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

the first movie to ever truly scare the bejeezus out of me was pinocchio at age 3 or 4 though. apparently i was howling so bad by the monstro scene my mom dragged me out and then i started complaining that she had dragged me out.

Are we allowed to talk about things we're still catching up on because of the poll? Because I just watched The Sentinel on netflix insta and loved it. It was a LOT more bent than I was expecting, with a ridiculous cast (very young C Walken and J Goldblum and C Sarandon PLUS william dickey and eli wallach and Jerry Orbach are you fkin kiddin' me?) and a really superbly protean score from Gil Melle.

You are forgetting Beverly D'Angelo in the role of a lifetime.

Hahaha yesssssss

the first movie to ever truly scare the bejeezus out of me was pinocchio at age 3 or 4 though. apparently i was howling so bad by the monstro scene my mom dragged me out and then i started complaining that she had dragged me out.

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, May 12, 2012 6:53 PM

same here but mine was fantasia... night on bald mountain!

I also begged to go see grizzly when I was 5 and the first kill scene freaked me out so much we ended up in the next theater watching the bad news bears

happy mother's day!

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Are we allowed to talk about things we're still
catching up on because of the poll? Because I
just watched The Sentinel on netflix insta and
loved it. It was a LOT more bent than I was
expecting, with a ridiculous cast (very young C
Walken and J Goldblum and C Sarandon PLUS
william dickey and eli wallach and Jerry Orbach
are you fkin kiddin' me?) and a really superbly
protean score from Gil Melle.

plus ava gardner and BURGESS MEREDITH!

yeah this movie rules. v underrated. "woman finds out her apt is a portal to hell" is a great premise too.

also, i don't scare particularly easy when watching movies but i thought it had some genuinely creepy moments.

didnt realize melle did the score! thats the andromeda strain guy, right? don't remember the score too well tbh.

I can already see Morbs' ballot ousted something from the top 5 I really wanted to be in the top 5.

My life is complete!

Because I just watched The Sentinel on netflix insta and loved it. It was a LOT more bent than I was expecting, with a ridiculous cast (very young C Walken and J Goldblum and C Sarandon PLUS william dickey and eli wallach and Jerry Orbach are you fkin kiddin' me?) and a really superbly protean score from Gil Melle.

― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Sunday, May 13, 2012 8:11 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, it's great, right? so sleazy and creepy, plus excellent music, makeup effects by dick smith. i wanted to talk about it in the nominations thread, but forgot. didn't vote for it, but it was in the running.

sonned with a batted ball by Turner this time!

whoops, though this was Baseball

Ha... I just added The Sentinel on netflix just to find this note at the top of my queue:

"Birdemic: Shock and Terror has been removed from your Queue. We no longer offer this movie for rental. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you find many other movies to enjoy at Netflix."

Do they do this with all movies? Kind of cracked me up that they singled it out and made a to do about it.

I kinda dug what The Sentinel was trying to achieve more than I dug the results. Plus, I always dig Cristina Raines.

Is today the day? I was looking for a good tagline to set the mood, and found these three lists:

http://horror.about.com/od/horrortoppicklists/a/50besttaglines.htm
http://www.mania.com/15-horror-movie-taglines_article_126010.html
http://moviecultists.com/2009/10/28/the-top-13-best-horror-movie-taglines/

Not one of them listed "Pray for Rosemary's Baby," which is surely up near the top.

I'm aiming for a Wednesday debut. Is there a tagline about patience?

"To avoid fainting, keep repeating: 'Patience is a virtue, patience is a virtue..."

"There's only one thing wrong with the Davis baby: it's alive." - this one is the creepiest, I think. So evocative.

Also like: "Man is the warmest place to hide."

This one, however, is a horror in its own right, so tortured and mangled is its grammar: "Please do not disturb Evelyn. She already is."

