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

"Welcome to the ILX ASYLUM of MENTAL UNWELL, KIDDIES! Over 54 and not quite 56 of you ILL INMATES sent in a ballot listing off the things that CORRUPT you and fill you with REVULSION! Our MORBID MENU is SHOCK full of things that go KILL in the night, so ..."

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"... and let's BOO this!"

For DEATHerence:

Tales From The ILX Top 100 Horror Movies Poll Discussion/Nominations Thread
THE VAULT OF ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Voting Thread (voting closes May 9)

yay!

"The first film in our countdown really GRABS you by the BALLS!"

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100. PHANTASM
Don Coscorelli, USA, 1979
(175 points, 8 votes)

The first Phantasm broke my brain into eight pieces. Do the sequels just, like, dance on the pieces or something?
― I HEART CREEPY MENS (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:56 PM

S/D: Horror film sequels

(clears work calendar for rest of day)

Oh, man, that graphic looks great. If that's what we're in for . . . BEST POLL RESULTS EVER.

I've still never seen this...was thinking it might be pretty high.

I've watched it a few times. nice atmosphere, tall man is unique, but I find it a little... boring, I guess?

how are the sequels, anyway?

I re-watched it again recently and it's still pretty good, if a little bonkers. The sequels are mostly crap, in my view. Still, it may be the only horror movie whose resolution relies on a character knowing how to tune a guitar.

My favorite little detail, which most directors would never think of: When the dude in the funeral home is killed by the flying silver sphere, he voids his bladder when he dies.

lots of great stuff in Phantasm. didn't vote for it as it's a bit nonsensical.

"Our next SINISTER selection is sure to send jjjusten off the DEEP END!"

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99. PONTYPOOL
Bruce McDonald, Canada, 2009
(176 points, 7 votes)

I think pontypool is rampagingly adequate.
― Rango Unchained (jjjusten), Sunday, April 15, 2012 1:19 PM

im sorry but theres a million miles more legit depth to martyrs than pontypool, pontypool just wears "look at me i am thinking" right on its surface but thats all there is.
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:15 PM

"According to McDonald, the writer hashed out a script in 48 hours."
gee i would never have guessed
― blurgh (jjjusten), Thursday, January 26, 2012 5:14 PM (3 months ago)

ok lets all shit our pants to something new: post 2005 horror film thread

hahaha YES

^poll results thread

<3 the screencaps

I always liked the scene where the kid stumbles b/w the prongs of a gigantic tuning fork into some Martian negative-world where zombie dwarves attempt very slowly to harm him or make out w/ him or something.

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Phantasm is a weird movie.

The best part about pontypool was the running gag with the chopper reporter.

Also some good jokes around the mechanism the language virus. I liked it when the studio assistant kept running forehead-first into the recording booth window. Mostly though, the script was a mess, and about 15 minutes of solid movie maybe 30-40 minutes in.

Also one of the two heroes of Phantasm is a prematurely balding ice cream-truck driver who plays crappy folk rock. <3 that movie.

"Before I reveal the next title, I have to double check the CLAWS in my CONTRACT!"

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98. BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW [a.k.a. SATAN'S SKIN]
Piers Haggard, UK, 1971
(177 points, 8 votes)

di wrote this on thread who has the best job in the world? on board I Love Everything on Oct 10, 2001
Satan

Ned Raggett (Ned) wrote this on thread Which film critics do you trust (if any?) on board I Love Everything on Feb 3, 2004
SATAN!

Larry wrote this on thread Cornicelli on board I Love Everything on Nov 15, 2002
Satan?

Chris V. (Chris V) wrote this on thread How come I always got red eyes? on board I Love Everything on Mar 10, 2003
Satan

chrisco (chrisco) wrote this on thread Funniest possible things to say during moment of climax. on board I Love Everything on Sep 2, 2004
"SATAN"

NA (Nick A.) wrote this on thread Carnies vs. Circus Folk on board I Love Everything on Sep 15, 2003
Satan.

