Tales From The ILX Top 100 Horror Movies Poll Discussion/Nominations Thread

Murnau's "Nosferatu," OTOH, *is* scary.

OK, later today I'll supplement the Google doc I linked upthread with picks from the year polls.

I've already added titles from this poll I did a couple years ago: Halloween approaches -- Which is the scariest movie in the scary movie canon?

Confession, I've actually been "scared" by about three or four movies ever, so I'm definitely using "best" as a stronger criterion than "scariest."

Please to add one (1) John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness" to that Google Doc.

Done

Just Plain Top 100 - stuff I'm glad I saw. Some of it was genuinely chilling, but not everything "chilling" I'm actually glad I saw. And some horror movies I love didn't actually scare me, but are definitely horror movies.

Oh, and btw, the google doc can be edited by anyone. So feel free if you want to add stuff.

And if you want to delete stuff, feel not free.

True, but I did still vote for a lot of unnominated movies.

― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Thursday, April 5, 2012 8:05 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not writing this to complain, but FYI your ballot took three times as long to enter, because I had to create new entries for half of your votes due to the fact that they were not on the nom list. This meant that I was entering them into a database for no purpose other than to record some of your preferences. It was like your own personal nom list that no one would see until after the results came in.

Just writing this to warn you that typing in (or copying & pasting) the results as ballots come in will get very tedious without a nom list.

For your consideration:

* 75 ballots were submitted

* 663 movies received votes

* 3,170 votes were cast

* 88,441 points were awarded

Without a nom list, y'all would have waited longer for the results because it would have been a lot more work.

Seriously think a nom list will save you time and effort, but I am on board with how you choose to run it, and will stan for my top pics either way.

oh hey there google doc

Why don't you just pull all the movies from that one dude who polled the movies from every year

Because some people's idea of a horror movie might not coincide with Wikipedia's or whatever source those lists were culled from?

I'm saying 'Just Plain Top 100', mostly because there are maybe two horror movies I consider legit scary and I'm sure some people's top 100 (okay...mine) include movies that are probably not 'good' by any reasonable metric. And we absolutely need a nominations process of some sort!

Sorry about that.

Sorry dude. Process discussions are boring. RELEASE THE HELL HOUNDS

Are there any the descent fans up itt? That movie scarred me more than any movie I've seen in recent memory.

scared too

Also, if you just c+p every entry from the previous year-by-year horror polls, you're gonna have a bunch of garbage that no one will ever vote for in a million years because it will, f'rinstance, include every horror movie released in 1996. I think it'll be more hassle than it's worth, but this is your show, man! I will follow where you lead!

yes, the descent is incredible & terrified me

Maybe what I'll do is just C+P any movie that actually received a vote in those polls. That'll cut out all the hag horror movies in the early '70s, for instance.

I say Plain Top 100 because there are really not many truly scary horror movies and most of the best are not that scary, IMO. There are also scary movies that are not horror.

Not to mention that jjjusten is gonna be apoplectic when some obscure masterpiece gets overlooked because everyone missed it amongst the list of every Leprechaun sequel.

I added "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" to that Google doc.

Confession, I've actually been "scared" by about three or four movies ever, so I'm definitely using "best" as a stronger criterion than "scariest."

― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Thursday, April 5, 2012 2:16 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, me too. I just don't scare easily. But I love love love horror movies.

So anyone can add to that doc?

Yeah. I'll keep a separate .xls for myself in case people try to throw tricks.

Also, what makes me like a horror movie or think it's good is not how much it scares me.