Did I already mention my favourite tagline-searching-for-a-film on this thread? Will offer it up for the Ilx Horror Movie:

"What they don't know... WILL EAT THEM"

oh that's a winner right there

i am psyched about horror movies + exam week

"Take the stairs. Take the stairs. For God's sake, take the stairs!!!"

None of those lists has The Exorcist, I guess because it's too long:

Something beyond comprehension is happening to a little girl on this street, in this house. A man has been called for as a last resort to try and save her. That man is The Exorcist.

I think it's great anyway, especially the first half.

Best fake tagline:

Don't

Was on a train Saturday next to typical Park Slope couple and their 9-year-old who were discussing the merits and appropriateness of assorted horror movies. Dad advocated Hellraiser, Mom tentatively The Exorcist, kid wanted to know the diff btwn Alien and Predator. Boy's takeaway quote: "Ghostbusters isn't even scary!"

I think Alien is pretty much all-time unbeatable on taglines. I saw it on the posters years before I was allowed to see the movie, and it stuck with me. (Though I think Alien is kinda all-time unbeatable in lots of ways.)

In Space No One Can Hear You Snore

(first heard a radio quipster say that in '79 btw)

© MAD Magazine, 1979

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My #1 would be the Texas Chainsaw tagline I quoted earlier in the thread: "Who will survive and what will be left of them?" Even though I'm not sure it makes sense--the one girl who survives technically survives intact (physically, anyway).

don't see how that makes it a less sensible question going in

Yeah, it's a question, so the answer could be 'everyone and all of them'. Which it isn't, obviously, but it could be. Would be something of an anti-climax, I guess.

The Texas Chainsaw Near Miss

"I literally cannot believe we all escaped that chainsaw massacre unscathed. Whew!"

I do have a perverse love of absolutely deflationary anti-climactic versions of films: ET makes it to his ship in the first scene, it's really a dolphin, yada yada... Basically just 'nothing happens'.

had a "who will survive and what will be left of them?" TCM poster in my room growing up, so I'd have to vote for that as well.

#2 vote: "we are going to eat you!" (zombi 2)

Totally agree, emil.y. Also: Glenda isn't a total dick about manipulating Dorothy into becoming her hitman and just tells her up front that the effing slippers will take her straight back home.

(My theory has always been that Glenda was the actual wicked witch. But I suppose this is neither the time nor place.)

"Hey it's Godot!" "Guys, sorry I'm late..."

(the NatLamp Radio Hour did that one I think)

Loool, I like that one Morbs. Deric, I may be wrong as I haven't seen it, but doesn't the musical Wicked sort of go down the Glenda-isn't-actually-so-nice route?

You're all getting technical on me..."In space, no one can hear you scream (except the other people on the ship, if they're still alive)." (You're right, the TCM tagline is just an open-ended question, not descriptive.)

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Very possible, but I have also never seen it.

You're all getting technical on me...

Actually, no--I'm the one getting overly technical. Proceed a pace!

Without revealing too much of your list, any favourite horror-film performances? Horror probably joins action as the genre where performance is most secondary...not that it doesn't matter, but I think you can get by with adequate acting if the film's good enough. (There are a number of films on my list, including right at the top, where the actors aren't a big factor.) I think Spacek in Carrie, Walken in The Dead Zone, and Karloff in Frankenstein are pretty great by any criteria.

Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion, for sure.

I like Michael Redgrave in Dead of Night and Ernest Thesiger in Bride of Frankenstein.

Isabelle Adjani in Possession, Naomi Watts in Mulholland Dr.. Two of the most riveting performances in any movie.

Ernest Thesiger in Bride of Frankenstein.

^^^yes

Also, a bit of an ott performance, but I really liked Brad Dourif in Excorcist III. This association made Doc Cochran super creepy for me.

Ugh why do people like Exorcist III?

Because it's not any of the other Exorcists that were produced after the first? Also it's pretty decent (if no match for the first).

cosign isabelle adjani. the acting is fascinating in that film. and i do love ewar woowar in the wicker man.