Tales From The ILX Top 100 Horror Movies Poll Discussion/Nominations Thread

I think "scariest" is a bullshit meter for whether something is a GOOD horror movie

Also debating whether to just open up a Google doc for people to post their own nominations. I've set one up here.

Why do we always have to do "nominations"

Why don't you just pull all the movies from that one dude who polled the movies from every year

how do you guys have the time to follow the 6,000-post rollout of these things?

Do we not have jobs?

I don't really know why we do nominations either, other than to come up with a base of candidates.

how about the base of candidates is every horror movie ever made

Nominations allow for people to get great movies on the radar that otherwise would have been forgottten. Things like Repo Man would have totally fallen off a bunch of people's radar without a nom list, and would have placed lower or missed the poll.

Hey voters, keep:

Carrie (1976)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Rosemary's Baby
Shining, The

On your radars!

whiney i don't even vote in these things but i know that's an awful idea

Nominations are also great because there's a bunch of movies that get nommed I haven't seen and will totally check out (like hobo w/a shotgun). I don't need a results thread to search out cool stuff you kids are into.

Just FYI, movies that were not nominated didn't place.

True, but I did still vote for a lot of unnominated movies.

Just FYI, movies that were not nominated didn't place.

― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:03 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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More nominations/on the radar:

The Excorcist
The Ring
Alien
The Descent (2005)

Combination (i.e., your favourite). Rosemary's Baby will be at or near the top of my list because it's an amazingly rich film (it doesn't scare me much now, although it did the first time I saw it); others will be there just because they scare me silly. I had the same idea for nominations: start by linking to or cutting-and-pasting from Darin's yearly polls, and then supplement any gaps. It seems like a lot to start from scratch.

I'm voting for scariest. I don't judge horror movies on the basis of the cinematography, although obviously a well-crafted scary movie will be on the whole better than a crappily-shot one. (But not always!)

Like, Browning's "Dracula" simply *is not scary,* and I can't imagine it was scary even in 1931. Lugosi's performance aside, nearly everyone else on screen besides Edward Van Sloan and Dwight Frye is a charisma vacuum.

Likewise, Whale's "Frankenstein" and "Bride of" are TERRIFIC movies, but they *aren't scary.*

Murnau's "Nosferatu," OTOH, *is* scary.

OK, later today I'll supplement the Google doc I linked upthread with picks from the year polls.

I've already added titles from this poll I did a couple years ago: Halloween approaches -- Which is the scariest movie in the scary movie canon?

Confession, I've actually been "scared" by about three or four movies ever, so I'm definitely using "best" as a stronger criterion than "scariest."

Please to add one (1) John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness" to that Google Doc.

Done

Just Plain Top 100 - stuff I'm glad I saw. Some of it was genuinely chilling, but not everything "chilling" I'm actually glad I saw. And some horror movies I love didn't actually scare me, but are definitely horror movies.

Oh, and btw, the google doc can be edited by anyone. So feel free if you want to add stuff.

And if you want to delete stuff, feel not free.

True, but I did still vote for a lot of unnominated movies.

― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Thursday, April 5, 2012 8:05 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not writing this to complain, but FYI your ballot took three times as long to enter, because I had to create new entries for half of your votes due to the fact that they were not on the nom list. This meant that I was entering them into a database for no purpose other than to record some of your preferences. It was like your own personal nom list that no one would see until after the results came in.

Just writing this to warn you that typing in (or copying & pasting) the results as ballots come in will get very tedious without a nom list.

For your consideration:

* 75 ballots were submitted

* 663 movies received votes

* 3,170 votes were cast

* 88,441 points were awarded

Without a nom list, y'all would have waited longer for the results because it would have been a lot more work.

Seriously think a nom list will save you time and effort, but I am on board with how you choose to run it, and will stan for my top pics either way.

oh hey there google doc

Why don't you just pull all the movies from that one dude who polled the movies from every year

Because some people's idea of a horror movie might not coincide with Wikipedia's or whatever source those lists were culled from?

I'm saying 'Just Plain Top 100', mostly because there are maybe two horror movies I consider legit scary and I'm sure some people's top 100 (okay...mine) include movies that are probably not 'good' by any reasonable metric. And we absolutely need a nominations process of some sort!

Sorry about that.

Sorry dude. Process discussions are boring. RELEASE THE HELL HOUNDS

Are there any the descent fans up itt? That movie scarred me more than any movie I've seen in recent memory.

scared too

Also, if you just c+p every entry from the previous year-by-year horror polls, you're gonna have a bunch of garbage that no one will ever vote for in a million years because it will, f'rinstance, include every horror movie released in 1996. I think it'll be more hassle than it's worth, but this is your show, man! I will follow where you lead!

yes, the descent is incredible & terrified me

Maybe what I'll do is just C+P any movie that actually received a vote in those polls. That'll cut out all the hag horror movies in the early '70s, for instance.

I say Plain Top 100 because there are really not many truly scary horror movies and most of the best are not that scary, IMO. There are also scary movies that are not horror.

Not to mention that jjjusten is gonna be apoplectic when some obscure masterpiece gets overlooked because everyone missed it amongst the list of every Leprechaun sequel.

I added "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" to that Google doc.

Confession, I've actually been "scared" by about three or four movies ever, so I'm definitely using "best" as a stronger criterion than "scariest."

― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Thursday, April 5, 2012 2:16 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, me too. I just don't scare easily. But I love love love horror movies.

So anyone can add to that doc?

Yeah. I'll keep a separate .xls for myself in case people try to throw tricks.

Also, what makes me like a horror movie or think it's good is not how much it scares me.

For anyone that wants nothing to do with a google doc, this is what I currently have in the nomination pool:

Alien
Audition
Birds, The
Black Sunday
Blair Witch Project, The
Bride of Frankenstein, The
Brood, The
Candyman
Cannibal Holocaust
Carnival Of Souls
Carrie (1976)
Cat People (1942)
Dawn Of The Dead
Descent, The
Devil's Rejects, The
Devils, The
Don't Look Now
Dressed To Kill
Evil Dead, The
Exorcist, The
Eyes Without A Face
Fly, The (1986)
Freaks
Halloween
Haunting, The
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Hills Have Eyes, The (1977)
I Walked With A Zombie
Inland Empire
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
Irreversible
Jaws
Last House on the Left (1972)
Martin
Night of the Demon
Night of the Hunter, The
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Nightmare On Elm Street, A
Nosferatu
Old Dark House, The
Omen, The
Outer Space
Peeping Tom
Poltergeist
Possession
Prince of Darkness
Psycho
Pulse
Repulsion
Ring, The (2001)
Rosemary's Baby
Seven
Shining, The
Silence of the Lambs, The
Sleepaway Camp
Suspiria
Tenant, The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)
Thing, The (1982)
Vampyr
Vanishing, The (1988)
Videodrome
Wait Until Dark
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Wicker Man, The
Witchfinder General/The Conqueror Worm

Drag Me To Hell
Paranormal Activity
Planet Terror

Teeth
Brain Dead/Dead Alive
28 Days Later

Does Threads count?

TV movie? Sure why not.

I just added Hausu into the spreadsheet, but I feel like doing it that way may confuse me as I'll have no record of it here.

Just Plain Top 100

^ this

Friday The 13th Part II
Rabid
Shivers
Ringu
The Haunting Of Hell House

Will I be the only person voting who still covers my eyes when a film scares me? Seriously. And I'm 50. (I even covered my eyes through a lot of No Country for Old Men the first time I saw it.)

Yeah, I was just realizing what a Pandora's box I opened up with that google doc.

For sanity's sake, I think doing it the old-fashioned way might be better for me to keep track.

woops, I meant The Legend Of Hell House. Different movie!

Will I be the only person voting who still covers my eyes when a film scares me? Seriously. And I'm 50.

It doesn't happen much, but I'll admit at the end of Paranormal Activity 2 I was worried what they'd do for an encore and watched between fingers.

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDES: pulse

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286751/

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Sooo...are we keeping track here of stuff we added to the spreadsheet? If so:

An American Werewolf in London
Blob, The (1988)
Brain Damage
Creepshow
Dawn of the Dead (1978) (Dates are gonna be crucial with some of these entries)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Eraserhead
Exorcist 3, The
Fog, The
From Dusk Til Dawn
God Told Me To
Gremlins
Hausu
Hellraiser
Howling, The
In The Mouth of Madness
Inland Empire
Legend of Hell House
Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Phantasm
Pieces
Return of the Living Dead
Salem's Lot
Shaun of the Dead
Testament
Tingler, The
Trick r' Treat

(Dates are gonna be crucial with some of these entries)

I'd also like to see a distinction between the Haunting (1963) and The Haunting (1999). While I can't imagine voting for the latter, someone might.

Yep, I closed off edit access to all for that doc, but I'll keep adding stuff to it myself. It's just easier for me to keep track of new entries that way.

Oh, man, yeah...this might be a PITA for you, Eric. Like, I was trying to pare down my list as I noticed people mentioning stuff in this thread, but I still managed to add some dupes. Plus an unintentional string of bbcode (which I watched someone delete in real time and didn't realize was a thing Google Docs did...creeeeepy).

Oh, never mind. Ha ha.

LOL, yeah, when I was trying to edit and saw two other users adding stuff, I thought: This is a mistake.

So, to recap. Nominations doc is available for all to read. I'll add titles that are listed in this thread, and the ones that received votes in the yearly horror movie polls (later).

