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

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.

ah i didn't realise Cemetery Man had made it and i couldn't be bothered to go back and check. Stagefright: Aquarius is an excellent Argento tribute too

no Frank Henenlotter just ain't right tho

"a goldmine of weirdness" = posts that effortlessnessly summarize ILX

spending the morning psyching myself up for a dark horse appearance of hostel 2, but mainly so i can work myself up for a frenzy of derision when it doesnt place

that's the spirit

I rather like jjj's passion for Hostel 2. I can imagine an alternate world in which there was no Saw, Captivity, et al, and if Hostel 2 had plunked down out of nowhere, how my jaw would have pretty much dropped. I can see that.

I like Hostel 2 just fine.

i am pretty sure fulci found his films incomprehensible

I wonder if they'd be better in Italian?

And if I didn't know Italian and just watched them in some other language?

as i said, it's like porno, he's not really in it for the plot

i dont actually mind the first saw so much (captivity tho yikes super fucking awful) but yeah some of this ire is because of imagined torture porn culture dragging down some pretty amazing films (inside, the hostels, feed, deadgirl)

Isn't the thing with a bunch of these Italian films that some of the actors spoke Italian, some spoke English, and some just spoke gibberish as they were all gonna be overdubbed anyway?

Yeah. it's like Sergio Leone, guys cast in another country based on how well or how close they can come to English, with a couple of American ringers. Except Fulci has no ringers!

even tho i am not a big ol fulci stan, i would have liked to see city of the living dead/whatever the title is where you live make the poll as well

I hate all the Saw movies. I think they're pieces of shit. Just terribly made/acted.

Hostel 2 is slick and sort of funny.

i think that when we see the 101-150 range there are going to be some pretty big headslapping moments in there that we havent even thought of yet, tbh

Like The Sentinel, my fave forgotten wtf movie.

c/o The Sentinel:

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My #50 was Wolfen, from the director of Woodstock, starring Albert Finney and Gregory Hines.

always confuse The Sentinel with The Legacy. the latter's pretty ropey tho.

Oof, Deadgirl. That's a tough one to stomach, but it made my ballot.

You can remember The Sentinel by remember that Beverly D'Angelo masturbates in front of company while wearing a red leotard.

idk i think saw just derailed into all the wrong reasoning - the trap shit in the first one was there to serve the story, but it became the central draw so the sequels just kept loading that on, same problem final destination has after #2 xposts

no Frank Henenlotter just ain't right tho

I was thinking about the sad absence of Henenlotter and Larry Cohen last night as I was drifting off to sleep and subsequently started dreaming this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1SiSUrvUnk

didnt vote for it but i also expected blood feast to make the list

i think what i don't like about Saw is that horror movie protagonists who become cult-y nerd faves all suck balls, cf. Freddie Twatting Kreuger

So...Apaches def. isn't happening then?

I will say that the first Saw surprised me re: both not being as gross as I thought it would be and having a super effective scare right near the end of the movie

had no desire to see any of the sequels tho, it just seemed like an unsustainable franchise

I thought Saw was so dumb. It wasn't the gore or the premise. It was just dumb. And Carey Elwes's ever-changing, where the fuck is he supposed to be from accent was super distracting.

And the series is all downhill from there.

I love a lot of Larry Cohen. I wish someone would remake The Stuff and Q, at least.

they pretty much define diminishing returns, saw 2 is ok, and there was one later one that was not like mind-bogglingly terrible but yeah

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The fact that you were able to handle Saw indicates that it isn't anywhere near as gruesome as I'd been led to believe.

Cohen was great! and he wrote Maniac Cop which i bet never even got nommed ;_;

Saw is not gruesome at all. Just sort of garish and grim and portentous.

(Trying to watch Possession on youtube, bored to tears at 40 minute mark)

The fact that you were able to handle Saw indicates that it isn't anywhere near as gruesome as I'd been led to believe.

It really isn't. If you can watch Michael Bay's R-rated action movies, you can handle the violence in Saw. (there are a couple of "holy yikes" parts but it's a good bit more suspense-driven than I thought it would be)

I love a lot of Larry Cohen. I wish someone would remake The Stuff and Q, at least.

These two sentences seem fairly diametrically opposed.

William Lustig's filmography is pretty hilarious