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

i was already old and cynical i guess

xp It is very very very odd to watch now, particularly if you've seen it before - it still really builds well, from subtle + minimal through to ARRGH NO DON'T DO THAT, and the final twist of not just what is going on but What Is Going On is still really smart. But it is odd to see Mike Smith + Sarah Greene and particularly cheeky monkey Craig Charles. Parky is sublime throughout of course - none of this is anything compared to Rod Hull + Emu.

1992. I can't even remember where i was when i saw it

I do love the fact that all the callers to the phone line were meant to get a prerecorded message saying "This is fiction, but if you would like to share any stories of ghosts we'd be glad to hear them" - but the lines were mobbed, so most of the callers just got an engaged tone.

I'd only read about its reputation over the years, which I expected to be a little overblown, but when I finally saw it, I was surprised by how effective it was. I don't know if having only the vaguest notion of who the people involved were helped or hindered the experience, though.

Getting psyched for the top ten...(I hope posting this gif doesn't violate some sort of law of nature or ilx)

http://www.iancutler.com/Pictures/ianfront1.gif

Totally psyched :D

can't belive this isn't going to make it

http://static.wix.com/media/28930d_bac05104e165616b10e28f90f3095cc7.jpg

i have a meeting at 10:30 and i'm afraid i'm going to miss something. this is a sign of extreme overinvestment.

what's that pic from, piscesx?

Results will roll out at a little slower clip today to make you savor them.

depalma style?

dddaaaaavvvviiiiidddd lllllyyynnncchhhh oohhhh fuuuuuucccckkkk yooooooouuuuuu

Was rooting for Salem's Lot too.

We're preparing for provincial testing here next week; deciding whether to put that aside so the students can keep apprised of the Top 10 as it happens.

xp yeah it's Salem's Lot.

huh i know i've seen that but for some reason the only image i remember is Fred Willard getting a shotgun pulled on him

Some Romero musings....

Based on the tenor of this poll, I am honestly shocked that it looks like Martin isn't going to make it. Have people just not seen it? I think people on this list would go crazy for it, so see it if you haven't.

I'm a big fan of Day of the Dead and surprised it didn't make the top 100, but not annoyed. So much other good stuff. While we're awaiting today's festivities, I'll go ahead and list my personal ranking for Romero's Dead films (no, Return doesn't count.)

Night > Day > Dawn > Survival > Diary > Land. But I love them all, except for "Land," the only clunker.

oh man now i know clemenza's students are tuning in i feel bad about my pottymouth

xpost I'm a pretty big fan of Land actually, but the reviews steered me away from the subsequent two.

Curse away--just kidding, of course. ("See the meat hook, kids? He's just about to hang the girl on it" = no more job.)

haven't seen The Vanishing in a long while, but I would call it a turn-the-screws thriller rather than horror.

I don't like Martin as much as I like Romero's zombie output. I like Martin fine, but I honestly didn't even think about it when compiling my ballot and I'm not sure I would have voted for it even if I did. But the rest of yous shouldn't take my word for it and should see it for yourself.

i think Martin's tremendous but i have to admit tedious lol zombie bores have taken some of the shine of zombie flicks for me

not Zombie Flesh Eaters tho, that fucking rules

i voted pretty high for martin, probably higher than i should have

Martin is such a smart film, really subtle and well done, especially given the budget. It's one of the few totally original takes on vampire lore (and I suppose sets the stage for Vampire's Kiss!).

My Romero zombie hierarchy, btw:

Night>Dawn>Land>Day>the other shitty ones, the last of which I skipped because I think it's about feuding Irish farmers or some shit. "Day" has the best FX by far, but man, the worse acting and script. There's a great commentary on this one, too, not the one from Romero but a second one from Roger Avary, who doesn't mince words when it comes to the film's pros and cons, and talks a lot about how he and Tarantino used to more or less play the film on a loop in their video store to gross out customers.