Carry on Screaming
Deep Red
Dog Soldiers
Hellraiser
Kill List
Let the Right One In (2008)
Lifeforce
Psychomania
Sleepy Hollow
Theatre of Blood

I have 4 types of things I generally look for in a good horror movie (but not necessarily in the same flick):

* terror/fright
* tension/thrills/accelerated heart rate
* unease/despair
* lols

there are probably going to be a few movies that are just classic or great that I'll include on my list (and I probably have more criteria than what I listed), but this is what I think of first when I think of horror/comedy horror.

I don't scare easy, so I love a good fright. Maybe a half-dozen movies have legit scared me.

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?

wait, what?

Does Threads count?

Testament will be very high on my ballot, so I'd say horrifying Reagan/Thatcher-era nuclear war nightmares absolutely count (maybe this will be the kick in the seat I need to finally watch Threads). And I think TV movies should probably get a huge pass in this poll to allow for the inclusion of stuff like Salem's Lot and It.

Speaking of which, I nominate:

Ghostwatch

Okay, some more noms:

Häxan (1922)
Vampyr (1932)
Suspiria
The Stone Tape
Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
Blood on Satan's Claw
Eraserhead

Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Tenebrae
Angry Red Planet
It! The Terror from Beyond Space

Evil Dead II
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II
Ringu
Phantasm II
The Changeling
White Zombie
Frailty
Halloween III
Zombie
Rec aka [rec]
Black Christmas (1974)
Slither
Martyrs
Scanners
Zombie aka Zombi 2 (1979)
Eraserhead

^ oops @ Zombie repeat

I love how many times Eraserhead is getting nominated. :)

will be an easy ballot cuz there are only about 20 respectable horror films ever

and one of the top 5 is Kobayashi's Kwaidan (1964)

figure it will get 3 votes.

Added that boring movie to the nominations list.

also..

The Changeling (1980)

(not the one w/ Angelina Jolie)

Horror = a gazillion times better a genre than comedy. And often funnier, too.

know-nothingism reigns, it is the Year Zero!

Oh. Oh, oh, oh. I started watching Cathy's Curse last night (from the same 10 for $10 box set that introduced me to the wonderful God Told Me To and Pieces) while going to sleep, and I'll have to finish it to see whether it belongs here, but what I saw was the most jaw-droppingly :O sub-Ed Wood ineptitude which was somehow so inept that it started crossing over into something surreal and unnerving even while it made me laugh. It doesn't feel like something made by human beings or anything with the capacity for conscious thought.

(Also, horror is way cleverer, has better cinematography, more plot, deeper characterisation... I could go on...)

Oh, god, yeah, The Changeling. That movie scared the ever-living crap out of me when I was like 12 and saw it on HBO.

k, emil.y added to enemies list

Glad to see that Morbs will be maintaining the complain-a-thon throughout this poll, as well.

Haha, like months ago.

Morbs is going to take it to the next level on this one.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
M
Let the Right One In (2008)
Bloodsucking Freaks

You've admitted repeatedly that you don't enjoy being scared and don't like horror movies generally, Morbs, so I suspect the thread will give your cavils all the attention that they merit.

actually I won't DWH, since it's my least fave genre and I don't care what you guys think about anything

*into Carrie Weiss's grave*

So I really love ringu, dark water, pulse

Any other Japanese horror movies you folks can recommend?

Also loved A Tale of Two Sisters (and The Host which is of a different sort than what I'm looking for here)

So obv looking for recommendations for Korean horror as well

omg Carrie Weiss :)

k, emil.y added to enemies list

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:03 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You just can't handle the truth!

I will check out Kwaidan at some point, though, I quite like a good portmanteau.

C'mon, Morbs, you're not fooling anybody. You may not agree with anything we think, but you care so hard what we think about everything.

Speaking of which, have we had:

Black Sabbath (Bava, 1963)

?

Austerity Fluffles, I will have a think about Japanese/Korean horror for you. There's definitely some amazing stuff.

Dead of Night
Frenzy
Dead Ringers
My Bloody Valentine (1981)

omg Carrie Weiss :)

^ the way into Eric's knickers

Thinking of nominating the Paul Schrader "Cat People" just for the lols. Although the scene where Ed Begley gets his arm ripped off by Catcolm McDowell and bleeds to death on the floor scared the pants off me when I was 13.

Okay because when I went to the google doc, stuff seemed to move out of order? No idea what happened, but hope it wasn't me.

I added The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and the 1920 and 1931 versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Waxworks (1924)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Student of Prague (1926)
The Unknown (1927)
The Man Who Laughs
Freaks
White Zombie
The Island of Lost Souls
The Mystery of the Wax Museum
Black Cat (1934)
Mad Love
Cat People
The 7th Victim
I Walked with a Zombie
The Uninvited (1944)
Dead of Night (1945)
The Body Snatcher
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Les Diaboliques
Dementia (1955)
The Bad Seed (1956)
Curse of the Demon (1957)
Jigoku
Les Yeux Sans Visage
The Innocents

Burn, Witch, Burn
Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People
Blood Feast
Onibaba
Hush..Hush, Sweet Charlotte
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Tomb of Ligeia
Viy
Witchfinder General
The Devil Rides Out
Spider Baby
Hour of the Wolf
Torture Garden
Twisted Nerve
Horrors of Malformed Men
The Dunwich Horror
The House That Dripped Blood
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Blood on Satan's Claw
Asylum (1972)
Requium for a Vampire
The wicker Man

Vault of Horror
From Beyond the Grave
The Crazies
A Bell from Hell
Martin
Blue Sunshine
Alucarda
The Brood
Possession (1981)
Living Dead Girl
Basket Case
The Company of Wolves
Phenomena
Re-Animator
Return of the Living Dead
Gothic
Near Dark
Lair of the White Worm
Paperhouse
Pin

Evil Dead Trap
Parents
The Reflecting Skin
Cemetery Man
Cube
Memento Mori
The Devil's Backbone
A Tale of Two Sisters
The Orphanage
Let the Right One In

A Tale of Two Sisters

Getting the name wrong on one of the most indelible characters in horror history? Sure bet.

Sry, Ed Begley JUNIOR. Forgot Morbs was around, don't want to confuse him.

Okay because when I went to the google doc, stuff seemed to move out of order? No idea what happened, but hope it wasn't me.

That was me. I closed off access and re-alphabetized.

oh it's White, right? I saw it in German.

but yr wrong, her name is not Norma(n) Bates

Hmmm . . . how does one say "Plug it up!" and "They're all going to laugh at you!" auf Deutsch?

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

YES!

The Golem (1920)
Nosferatu (1922)
Faust (1926)

Faust counts, right?

Oooh, MrDasher has just reminded me I need to watch Onibaba before we vote in this. Fortunately I have the DVD, yess. Also one for AP's list, if he doesn't mind older stuff...

The Criterion transfer of Häxan is in my queue on Hulu. Must watch before this gets to the voting stage.

I am adding all these titles to the doc. Will do cleanup later when I'm not pretending to work.

oh, i do hope to bring the lolz w/ my Italian-free list.

What else will your list be devoid of, aside from scares?

oh, i do hope to bring the lolz w/ my Italian-free list.

So no Taxi Driver on your ballot?

It's perfectly possible to do an amazing Italian-free horror list, but I don't know why you'd purposefully want to cut off your naso to spite your faccia.

Funny Games (1997)
High Tension aka Haute Tension
The People Under the Stairs
The Hitcher (1986)
Cabin Fever
The Lost Boys
Creepshow 2
Lost Highway
The Serpent and the Rainbow

Sorry, didn't realize I added so many duplicates...it was taking so long to post as it was.

Clean, Shaven
Cure (Kyua)
Inside (À l'intérieur)
Jacob's Ladder
Session 9

Night of the Demon & Curse of the Demon are the same Tourneur film, right? that's a goodie.

I believe so but there are a couple Night of the Demon's IIRC...

What else will your list be devoid of, aside from scares?

two of the most boring films of the Carter Administration, Alien and The Shining.

Eric and I both like Kiyoshi Kurosawa a lot, strangely.

that reminds me -

Night of the Hunter, The

really confused about the lack of distinction between horror and suspense/thriller itt. if M. and NIGHT OF THE HUNTER are nominated without remark, can i nominate FRENZY (1972)?!

idk i will just vote from the list you ppl draw up.

wait did anyone say

Mulholland Dr

?

hahaha too late marc I already nominated Frenzy...

Now let's pummel genre definitions to death!

I know what you mean. I might also have to be quite strict on the distinction between horror and giallo. Maybe. Depends on quite how full to bursting my list gets. Night of the Hunter has been accepted into the horror cannon for a while, though.

xxpost

The Strangers
Antichrist
Night of the Creeps
They Live
The Fly (1986)
Shallow Grave

oooh I need to rewatch Shallow Grave. The one time I saw it was when I had the worst/first hangover of my life when I was like 14. I don't remember it much except for a guy drilling holes in the ceiling.

k-horror

r-point
tell me something
acacia
memento mori
the quiet family

j-horror

ju-on: the curse (2000)
ju-on: the curse 2 (2000)
ju-on: the grudge (2003) - this is the one most ppl have seen
ju-on: the grudge 2 (2003)
cure
dark water
jigoku
kairo aka pulse
marebito
onibaba
one missed call
versus
tomie (this is a series, doubt anybody would vote for them tho)
uzumaki aka spiral
audition
MPD psycho
happiness of the katakuris
hiruko the goblin
tetsuo: the iron man
gemini
ichi the killer (horror? or just horrific?)

hk
the eye
DUMPLINGS!

some other asian stuff
three
three... extremes
shutter (2004)

wd've been fine with orig Texas Chainsaw Massacre finishing waaaay ahead of Ghostbusters in comedy poll, btw

MPD Psycho isn't a film, it's a TV series! It's one of the greatest TV series ever, but still, it doesn't count for this poll.