Nicolars (Nicole) wrote this on thread Charisma on board I Love Everything on Nov 11, 2003
Satan.

Also one of the two heroes of Phantasm is a prematurely balding ice cream-truck driver who plays crappy folk rock.

What the world needs now, is another folk singer, like I need a hole in my head

^SPOILER

yeah but then in Phantasm 2 bald ponytail dude trades up for a shotgun which has FOUR BARRELS, so I think he learned his lesson about trying to combat the forces of evil w/ his shitty hippy songs.

This is already the best ILX film poll ever!

Wow, the screen caps are amazing! "Screen caps" do it do them justice. This is some next level shit.

I've watched it a few times. nice atmosphere, tall man is unique, but I find it a little... boring, I guess?

Me, too. Phatasm is one of those movies where I understand all the love, but just can't love it myself.

xxp "And that's how, with a few simple modifications, you can turn a regular gun into five guns. Thank you."

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man, I am lolin' hard at the cryptkeeper lead-ins to each entry

"Be kind! Re-DIE-nd!"

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97. [rec]
Jaume Balaguerò & Paco Plaza, 2007
(178 points, 7 votes)

the skinny zombie was freaky as fuck.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, October 12, 2009 12:01 PM (2 years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1nv6W4sRus

you're welcome
― cankles, Friday, October 10, 2008 2:01 PM (3 years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=60114

I think I saw Phantasm. I certainly remember long boring chunks of the movie. Plus the molesting satan dwarves and pants pissing. I was probably drunk, so maybe that was me.

I didn't vote for rec, but it way exceeded the nonexistent expectations I had when I watched it.

I need to rewatch Phantasm. The best word I can think of to sum up my memory of it is 'unmoored'.

holy cats, the internets are pretty much stanning for rec. adding this to my must-see list

It's not a gamechanger or anything, but it's pretty damn fun. Best enjoyed in a packed theater w/ skittish young women sitting behind you.

[rec] and Blood on Satan's Claw -- Both were movies i voted for so HOORAY!

also this is just about the best possible way to pass time while proctoring an exam

enjoying these results so far.

phantasm was on the shortlist but just missed my ballot. a great, great b-movie, the ideas and scope are way beyond what they had the budget to pull off but they still went for it with a madness.

I like pontypool, maybe for the reasons jjjusten hates it, tho I think it's more effective in creating a creepy mood than he's giving it credit for. recency handicap kept it off my ballot.

blood on satan's claw was my #45. this and witchfinder general did bloody battle for the tigon spot on my ballot. I guess the fact that satan is actually afoot won the day, even though it looks like they spent about 10 quid on his costume. entire thing's on youtube btw.

[rec] has been in the to-watch pile on my shelf for a while.

[rec] set the bar embarrassingly high for other pretenders to the whole 00s shakey-cam/found footage thing

So far Blood on Satan's Claw the only one I voted for. Haven't even seen the others.

Only saw the American remake of [REC]. (shameface)

They're practically identical.

Yeah, Wikipedia says it's a shot-for-shot remake.

In that case, that movie sucked.

"You know what they say about MAY-DECEMBER romances: half plus seven ... FEET UNDER!"

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96. MAY
Lucky McKee, 2002
(186 points, 8 votes)

so i suppose its too late for Lucky McKee to have any auteur left in him huh?
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, October 22, 2010 4:58 PM (1 year ago)

ok lets all shit our pants to something new: post 2005 horror film thread

also pillbox's screengrabs are some pro-level shit

^^ I want these as a series of trading cards

Yeah, no kidding!

Collectible lobby cards.

I think despite its flaws The Woman bests May a 'lil bit through sheer intensity. But they're both good and distinct.

yay, may! another late cut from my ballot, glad to see it made it. angela bettis is to may what de niro is to taxi driver.

