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

I always read these lists hoping Psycho isn't going to be Top 3, just seems so pre-ordained and boringly canonical. At least they didn't have The Exorcist, Alien, or The Shining top 5.

Psycho's #2 ranking caught me at the best possible moment: in the middle of reading the long hard look by Durgnat.

u r boringly anti-canonical, or something, but i wd be open to replacing Psycho with Peeping Tom. (Except PT seems much more a psychological thriller, which is not really the same as horror to me.)

I don't know that book, Eric. This guy seems to prefer Robin Wood's and Paglia's approaches (tho I am intrigued by the role of Thorold Dickinson, who directed the best film of Gaslight):

http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/book-reviews/psycho_durgnat_mogg/

Neither version of Gaslight did much for me.

Saw Suspiria for the first time tonight. (I don't want to load this massive thread...I think it placed somewhere in here.) Thought it was okay, but a lot of dead air waiting around for the big set pieces. If a horror film really gets to me, walking into the house afterwards is unnerving; tonight, nothing. I did like how the last scene perfectly split the difference between Rosemary's Baby's last scene and the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks. Barbara Magnolfi, the woman who played Olga (did I miss her, or did she just disappear after her early scenes?), was there for a brief interview beforehand.

Suspiria's only failing is that its climax doesn't really live up to the lead-up.

I can think of a few; stilted performances and dreary exposition high on the list. (Jessica Harper's fine.)

Saw The Haunting for the first time, and my comments are going unnoticed on the Robert Wise thread, so I'll just say I didn't realize it was a lesbian-crisis movie in haunted-house drag.

Two moments in the movie (you know the two) I was genuinely scared, and that's so incredibly freakin rare.

― The Thnig, Tuesday, May 22, 2012 10:56 AM

I give up, which? The incessant-banging-soundtrack ghost scenes are more aggressive / annoying than 'genuinely scary', and the silly trapdoor boo near the climax is kinda what i hate about the genre. (Lois Maxwell's 'explanation' in the postclimax is even worse.) This is better at sustained mood / distress than scares.

Anyway a very artful piece o' work nearly elevated to greatness by Julie Harris' intense, coming-apart characterization. Too bad Russ Tamblyn is hanging around tho.

I would think the part that gets most people is when Harris thinks Bloom is holding her hand. And yes, the loud night hauntings, particularly the bending door scene.
Tamblyn didn't bother me but that's the only film I know him from.

He is the uncharismatic Jet leader in Wise's film of West Side Story. Later a semiregular on Twin Peaks.

Apparently the first essay i need to get hold of is "Female Spectator, Lesbian Specter: The Haunting", by Patricia White.

such a great movie.

with a great great film score by Humphrey Searle for which, apparently, the tapes are hopelessly lost.

I was too young to see Don't Look Now when it came out; I either saw it at a rep a few years later, or maybe on VHS. The Lightbox screened a nice print tonight. Nothing wrong with it--maybe a bit of overacting by Sutherland a couple of times--but I didn't get much more out of it than I did 35 years ago. Even seems a stretch to me to call it a horror film (I'm posting here because I think it ranked somewhere on the list). There was an image in the climactic scene that did seem to be the basis for the ending of The Blair Witch Project.

Love all the riffs on this in "In Bruges."

what's up, yall

(lately I've been shitting my pants to something new)

RIP Angus Scrim

this is a great poll, wish the images still existed. though y'all should be ashamed for how much my bloody valentine didn't place

Spent a nice chunk of yesterday re-reading parts of this thread, a SHOT of BOO-rbon by my side.

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all my favorite ppl were in this thread & thanks to everyone itt i discovered the wonders of Carnival of Souls

tomorrow i am watching Haxan & Onibaba for the first time

Oh man, I’m totally going to reread this thread.

This and the comedy were two of my favourite polls.

well worth the reread <3

Yeah, I spent a good portion of this morning reading through this and the comedy poll and adding things to my Letterboxd watchlist that I might otherwise not think to watch.

Those were the two best polls, basically. Oh, the MUMMY-ries. Guess I'll reread this thing, too, in the spirit of to-GHOUL-therness.

excellent poll

pour one out for the results screencaps, also excellent iirc

Forgot this gem from way upthread:

i'm sure i've told this story before, but after the first time me and my sister watched the shining (ages 10 and 8, respectively), i wrote red rum with my mom's lipstick on the bathroom door so she'd see it in the mirror when she came out

my mother was not pleased

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 6:04 PM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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was it jed who had the story abt his Dad thinking Eraserhead was a tape cleaner

is the flickr set still available that had all the images in it? they were so good!!!

Didn't Pillbox create a Tumblr or somesuch after the images disappeared from Flickr? I have vague recollections. God knows how we'd even find it, though, if such a thing existed.

Well hey, would you look at that: http://www.flickr.com/photos/leechlake/sets/72157629754853602
And also more broadly: SCREAMcaps! - outtakes, alternatives and other misc. images from the ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll

hey guys- I still have all the images. Can we fix this somehow?

I uploaded all of them to flickr at the time.. clearly that was poor long-term planning. They are archived, and I would be happy to dropbox them or something. Also, I am open to suggestions.

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.

http://www.tiff.net/calendar?series=new-american-nightmare&list

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