THE VAULT OF ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Voting Thread (voting closes May 9 *~*~*~*2012*~*~*~*)

But you know what? That movie is boring.

POSSIBLE SPOILER I can't believe at what's his name's trial his defense is based on selling the jury on reincarnation. That lecture on Hinduism ran a little long. The whole trial drags on waaay too long. There are a few creepy parts and I like the actor who played Ivy/Audrey. Anyway, yeh, it's fairly boring.

okay, so i watched apaches earlier this evening. lol is all i can say. won't make my ballot, but i did enjoy it.

i see your apaches british people, and i raise you the wonders of american drivers ed films (machanized death, red asphalt, etc.)

this is not an endorsement, do not watch these, unless you are looking to vote for faces of death and then fill out the rest of your ballot

Whittling it down to 50 was so painful I've made a list of 51-100 too, just to calm myself down.

i called dibs on doing the stills, but if any of you have any nice screengrabs you'd like to have included, plz feel free to email them to s t g e r t z @gmail
― picture jean rollin (Pillbox), Wednesday, April 18, 2012 8:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes. I am eternally grateful too, btw.

Obviously this is Eric's and Pillbox's call, but my own feeling on stills: atmospheric/moody rather than bloody corpses/exploding heads. I know many would strongly disagree.

atmospheric/moody would keep things unambiguously SFW, for those for whom that's a consideration

(although I'm not sure atmospheric/moody would capture what people were attracted to with movies like "Dead/Alive")

It is possible to like more than one style within a genre. I consider Dead/Alive more of a comedy, but might put it in the 40s if I get that far.

That some of you you are sufficiently immersed to make an individual list of 100 top horror films might give you an idea of my emotions during the comedy poll, when ppl were throwing their votes together in 15 minutes.

I'm not pissed off at the people who are throwing their horror movie ballots together in 15 minutes. I'm happy they feel enthusiastic enough to contribute to a horror movie poll.

sure, but Matt #2 may feel differently.

I am struggling with my ballot, probably largely because of the many movies I know I liked but that I don't remember very well. I would like to rewatch some things, especially Anguish, Night of the Demon/Curse of the Demon, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and Dementia/Daughter of Horror, but also Black Cat, Blood on Satan's Claw, Burn Witch Burn, Kill Baby Kill, God Told Me To and others.

I think I nominated the 1926 Student of Prague but really meant the 1913 version.

I watched Apaches last night.

Sadly, netflix seems to have neither Threads nor Testament on dvd (I don't have streaming). Not that I would probably vote for them here anyway but after what people have been saying I would really like to see them.

Link posted upthread by strongo - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488

(Threads)

I saw Testament on PBS when it was new. It was OK; it's not horror. It's not "top" material list, except maybe Top Jane Alexander Films.

She sorta vanished after becoming SAG prez, no?

my first pass has 123 movies, yikes. time to get out the scissors. and the butcher's knife. and the axe. and the scythe. and the chainsaw.

Jane does tons of theatre, always has. You remember theatre, tha thing nobody goes to.

xp

I only meant movies since that's the poll; she's a Living Legend onstage.

Jane Alexander missed her window of opportunity to be the next Linnea Quigley.

Taking my time. I appreciate a slow heart sinking reveal as much as a quick scream out loud scare.

I also regret not participating in the nomination stage :(

Will survive

what would you have nommed that isnt there? i could be convinced to do some write-ins (although its not like i need more movies on my shortlist but whatever)

no wicker man 2

haha i still haven't seen cowboys for jesus!! can you believe that?

anyway let me collect my thoughts (i am enlisting a lurker as well) and will post when i have a list

for instance, is whoever slew auntie roo? on there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvLdTFQ9RGU

Shelley Winters plays an eccentric widow who loves her children to death. A modern retelling of the Hansel and Gretel story.

I had a list of around 15 films I was about to nom when the voting opened

That reminds me of the existence of What's the Matter with Helen? Not that I remember if it's good or not but I think it's in the same vein?
There were actually a number of things I was thinking of nominating but didn't for some reason or another. Some of them got nominated but other people, some didn't.

the only thing on the missing list I thought I would've voted for was burnt offerings, but looking at my ballot now it didn't have a chance tbh

What's the Matter with Helen?

B- psychobiddy

I have this at home but haven't watched either one.

http://content9.flixster.com/movie/11/12/36/11123615_det.jpg

Hag horror! I love it.

Was going to mention What's the Matter with Helen next!!! I think it's better than Auntie Roo by a pretty wide margin.

Neither are as good as Baby Jane -- not even Charlotte -- but for color + splashy + crazy old ladies, you can't go wrong with Helen or Roo.

and don't forget mark lester as a murdering preteen sociopath in night hair child, possibly the best name for a film ever

Which is a good time to mention a dreadful TV movie that scared me silly in the early '70s: The Devil's Daughter, with Shelly in the Ruth Gordon role.

http://cdn100.iofferphoto.com/img3/item/383/583/548/the-devil-s-daughter-1973-dvd-shelley-winters-rare-d916a.jpg

Abe Vigoda!

Watched Marebito last night on jjjusten's recommendation. It's a low-budget Japanese horror film by Takashi Shimizu, director of both the Japanese and American vesions of Ju-On/The Grudge, and starring Shin'ya Tsukamoto, director of Tetsuo, the Iron Man and its sequels. Pretty great! I don't know that it's a masterpiece, but it reminded me a lot of Kiyoshi Kurosawa films like Cure and Pulse, spliced together with Tsukamoto's punk experimentalism, Shimizu's finely-honed creepiness, and lots of nods to Lovecraftian pulp horror. Dreamlike, strange and quite unpredictable.

http://i2.listal.com/image/1122254/600full-marebito-screenshot.jpg

Holy shit, must see The Devil's Daughter!!

I was pleased that Watcher in the Woods was on there. It was My First Horror Movie!

xxp - The international title, A Stranger from Afar, gives a pretty good idea of the film's themes and tone, plus sounds very much like something Lovecraft or one of his contemporaries might have written.

watched Repulsion (finally) last night. awesome. was this controversial/a big deal when it was released? It seems several steps beyond Psycho, which was just a few years earlier.

I was pleased that Watcher in the Woods was on there. It was My First Horror Movie!.

yeah, I nommed it cuz it was one of my first, too. loved it at the time, though i haven't seen it in forever.

LL, The Pit is on the nomination list and a certain person you live with wasn't even involved in the process.

See, I knew you all would take care of me.

Another film I really want to go to bat for here is Dementia, aka Daughter of Horror. One of the most remarkable films I've ever seen, an hour-long, dialogue-free, first-person Freudian head trip from 1955 that follows a frightened and disturbed young woman down a rabbit hole of her own making. It's similar in many ways to Polanski's Repulsion, dealing as it does with sexual psychosis, and also to the films of David Lynch, especially Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire. It's hard to believe, in fact, that Lynch and Polanski didn't crib heavily from it. The soundtrack is gorgeous, and the stylized, deliberately artificial imagery recalls German expressionist filmmakers like Weine and Murnau. It's scary, brave, campy, arguably feminist and deliriously surreal. Hard to believe that it was made five years before Hitchcock's Psycho. Would make my top 10 list even if this poll wasn't limited to horror films.

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holy crap will watch!

wow great stills