Also, I thought The Eye was a bit rubbish.

wd've been fine with orig Texas Chainsaw Massacre finishing waaaay ahead of Ghostbusters in comedy poll, btw

Ditto.

Of course, I'd root for that movie in a romance poll.

the awful dr orloff
let's scare jessica to death
les yeux sans visage aka eyes without a face
lemora: a child's tale of the supernatural
shock waves
messiah of evil
last house on dead end street
calvaire

many of my nominations are probably pushing what could be called a "horror" movie:

Jacob's Ladder
Naked Lunch
The Grudge
Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight
Saw
Dracula (1931)
Interview With The Vampire
Blade
Underworld

xxp Best Movies w/Fat Guys in Wheelchairs

MPD Psycho isn't a film, it's a TV series! It's one of the greatest TV series ever, but still, it doesn't count for this poll.

Also, I thought The Eye was a bit rubbish.

― emil.y, Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:40 AM (2 minutes ago)

TV movie? Sure why not.

― hot and brothered (Eric H.), Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:41 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

last house on dead end street

Awesome nom!

TV movie = OK
TV series = No

:( no Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Although it was a TV movie pilot first, right?

Rocky Horror Picture Show

nominations threads are good just so it gives everyone a chance to talk about a bunch of movies before they vote, imho

fair enough

xps

Edward III - there is a whole world of difference between a TV movie and a TV series. I shake my head at thee.

eh kinda think of MPD as a miniseries so

warning: last house on dead end street will place high on my ballot

A miniseries is still a series! There is no way you can get around the fact that it just isn't a film.

I'll keep it on the list if you're really going to vote for it, edward iii. But, yeah, it's not going to get much support.

dude I've been wanting to see a bunch of these (God Told Me To, Blue Sunshine, Suspiria, Tetsuo: the Iron Man) forever

The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
Pumpkinhead

I kind of want it struck from the list because I don't want to see it languishing at the bottom like an unloved film, when it should instead be seen as a much-loved TV programme.

liked Tetsuo: the Iron Man.

horror is way cleverer, has better cinematography, more plot, deeper characterisation

B+ trolling, but shitty tech qualities actually HELP many horror films... early Romero, Cronenberg before he moved to the adults' table, etc.

Hmmm . . . maybe at some point we should poll "monster movies" separately from "horror movies."

Pan's Labyrinth?

Morbs sort of makes a valid point, but I'd argue they're expertly deployed shitty tech qualities.

A stupid choice but one that scarred me for life as a kid because it dealt with two of my worst fears: live burial and anthropophagy

Blood Beach (1980)

Really want to veto Pan's Labyrinth, ftr.

B+ trolling, but shitty tech qualities actually HELP many horror films... early Romero, Cronenberg before he moved to the adults' table, etc.

Not trolling. And yeah, I used cinematography rather than 'technical qualities' because I think that's a strong point with a lot of horror (but by no means all - I guess I was suggesting that the pinnacle of horror cinematography is far far superior to the pinnacle of comedy cinematography). But I adore low rent lo-fi tech stuff just as much. Hence why in my next post I am going to nominate Herschell Gordon Lewis' The Wizard of Gore.

man, the VHS cover to Blood Beach used to freak me out.

Another nomination:

The Wizard of Gore (1970)

Forbidden World (aka Mutant)

xp: I did say many of my nominations would be pushing it!

Also I would take issue with the idea that the tech qualities on early Cronenberg are particularly shitty.

Massacre at Central High

Taking a break to not get fired, but I'll check this thread/update the doc on my lunch break.

Squirm (1976)

the pinnacle of horror cinematography is far far superior to the pinnacle of comedy cinematography

see Play Time, Manhattan

The Others
House
Ginger Snaps
The Mist
Ravenous
Wolf Creek
Cronos
28 Weeks Later
Son of Dracula
Faces of Death
Fright Night (1985)

I'm not sure how to add to the spreadsheet (at work right now), but I didn't see Robin Wood favourite It's Alive.

you can't add to the spreadsheet, post here and eric will add them

tv movies opens a whole can of worms given the amount of viable 70s entries

gargoyles (1972)
don't be afraid of the dark (1973)
bad ronald (1974)
crowhaven farm (1970)
dead of night (1977)
duel (1971)
salem's lot (1979)
trilogy of terror (1975)
dark night of the scarecrow (1981)
the dark secret of harvest home (1978)
devil dog: the hound of hell (1978)
the initiation of sarah (1978)
a cold night's death (1973)
the possessed (1977)
satan's school for girls (1973)

omg Devil Dog

Engaging in some DJP-steez genre-pushing:

Orson Welles's version of Kafka's The Trial

B+ trolling, but shitty tech qualities actually HELP many horror films... early Romero, Cronenberg before he moved to the adults' table, etc.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:48 AM (9 minutes ago)

otm, carnival of souls will place v high on my ballot and it looks like it was made for $5

have no prob w/ MPD psycho being dropped from the list

Glad to see people repping for Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Not sure if people will allow Teshigahara's adaptation of Abe's Woman in the Dunes?

I saw a "live" performance of Carnival of Souls where they had musicians, voice actors and a foley artist on stage below the projection, replacing all the sound. A vast improvement tbh!

the lipsync was prolly better

I will even rep for tetsuo II: body hammer!

Hard to add to Edward III's list, but Moju/Blind Beast & Kurosawa's Throne of Blood probably qualify.

A miniseries is still a series! There is no way you can get around the fact that it just isn't a film.

― emil.y, Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:46 AM (21 minutes ago)

kind of a pedantic point imo, also that means no salem's lot unless you're gonna be like "I'm voting for the international theatrical cut!"

that said I don't really care all that much either way, I've already got more shit than my ballot can hold

I'm not sure how to add to the spreadsheet (at work right now), but I didn't see Robin Wood favourite It's Alive.

I wasn't completely joking when I said elsewhere that It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive should be nominated. It's hugely entertaining.

New Zealand has a depressing history of wannabe filmmakers attempting to recreate the Peter Jackson origin story and failing miserably.

OTOH Aussie film has Wake in Fright, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Night of Fear, & Body Melt.

Does Bava's Planet of the Vampires count as horror, or is it too sci-fi?

does Picnic at Hanging Rock count?

Event Horizon

ahahaha DEVIL DOG

not voteworthy, but it scared the hell out of me and my brother one sunday afternoon. I could tell that it was a horrible movie, but still effective like most horror on TV during those still summer afternoons when the cicadas are shrill.

close up of dog
cut to dude pantomoming trying to stop his arm from being psychically forced into lawnmower
cut to dog
cut to dude struggling to look like he is struggling not to put arm in lawnmower
cut to dog
etc

DEVIL DOG

oh man

did I watch that movie with you or did we watch that independently of each other? that lawnmower scene is all-time

another nomination:

The Craft

lol AP

can I take a moment to rep for coffin joe's comeback movie, embodiment of evil? one of the most gonzo horror films of the past decade. the trailer makes it look more grueling than it actually is, there's a comic book zaniness that lightens the proceedings (tho I guess you should keep in mind happiness was my #2 vote in the comedy poll). trailer nsfw to the 10th power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6uTzFKsDqk

anyway french stuff ooh la la

dead end (2003)
frontiere(s)
haute tension aka switchblade romance aka high tension
a l'interieur aka inside
in my skin
martyrs
sheitan
les revenants aka they came back
ils aka them (2006)
trouble every day

did I watch that movie with you or did we watch that independently of each other? that lawnmower scene is all-time

― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:22 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p sure we saw it separately. and given your reaction to horror, I suspect that you were also a little freaked out despite how awful the movie is

ils aka them (2006)

^^^watched with jjj and it was awesome

agree w Whiney about the pointlessness of nominations threads

Massacre at Central High

^^^massively underrated. is this even on DVD?

thinks nom thread is useless, then reps something from the noms thread

Hey Edward III, I am looking forward to viewing your asian noms that I have not yet seen

these movies are the only movies I care about at all but I have very little interesting to say about them I think anyway <3 to this thread

Maniac Cop
Bride of Re-Animator
Straw Dogs
The Toxic Avenger
Raising Cain
Alice, Sweet Alice
Stir of Echoes
Demons
The Hidden
From Beyond
House of Wax (2005)
Splinter
May
Village of the Damned
The Curse of Frankenstein
Shivers

Slaughter High

thinks nom thread is useless, then reps something from the noms thread

I don't see why these should be mutually exclusive. just cuz this thread is fairly pointless doesn't require me to change my opinion about the movies referenced.

...

your chiming in is an example of how these threads are useful, completely undermining your statement about how these threads are pointless

Begotten
Hannibal
House of 1000 Corpses
The Vanishing (Spoorloos) (1988)

I don't know how me and DJP agreeing about something is really "useful". I assume no one here follows my recommendations about anything.

http://chaospet.com/comics/2009-07-21-Page_1.png

I found a pretty decent horror movie ranking with some stuff I've never heard of, if anyone's looking for suggestions.

<3<3<3 Vanishing/Spoorloos

Hey Edward III, I am looking forward to viewing your asian noms that I have not yet seen

― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:56 AM (13 minutes ago)

my fave underrated flick there is prolly tsukamoto's gemini, he did the tetsuo films. I was on the fence about nominating another movie by him, a snake of june, not really horror but super creepy in a cronenbergian way. almost anything by tsukamoto is worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xrEgNCHhFk

Je Woon Kim's I Saw The Devil (2010)?
I vote for that.

yay horror!!!