For anyone that wants nothing to do with a google doc, this is what I currently have in the nomination pool:

Alien
Audition
Birds, The
Black Sunday
Blair Witch Project, The
Bride of Frankenstein, The
Brood, The
Candyman
Cannibal Holocaust
Carnival Of Souls
Carrie (1976)
Cat People (1942)
Dawn Of The Dead
Descent, The
Devil's Rejects, The
Devils, The
Don't Look Now
Dressed To Kill
Evil Dead, The
Exorcist, The
Eyes Without A Face
Fly, The (1986)
Freaks
Halloween
Haunting, The
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Hills Have Eyes, The (1977)
I Walked With A Zombie
Inland Empire
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
Irreversible
Jaws
Last House on the Left (1972)
Martin
Night of the Demon
Night of the Hunter, The
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Nightmare On Elm Street, A
Nosferatu
Old Dark House, The
Omen, The
Outer Space
Peeping Tom
Poltergeist
Possession
Prince of Darkness
Psycho
Pulse
Repulsion
Ring, The (2001)
Rosemary's Baby
Seven
Shining, The
Silence of the Lambs, The
Sleepaway Camp
Suspiria
Tenant, The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)
Thing, The (1982)
Vampyr
Vanishing, The (1988)
Videodrome
Wait Until Dark
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Wicker Man, The
Witchfinder General/The Conqueror Worm

Drag Me To Hell
Paranormal Activity
Planet Terror

Teeth
Brain Dead/Dead Alive
28 Days Later

Does Threads count?

TV movie? Sure why not.

I just added Hausu into the spreadsheet, but I feel like doing it that way may confuse me as I'll have no record of it here.

Just Plain Top 100

^ this

Friday The 13th Part II
Rabid
Shivers
Ringu
The Haunting Of Hell House

Will I be the only person voting who still covers my eyes when a film scares me? Seriously. And I'm 50. (I even covered my eyes through a lot of No Country for Old Men the first time I saw it.)

Yeah, I was just realizing what a Pandora's box I opened up with that google doc.

For sanity's sake, I think doing it the old-fashioned way might be better for me to keep track.

woops, I meant The Legend Of Hell House. Different movie!

Will I be the only person voting who still covers my eyes when a film scares me? Seriously. And I'm 50.

It doesn't happen much, but I'll admit at the end of Paranormal Activity 2 I was worried what they'd do for an encore and watched between fingers.

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDES: pulse

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286751/

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Sooo...are we keeping track here of stuff we added to the spreadsheet? If so:

An American Werewolf in London
Blob, The (1988)
Brain Damage
Creepshow
Dawn of the Dead (1978) (Dates are gonna be crucial with some of these entries)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Eraserhead
Exorcist 3, The
Fog, The
From Dusk Til Dawn
God Told Me To
Gremlins
Hausu
Hellraiser
Howling, The
In The Mouth of Madness
Inland Empire
Legend of Hell House
Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Phantasm
Pieces
Return of the Living Dead
Salem's Lot
Shaun of the Dead
Testament
Tingler, The
Trick r' Treat

(Dates are gonna be crucial with some of these entries)

I'd also like to see a distinction between the Haunting (1963) and The Haunting (1999). While I can't imagine voting for the latter, someone might.

Yep, I closed off edit access to all for that doc, but I'll keep adding stuff to it myself. It's just easier for me to keep track of new entries that way.

Oh, man, yeah...this might be a PITA for you, Eric. Like, I was trying to pare down my list as I noticed people mentioning stuff in this thread, but I still managed to add some dupes. Plus an unintentional string of bbcode (which I watched someone delete in real time and didn't realize was a thing Google Docs did...creeeeepy).

Oh, never mind. Ha ha.

LOL, yeah, when I was trying to edit and saw two other users adding stuff, I thought: This is a mistake.

So, to recap. Nominations doc is available for all to read. I'll add titles that are listed in this thread, and the ones that received votes in the yearly horror movie polls (later).

Carry on Screaming
Deep Red
Dog Soldiers
Hellraiser
Kill List
Let the Right One In (2008)
Lifeforce
Psychomania
Sleepy Hollow
Theatre of Blood

I have 4 types of things I generally look for in a good horror movie (but not necessarily in the same flick):

* terror/fright
* tension/thrills/accelerated heart rate
* unease/despair
* lols

there are probably going to be a few movies that are just classic or great that I'll include on my list (and I probably have more criteria than what I listed), but this is what I think of first when I think of horror/comedy horror.

I don't scare easy, so I love a good fright. Maybe a half-dozen movies have legit scared me.

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?

wait, what?

