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

I get the black humor in TCM, but not one frame of that movie is lolsome to me. It hits me in a very deep and nightmarish place.

Next up is the one I allegedly kept outta the top 5 with my ballot! I pray it's what I think it is!

"It WAS ... until Mr. Hal Jam's MOTHER'S ballot SWITCHED them back around! Hee-hee!"

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06. PSYCHO
Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1960
(1049 points, 28 votes, 1 first-place vote)

Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO, now 50 years old -- great 20th-century art or mere "carnivalesque" shocker?

re the shrink's monologue: Try to imagine what the average American thought about crossdressing in 1959.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Sunday, March 7, 2010 2:49 PM (2 years ago)

it's pretty audacious that the movie spends 1/2 hour with Marion and her plot before she gets killed off, I can't imagine a movie going that far just to fuck with you these days
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, March 8, 2010 9:48 AM (2 years ago)

Wicker Man beating this is some bullshit

this post to be c+p'ed as necessary

my parents saw Psycho on a date without knowing much about it and it scarred my mother to the point where she almost cries at any type of jump scare

"If it's Alien or The Shining"

oh, MUST RESPECT canon, eh Phil, just like all the silent and Sturges stuff in the comedy poll?

well, this was my #2, so somebody lied. Also, TOO LOW.

I agree with that. "Psycho" is never dull, even when the psych is babbling at the end. But "Wicker Man" ... I dunno. She does have sex with a door, I guess.

xpost.

also my dad took baths instead of showers for like a week afterward

Eeeeeg, that shot of the body shape in the mattress!

To be honest, I'm starting to wonder if The Wicker Man is actually going to be perplexingly missed out. I can see it beating a bunch of these, but... beating Psycho? Really? But then... surely it can't have been beaten by everything else here, including a film that only came out a week before voting? Surely?

per Robin Wood, I think of Psycho as the cinematic equivalent of Hamlet as much as a proto-slasher film.

I do like the smell-ntal image I have of people walking around in 1960 in total full stink due to their newfound fear of showers.

i know
either way it won't end well

option a: everyone hates on the wicker man
option b: wicker man gets shut out

both result in ;_;

all of this "how can hicks be terrifying" stuff is making me think that england must have really low-quality hicks or something

High quality hicks in "Straw Dogs!"

my mother saw psycho by herself in 1960 when she was 10 yrs old

English hicks, yesterday:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article_images/articledir_12509/6254898/1_fullsize.jpg

i mean to be clear "backwoods psycho" is one of the cornerstones of horror, but maybe more so/only in america? honest question

Lots of proto-backwoods psychos in Hammer-ville, no?

also might explain tragic lack of the hills have eyes here. also i am totally amazed that last house on the left didnt make this poll at all, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo

In England, the backwoods psychos live in castles near quaint villages.

Dracula: backwoods psycho.

(also: vampire)

Nah, I totally get the trope, but I think the Brit version is maybe more culty/hippy anyway?

xposts - yeah, we're a lot smaller, the threat tends to be little village conspiracies, rather than isolated US nutters... I think.

Also, when your car breaks down in rural England, you're never that far from a big city.

in the novel, Norman Bates is a squat Rod Steiger type

omg that nic cage wicker man montage

In the novelization of Psycho II that I once read, Norman Bates is just like Anthony Perkins.

This, btw, is far and away one of the best film-studies books I've ever read, not just on "Psycho," but at all.

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I haven't seen The Wicker Man yet, but apart from The Shining (which, surely, must be #1), I can't think of any horror films better than Psycho.

http://rue-morgue.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Official-Norman-Bates-Halloween-Costume-Rubies-Costume-Co.-235x490.jpg

Not that Psycho II is entirely a bad movie, but man the fucking hit job that movie does on Vera Miles/Lila Crane-Loomis just pisses me off to no end.

oh great, some other late voter put a HOTEL MOVIE ahead of this MOTEL MOVIE?

FIX! FIX!

which movie is the HOLIDAY INN MOVIE

i bet morbz knows

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/01/Holiday_Inn_poster.jpg

Is there a SHORT TERM BUSINESS RESIDENCE horror movie?

wouldn't the native townsfolk in an american werewolf in london be hicks? not just by lol britishes standards, but by anyone's standards?!?

the fact that there isn't a tradition in english horror of threat from poor & ugly outsiders is sort of weird, now that i think about it. they drag you into coal mines and pulp you with mallets. they drown you in pig shit and make sausages of your innards.

in america, this is a very common expression of distaste for the impoverished and unsightly.

i'm more rmde at potential placement of The Shining than the Wicker Man right now

"I'll go ahead and just CIRCUM-TORMENT the anti-pagan sentiment OTT today right now!"

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05. THE WICKER MAN
Robin Hardy, UK, 1973
(1057 points, 33 votes, 2 first-place votes)

I HATE WICKER MAN
― everyone on this thread today, Thursday, May 24, 2012

there was a story in the Victor comic when i was a wee boy that completely spoilered my first viewing of Wicker Man

oh my god if i had given TCM a first place vote it would have made the top 5

anyway, masks are fucking scary is the basic premise of TCM and TWM

Ah, phew, was really getting worried. Now I can just say: TOO LOW.

Whoomp there it is.

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Bought this just as videos were hitting the market:

http://cdn3.iofferphoto.com/img/item/117/096/565/o_cBhXauvv57xfuye.jpg

Lays out the film frame by frame, a real novelty at the time.

La Lechera placed on suicide watch

I love every single last thing about this movie! You can't make me change my mind. #1 #1 #1.