Any love for Fulci here? I don't like him, but I admire his gormless, gritty, grisly approach. Plus: shark vs. zombie!

yeah Flesh Eaters is exploitation done just right, as seedy and random and porny in its lack of interest in anything but its set pieces as really effective cheapo horror shd be

Oh, wait, is Zombie Flesh Eaters Zombi, aka Zombie 2?

I like Fulci. I find his movies largely incomprehensible, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ppIWBqPYjg&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Dzombie%2Bflesh%2Beaters%26page%3D%26utm_source%3Dopensearch

not suitable for work or college obv but this is just all time

yah Zombi 2 was the original italian title iirc? passing it off as a sequel to Day of the Dead

We talked about the puzzling nature (and awesome voice dubs) of House by the Cemetery on the nominations thread.

"City of the Living Dead" has a really spooky mood, spread out between the gross-outs.

Had I taken part in nominations I might have considered the "Blind Dead" series. They're not really scary, but the zombie Knights of the Templar are pretty iconic.

Actually, I believe the mythology is that Romero gave Fulci his half-blessing to present "Zombi 2" as an unofficial sequel to "Dawn of the Dead," since Fulci worked on "Dawn," to some degree.

Zombi 2 I did not like at all and The Beyond and City of the Living Dead I didn't like much either. His whole shtick is p much "GUYS GUYS GUYS OMG LOOK AT THIS CHICK VOMITING HER INTENSTINES WHOA LOLOLOL I don't have to bother w the rest of the film, do I?"

Dawn i meant, yeah. didn't know that tho.

I'm amused that I was accused of taking the comedy poll too seriously -- as if it was to be "engraved on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier," I think it was -- while some of you are preparing to dice these "fun on the internet" results in more ways than a sabermetrician would.

Stevie that's the exact same reason i said he was awesome :D

I'm displeased that Return of the Living Dead prob isn't going to make it on this list btw

By the way, Sam Neil from the AVClub Random Roles interview:

Possession (1981)—“Mark”
SN: Oh, my God. You’re really finding the obscure ones now. [Laughs.] Yeah, that was probably the most crazed thing I’ve ever done. It’s by a fabulously crazed Polish director called Andrzej Żuławski, with Isabelle Adjani playing my wife, who was pretty out there at the time as well. [Laughs.] We were shooting in Cold War Berlin, and… It’s sort of a monster movie, but it’s more about the terrible destruction of a marriage than anything, and if you have the courage to sit through the whole thing, it has its rewards.

Romero's Diary of the Dead and Survival of the Dead get a bad rap. Both are good and, while minor when compared to the original trilogy, filled with smart ideas. Survival, especially, feels like a return to form. Plus at the very end it adds something to the Romero zombie rules: Did you know there is another food source that zombies will accept? True! What is it? Watch the movie!

I like Fulci. I find his movies largely incomprehensible, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying them.

― carl agatha, Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:41 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha, yeah, I think this is spot on.

Is there an estimate of when #1 will be posted? I'm like refreshing this page every hour

Not much Fulci or Argento on this poll, correct? Both are filmmakers I love, but whose nonsensical scenes of giddy ultraviolence bleed into one another so I can never keep their movies straight. I don't mind that personally, but for a poll it's obviously problematic.

It's horses. Zombies eat horses. There, now you don't have to watch the crappy movie.

Argento I love. At the least, he's a great technician, and his scores are awesome.

Is there an estimate of when #1 will be posted?

Likely about 5 or 6 hours from now, given the pace I'm anticipating.

(Am I stalling right now? Yes, a little.)

no Michele Soavi i think either, really am kicking myself for not getting my shit together for this but i get the feeling half my picks wdn't have scored anyway

Isn't Cemetery Man here? That's Michele Soavi, rght?

I think the stat I'm most interested in is films that didn't make the cut. Like, what were films 101-150? Could be a goldmine of weirdness.