I don't have a very deep catalog of knowledge so I'm just enjoying the list of titles that's pouring out of your braaaains like when a skull gets hacked open with an ax :D

I am kind of a fussbudget about thriller v horror so I'm not going to be voting for no Mulholland Falls or Eraserhead

Phil, I love you for that cartoon

what is it with japanese ppl and throwing family members down the well, is this a thing

Is the Antichrist in the list L'Anticristo 1974? If not, I would like to nominate that one.

Judging by the extent to which my ballot is compiled thus far, Sam Neill would appear to be my favorite horror movie actor of all time.

I am kind of a fussbudget about thriller v horror so I'm not going to be voting for no Mulholland Falls

I dunno, I found Mulholland Falls pretty terrifying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeDUBK-Sc_4

what is it with japanese ppl and throwing family members down the well, is this a thing

It's a thing that THEY STOLE FROM THE CHANGELING.

Is the Antichrist in the list L'Anticristo 1974? If not, I would like to nominate that one.

no, I meant the 2009 Von Trier film.

I thought they drowned him in the bathtub? idk I haven't seen the changeling in forever

the other (1972)

plz do not confuse w/ the others

I saw the devil more of a thriller than horror imo, but if that's up for consideration I'd throw in memories of murder

or maybe I wouldn't I dunno

Judging by the extent to which my ballot is compiled thus far, Sam Neill would appear to be my favorite horror movie actor of all time.

I'd like to nominate Jurassic Park and The Piano

the horror

lol

Added all the ones mentioned since I last checked in, except for these from Edward III:

gargoyles (1972)
don't be afraid of the dark (1973)
bad ronald (1974)
crowhaven farm (1970)
dead of night (1977)
duel (1971)
salem's lot (1979)
trilogy of terror (1975)
dark night of the scarecrow (1981)
the dark secret of harvest home (1978)
devil dog: the hound of hell (1978)
the initiation of sarah (1978)
a cold night's death (1973)
the possessed (1977)
satan's school for girls (1973)

Were those included just as examples of '70s TV horror, or were those meant as nominations?

Oh, and I'm not adding The Piano, sorry.

look Lost Highway scared the bejabbers out of me but I'm not nomming it as a horror movie

but as I showed in the comedy thread I turn into a giant spaz about genre shenanigans so I'll try to restrain myself

does Picnic at Hanging Rock count?

I think it should. It might not be straight horror, but is creepier and more haunting than most genre-adherent horror films.

kind of, but that makes me feel like any Canadian art-film is then up for grabs, such as Kissed and The Hanging Gardens

xpost well then nominate the Vanishing too, jeez

The Vanishing is nominated, et al

did I watch that movie with you or did we watch that independently of each other? that lawnmower scene is all-time

Yeah lawnmower scene totally unforgettable. Also the opening scene! "Three Satanists walk into a dog shelter..."

That list of TV Movies really brings back some deep memories. I saw Gargoyles at least 3 times on TV...

Anyway, a few more:

Jack Ketchum's The Lost
Pontypool
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Dagon

actually Kissed probably would count, with the whole necrophily thing so

nominations:

Kissed
May

can I nom the book version of The Ruins instead of the movie?
no?

nevermind

I think not voting for stuff because it isn't in the 'horror' section at Blockbuster is really missing a trick. Genre labels are often just a marketing tool, and most movies labeled as 'horror' are cinematic middle fingers created by people who hate horror films.

Which is my way of saying most of Lynch's stuff most definitely qualifies as horror, whether anyone involved in its creation or marketing would have necessarily gravitated towards that particular label.

Were those included just as examples of '70s TV horror, or were those meant as nominations?

― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:37 PM (6 minutes ago)

well you said tv movies were fair game.... I'd consider voting for a few of those and I'm sure others would, up to you tho pollmaster

ok let me get my head together and i will be back with lists

ill try to do them in larger chunks but plz dont hate me if i end up with a lot of "oh shit and also" one liners

Imma go out on a limb and guess that you'll double the current number of nominees all on your lonesome.

I'll include them all, Ed.III

I'm the kind of person who doesn't like certain foods comingling on a dinner plate...I don't like getting all loosey goosey with my definitions because then dogs/cats/living together/anarchy and it makes little sparks shoot off in my brain and I run around in a circle waving my arms for a while

It's a sickness, I'm aware of it.

also do you want stuff in like Signal, The format or just "the signal"?

Google doc updated again. Currently standing at 350 nominations. So jjjjjjj will have his work cut out for him to double that total.

It would be easier for me to plug them in if you formatted with A's and The's at the end.

I love the signal, and signal, the

So jjjjjjj will have his work cut out for him to double that total.

gauntlet thrown. wait till mr hal jam shows up.

Also, I'm trying (but it's obviously not a perfect system) to list titles alphabetically according to English version, and then putting original lang title in brackets afterwards.

In some cases, though, I'm not bothering (i.e. Haute Tension).

then again, maybe he's already here

*creepy music*

thx eric

this ballot is gonna break mah brain

Two more:

Sisters
the first 15 minutes of When A Stranger Calls

So, controversial idea. I'm toying with the idea of making people list 50 on their ballot or else risk losing their vote's clout. In other words, your last placing movie gets 1 point and you can work your way up to 50.

Thoughts?

that was how we did it for the comedy ballot. Why is that controversial? or am I completely misunderstanding you because I'm low on caffeine?

Also, I always think the guy on this cover:

http://www.soundonsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/alucarda_la_hija_de_las_tinieblas_1977-213x300.jpg

is Jaco Pastorius.

The way I want to do it is if your ballot only has 20 movies on it, your top-ranked movie only gets 20 points.

all horror movies should have upside down crosses in them

Which is, I swear, not a preemptive disenfranchisement of Morbs' ballot.

Well, it's kind of a hodge-podge after the first ~ 20, and it's not necessarily a bad idea, but it might make the latter half of my list a little more desultory than otherwise. @ Eric

xpost -- oh i see

well if the rules say vote for 50, i'll vote for 50. I didn't realize ppl just go 'fuck i'm only voting for 10' or whatever

all horror movies should have Jaco Pastorius in them. esp. because he's DEAD.

well especially because of that

This is going to be hard, hah... One of those things like the all time metal poll where getting my ballot down to 50 choices will be maddening.

it's gonna be difficult for me to get up to 50 movies, lol

^yeah

I don't think I can get away with the ascending point value plan, but it will irk me to see some ballots come in from people who can't muster anything beyond 10 or 20.

Which is, I swear, not a preemptive disenfranchisement of Morbs' ballot.

But honnnnnnesty's not your strong suit...

Added this:

Visitor Q
Suicide Club
Human Centipede, The
Let Me In (2010)
House of the Devil, The
Bug
War of the Worlds (2005)
Halloween II (2009)

From this:

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/the-25-best-horror-films-of-the-aughts/281/

what if both Let Me In and Let the Right Ones In place?

honnnnnnesty's
old movies suuuuuuuck soooooo muchhhhhh

Did you just have a stroke?

oh War of the Worlds counts? huh

sure you have your full complement of silent horror? all the Tod Brownings?

(like anyone who hasn't seen them wd watch)

(Magnetic Fields ref lost on Tony Manero)

I don't think I can get away with the ascending point value plan, but it will irk me to see some ballots come in from people who can't muster anything beyond 10 or 20.

I think that's better than the alternative, wherein people with only 20 or so favorites pack a bunch of garbage into the back end of their ballots in order to give their number one pick more heft.

i'm hoping this poll proves *once and for all* that The Omen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Exorcist.

(Magnetic Fields ref lost on Tony Manero)

I can't believe you think this is a slam.

Yeah, Deric, that's true.

Taking War of the Worlds off. That was just clumsy cut-and-pasting.

Also, I always think the guy on this cover:

is that not a gal

I don't believe you (are gay any longer)

xp

xposts Tho it's a zillion times scarier than Pan's Labyrinth imo.

oh War of the Worlds counts? huh

I'd contest it more because I didn't particularly care for it than because it's not a straight-up horror film. But it does have some scary-ish stuff (inasmuch as it approaches the concept of genocidal aliens with a much more gravid brush than does Mars Attacks! or Independence Day), so I don't have a problem with it being in the running.

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
GhostWatch (1992)

Also, I always think the guy on this cover:

is that not a gal

(Joke too subtle.)

btw did Forbidden World aka Mutant get vetoed because it's unbelievably terrible

My misuse of the word 'gravid' = most horrifying thing in this thread thus far.

(I'm semi-okay with that, I just wanted to know)

OH DANG gargoyles (1972)

This is another movie I saw once on tv as a kid. I remember being really into for a week but have only wierd shadowy memories of it. The first half of the movie was spooky and isolated and what are these strange happenings, and then iirc the second half was just like conversations with gargoyles, and like "we're people too" boo-hoo type stuff around monster genocide ot w/e

lol I didn't even notice the gravid brush until you pointed it out

what the hell have you been doing with that brush

as spastic as I get about genre shenanigans, DJP I have to say I kind of love you for nomming Interview With The Vampire

I don't really understand why a movie would be pulled from the nominations for not being "horror" enough. If it doesn't belong people won't vote for it. Plus, as the comment re: Pan's Labyrinth points out, it's a slippery slope.

also that description of Gargoyles the movie makes it sound like Gargoyles the mid-90s cartoon show

there should be a minimum # of movies on the ballot. 20 votes minimum I think has been standard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Kz6G8174w

City of the Living Dead aka The Gates of Hell
Final Destination 2
Prom Night (1980)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Psycho 2

I almost nominated War of the Worlds but it straddles a weird sci-fi/horror/action axis where I'm not comfortable placing it in any of them. That said, if it's on the ballot, it'll get a vote from me somewhere. That first scene with the tripods is straight-up pants-shitting horror.

xp oh well n/m

if there's a minimum, it needs to be much lower than 20 IMO, otherwise you are either fucking up the poll with noise or you are de facto filtering out the people who are interested in participating but aren't as well-versed in the genre, or you are forcing them to vote for things they may not have voted for just to meet the minimum count

Really? I can think of 20 movies easily and I'm not a big horror buff

btw did Forbidden World aka Mutant get vetoed because it's unbelievably terrible

It's still on the list.

