bad for not including 21st-century torture films.

This might be food for another thread, but after seeing a couple of the Saw/Hostel/etc. films I have to raise the "I don't get it" flag on all of them. I'm annoyed with myself because it's such a cop-out answer, but I never found any of them to be particularly boundary-pushing, mind-buggering, or old-fashioned transgressive. Otherwise, they're all just a filmed mashup of Joel Peter-Witkin and Grimtooth's series of D&D trap books.

Martyrs may be the only exception, but that one is playing with a completely different deck of cards.

No Hammer, no Corman, no Herschel Gordon Lewis, no Fulci, no Bava (unless Black Sunday makes the top ten).

I think part of the Hammer lack might be that there are a lot of potential contenders, but not too many made the nom list afaict, and there wasn't a lot of campaigning so nobody got reminded of how much they loved Dracula Prince of Darkness or whatever.

...but also no universal monster pictures are going to make the cut?

First two Frankensteins have placed. (But I am surprised Dracula, The Mummy, and The Wolf Man were all shut out.)

No Franco either.

Yeah, I must say that although I like the overall Hammer aesthetic I do struggle to find films that are actually Hammer (rather than just being of a similar style - seriously, I get this confusion all the time) and that stand up among 'the greats'.

No Bava is a bloody travesty, actually.

Lugosi vs Karloff in The Black Cat > Dracula

Also, Tod Browning's silents with Chaney.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Drgoodfootos.jpg

i realize it's not a horror movie. i just like posting that.

clearly Fabian is an alias

he's just 'FABIAN'

Okay, I've got a Bela Lugosi box with The Black Cat--it's go time! (Should clarify that I didn't expect all three to place--I thought maybe one besides Frankenstein would make it. I assume Freaks is Universal too?)

feel like i need to do a quickie AIP poll

Masque of the Red Death, you mothers

― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 8:10 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ this

God, I hope so. But I doubt it at this point.

In The Mouth of Madness? for serious?

I'm absolutely serious! Although I wonder between viewings, "Was I serious? Is it really that good?". Because it kinda seems like it shouldn't be? And then I watch it again and I'm like, yep, it really is that good.

oh ha yeah i missed the frankensteins i guess? would also stan HARD for phantom of the opera

This might be food for another thread, but after seeing a couple of the Saw/Hostel/etc. films I have to raise the "I don't get it" flag on all of them. I'm annoyed with myself because it's such a cop-out answer, but I never found any of them to be particularly boundary-pushing, mind-buggering, or old-fashioned transgressive. Otherwise, they're all just a filmed mashup of Joel Peter-Witkin and Grimtooth's series of D&D trap books.

Martyrs may be the only exception, but that one is playing with a completely different deck of cards.

― H.P. Hovercraft and the Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:14 AM (24 minutes ago)

this might be just the thread for you actually:

Enjoying horror films - why do we (or don't we)?

I know we're in the premature whiny hangover mode here, but I do want to point out the multifaceted and well-rounded results. good spread across decades, more silents than I was expecting, not competely dominated by US films, some classics (and not just the obvious ones), some extreme horror (between martyrs and wolf creek placing you managed to please both myself and jjjusten, who have extreme taste but frequently disagree on this type of stuff), most of the major hotel trends represented. most of the things folks are missing prolly suffered due to vote splitting and under-nomming (universal, bava, coen, corman, hammer).

(tho I am hoping against hope that return of the everloving dead shows instead of last house)

hotel = horror

there's a good bit of stuff I haven't seen yet so I'm pretty grateful for the results even there's a lot of cronenlynch

I think the mix has been excellent--especially for someone like me whose tastes run more to the '70/'80s end of things. There's been newer stuff scattered throughout, but not nearly so much that I ever started to feel really out of touch.

Yeah, aside from just, like, butthurtdom over the absence of personal faves, I'm really impressed with the diversity and quality of these results. Very pleased, and not just because I have a big, new list of stuff to watch. ILXors in having good taste shocka!

Don't suppose anyone wants to do a full recap? Not up for it myself tonight.