May! Next time you hear a girl is "super into crafting" you might want to inquire further before you pursue...

creating a creepy mood

Yes! Which was built up and then lost in last half of the movie. I was distracted by a lot of awkward scripting and clunky, unnatural dialogue. I really wanted to enjoy the word-association bit, but was coming down and feeling less engaged by that point. Felt like a promising first draft, but flawed in its execution.

"You know what they say about MAY-DECEMBER romances: half plus seven ... FEET UNDER!"

ahahaha genius

All of the pictures are gone? ;_;

oh no -- there's always this thread
SCREAMcaps! - outtakes, alternatives and other misc. images from the ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll

Not sure what happened. Maybe it's because I let my flickr account lapse out of "pro," but the set is still up here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leechlake/sets/72157629754853602/

Despite having little affinity for the genre, I've seen the Slant top 20 cept #9 and 15, and have no argument with first three.

The only time a museum/theater has used my writing as program notes, afaik, is for Psycho.

I always read these lists hoping Psycho isn't going to be Top 3, just seems so pre-ordained and boringly canonical. At least they didn't have The Exorcist, Alien, or The Shining top 5.

Psycho's #2 ranking caught me at the best possible moment: in the middle of reading the long hard look by Durgnat.

u r boringly anti-canonical, or something, but i wd be open to replacing Psycho with Peeping Tom. (Except PT seems much more a psychological thriller, which is not really the same as horror to me.)

I don't know that book, Eric. This guy seems to prefer Robin Wood's and Paglia's approaches (tho I am intrigued by the role of Thorold Dickinson, who directed the best film of Gaslight):

http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/book-reviews/psycho_durgnat_mogg/

Neither version of Gaslight did much for me.

Saw Suspiria for the first time tonight. (I don't want to load this massive thread...I think it placed somewhere in here.) Thought it was okay, but a lot of dead air waiting around for the big set pieces. If a horror film really gets to me, walking into the house afterwards is unnerving; tonight, nothing. I did like how the last scene perfectly split the difference between Rosemary's Baby's last scene and the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks. Barbara Magnolfi, the woman who played Olga (did I miss her, or did she just disappear after her early scenes?), was there for a brief interview beforehand.

Suspiria's only failing is that its climax doesn't really live up to the lead-up.

I can think of a few; stilted performances and dreary exposition high on the list. (Jessica Harper's fine.)

Saw The Haunting for the first time, and my comments are going unnoticed on the Robert Wise thread, so I'll just say I didn't realize it was a lesbian-crisis movie in haunted-house drag.

Two moments in the movie (you know the two) I was genuinely scared, and that's so incredibly freakin rare.

― The Thnig, Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:56 AM

I give up, which? The incessant-banging-soundtrack ghost scenes are more aggressive / annoying than 'genuinely scary', and the silly trapdoor boo near the climax is kinda what i hate about the genre. (Lois Maxwell's 'explanation' in the postclimax is even worse.) This is better at sustained mood / distress than scares.

Anyway a very artful piece o' work nearly elevated to greatness by Julie Harris' intense, coming-apart characterization. Too bad Russ Tamblyn is hanging around tho.

I would think the part that gets most people is when Harris thinks Bloom is holding her hand. And yes, the loud night hauntings, particularly the bending door scene.
Tamblyn didn't bother me but that's the only film I know him from.

He is the uncharismatic Jet leader in Wise's film of West Side Story. Later a semiregular on Twin Peaks.

Apparently the first essay i need to get hold of is "Female Spectator, Lesbian Specter: The Haunting", by Patricia White.

such a great movie.

with a great great film score by Humphrey Searle for which, apparently, the tapes are hopelessly lost.

I was too young to see Don't Look Now when it came out; I either saw it at a rep a few years later, or maybe on VHS. The Lightbox screened a nice print tonight. Nothing wrong with it--maybe a bit of overacting by Sutherland a couple of times--but I didn't get much more out of it than I did 35 years ago. Even seems a stretch to me to call it a horror film (I'm posting here because I think it ranked somewhere on the list). There was an image in the climactic scene that did seem to be the basis for the ending of The Blair Witch Project.