Cat and the Canary, The
Hands of Orlac, The
Le Manoir du Diable
Unknown, The
Waxworks (1924)

from this list:
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-under-appreciated-silent-horror-films.php

DJP's right. I love horror, but only my top 20 are going to be meaningful.

yeah, I've got no love for people who vote in a horror movie poll that can't name at least 20 movies.

I can easily think of 20 canonical horror movies but I haven't seen all of them so I therefore wouldn't vote for them

like, I've never seen the entirety of the first Friday the 13th, or the first Halloween, or the first Nightmare on Elm Street, to throw out some obvious from-our-generation examples

I don't think you should go with ascending points. That would just lead to the crappier well-known films getting a few more votes that they don't need and sending me into extra-Morbsian apoplexy.

Not sure about minimum votes, either, but wouldn't necessarily oppose it.

And Picnic at Hanging Rock is definitely a horror film.

So is Walkabout ^

it's a list of 20 horror movies you enjoyed, not "20 canonical horror movies"

it's gonna be difficult for me to get up to 50 movies, lol

and for anyone else employed and out of their teens.

How many films did you vote for in the comedy poll, Morbs?

home movie (2008)
30 days of night
woods, the (2006)
woman, the (2011)
deadgirl (2008)
sauna (2008)
sexykiller (2008)

whoever nommed viy I kiss you

oh oh wait, I have another controversial nomination:

Beloved

I won't put any rules into place until after the noms/discussion period is done.

man I really hated the Beloved movie. but I think loving the book so much just automatically set me up to be disappointed.

why are the old and employed making a racket in the kids' yard?

yeah Eric can we make this a NO OLDS ALLOWED poll?

I'm old, employed, and can probably make a ballot of 100 horror movies. Someone's setting up straw dogs men.

straw geezers

(Tho this poll may kill off my employment.)

Dorian Gray (1970)

13 Tzameti
Signal, The
Shrooms
Deadgirl
Ungodly, The aka The Perfect Witness
Below
City of the Living Dead
Horseman, The
RED (2008)
Stuck
Human Centipede: First Sequence, The
Shadow
Feed

Just a jump off list here sourced from a different thread, more when i dont have peeps in the shop trying to buy stuff. dicks.

So is Walkabout ^

Arguably walking a very slippery slope, but I kind of agree. Particularly from the POV of the kids.

LOL, oh Feed. :)

Cloverfield
Super 8

yeah Eric can we make this a NO OLDS ALLOWED poll?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yhI2B4K0p8c/Tar_sNczFJI/AAAAAAAAAI4/XxMDtMP-XCo/s1600/grumpy+old+men.jpg

ah shit i bet theres some duplication there i didnt check all the xposts, sorry man

clemenza you're young at heart, you can stay <3

Eaten Alive
Meet The Applegates (a possibly controversial nominee that I considered and rejected nominating for the comedy poll)

Just know that if Super 8 and Taxi Driver place above Last House on Dead End Street and Deathdream, there will be spillage.

Oops, forgot I was to remain impartial as the mod.

man i am obv not a good judge of this, but looking at the expansion of noms i find it nearly impossible to imagine that anyone wont be able to at least list 20 films

Yay for me!

Yeah, there will be a minimum on the ballots for sure. Just have to decide whether it's 10, 20, 25, more?

anything pre-1960 on this one, clemenza, you ex-cineaste?

Attack The Block
The Fury
Rebeccca
The Crazies (2010)
Dahmer
Mother's Day (1980)
Dead Calm
The Blob (1958)
Hostel
Hostel Part II
Tremors
The Faculty
Santa's Slay
Jack Frost (1996)
Final Destination
Scream
Eyes Of Laura Mars

I have such a soft spot for gargoyles, hugely fascinating to me as a kid. it's a terrible movie no doubt, but AP otm in that the first half has some genuinely creepy moments with those gargoyle incursions into the human world. and if I have not hallucinated this, I believe bernie casey as the winged king gargoyle astride a horse is one of the most bizarre and wondrous visions beamed into american households of the 70s. def a movie for ppl whose fav part of wizard of oz were the flying monkeys.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/gargoyles.jpg

haha that should be Rebecca on my noms, no need to search for an obscurity

Rubber
Hampshire
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The
Abandoned, The
Murder Loves Killers Too
Re-Cycle
Severance

dude you just nommed rubber

I'll have a few pre-'60. I don't think anything silent, though. (Possibly Caligari just for its weirdness.)

What are some all time movies that horror fans would know but would probably be obscure to a relatively mainstream audience?

I will try to watch some of these so as to give consideration to things that should place high.

Is that the Dahmer movie w/Jeremy Renner? That was terrible.

rubber rules dudes

anybody not voting nosferatu needs a bite in the neck

also I guess this is fair

nosferatu: phantom der nacht (1979)

lol okay I just went through and I've seen at least 29 of the movies on the nomination list

I wouldn't vote for them all but 20 no longer seems like an insurmountable list

that list was the list of horror movies that i rated 10 stars on imdb within however long imdb keeps ratings (and yes that includes rubber)

why are the old and employed making a racket in the kids' yard?

http://www.critcononline.com/images/children%20shouldn

guys, I don't see Shadow of the Vampire, so...

Shadow of the Vampire

Will horror aficionados be upset by this nom?

no

yay!

the only reason i can see being angered by a nom is if the nominator uses their vampire powers of seduction to make you vote for it

I just want you all to know that I have been resisting putting in a nomination for VAMP all day

lol okay I just went through and I've seen at least 29 of the movies on the nomination list

got to 29 and didn't even get out of the C's aka my misspent youth

Dafoe is pretty hilarious in shadow

vamp is a totally fair nom! it sucks, but y'know 80s new wave vampires what's not to love

you realize you are opening the door for a Once Bitten nomination, right

I'm glad to see Eric H. listed Repulsion. One of the few movies that scared the living shit out of me after age 15. I do not see Psycho mentioned itt thread, yet. Does this mean I am about to start a shit-fling by mentioning it?

Is Fright Night on there yet?

DJP will not rest until someone finally shakes their first at his naughty ways

Psycho is already nominated

lol fist, rather

somehow people shaking their oldest children in condemnation of someone else seems to be fitting imagery for a horror poll

House is on Hulu. Ima watch it. v excited!

haha for a second I thought you were nominating

http://www.andyfilm.com/FIST05.jpg

once bitten, vampire's kiss, love at first bite, blackula, nocturna, hell let 'em all in!

seriously though: ganja and hess

God, Once Bitten is terrible.

i saw F.I.S.T. with my hands over my eyes, not comfortable nominating

oh my god, how did I forget (and this is a legit nomination)

SCREAM, BLACULA, SCREAM

House is on Hulu. Ima watch it. v excited!

william katt is awesome in it!

Amityville Horror, The (1979)
Beyond, The
Bucket of Blood, A
Child's Play
From Hell
Hell Night
Keep, The
Sentinal, The
Two Thousand Maniacs!
Woman in Black, The (2012)

I tried to pull out all the dupes that were already in the spreadsheet, but I may have xposted w/ some.

Abby

Didn't see this anywhere:

Them! (1954)

what's gonna be difficult in this poll is controlling the urge to vote for something that was awesome when I was 9 or 12 or 15 but haven't seen since

I mean sometimes I revisit stuff and I'm like, yup, solid, and other times it's like whaaaat

Kinda surprised at the lack of William Castle fandom on display ITT!

House on Haunted Hill (1959)
13 Ghosts (1960)
Homicidal
Straight-Jacket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxqE50c2x_0

DUDES DJP OTM

Looking up the trailer for Abby revealed another blaxploitation horror I'd never heard of (starring Bernie Casey!) (briefly nsfw) http://youtu.be/a6lztwNQLDY

April Fool's Day
My Bloody Valentine

Blacula fans should know that Blacula plays the head exorcist in Abby: http://youtu.be/aLX6BnmtWS4

let's not forget

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iREWNIHoUKA

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

All-time Simpsons joke: Television voiceover announcement of a movie marathon of BLACULA, BLACKENSTEIN and THE BLUNCHBACK OF BLOTRE BLAME

very disappointed that underrated aero posted itt but neglected to nominate beware! the blob aka blob son of blob blob

xxxxpost

That seems like a conflict of interest for Blacula.

And there it is!

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

I see that vampyr is nominated. we got some dreyer up in this bitch!

that's what she said...in late '20s france

can we nom Grace Jones for The Hunger?

I believe DJP already did, from when it was called vamp

can I get a ruling on deliverance

wait

David Bowie

why the fuck did I say Grace Jones, vamp on the brain lol

DUUUUUUUUUDES: The Vanishing (1988) awesome

Let the Right One In

I think I might have a slight problem with a Deliverance nomination, mostly because it's not really so much "about" the awful stuff they go through.

Am I the only one that thought Let the Right One In was grimy, boring, shit?