Black Christmas is not available at all on Netflix >:(
Any recommendations on where I could stream it? (or if some kind soul would send me a copy that'd be sweet)

kinda loved the hotel typo, not gonna lie, like it was some sort of offbeat trope for the big horror franchises or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_14WDfduvc

btw Larry Cohen films are hard to see now if you don't do that downloady thingy

wtf? It's Alive, God Told Me To, The Stuff and Q: The Winged Serpent are all on DVD

whoa seriously, last i checked it was streaming

uh thats black christmas im talking abt there

well, my library don't have em

shakey's post pointing out why there's no cohen here, don't think any of those films stands head and shoulders above the others, god told me to prolly had the best chance of showing tho my fave is Q (which I didn't vote for)

black christmas is on netflix dvd for sure because i just checked. possession, on the other hand, which i have never seen, is not :(

the stuff is on netflix streaming and i know this because i watched it yesterday

that's odd, considering the recent zulawski renaissance

re: possession

Re Evil Dead 2: I saw the clip below on the Fangoria TV show when was in 6th grade but I didn't catch the name of the movie (and I didn't know about Evil Dead), but I was immediately in love and subsequently obsessed with it. The laughing gooseneck lamp was exactly what I wanted to in a movie and really in all art. I asked kids at school about it, I pored over covers in every video store I went into, and for 17 years I thought about that lamp. Then, in late 2003 I was 29 and drunk, watching a DVD on Jeff and carl agatha's couch in Greensboro, North Carolina when I finally reunited with my BELOVED laughing lamp!!!! Remembering that reunion still makes me grin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghnxsbzwK_Y

black christmas is on netflix dvd for sure because i just checked. possession, on the other hand, which i have never seen, is not :(

Oops! You're right! Black Christmas is available on DVD, but Possession is in "Saved."

So: Anyone got ideas where one could stream it?

i ended up watching evil dead 2 because the local video store had a huge cardboard standee of the skull w/eyes so we rented that and monster dog because of alice cooper and then watched ed2 like 8 times in the next 24 hours.

totally interested in reading contenderizer's ballot when the time comes

it's pretty boring, really

have you checked amazon/hulu?

xp

Isn't there a general feeling that Eli Roth is an ass? Wonder if he's suffering here from backlash while the anonymous makers of, say, Wolf Creek get a pass.

Everyone should probably just buy a copy of Possession. And on the off-chance that you find yourself never wanting to see it again (likely, regardless of how good you think it was), you can just hand off your copies to unsuspecting innocent souls whose brains will be put through the ringer while they sit there wondering when Gwyneth and Aaron are gonna show up.

as usual I'm looking forward to the reveal of other ppl's ballots, the sub-100 placings, and the #1 votes that didn't make the list as much if not more than the top 10

Isn't there a general feeling that Eli Roth is an ass? Wonder if he's suffering here from backlash while the anonymous makers of, say, Wolf Creek get a pass.

uh, i meant to post something after that...

anyway, i dunno what the consensus on roth is these days, but at the time, the hostel films attracted a fair amount of negative attention for their supposed xenophobia and misogyny, deserved or not. as a result, i'm not surprised that they aren't high on ILX's list of favorite things. personally, i was put off by the fratboy douchiness of the characters in cabin fever, and moreso by the sense i got that i was supposed to see them as cool and funny. this was compounded by the annoying, fratboy douchiness of roth himself on the commentary track, and by the use of similar characters and "humor" in hostel. something about the dude's sensibility just rubs me the wrong way. wasn't until hostel 2 that i started to warm to him.

also, I'm glad we got mr hal jam 9000's ballot in, but wish he had provided some color commentary itt

Not streaming on Amazon and I forgot that you can watch movies on Hulu. Just checked and not available on Hulu, either.

PS: Fuck you, Gwenyth Paltrow. Get out of my important web searches.

The cheapest copy of Possession on DVD on Amazon is a used one for $28.

I'll just wait for it to come to me.

Je55e, did you vote for Gods and Monsters?

i'm sure night of the living dead will be in the Top 10, more so than last house on the left.

y'all should have recorded it of TCM a few weeks back.

Bullshit to put Wolf Creek on the same level as Hostel imo.