Love all the riffs on this in "In Bruges."

what's up, yall

(lately I've been shitting my pants to something new)

RIP Angus Scrim

this is a great poll, wish the images still existed. though y'all should be ashamed for how much my bloody valentine didn't place

Spent a nice chunk of yesterday re-reading parts of this thread, a SHOT of BOO-rbon by my side.

<3

all my favorite ppl were in this thread & thanks to everyone itt i discovered the wonders of Carnival of Souls

tomorrow i am watching Haxan & Onibaba for the first time

Oh man, I’m totally going to reread this thread.

This and the comedy were two of my favourite polls.

well worth the reread <3

Yeah, I spent a good portion of this morning reading through this and the comedy poll and adding things to my Letterboxd watchlist that I might otherwise not think to watch.

Those were the two best polls, basically. Oh, the MUMMY-ries. Guess I'll reread this thing, too, in the spirit of to-GHOUL-therness.

excellent poll

pour one out for the results screencaps, also excellent iirc

Forgot this gem from way upthread:

i'm sure i've told this story before, but after the first time me and my sister watched the shining (ages 10 and 8, respectively), i wrote red rum with my mom's lipstick on the bathroom door so she'd see it in the mirror when she came out

my mother was not pleased

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:04 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

was it jed who had the story abt his Dad thinking Eraserhead was a tape cleaner

is the flickr set still available that had all the images in it? they were so good!!!

Didn't Pillbox create a Tumblr or somesuch after the images disappeared from Flickr? I have vague recollections. God knows how we'd even find it, though, if such a thing existed.

Well hey, would you look at that: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leechlake/sets/72157629754853602
And also more broadly: SCREAMcaps! - outtakes, alternatives and other misc. images from the ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll

hey guys- I still have all the images. Can we fix this somehow?

I uploaded all of them to flickr at the time.. clearly that was poor long-term planning. They are archived, and I would be happy to dropbox them or something. Also, I am open to suggestions.

I still have the images on my Flickr too. I could see what the urls are. One for mod req

Oh wait, that url is just a couple posts above

I just watched THREADS and wow -- the scene quoted upthread where the woman pees her pants stood out to me too. it really accelerates after a year -- i watched most of it last night and the last 20 minutes this morning and omg the horrors just kept coming. one of my favorite images was the black-clad shuffling diggers/ farmers? by that time i couldn't quite tell what they were doing. amazing film. and that it was a TV movie? my feelings can be best summed up by a scream emoji

It was certainly the talk of the playground the following day, iirc.

i remember there being a real turning point when ruth started gnawing on some radioactive raw meat. that is the most standout moment when i thought "wait kids are watching this?" and after that it didn't slow down, it accelerated. i was really into nuclear disarmament as a kid and if i had seen this, idk what effect it would have had. would i have become even more of an anti-nuke zealot? would i have exploded? either way holy shit.

FYI it is on Shudder and USians you can get that free for a week (in the US at least)

I told myself I would buy shudder membership for my birthday and then I didn’t do it. Thanks for reminding me!

I am SO glad I didn’t see threads as a kid. I still haven’t seen it! I’m still scared to.

I will once again recommend the similar, quietly-terrifying Testament. I'm seemingly one of the only people to argue for its deserved status as horror, though, so caveat emptor.

I just bought The Day After sight unseen via a recent Kino sale, curious to see how much nuclear terror that induces in me.

Agree abt Testament

It's funny, I actually didn't feel any (old familiar) nuclear terror erupting after seeing Threads -- it didn't make me freak out at all. In fact, I think this movie made me want to live...more?!

Sadly, not in the city anymore.

http://www.tiff.net/calendar?series=new-american-nightmare&list

i am here to report “Hellraiser” is still awesome

also i am finally watching the 2018 green/mcbride Halloween remake and want to stab everyone except JLC