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

i think of rosemary's baby as being, thematically, less about the helplessness of a woman to determine her fate, as by the inability of the present to escape the past. the threat is the old world, old people, "expert wisdom" and secretive tradition. the building symbolizes this as much as its residents. it's ultimately about corrupt age consuming naive youth.

"...as about the inability of the present to escape the past."

dangit

this may be because you are a dude

hahahahahaha!
hate to break it to you but we're all la lechera socks

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Seriously though, emil.y TOTALLY 100% OTM -- she said everything I would have said if I hadn't been riding my bike home from work (only she said it much better and with fewer irritating exclamation points than I would have)

Hellraiser and Wicker Man are like the far ends of the pleasure spectrum.

omg lol Eric I misread that as 'people who refuse to pleasure themselves their whole lives'

xp to contenderizer - Maybe, but it speaks to me way more specifically on the level of "nobody believes something horrible is happening to you, little lady, let me call an abusive dude to come pick you up." I'm not even trying to argue that this is the theme of the movie (I don't think it's purposeful at all, actually) but that for me, that's where the horror originates.

I have similar things to say about The Shining.

carl agatha otm

this may be because you are a dude

yeah, lol, that's a good point. carl agatha otm, too. i do relate to the film that way, the frustration of the protagonist in not being taken seriously, and i suppose that it doesn't have to be one theme or the other. they reinforce each other, really.

The title even hints at how Rosemary is just a nice, warm, but ultimately unimportant vessel in the eyes of the Satanists. It ain't called Rosemary.

age, expertise and the old world = ways in which authority is claimed by someone other than rosemary

Poll too fast!!

- Happy with today's results.

- Love Rosemary and even her babby, too

- I wish I had time to participate in fussing about TWM, but: LL OTM and Thnig, too.

- Eric, Pillbox, you guys rock. <3 the gifs! <3 U guys

I LOVE YOU AND GIFS AND GUYS AND BABBY

3-minute gap

in this thread i think that means I killed the thread

oh, the suspense! ...HAS VANISHED

Was sort of hoping the idea of me pleasing myself would've sustained the thread while I'm on my train ride home.

Ya it's been like 50m since last post wtf I'm outta here

i always lol @ that cheerful old lady at the end of rosemary's baby who gleefully raises her glass and toasts a chirpy "Hail Satan!", as if she were toasting her grandkids graduating college or something. then there's the Japanese Satanist who's more concerned w/ his camera than anything else (lol 1960s racial stereotypes).

ugh this thread is so dead *removes bookmark*

HAHAHA INTENTIONAL PUN OH I KILL MYSELF

HAHAH I DID IT AGAIN LOOOL

Lol "pleasuring"

meantime -- SNUBBED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1NWXq7Hy90

Fans of The Wicker Man, any of you read The Dark Is Rising YA novels by Susan Cooper? The Greenwitch, in particular, taps into the same vibe, along the lines of what emily was talking about. Great novels!

Also calling the pagans in TWM hippies is ignant

VP and his wife were rather merry Satanists in that film, weren't they?!?

plz note: i didnt call them hippies, i called that particular scene hippie dippie nonsense

La Valse'nt Price

i always lol @ that cheerful old lady at the end of rosemary's baby who gleefully raises her glass and toasts a chirpy "Hail Satan!", as if she were toasting her grandkids graduating college or something.

That woman is EDNA FROM THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW!! I fell out of my chair and ROFLed and died when prim old Edna said "Hail Satan!"

idgi -- what is nonsensical or hippie dippie about it? she is seducing him, he is failing to be seduced.

AT HIS PERIL

"you're lying! you witches, you're lying! you're lying, you're lying!"

jjjusten, wasn't calling you out in particular.

I wonder if TWM sucked for some people becasue they were reacting to the islanders in the context of neo-paganism.

(i've never read those books, btw)

i dont want to get that much into it and i havent seen it for a while but she is iirc seducing him through song and some sorta awkward modern dancing

again i want to get the movie because i trust yall, maybe i should just fast forward through that scene

you should make a jjj edit that has that scene taken out maybe

also does the remake actually replace the huge burning wicker dude with a HEADPIECE FULL OF BEES

idgi -- what is nonsensical or hippie dippie about it? she is seducing him, he is failing to be seduced.

― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Guys, I'm going to reverse my opinion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIac4nKaAy4

While the movie is supposed to be about old-school religion, I feel like these people are less likely to throw me in a bog than slip me a couple tabs of acid.

My mom saw the remake (with the bees) and had no idea about the original, and at some point I mentioned to her that friends of mine (LL and The Thnig) went to some of the locations where parts of the movie took place and she was like "The movie where they killed Nicolas Cage with BEES??!?! WHY would anybody do that???!?!?"

Still pleasuring myself.

OG wicker man wasn't dedicated to Johnny Ramone ... just sayin'.

Ok but one last thing -
She sings "our maid can milk a bull" (not to mention the lyric about "a bucketful") -- that's pretty...graphic stuff right there. I guess I don't take her seduction techniques lightly -- she's really trying to save him, giving it her top shelf treatment. He resists because he's uptight, pious, obedient, and stupid. It's kind of painful to watch, but not for the reasons most people think. I like that she's serious about what she's doing, but also soft and pretty.

I didn't vote for The Wicker Man because I still have never seen all of it -- which maybe I will remedy soon -- but the discussion reminds me of this thread I started a while back.

the nic cage-wicker man pagans weren't so nice b/c they didn't offer him, say, a naked Leelee Sobieski doing a seductive dance to save him.

instead all he does is roundhouse-kick chicks in the face, sucker-punch them whilst wearing a bear suit, push over little girls to steal their bikes, and scream about bees.

nic cage in the excorcist:

"Oh my god, I'm stabbing this crucifix into my vagina!"

exorcist

"Let me see that THING! Baby, that THING TH-THING THING THING! – SICK-SQO"

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7211/7263001272_eae80eee85_o.gif

03. THE THING
John Carpenter, USA, 1982
(1117 points, 31 votes)

ok so there are 4 spots left and i feel like rosemarys baby makes 5 expected films? also if the thing wins this poll too i swear to god
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Thursday, May 24, 2012 4:02 PM

basically at this point I assume that 80% of the board has masturbated while watching The Thing
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Thursday, May 24, 2012 3:21 PM (58 minutes ago)

Spider- head followed by "You've got to be fockin kiddin me?" line one of the great scene's in cinematic history.
― Omar, Wednesday, October 31, 2001 7:00 PM (10 years ago)

Every time I hear about Sarah Palin shooting wolves I think of the first scene of this movie.
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:08 PM (2 years ago)

i'm laughing hysterically now as i imagine Nicolas Cage's voice croaking out "you know what she did your cunting daughter?!?" and "your mother sucks cocks in hell you faithless swine!" from Regan's demon-possessed body

no first place votes!

Also calling the pagans in TWM hippies is ignant

― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, May 24, 2012 1:57 PM (57 seconds ago)

and funny!