Cure is going on top of my must-see list

guess I was thinking of eden lake and then said y'know I liked that movie better when it was deliverance

xps

Host, The

I really dug Let The Right One In and I didn't think I would like it at all.

my wife did too

So did mine, and she doesn't much care for horror.

lol i just realized Morbs took a powder because the Mets game is on

Frankenstein (1931)

^sure it must be on ther list, but searched the thread and didn't see it on there (google docs blocked at work)

oddly enough it is not (tho bride of is)

we have a long way to go on the noms list

e.g.

creature of the black lagoon

I like the sequels but doubt they'd get many votes

Current list for those who can't get to the Google doc. 446 entries so far.

13 Ghosts (1960)
13 Tzameti
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
30 Days of Night
7th Victim, The
Abandoned, The
Abby
Acacia
Alice, Sweet Alice
Alien
Alucarda
American Werewolf in London, An
Amityville Horror, The (1979)
Angry Red Planet
Antichrist (2009)
Antichrist [L'Anticristo] (1974)
April Fool's Day
Asylum (1972)
Attack the Block
Audition
Awful Dr. Orloff, The
Bad Ronald (1974)
Bad Seed, The (1956)
Basket Case
Begotten
Bell from Hell, A
Beloved
Below
Beyond, The
Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The
Birds, The
Black Cat (1934)
Black Christmas (1974)
Black Sabbath
Black Sunday
Black Swan
Blade
Blair Witch Project, The
Blind Beast [Moju]
Blob, The (1958)
Blob, The (1988)
Blood Beach (1980)
Blood Feast
Blood on Satan's Claw
Bloodsucking Freaks
Blue Sunshine
Body Melt
Body Snatcher, The
Brain Damage
Braindead [Dead Alive]
Bride of Frankenstein, The
Bride of Re-Animator
Brood, The
Bucket of Blood, A
Bug
Burn, Witch, Burn
Cabin Fever
Cabin in the Woods, The (2012)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The
Calvaire
Candyman
Cannibal Holocaust
Carnival Of Souls
Carrie (1976)
Carry On Screaming
Cat and the Canary, The
Cat People (1942)
Cat People (1982)
Cemetery Man [Dellamorte Dellamore]
Changeling, The
Child's Play
City of the Living Dead [The Gates of Hell]
Clean, Shaven
Cloverfield
Cold Night's Death, A (1973)
Company of Wolves, The
Craft, The
Crazies, The (1973)
Crazies, The (2010)
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Creepshow
Creepshow 2
Cronos
Crowhaven Farm (1970)
Cube
Cure [Kyua]
Curse of Frankenstein, The
Curse of the Demon [Night of the Demon] (1957)
Dagon
Dahmer
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
Dark Secret of Harvest Home, The (1978)
Dark Water
Daughters of Darkness
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Dead Calm
Dead End (2003)
Dead of Night (1945)
Dead of Night (1977)
Deadgirl (2008)
Deathdream [Dead of Night] (1972)
Deep Red [Profondo Rosso]
Dementia (1955)
Demons
Descent, The
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)
Devil Rides Out, The
Devil's Backbone, The
Devil's Rejects, The
Devils, The
Diabolique [Les Diaboliques]
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The
Dog Soldiers
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)
Don't Look Now
Dorian Gray (1970)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Dracula (1931)
Drag Me To Hell
Dressed To Kill
Duel (1971)
DUMPLINGS!
Dunwich Horror, The
Eaten Alive (1977)
Embodiment of Evil
Eraserhead
Event Horizon
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
Evil Dead Trap
Evil Dead, The
Exorcist 3, The
Exorcist II: The Heretic, The
Exorcist, The
Eye, The
Eyes Of Laura Mars
Eyes Without A Face
Faces of Death
Faculty, The
Faust (1926)
Feed
Final Destination
Final Destination 2
Fly, The (1986)
Fog, The
Forbidden World [Mutant]
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Frailty
Frankenstein (1931)
Freaks
Friday The 13th Part II
Fright Night (1985)
From Beyond
From Beyond the Grave
From Dusk Til Dawn
From Hell
Frontiere(s)
Funny Games (1997)
Fury, The
Ganja and Hess
Gargoyles (1972)
Gemini
Ghostwatch (1992)
Ginger Snaps
God Told Me To
Golem, The (1920)
Gothic
Gremlins
Grudge, The (2004)
Halloween
Halloween II (2009)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Hampshire
Hands of Orlac, The
Hannibal
Happiness of the Katakuris, The
Haunted Castle, The [Le Manoir du Diable]
Haunting, The (1963)
Haute Tension
Häxan (1922)
Hell Night
Hellraiser
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Hidden, The
Hills Have Eyes, The (1977)
Hiruko the Goblin
Hitcher, The (1986)
Home Movie (2008)
Homicidal
Horrors of Malformed Men
Horseman, The
Host, The
Hostel
Hostel Part II
Hour of the Wolf
House (1987)
House [Hausu] (1977)
House of 1000 Corpses
House of the Devil, The
House of Wax (2005)
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
House That Dripped Blood, The
Howling, The
Human Centipede: First Sequence, The
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
I Saw the Devil
I Walked with a Zombie
Ichi the Killer
In My Skin
In The Mouth of Madness
Initiation of Sarah, The (1978)
Inland Empire
Innocents, The
Inside [À l'intérieur]
Interview With The Vampire
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
Irreversible
Island of Lost Souls, The
It
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
It's Alive
It's Alive 3: Island of the Alive
Jack Frost (1996)
Jacob's Ladder
Jaws
Jigoku
Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)
Ju-on: The Grudge (2003)
Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (2003)
Keep, The
Kill List
Kissed
Kwaidan
Lair of the White Worm
Last House on Dead End Street
Last House on the Left (1972)
Legend Of Hell House, The
Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural
Let Me In (2010)
Let the Right One In (2008)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Lifeforce
Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane, The
Living Dead Girl
Lost Boys, The
Lost Highway
Lost, The [Jack Ketchum's The Lost]
M
Mad Love
Man Who Laughs, The
Maniac Cop
Marebito
Martin
Martyrs
Masque of the Red Death, The (1964)
Massacre at Central High
Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People
May
Meet The Applegates
Memento Mori
Memories of Murder
Messiah of Evil
Mist, The
Mother's Day (1980)
Mulholland Drive
Murder Loves Killers Too
My Bloody Valentine
Mystery of the Wax Museum, The
Naked Lunch
Near Dark
Night of Fear
Night of the Creeps
Night of the Hunter, The
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A
Nightmare On Elm Street, A
Nosferatu (1922)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
Old Dark House, The
Omen, The
One Missed Call
Onibaba
Orphanage, The
Other, The (1972)
Others, The (2001)
Outer Space
Pan's Labyrinth
Paperhouse
Paranormal Activity
Parents
Peeping Tom
People Under the Stairs, The
Phantasm
Phantasm II
Phantom of the Opera, The (1925)
Phenomena
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Picture of Dorian Grey, The
Pieces
Pin
Planet of the Vampires
Planet Terror
Poltergeist
Pontypool
Possessed, The (1977)
Possession (1981)
Prince of Darkness
Prom Night (1980)
Psycho
Psycho 2
Psychomania
Pulse
Pumpkinhead
Quiet Family, The
Rabid
Raising Cain
Ravenous
Re-Animator
Rebecca
Rec [rec]
Re-Cycle
RED (2008)
Reflecting Skin, The
Repulsion
Requium for a Vampire
Return of the Living Dead
Ring, The (2001)
Ringu
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
Rosemary's Baby
R-Point
Rubber
Salem's Lot (1979)
Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Santa's Slay
Satan's School for Girls (1973)
Sauna (2008)
Saw
Scanners
Scream
Scream, Blackula, Scream
Sentinal, The
Serpent and the Rainbow, The
Session 9
Seven
Severance
Sexykiller (2008)
Shadow
Shadow of the Vampire
Shallow Grave
Shaun of the Dead
Sheitan
Shining, The
Shivers
Shock Waves
Shrooms
Shutter (2004)
Signal, The
Silence of the Lambs, The
Sisters (1973)
Slaughter High
Sleepaway Camp
Sleepy Hollow
Slither
Son of Dracula
Spider Baby
Splinter
Squirm (1976)
Stir of Echoes
Stone Tape, The
Straight-Jacket
Strangers, The
Straw Dogs (1971)
Stuck
Student of Prague (1926)
Suicide Club
Super 8
Suspiria
Tale of Two Sisters, A
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight
Teeth
Tell Me Something
Tenant, The
Tenebrae
Testament
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974)
Theatre of Blood
Them [Ils] (2006)
Them! (1954)
They Came Back [Les Revenants]
They Live
Thing, The (1982)
Threads
Three
Three... Extremes
Throne of Blood
Tingler, The
Tomb of Ligeia, The
Torture Garden
Toxic Avenger, The
Tremors
Trial, The (1962)
Trick r' Treat
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
Trouble Every Day
Twisted Nerve
Two Thousand Maniacs!
Uncle Sam
Underworld
Ungodly, The [The Perfect Witness]
Uninvited, The (1944)
Unknown, The
Unknown, The (1927)
Uzumaki [Spiral]
Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
Vampyr (1932)
Vanishing, The (1988)
Vault of Horror, The
Versus
Videodrome
Village of the Damned
Visitor Q
Viy
Wait Until Dark
Wake in Fright
Waxworks (1924)
Waxworks (1924)
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
When a Stranger Calls
White Zombie
Wicker Man, The
Witchfinder General [The Conqueror Worm]
Wizard of Gore, The
Wolf Creek
Woman in Black, The (2012)
Woman in the Dunes
Woman, The (2011)
Woods, The (2006)
Zombie [Zombi 2] (1979)

lol i just realized Morbs took a powder because the Mets game is on

haven't even checked the score, actually. You know me well.

buhbye

if you type his name three times in a thread, he appears

this is a fave ---> The Devil's Backbone

For info Blood on Satan's Claw was retitled Satan's Skin in the US.

