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

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

Can't believe I still haven't seen MAY. McKee's episode of "Masters of Horror" w/Bettis was just o_O.

The images are amazing, my god.

Bit sad that Blood on Satan's Claw is so low - didn't it do quite well in one of the year polls? I guess it's different when you have the whole history of horror to choose from.

Phantasm was a fair way from making my final list, but it is enjoyable and a bit odd at times. But yeah, I remember it as something that doesn't quite hang together.

People repping for May on the other thread, and now it appearing here, hmm. MAYbe I should see this film.

MAYbe you should

april showers bring MAY HORRORS

May has a strong late 90s/early 00s vibe to it, which smells a little ripe these days, but I think it will age better than most.

blood on satan's claw still a bit obscure, especially in the US. I'm pleasantly surprised that it placed at all and I think bodes well for the poll results. BOSC didn't even make the timeout london list, which was pretty good as far as non-canon and offbeat picks go.

figuring around #84 you'll get to something I've seen

already jonesing for more crypt-keeper style puns

"When the system is PURGING, you best be a VIRGIN!"

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95. THE CABIN IN THE WOODS
Drew Goddard, 2012
(189 points, 6 votes)

a musical number wouldn't have been that out of place in this
― humba (NZA), Sunday, April 15, 2012 1:48 AM (1 month ago)

Kiko's spirit will live in the happy frog
― Ò (Ówen P.), Monday, April 16, 2012 9:57 AM (1 month ago)

felt a bit weird watching it after the hunger games which tbh "did" reality tv much more creatively.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Sunday, April 15, 2012 5:35 PM (1 month ago)

are you even listening to me? THE CABIN IN THE WOODS thread (WARNING: SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILEROS! SPOILIDAD!)

it came out a month before polling closed, are we really ready to call it one of the all-time greats

apparently 6 of us are

Wow, really? That's nuts.

I was not one of them. Whoever voted for it must have voted it really high too for it to place with 6 votes.

god that sentence was an abomination but you know what i mean

Who were they, and what will be left of them?

pontypool almost but not quite low enough

Wait until you see the movies that JUST missed the top 100, jjjusten.

rec is really surprisingly good, and ive already stanned for May. phantasm is one of those indelible early childhood horror films for me.

true story: i saw it when i was a kid and then had (largely inaccurate) dreams about it for years afterwards so i was very disappointed when i saw it and there was no laser maze or underground catacomb any more. prefer the inside my fucked up head directors cut.

xpost oh noooo that is not something i want to hear

Scream put me off self-reflexive horror forever; not that it was bad, but why bother?

Hate to be a pooper, but Drew Goddard directed Cabin In The Woods.

i knee jerkingly top 10ed CITW, it blew me away. will i regret that, who knows? i still stand by it a week or two after.

You think that's bad, I just watched Scream 4. It disappears right up its own asshole.

cinematic centipede

also i have no problem with recent stuff making it into the countdown (wait until you see my ballot) but yeah cabin in the woods is not probably going to age as well as some might hope i think. gotta see it again before i go all in with that pronouncement, but as much as i enjoyed it i found it a little bit slight, also joss whedon should stop doing interviews abt it that irritate me

RE: SCREAM 4

The first five minutes are silly metastupid fun, though. The rest, bleh.

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

― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:20 AM (47 minutes ago)

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.

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:25 AM (42 minutes ago)

describes pretty well what i like about phantasm. also has a strange, psychedelic, deeply 70s look and vibe that reminds me in a weird way of stuff like valerie and her week of wonders.

liked cabin in the woods a lot, but i dunno that it'll go down as one of my all time favorites. fun, but a little glib. we'll see in a couple years.

"PARANORMAL? In my day, they used to call it VERYNORMAL!"

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94. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
Oren Peli, 2012
(189 points, 7 votes)

Problem w/ Paranormal Activity gag: required having seen Paranormal Activity.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Monday, March 8, 2010 12:52 AM (2 years ago)

those dudes are always dicks in these movies, not antiheroes. Dude in paranormal activity is a total jerk.
― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Saturday, November 13, 2010 7:26 PM (1 year ago)

hmmmmm

also joss whedon should stop doing interviews abt it that irritate me

geting dangerously close torture porn discussion. we need some sort of early warning system

Didn't vote, but loving the images and having fun watching the results.

When I was little I used to wake up super early on Saturdays to anticipate cartoons. My parents encouraged this because I could handle breakfast and turning on the TV myself, allowing them a few more hours of precious sleep. I often woke up early enough to turn on the TV before the farm report. One morning I caught the last twenty minutes or so of Phantasm. I'm pretty sure those twenty minutes still inform my fucked up dreams, more than 26 years later.

very happy to see phantasm, pontypool and may show, even if at the very bottom of the list.

not a big fan of paranormal activity or [rec]. both okay, but kind of empty.

never seen blood on satan's claw. (adds to list)

hay guys, thanks for the big ups, kind words and what not regarding the screencaps. I've wanted for some time to handle such duties for an ilx movie poll, and the fact that I was able to do so for the ALL TIME HORROR poll, of all things, was just too awesome and challenging an opportunity to take lightly. And, you know, there are going to be 100 of these things all told, so if you have any requests, suggestions or would like to collaborate on something for a movie you suspect might be making an appearance later down the line, plz holla @ me and/or Eric via email: s t g e r t z @ gee male.

Paranormal Activity? Really? I don't like where this is going.

guys these polls are never going anywhere unless by anywhere you mean everywhere

I voted for Cabin in the Woods, top ten. It is pretty much everything I want a horror movie to be. Supernatural, smart, funny, fun, holds up to multiple viewings, the right kind of gore, not teeth-grindingly sexist, no rape-as-central-metaphor for anything. Will I like it less in a few years? Maybe, but my guiding voting principle was "guy instinct," so there it placed.

Voted for Paranormal Activity as well. I am kind of fascinated by those movies and sometimes just think about how effective and dirty cheap they are. Ultimately though I voted for it because the two hour (four? whatever, a long time) stretch of the girlfriend standing stock still and staring at her sleeping husband gives me the creeps on a lizard brain level, and jacks right into one of my oldest fears - that the people I love and trust are actually horrible monsters just biding their time until they get me.

LOL "GUT instinct," not guy instinct. Voting on guy instinct would result in a much different ballot.

lol @ morbs on paranormal activity

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.

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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