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

Haunted apartments are worse because people are actively ignoring your screams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96s1M8IyrUQ

makes me laugh every time

in 3 of the 4 cases where myself and one other voted for a movie, mr hal jam was the other voter.

looks like my and sarahell's votes for the fly (1958) were not counted. my points were given to cronenberg's remake and sarahell's were given to the fog? lol. so rankings might look more like this

011. Repulsion [1965, 863 points, 26 votes, 1 first-place vote]
012. The Exorcist [1973, 862 points, 25 votes, 1 first-place vote]
013. The Fly [1986, 850 points, 28 votes, 1 first-place vote]

of all the films I was the sole voter for, this is the most undeserving

457. Angst (1983) | POINTS: 15 | VOTES: 1

Didn't help for the sake of the poll, but I have this on my must-watch list thanks to the hype in the voting thread.

If you didn't specify which Fly, I presumed the Cronenberg. Because it's better.

I'd have to dig up the ballots to see if I made an error on Fly/Fog, though. Not that it really changes much at this point.

BTW I started rewatching Poltergeist last night for the first time in years (my wife refuses to ever watch it after her dad took her to see it when she was 12 and it scared her shitless) and it's still pretty effective. Random thoughts so far:

- forgot how good Goldsmith's score was in this
- poor Heather O'Rourke :(
- In the jump scene with the kitchen chairs, when the camera pans away from the table at first, you can see the plant in the corner move, obviously jostled by a crew member as the gag is set up off camera
- poor Dominique Dunn :(
- JoBeth Williams was super hot, something 13 year old me did not appreciate. She also got top billing in this movie
- Having seen much of his stuff over the year, I'm convinced Hooper had a lot more input here than is assumed. A lot of the camera rhythms and angles seem more like him than like Spielberg.

was it angst that got hyped in the voting thead or anguish? either way, you should also watch anguish. everyone should watch anguish

In the jump scene with the kitchen chairs, when the camera pans away from the table at first, you can see the plant in the corner move, obviously jostled by a crew member as the gag is set up off camera

You can also see JoBeth Williams' stunt double leap out of the corner of the frame after she gets shocked across the room toward the end.

If you didn't specify which Fly, I presumed the Cronenberg. Because it's better.

― Björk lied (Eric H.), Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:11 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd have to dig up the ballots to see if I made an error on Fly/Fog, though. Not that it really changes much at this point.

― Björk lied (Eric H.), Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:12 PM (30 minutes ago)

I specified! no big deal tho

only reason I noticed is that the fly (1958) shows no votes in the spreadsheet. with mine + sarahell's votes it prolly should be around #260.

was it angst that got hyped in the voting thead or anguish?

both! think you would really dig angst.

- forgot how good Goldsmith's score was in this

Definitive edition came out late last year from the FSM label. Complete film tracks on disc 1, rerecorded LP program on disc 2, both remastered to a fare-thee-well.

and look, now angst is on youtube in HD. for you soundtrack hounds, krautrocker klaus schulze did the score.

warning: while there's only one gory scene, the movie is v v disturbing. click the CC button for english subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVHH2PKCXEQ

THANKING U

angst also to be noted for best performance of a wiener dog in film history

a friend of mine JUST recommended this soundtrack to me...weird

- forgot how good Goldsmith's score was in this

Definitive edition came out late last year from the FSM label. Complete film tracks on disc 1, rerecorded LP program on disc 2, both remastered to a fare-thee-well.

Wow! That one slipped by me. Will have to order again, though I thought the '97 CD was just fine.

You need it for the album version if nothing else (it had never been on CD before this FSM edition). It's brilliantly put together, a better listen than the film tracks.

Cool. Between that and the 2-disc Carrie set, it's sort of like prime time for horror soundtracks I first bought in the late '90s finally done right.

Yeah, and Gremlins got the same treatment a few months later (also FSM). I feel like this trend kicked off with Intrada's stupendous edition of Alien several years back.

See now some dude is just straight up trying to troll me

― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
noooooo

some dude? he wd never

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

veg that hurts!

seriously though i got absolutely nothing out of Hostel and thought Pontypool was fantastic, those are opinions i would hold and gladly state in these threads even if jjj wasn't constantly ranting the opposite opinions

<3 u some dude

my point though was really that i imagine in a similar poll on a different msg board Hostel would place and those movies wouldn't, so i was just saying yay ilx hivemind

:)

i am not ranting, i am calmly stating immutable facts. while swearing a lot and calling people monsters.

it is weird how quickly eli roth went from director to 'famous guy who once directed movies' though huh

yeah i dont get that at all, esp considering that all 3 movies made absolute fucktons of money on investment - iirc he is one of the most profitable directors in the horror biz.

I have no idea why Eli Roth is famous, let alone a director.

I think he likes seeing himself ON camera too much now to get behind it half as much as he should

imo

oh huh and a bunch of details just leaked abt his next movie in the last 3 hours! "the green inferno" (assuming that is a working title but who knows) that appears to be a modern day spin on the cannibal holocaust vibe which in his hands has pretty high O_O potential.

Hostel II was probably too low budget to lose money but it was a huge box office disappointment

xpost ooh that sounds good

Has never lost money on a film. "Cabin Fever" recouped 15 times its budget theatrically, "Hostel" recouped 20 times its budget theatrically, and "Hostel: Part II" , Roth's biggest budget film to date, recouped triple its budget theatrically. -- IMDb Trivia: Eli Roth

Ok who's the silly billy who decided that The Wayward Cloud is a horror film?

note all of those are theatrically, so they were making mad money even before hitting dvd, which is pretty unheard of for modern horror stuff.

still can't beat The Virgin Spring! xp

I count Thundercrack! after reseeing it, but with the horror being mostly contained in the endless wet-beaver closeups.

yeah but i mean at a time when the Saw movies were consistently making the same impressive amount of $ year after year after year it definitely seemed like a big buzzkill for Hostel II to make less than half what the original made

contenderizer, quit being a silly billy.

No one else voted for Calvaire or Wait Until Dark :(

I have no idea why Eli Roth is famous, let alone a director.

Was a photogenic presence amid dozens of Harry Knowles types on many clip shows.

Yeah big time. He's waaaay hot.

otm

I have one (1) crush

Ok who's the silly billy who decided that The Wayward Cloud is a horror film?

yeah, i nominated but didn't vote for it. will totally defend it as a non-genre, "horrifying" outlier, though. it's as funny as it is creepy, but it's suspenseful, atmospheric and often quite disturbing. the visit to the porn rental dungeon is even shot like expressionist horror.

No one else voted for Calvaire

was one of my last cuts. in retrospect, i wish i'd made room for it.

so I was searching for a clip of the lemora soundtrack on youtube and discovered somebody uploaded the entire thing... today! wish I had repped earlier and longer on the voting thread, alas, but this is still true: reminiscent of valerie and her week of wonders, except replace the hippie-dippie surrealism with bava-does-southern-grotesque.

273. Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural | POINTS: 49 | VOTES: 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD60kNtxn0M

Adore Lemora, really like Calvaire, love all of you.

was it angst that got hyped in the voting thead or anguish? either way, you should also watch anguish. everyone should watch anguish

You're absolutely correct. I suppose I shall have to watch both in order to rectify this heinous error.

I have no idea why Eli Roth is famous

Come on, dude, Bear Jew! Although I still would've loved to have seen Adam Sandler in the role.

xpost holy shit that (Lemora) was one of my biggest must-sees from the noms thread! Will watch!

lemora score is a weird blend of standard orchestral stuff, church hymns, southern folk tunes, and vintage 70s synth burbling