Apologies if any of these are listed under different names:

Tombs Of The Blind Dead
Blood and Black Lace
Night Of The Hunted (Rollin)
Vampyros Lesbos
She Killed In Ecstasy
The Short Night Of Glass Dolls
Who Saw Her Die?
Five Dolls For An August Moon
All The Colours Of The Dark
The Strange Vice Of Mrs Wardh
What Are These Strange Drops Of Blood Doing On Jennifer's Body?
The House With Laughing Windows
Twitch Of The Death Nerve
Inferno (Argento)
Your Vice Is A Locked Door And Only I Have The Key
Terror At The Opera

Oh, why not:

Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge
Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

The first four are as far as I'm willing to go.

Death Takes a Coffee Break
The Corpse Came Gift-Wrapped
Dial N for Nurder

if there's a minimum, it needs to be much lower than 20 IMO, otherwise you are... filtering out the people who aren't as well-versed in the genre

what a savage, unthinkable approach that is, btw.

Truth bomb.

dream warriors has some pretty creepy moments iirc

no new nightmare for you eh

Death Takes a Coffee Break
The Corpse Came Gift-Wrapped
Dial N for Nurder

Almost included these btw, but no.

Grave Encounters
Atrocious
Violent Kind, The
Horde, The
Genesis (if shorts are allowed)
Chaser, The
Midnight Meat Train
Shuttle
Butcher, The
Terror Train (1980)
Hatchet
Donkey Punch
Shiver (NOT the same as shivers)
Antibodies
Shallow Ground

Ooh, with TV movies allowed we can have the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas, right? In that case:

Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968)
Signalman, The (1976)

If anyone wants to rule these out then I don't mind so much, the fewer amazing things I have to choose from then the less arduous task I have ahead of me.

But anyone who hasn't seen them - do so! Classic creepy stories for sitting around a low-burning hearth. Brrrr.

What are some all time movies that horror fans would know but would probably be obscure to a relatively mainstream audience?

I will try to watch some of these so as to give consideration to things that should place high.

― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, April 5, 2012 5:48 PM (1 hour ago)

off the top of my head, black christmas, sleepaway camp, martyrs

thanks, jjj!

The Black Cat (1934, Edgar G Ulmer)

Karloff & Lugosi's finest moments together -- "bit by bit!"

dream warriors has some pretty creepy moments iirc

Ayup.

no new nightmare for you eh

Anope.

martyrs...*shudder*
I did not enjoy/like that much at all

We also need to keep Nightmare on Elm Street 2 in mind if we ever do a 'films with a barely disguised gay subtext' poll.

it's not for everybody... even the director hates it!

I thought about voting for The Cat and the Canary in the comedy poll, but I need to rewatch it; been over a decade now :/
Trying to think of the best Lon Chaney films to nominate.

Oh wait, there's already been a bunch of nominations for The Unknown, which tbh is the one which functions best w/our present-day understanding of horror.

Midnight Meat Train sounds promising

reading the wiki entry of Martyrs does not make me want to see it, I gotta say... why is it such a big deal?

Glad to see The Man Who Laughs is up for consideration - more a melodrama, but gloomy'n'Expressionist to count. Conrad Veidt is the dreamiest!

xxp It's based on a Cliver Barker story. Haven't seen it yet.

actually it seems to have decent reviews

Yeah, my ballot is going to very bereft of French new wave horror. And heavy on camp. Apologies in advance.

well 71% on Rotten Tomatoes is probably less than exemplary xp

reading the wiki entry of Martyrs does not make me want to see it, I gotta say... why is it such a big deal?

― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:23 PM (5 minutes ago)

best horror film of the last 10 years imo. brutal & pitiless in its exploration of pain and sadism, nihilist to the core.

tho part of the "fun" is not knowing where it's going, avoid spoilers if possible

Not trying to inject another Taxi Driver diversion, but I don't see Blue Velvet yet. I wasn't going to mention it at all, but I do see Lost Highway on the list. For me, BV isn't just a much better film, it's also much more frightening.

Fire Walk with Me

I think that's a legit horror movie, but I wouldn't put up a fight if it gets rejected.

for about half of martyrs you're unsure who is the victim and who is the victimizer, and once you do it attempts to grind yr soul into a fine powder. how it makes its way out of its untenable plot positions is a vicious thing of beauty.

Like I said upthread, I wouldn't complain about the nomination of pretty much any Lynch film. Might get a bit testy if The Straight Story winds up in the top ten, but we'll cross that bridge once we've slowly driven our riding mowers up to it.

I didn't think either Sleepaway Camp or Black Christmas were that far removed from mainstream notice, tbh? I mean, Sleepaway Camp was used in a Robot Chicken sketch and Black Christmas was remade in 2006

Anyone that hasn't seen Ghostwatch (1992) should get themselves over to Youtube - after reading the back story a little maybe. Really chilled me when it was first shown. I'm glad it is allowed.

The Thing is gonna win this, right?

My fave might have to be Don't Look Now - a beautiful film throughout, and it is a horror. I think.

The Thing is gonna win this, right?

on ilx? probably

btw Black Christmas is one of the few slasher movies I enjoyed watching

I LOVE The Thing and hope to heaven it does NOT win this poll. That one's a monster movie, not a horror movie.

NEED TO SEE black christmas, sleepaway camp, martyrs, the hills have eyes, audition, deep red, hour of the wolf, carnival of souls, videodrome, the changeling, prince of darkness

SHOULD I SEE high tension, insideous, night of the demons, the orphanage, the legend of hell house, pumpkinhead, don't look now, in the mouth of madness, last house on the left?

xpost i dunno when a head melts off, shrieks and grows legs, i'mma forgive someone for being horrified

oh fyi, you want the 1974 Black Christmas

Ghostwatch is probably best watched without knowing any of the backstory. Although, as an American, it was at least helpful to know who the presenters were (and to know that they were real, known people playing themselves) ahead of time. The backstory just adds an extra patina of awesome to the movie after the fact.

High Tension is worth seeing once. I didn't find that it's as amazing as everyone led me to believe but it's certainly fun to watch alone in the house by yourself

Definitely see pumpkinhead, don't look now, in the mouth of madness, last house on the left. The Legend of Hell House was, I thought, kinda meh.

I love The Thing and think it's a horror (or at least a hybrid horror), but I still probably won't vote for it, simply because there are so many other beautiful films to choose from here.

Need to re-screen GhostWatch, I haven't seen it since it was first shown when I was a kid.

Legend Of Hell House is for Roddy McDowall fans only (I'm one). Guess I should finally see the orig last house on the left before making my ballot.

I mean honestly my #1 vote might be Prince of Darkness or Hellraiser. The dream sequences in the former still make my freakin' skin crawl.

xxxp I really, really did not like The Descent. It is one of the only films that I can remember actually turning my head away from the screen to try and get away. This would be good for a horror film ordinarily but I didn't respect it - it felt like it was just pushing buttons akin to, say Notting Hill which thinks it should make me fall in love and cry.

I can't tell you how glad I am that we're having some kind of "official" nomination process. "Just vote for whatever you want" takes all the fun out of it, and would, I guarantee, make compiling the results a massive pain in the ass. Tell you the truth, I really like it when nominations are capped, like you can only nominate 20 or even 10 films. Makes you really think about what you're nominating, instead of lazily nomming any old thing (ha) that happens to pop into your head.

Anyway, I'm not going to worry to much about scariness or "objective quality" or any of that. Just my [however many] horror-type movies.

Almost want asterisks next to the movies currently on Netflix instant

not that anyone should put in the work, obv. but if you know one of your noms is, say so!

da croup, be prepared for one of the all-time musical misfires in Last House on the Left, a silly blot on an otherwise decent movie.

Last House was my #1 Want To See But Too Afraid To See movie for a while, though Martyrs has that top spot now.

Austerity, you should definitely see In the Mouth of Madness, which is one of Carpenter's best and most underrated films, and (a little less emphatically) The Legend of Hill House. Beyond that, I'm probably one of the few people who were disappointed by Don't Look Now. I thought it was a really nice setup to a really dumb punchline.

SHOULD I SEE... The Orphanage

― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, April 5, 2012 9:00 PM

My girlfriend WEPT throughout the whole of the second half of this film it got to her so much.

That one's a monster movie, not a horror movie.

^particularly insane

love The Thing, tho, they really knew how to leave stuff offscreen in 1951. "An intellectual carrot" etc.

you're an intellectual carrot, etc

Also - the version of Last House I saw seemed to be cut to shreds. The actual night of the rape etc. isn't seen at all - is this right?

Actually they knew how to crap up a perfectly good John W. Campbell short story.

Claim to fame: I won a copy of Last House on the Left at the first Music Box Massacre (annual 24-hour horror mood marathon).

Watch Insidious definitely but manage your expectations.

lol, basically everything i might possible vote for has already been nominated, but...

Haunting of Julia, The (1977)

which Friday the 13th was the one where Jason's tongue was possessing people

that was a stupid ass movie

Dead and Buried (1981)

Sleepaway Camp's basically terrible until the very last shot, at which point it becomes amazing.

High Tension is one of the worst moderately-well-reviewed horror films i've seen in a long time.

Don't Look Now is super.

wait, did we not nominate I Spit On Your Grave

Beyond, The (1981)

I mean Campbell writes

Eagerly Blair was stripping back the ropes. A single throw of the tarpaulin revealed the thing. The ice had melted somewhat in the heat of the room and it was clear and blue as thick, good glass. It shone wet and sleek under the harsh light of the unshielded globe above.

