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

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

xpost Nah. We'll always have the originals, but it would take a remake to bring attention to them.

I liked the first Saw. Actually I like Wan's other flicks, too: Dead Silence, Insidious.

"First comes the BLOOD, then come the BOYS, then comes the DEATH in the DEATH CARRIE-AGE!"

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7211/7261591434_0ed772e958_o.gif

10. CARRIE
Brian De Palma, USA, 1976
(945 points, 26 votes, 2 first-place votes)

dirty pillows is one of my favorite euphemisms ever
― Kaleidoscope Funk Network (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, April 1, 2010 12:49 PM (2 years ago)

its really fun to imagine brian dePalma silently levitating through a mass of showering cheerleaders w/ his camera trying not to be noticed
― plax (ico), Saturday, December 25, 2010 7:21 PM (1 year ago)

When I was about 10 years old I read Carrie, the one with the pics from the movie. I was immediately OBSESSED and I wanted to be her. I played Carrie by filling an empty gallon Kemps ice cream bucket and dumping it over my head on the porch, then doing this over and over and over:
http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/carrie-blood.jpg
― it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Thursday, April 1, 2010 4:38 PM (2 years ago)

fuck depalma.
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, December 6, 2005 10:37 AM (6 years ago)

fuck you!
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, December 6, 2005 10:49 AM (6 years ago)

Whoa -- are the top 10 gonna have MOVING-IMAGE stills? If so, christ on a cracker, Eric!!!

Might be the only DePalma I like as more than just an homage.

My number one!

Carl Agatha <3 Carrie White TLA

Excited about the animated screencaps! Glad Carrie is in the top ten! Wish it were top five! Dealing with it!

Sorry, this movie makes me feel a lot of emotions.

Jesse, were you the other number one vote?

If yes, do you want to go to the prom with me?

Can we just talk about the fast-motion scene sent to comic-funk music where the dudes try on tuxes? Cuz that's the crux of the film.

the Jesse post is kind of disturbing because there's no mention of WHAT the bucket was filled with

Ooh, was expecting that top 5. Another that I didn't vote for but do like a lot. Great gif work!

i was actually thinking that one wouldnt make it actually. like i can see top 50 but idk

I feel like I'd have a lot more affection for Carrie if I'd seen it earlier in life (see also: Halloween).

gotta type less while distracted by terrible guitar, maybe then i can cut down my actuallys to one a sentence

Well, I was mostly judging from other top horror lists - a lot of the stuff that we've been complaining about not making it don't make it in those either, but Carrie is a stalwart.

Carrie's sort of too glossy for me to give it the whole of my heart, good as it is

the Jesse post is kind of disturbing because there's no mention of WHAT the bucket was filled with

Ha ha I was thinking the same thing.

Did you know that when PJ Soles burst her ear drum in the scene when she gets it in the face with a fire hose? It's true.

I love how secondary all the men are as characters in this movie. Like it would barely matter if all if Travolta and Katt weren't in the movie.

!!!!!!

great movie but there's no way you'd kill a pig and fill a bucket with it's blood i'm sorry.

(SPOILER) Friday the 13th's ending in the boat is a straight rip off of Carrie then?

yep

but better

but probly cos Friday the 13th was the first non-Hammer horror movie i ever saw and the ending made me jump like fuck

(OK, I admire Possession for its conviction. That movie is weird and fucked up.)

nope, the one thing i will say for all time is that whatever i think of the rest of F13, that ending is all time.

When I saw that Carrie was up, I thought that I would be a little disappointed if I wasn't quoted. <3 U Eric

<3 all of U

Also, great instincts on DePalma's part (not that Hollywood would give him a choice) NOT casting Carrie as described in King's book, where she was a fat, pimply, unpleasant loser.

why didn't they use paint/ dye/ etc? i mean i don't wanna harp on about this..

Throwaway line I quote all the time from Carrie: "Get 'er done--get 'er done."

Yeah, I know, I always had an issue with that, too. Like, why blood? That's gross, and one step beyond just the mere meanest prank in history.

PJ Soles's laugh when they dump the blood is all-time, too.

I need to watch this again.

Jesse, were you the other number one vote?

― carl agatha, Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:40 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If yes, do you want to go to the prom with me?

― carl agatha, Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:40 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yep, that was me! I really had it in my head that Carrie would be #1.

teenage kids are quite mean and have poor sense of boundaries come on

Obvious link, but pretty great anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS1Ckczz0LQ&ob=av3e

How many gallons of blood are there in a pig?

Throwaway line I quote all the time from Carrie: "Get 'er done--get 'er done."

― clemenza, Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:59 PM (1 minute ago)

there is this larry fellow that fixes cable boxes that might really ruin this for you

(SPOILER) Friday the 13th's ending in the boat is a straight rip off of Carrie then?

As fun and shocking as some of these trick endings can be in the moment, they tend to severely diminish my opinion of the movies in question. I always feel like the filmmaker didn't care enough to give us a legit ending.

Friday the 13th has a legit ending! and then an awesome one tacked on.