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

I love how many times Eraserhead is getting nominated. :)

will be an easy ballot cuz there are only about 20 respectable horror films ever

and one of the top 5 is Kobayashi's Kwaidan (1964)

figure it will get 3 votes.

Added that boring movie to the nominations list.

also..

The Changeling (1980)

(not the one w/ Angelina Jolie)

Horror = a gazillion times better a genre than comedy. And often funnier, too.

know-nothingism reigns, it is the Year Zero!

Oh. Oh, oh, oh. I started watching Cathy's Curse last night (from the same 10 for $10 box set that introduced me to the wonderful God Told Me To and Pieces) while going to sleep, and I'll have to finish it to see whether it belongs here, but what I saw was the most jaw-droppingly :O sub-Ed Wood ineptitude which was somehow so inept that it started crossing over into something surreal and unnerving even while it made me laugh. It doesn't feel like something made by human beings or anything with the capacity for conscious thought.

(Also, horror is way cleverer, has better cinematography, more plot, deeper characterisation... I could go on...)

Oh, god, yeah, The Changeling. That movie scared the ever-living crap out of me when I was like 12 and saw it on HBO.

k, emil.y added to enemies list

Glad to see that Morbs will be maintaining the complain-a-thon throughout this poll, as well.

Haha, like months ago.

Morbs is going to take it to the next level on this one.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
M
Let the Right One In (2008)
Bloodsucking Freaks

You've admitted repeatedly that you don't enjoy being scared and don't like horror movies generally, Morbs, so I suspect the thread will give your cavils all the attention that they merit.

actually I won't DWH, since it's my least fave genre and I don't care what you guys think about anything

*into Carrie Weiss's grave*

So I really love ringu, dark water, pulse

Any other Japanese horror movies you folks can recommend?

Also loved A Tale of Two Sisters (and The Host which is of a different sort than what I'm looking for here)

So obv looking for recommendations for Korean horror as well

omg Carrie Weiss :)

k, emil.y added to enemies list

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:03 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You just can't handle the truth!

I will check out Kwaidan at some point, though, I quite like a good portmanteau.

C'mon, Morbs, you're not fooling anybody. You may not agree with anything we think, but you care so hard what we think about everything.

Speaking of which, have we had:

Black Sabbath (Bava, 1963)

?

Austerity Fluffles, I will have a think about Japanese/Korean horror for you. There's definitely some amazing stuff.

Dead of Night
Frenzy
Dead Ringers
My Bloody Valentine (1981)

omg Carrie Weiss :)

^ the way into Eric's knickers

Thinking of nominating the Paul Schrader "Cat People" just for the lols. Although the scene where Ed Begley gets his arm ripped off by Catcolm McDowell and bleeds to death on the floor scared the pants off me when I was 13.

Okay because when I went to the google doc, stuff seemed to move out of order? No idea what happened, but hope it wasn't me.

I added The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and the 1920 and 1931 versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Waxworks (1924)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Student of Prague (1926)
The Unknown (1927)
The Man Who Laughs
Freaks
White Zombie
The Island of Lost Souls
The Mystery of the Wax Museum
Black Cat (1934)
Mad Love
Cat People
The 7th Victim
I Walked with a Zombie
The Uninvited (1944)
Dead of Night (1945)
The Body Snatcher
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Les Diaboliques
Dementia (1955)
The Bad Seed (1956)
Curse of the Demon (1957)
Jigoku
Les Yeux Sans Visage
The Innocents

Burn, Witch, Burn
Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People
Blood Feast
Onibaba
Hush..Hush, Sweet Charlotte
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Tomb of Ligeia
Viy
Witchfinder General
The Devil Rides Out
Spider Baby
Hour of the Wolf
Torture Garden
Twisted Nerve
Horrors of Malformed Men
The Dunwich Horror
The House That Dripped Blood
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Blood on Satan's Claw
Asylum (1972)
Requium for a Vampire
The wicker Man

Vault of Horror
From Beyond the Grave
The Crazies
A Bell from Hell
Martin
Blue Sunshine
Alucarda
The Brood
Possession (1981)
Living Dead Girl
Basket Case
The Company of Wolves
Phenomena
Re-Animator
Return of the Living Dead
Gothic
Near Dark
Lair of the White Worm
Paperhouse
Pin

Evil Dead Trap
Parents
The Reflecting Skin
Cemetery Man
Cube
Memento Mori
The Devil's Backbone
A Tale of Two Sisters
The Orphanage
Let the Right One In

A Tale of Two Sisters

Getting the name wrong on one of the most indelible characters in horror history? Sure bet.

Sry, Ed Begley JUNIOR. Forgot Morbs was around, don't want to confuse him.

Okay because when I went to the google doc, stuff seemed to move out of order? No idea what happened, but hope it wasn't me.

That was me. I closed off access and re-alphabetized.

oh it's White, right? I saw it in German.

but yr wrong, her name is not Norma(n) Bates

Hmmm . . . how does one say "Plug it up!" and "They're all going to laugh at you!" auf Deutsch?

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

YES!

The Golem (1920)
Nosferatu (1922)
Faust (1926)

Faust counts, right?

Oooh, MrDasher has just reminded me I need to watch Onibaba before we vote in this. Fortunately I have the DVD, yess. Also one for AP's list, if he doesn't mind older stuff...

The Criterion transfer of Häxan is in my queue on Hulu. Must watch before this gets to the voting stage.

I am adding all these titles to the doc. Will do cleanup later when I'm not pretending to work.

oh, i do hope to bring the lolz w/ my Italian-free list.

What else will your list be devoid of, aside from scares?

oh, i do hope to bring the lolz w/ my Italian-free list.

So no Taxi Driver on your ballot?

It's perfectly possible to do an amazing Italian-free horror list, but I don't know why you'd purposefully want to cut off your naso to spite your faccia.

Funny Games (1997)
High Tension aka Haute Tension
The People Under the Stairs
The Hitcher (1986)
Cabin Fever
The Lost Boys
Creepshow 2
Lost Highway
The Serpent and the Rainbow

Sorry, didn't realize I added so many duplicates...it was taking so long to post as it was.

Clean, Shaven
Cure (Kyua)
Inside (À l'intérieur)
Jacob's Ladder
Session 9

Night of the Demon & Curse of the Demon are the same Tourneur film, right? that's a goodie.

I believe so but there are a couple Night of the Demon's IIRC...

What else will your list be devoid of, aside from scares?

two of the most boring films of the Carter Administration, Alien and The Shining.

Eric and I both like Kiyoshi Kurosawa a lot, strangely.

that reminds me -

Night of the Hunter, The

really confused about the lack of distinction between horror and suspense/thriller itt. if M. and NIGHT OF THE HUNTER are nominated without remark, can i nominate FRENZY (1972)?!

idk i will just vote from the list you ppl draw up.

wait did anyone say

Mulholland Dr

?

hahaha too late marc I already nominated Frenzy...

Now let's pummel genre definitions to death!

I know what you mean. I might also have to be quite strict on the distinction between horror and giallo. Maybe. Depends on quite how full to bursting my list gets. Night of the Hunter has been accepted into the horror cannon for a while, though.

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