The room stiffened abruptly. It was face up there on the plain, greasy planks of the table. The broken half of the bronze ice-ax was still buried in the queer skull. Three mad, hate-filled eyes blazed up with a living fire, bright as fresh-spilled blood. from a face ringed with a writhing, loathsome nest of worms, blue, mobile worms that crawled where hair should grow.

And we get

http://www.gunsmokenet.com/GunsmokeTGAW/Marks-Stuff/Gunsmoke/thing.jpg

<3 u forever Howard Hawks but gtfo with Marshall Dillon in a bald cap.

The Beyond should be on there.

Also, I really disliked Don't Look Now so you are not alone D.W.H.

Dead and Buried (1981)

― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, April 5, 2012 4:12 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Watched this recently on Netflix, super-creepy!

NEED TO SEE black christmas, sleepaway camp, martyrs, the hills have eyes, audition, deep red, hour of the wolf, carnival of souls, videodrome, the changeling, prince of darkness

yes, yes you do

high tension - yes
the legend of hell house - it's a little slow and lol 70s but some great creepy atmospherics
don't look now - yes yes a thousand times yes
last house on the left - you don't see it as much as survive it but as part of horror history it's pretty critical

the beyond already on the nom list

Sleepaway Camp's basically terrible until the very last shot, at which point it becomes amazing.

High Tension is one of the worst moderately-well-reviewed horror films i've seen in a long time.

Don't Look Now is super.

nah, sleepaway camp also has amazing 70s fashions, a couple great wft?!? deaths, and an AMAZING opening act ("Aunt Martha" is a fucking icon)

high tension is great. and stupid. and great.

agree abt don't look now.

prolly won't vote for dead & buried but wholeheartedly support its inclusion

duh, i searched for "the beyond" instead of just "beyond" or "beyond, the"

my bad

hey Phil D, u never see Arness anywhere that close or in focus in the film, thx for playin'

I'm gonna morbz out y'all and vote for the thing from another world and not the thing

not kidding

Prince of Darkness your #1, Phil? That movie. It was one of the few Carpenters I'd never seen, and about, 5 or 6 years ago I was bored and decided to watch it. I couldn't stand it. Any of it. Except the Alice Cooper parts.
but it's funny because I know SOOO many people who love it. I just don't get it AT ALL.

xxxxxp High Tension actually made me angry with its stupidity. It's making me angry with its stupidity just thinking about it!

Sleepaway Camp's definitely worth seeing, irrespective of the quality of the bulk of the film.

Don't care, still not a gloss on the Campbell story or Carpenter's version. This is one where you're just flat out wrong, and your preference for old-over-new regardless of merit is a handicap.

Can I have my kewpie doll now?

XXP Maybe my #1. We'll see.

Was just gonna try to get a read on how much favor The Sentinel has but I see it was already nominated. It's not particularly good, but it's certainly batshit enough to be in the running. Although, to be honest, I just enjoyed watching it because Cristina Raines was the most gorgeous actress ever in the '70s.

blood for dracula
flesh for frankenstein

What about some of the other Stephen King movies? I didn't see any of these so I don't know if they're any good, but:

Christine
Cujo
Firestarter
The Dead Zone
Pet Sematary
The Night FlierChildren of the Corn
Cat's Eye
Silver Bullet
Maximum Overdrive
Sleepwalkers
Graveyard Shift
The Dark Half
Needful Things
The Mangler
Thinner
Dreamcatcher
Secret Window
Riding The Bullet
1408

I did see The Lawnmower Man and Misery; not sure I'd call Misery a horror movie and The Lawnmower Man was fucking terrible

it's a shame they never made shampoo for werewolf

Yeah, Edward, good call on the Paul Morrissey flicks.

High Tension actually made me angry with its stupidity. It's making me angry with its stupidity just thinking about it!

It was probably so stupid because it was ripping off one of the stupidest horror writers ever.

ha I thought about nominating Dreamcatcher but its appeal is more LOL for me. If The Mist isn't nominated it should be though.

stephen king on screen is almost universally terrible except for carrie, the shining, and the dead zone

a lot of ppl like pet sematary I guess but eh

would support the mist nom but only the b&w version

DJP you have to watch Maximum Overdrive, which finally answers the question "What if you gave King a fuckton of coke and let him direct one of his own adaptations?"

I mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn83VuCzP1k

Maximum Overdrive opens so fucking awesome but pretty sure I'd zoned out by the end

apt pupil is a really underrated king adaptation but not sure it counts as horror

I will rep for a number of those Stephen King movies. Cujo, Dead Zone, Christine, and Pet Sematary are all good value.

The Mist is nominated but there's no mention of which one it is

Edward otm, Stephen King and movies = cheesy lols and/or sadness usually, except for the 3 that Edward cited

Thinner is one of the most grotesquely racist and sexist films i've ever seen in my life. I'd go along with the idea that only Carrie and the Shining are worth seeing - and i think both are fairly over-rated.

Or the longer clip, which segues from slapstick death-by-soda to a child being run over by a steamroller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K44PqV2Idk

creepshow, creepshow 2 blah bloo blargh

apt pupil is a really underrated king adaptation but not sure it counts as horror

yeah, I had it on the list but pulled it for reasons similar to Misery not really fitting into a horror poll (despite being a mainstream precursor to what would end up being called "torture porn", lol)

Both Creepshows are already nominated.

SHOULD I SEE: the dead zone? Always avoided it due to STEPHEN KING MOVIE (with aforementioned quality exceptions)

Thinner is one of the most grotesquely racist and sexist films i've ever seen in my life. I'd go along with the idea that only Carrie and the Shining are worth seeing - and i think both are fairly over-rated.

― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, April 5, 2012 4:27 PM

rewatched a ton of classic 70s horror pix w/ my teenage brother-in-law years ago, was kind of shocked to come out realizing carrie is a stone cold classic

I liked but did not love the shining, until the recent DVD remasters restored it to some sort of eyebreaking glory

otherwise you are otm

dead zone totally worth it for walken's perf

The Dead Zone is a must-see.

xpost I wouldn't put it on my top 50 horror ballot, but it's a great movie-length Twilight Zone starring Christopher Walken.

"The ICE . . . is gonna BREAK!"

get those SCISSORS out of your MOUTH

Seconds (1966)
Crimes of Passion (1984)
Stepfather, The (1987)
Lair of the White Worm (1988)
Reflecting Skin, The (1990)
Naked Blood (1996) - aka Splatter: Naked Blood
Wishmaster (1997)
Wishmaster 2 (1999)
Stacy (2001) - aka Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies
Suicide Club (2001)
Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
Thirst (2009)

Children, The (2008)

SHOULD I SEE: the dead zone? Always avoided it due to STEPHEN KING MOVIE (with aforementioned quality exceptions)

It's King, but it's also Cronenberg. Worth it if only to see the progenitor of Charlie Sheen's madness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CdKuLRmg8k

Loool, do I dare nominate Nekromantik?

DO IT

I don't know whether to take DJP's Stephen King list as a legit list of nominations, but I would like to for real nominate

Children of the Corn

I love it so much despite its flaws.

There's a godo chance Carrie is going to be my #1.

Ooh, yeah, Seconds

Good chance, too.

then when AP asks if he should see it, we'll all say yes

xps

I went on a terrible date to see Wishmaster and hated it and I am not sure whether it was the date or the movie.

BWAHAHAHAHA. Yes, okay - Nekromantik is being nominated.

I saw children of the corn on opening night and emerged from the theater very angry

wishmaster is a truly terrible movie, but andrew divoff is awesome as the djinn/villain, and he's even better in the troll 2 quality sequel.

Outlander! We have your woman! xp

don't they stick someone's head in a meat slicer in CotC

of all the movie categories so far this is the one with the highest percentage of nominations i've actually seen.

"The ICE . . . is gonna BREAK!"

― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:32 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

get those SCISSORS out of your MOUTH

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:32 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wait so this movie is just walken yelling advice at people who do stupid shit in horror movies?

don't GO in that room ALONE

Isolation (2005)

no but that sounds like a completely awesome movie I would see

xp

i forgot about lawnmower man, that cgi should win an award for aging the worst of any

the joan rivers

This may be too much of a stretch for most people, but two Altmans that I would consider:

3 Women
Images

Splice (2009)

Aside from Walken, The Dead Zone also has Herbert Lom in a lovely, subdued role as Walken's doctor.

I actually liked the lawnmower man but in hindsight I may chalk it up to a teenage fixation on jenny wright

Brain Damage (1988)
Frankenhooker (1990)

children of the corn vs village of the damned vs total eclipse of the heart video

another one I didn't see but seem to remember someone saying good things about it: Idle Hands

bleh

I already nominated Brain Damage, contenderizer, but it's nice to know that someone else is down with that cinematic slice of awesome.

Worthwhile only for Jessica Alba in a devil costume and Vivica A. Fox as whatever she was doing.

xp

Has anybody seen Cannibal Holocaust? Is it as bad as it sounds or has it aged enough to be bearable?

feel like not enough hammer horror nommed thus far

I mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWpZz5WF4TE

Also, Mulholland Dr. is incorrectly spelled on the nominations list. It's not "Mulholland Drive".

Right, it's Mulholland Doctor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itX7uyZ4Ocw

I already nominated Brain Damage, contenderizer, but it's nice to know that someone else is down with that cinematic slice of awesome.

Yeah, oops, had "match case" selected on my searches cuz of trying to find May, lol

Which village of the damned is better, 1960 or 1995? I see that '95 is directed by carpenter. I have seen nothing else by wolf rilla.

1960