Does Threads count?

Testament will be very high on my ballot, so I'd say horrifying Reagan/Thatcher-era nuclear war nightmares absolutely count (maybe this will be the kick in the seat I need to finally watch Threads). And I think TV movies should probably get a huge pass in this poll to allow for the inclusion of stuff like Salem's Lot and It.

Speaking of which, I nominate:

Ghostwatch

Okay, some more noms:

Häxan (1922)
Vampyr (1932)
Suspiria
The Stone Tape
Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
Blood on Satan's Claw
Eraserhead

Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Tenebrae
Angry Red Planet
It! The Terror from Beyond Space

I would nominate the Godzilla-esque Cthulu movie which probably only exists in my head but which has no good reason to not exist.

this is not that movie, but...

The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

Anyone seen 'A Quiet Place in the Country'? Ramdomly came across:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place_in_the_Country

I am also planning on seeing the cabin in the woods tonight.

I have a serious soft spot for that call of Cthulhu movie

I kind of want to see Cabin in the Woods even though it would probably fuck me up

it's good! go see it. scary enough, kinda gory in places, but nothing that'll scar you for life.

Earlier today I looked over at my DVDs and noticed one on top, still shrink-wrapped. At some point in the last 6 months, I bought two-movie DVD of Frirestarter and Firestarter 2, but I have no memory of it at all.

Firestarter isn't that good, but it holds enormous sentimental value for me. I had a huge, huge crush on Drew Barrymore (???) and I also wanted to be her in that movie (and later when she became a wild child). It might make my ballot for that reason alone.

Firestarter had a pretty good soundtrack by Tangerine Dream too

Wow, lots of names in it, too.

Why doesn't he just push the taxi driver to make him go to the airport instead of pushing him to make him believe he's given him a $500 bill? Makes no sense.

easier to push someone to believe something pleasant than to do something against their will? iirc pushing ppl takes a lot out of him so it makes sense for him to take the path of least resistance.

It's funny that he pushed a pay phone into giving up its quarters. Ha.

Anyone seen 'A Quiet Place in the Country'? Ramdomly came across:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place_in_the_Country

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, April 14, 2012 4:37 PM (Yesterday)

lol this is on my list of 50 films to watch, along with popular classics like symptoms, killer's moon, don't go in the house, and the '81 nightmare.

yeah, who exactly is he pushing there, ma bell?

xp

ties into maximum overdrive, right? king treating inanimate mechanical devices as things with minds of a sort.

Edward - lol, it is on youtube no subs but a cracking score from Morricone (from the excerpts).

ok if you guys nommed thundercrack in the comedy poll I'm nomming the devil inside her (1977) here

el dia de la bestia aka the day of the beast (1995)

i nominated Thundercrack! but have never seen The Devil Inside Her. Any good?

love Day of the Beast though. might even vote for it.

devil inside her is horrifying on a couple diff levels, def more horrifying than erotic. the marc loi in you might object tho? (no shots fired)

think I'll save my dark horse agitating for the voting thread

the marc loi in you might object tho? (no shots fired)

lol, no worries. i've avoided the shaun costello & zebedy colt 70s roughies, mostly due to presumed rapeyness.

OK, last call for nominations. Will open the poll for ballots a little later today.

Wtf, this wasn't nominated yet?

Troll 2

I didn't want to vote for it in the comedy poll, because I decided to exclude unintentional comedies, but it certainly was intended to be a horror movie.

It's either a great comedy or a rotten horror movie.

I may just give Troll 2 one point on every poll.

turner classic movies held a film festival last weekend in hollywood with a midnight screening of phase iv on friday, kinda funny to see it positioned among the likes of singing in the rain, the searchers, and vertigo...

http://www.tcm.com/festival/programs/481842/index.html

tbh it's been years and years since I've seen devil inside her, iirc there's one troubling sequence but the rest is pretty standard stuff for the time, albeit dressed up in disturbing facepaint

xp to contendo

last wave, the (1977)

^ weird that classics like this are still getting nommed, down to the wire and we're still missing good stuff but ah well

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