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

Gonna have to save any other ones that come to mind if I'ma get my Old Witch on in the results thread.

I would like results announced in the manner of the doddery old composer-haired wizard from that one episode of Boris Karloff's Thriller.

ASHTAROTH!!!

Another thing I failed to vote for because I remembered too late :(

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m_yEp4yvWQY/TLcyCDHTcTI/AAAAAAAAW1o/9UZ3ihFpfFg/s320/0.jpg

prepubescent pagan princess!

crowhaven farm was one of my late ballot cuts, feel like when this is over we need to have a TV horror movie poll

yes, then sybil and harvest home can finally get the respect they deserve

if we ever do a tv horror movie poll i am going to stan for a killer scarecrow movie that i cant quite remember the name of at the moment SO HARD

Dark Night of the Scarecrow! I finally figured out the name

it's in the nom list dude!

langoliers #1

fuuuuuuuuuck no really

god damn it

i would have totally voted for that if i had remembered the name oh a week ago or so (although to be fair i havent seen it since i was a kid so i might be giving it too much credit)

Yeah, I knocked off a couple movies that I thought were kind of cool as a kid: Gargoyles & Devil Dog

I remember the first part of Gargoyles being pretty scary though. I'm not gooing to rewatch it and ruin that memory.

My fondest TV horror movie is Salem's Lot, which scared the everloving shit out of me at age seven (wtf were my parents thinking?). The scene with the knuckleheads driving the van with the coffin in the back… yikes!

Maybe we should start a Kindertrauma thread about too early childhood exposure to horror movies.

yeah i managed to see poltergeist when it came out (i was 9) and it fucked me up for weeks

which in retrospect i also should have voted for but my self-imposed voting rules wouldn't allow it

jjjusten hates little people. he didn't vote for fire walk with me either.

I saw Heavy Metal when I was five. MIND. BLOWN. Lots of other equally-inappropriate examples if I took the time to remember them.

I sometimes think my entire personality was formed by seeing things I shouldn't have at too young an age.

Have any of y'all ever seen The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud?

yeah. for some reason I always mix it up with the possession of joel delaney.

the x of first name last name was a thing I guess

so where's the results already

settle down there pardner, gonna start rolling out next week

Was it any good?

jjjusten hates little people. he didn't vote for fire walk with me either.

― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:32 PM (1 hour ago)

LIES. in fact i voted for a movie with one of those little people in it. just not either of those.

you voted for skinned deep?

Willow, I'd imagine.

Even Dwarves Started Small is pretty horrifying

i would have totally voted for that [dark night of the scarecrow] if i had remembered the name oh a week ago or so (although to be fair i havent seen it since i was a kid so i might be giving it too much credit)

OTM! i did remember it, but had the same reservations about the accuracy of my childhood recollections. and i didn't want to waste a vote. i do remember that they hyped the hell out of it in the weeks leading up, so i was super-excited to see it. 14 at the time, so it didn't really mess me up, but it was scary and cool (iirc). final scene still haunts me.

Even Dwarves Started Small always felt just a shade off seventies decadent Euro-horror. Like all it needs is three seconds of girls making out and it'd be there.

Is there a horror movie where a little person get's stabbed to death and then shot out of a cannon into a wood chipper? If so, that's probably the one jjjusten voted for because he hates the wee.

Can't abide-a-wee

Results will begin next week, likely Tuesday or Wednesday. It'll be a seven-day unveil of six installments of 15 and then the top 10.

Er, KIDDIES!

slow jammin'

eric is allowing sufficient time for us to moan when taxi driver and inception place

Trying to figure out how to soften the blow.

np it's the horror poll we like to be shocked

if the results can leap out from the bottom right corner of the screen with a sting cue that would be great

I'll use the threat to establish lateral and/or neutral space, a la Carpenter.

Maybe we should start a Kindertrauma thread about too early childhood exposure to horror movies.

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Some of my earliest scares were: The Bad Seed, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane and A Bucket Of Blood. Interesting to me, re-watching them as an adult, the levels of black humor and camp at work in these three.

When I was 6 or 7, there was a moment in Disney's Blackbeard's Ghost--a painting of a woman where you could see the eyes move--that terrified me. The Green Slime frightened me around the same time. The bar for scaring me has always been about as low as it gets.

The movie that fucked me up most as a kid (mentioned for, like, the fiftieth time): Testament.

My ultimate kindertrauma was when my idiot babysitter (a grown up! Not some dumb teenager!) let me watch The Excorcist on TV when I was ten. That was a long sleepless night of lying awake in bed, waiting for the devil to come and possess me. (She also let me watch The Deerhunter.)

Trilogy Of Terror is on my ballot solely due to chittering doll kindertrauma, I have never gone near that flick again.

TV commercial for Amityville Horror literally ruined me for 2-3 years

I probably mentioned this elsewhere but my most traumatic TV childhood experience was seeing this, age 9 (20 minutes of your time but worth sticking with it) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slJyhOEo-SY