Horror Poll Results Spinoff Poll: Movies that 1 sole voter placed in their top 20

I'm fairly sure the right answer here is All the Colours of the Dark, but as I haven't actually seen it yet then I'll have to vote for The Shout.

Demons including all the ones i haven't seen

He Who Gets Slapped is pretty amazing, though I would've put forward The Unknown as the creepier of his circus films. Fond memories of Night Of The Lepus as an Incredibly Strange Film Festival staple; Visitor Q is up there, too.

gotta vote for my own pick...john carpenter wrote laura mars, folks! c'mon!

Season of the Witch!!
(Race with the Devil was my other one)

I can't decide whether to be stubborn and vote for my representative on this list (2012 Woman in Black), or give it up for Night of the Lepus. Or Shock Waves for pioneering Nazi zombies.

Testament

surprised that lifeforce, mother joan, and the howling only had 1 voter each

obv I would support a pro-shock waves voting bloc

http://www.fright-rags.com/bmz_cache/9/9fb4c5e5083f910d15eaf52029c77c95.image.294x294.jpg

http://www.wired.com/underwire/wp-content/gallery/gallery-horror-movie/Lifeforce.jpg

"Vote for me."

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/SW_rsgG15Uczt.jpg

Even if the movie itself isn't Romero's best (I guess I can give that up), Season of the Witch is an aesthetic masterpiece of its time imo. Not only is groovy and swingin, it's grim and stark too. The look of it is so familiar to me and reminds me of being a child in the industrial midwest in the late 70s. That's what stuff looked like, what people looked like. So simple, and so totally creepy -- just watch the first 2 min. It only takes 2 min to get creepy in Pittsburgh in the 70s when you are George Romero and you have a camera.

SEASON OF THE WITCH! Vote for me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZT16YDtWpc

I'm The Wolf Man, so that.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZrfkZW1mwyE/Tv-IYYC3gRI/AAAAAAAABZg/J2__pCUcn-w/s1600/wolfman4.jpg

Testament, obvs!

(That would be my top 20 vote up there.)

Interesting to see two more Polanskis on this list.

just did a sad scan for all of my entries before realizing you only took one per person :(

I cannot -- cannot -- be the only one here to love At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul. There is nothing else like it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A78PxCLzv1g

just did a sad scan for all of my entries before realizing you only took one per person :(

Just the ones that were solitary votes within the top 20 of anyone's ballot. C+P error if that's not the case.

no i have one on there, i just had a lot more than one that qualified. really just taking one last opportunity to whine about my terrible loss

oh ha solitary votes maybe not, i am stupid and read it wrong i think

hey jjj, have you already done the scanthrough to see which movies we overlapped on

i have not! off the top of my head the only one i know for sure would be the ring

oh duh and black christmas!

hardly seen any of these.

voted Testament

i have not! off the top of my head the only one i know for sure would be the ring

Oh god, not you too!

from what I can tell:

The Shining
The Ring (which we gave almost exactly the same number of points to, lol)
Blair Witch Project
Black Christmas

i stand by my choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeEV0shPbCI

hey since it is #21 on my list and no one else voted for it, i want to throw out a recommendation for "Dead End" with Ray Wise : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308152/

not splattery or gonzo for those of you that might think i am a crazy hostel loving monster

Pretty certain I was the one Virgin Spring voter, so that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz07zvBpHMM

Kael was really big on Laura Mars. I gave it a try but just didn't like it.

djp did you not vote for alien? i thought that might be another xover vote.

my vote here is split between visitor q, calvaire and marebito, but marebito is mind so i should prob vote for that huh

"This New York-set thriller operates on mood and atmosphere and moves so fast, with such delicate changes of rhythm, that its excitement has a subterranean sexiness...a few shocking fast cuts, but it also has scabrous elegance and a surprising amount of humor." (xpost)

Horror of Dracula is the 1st Hammer Dracula right? If so, that. In fact I would have thrown it at least 15 points in the poll but couldn't remember the US Title and was in great haste.

I do like the NYC vibe of Laura Mars, but I love seeing '70s NYC in pretty much any movie. It's not a great film or anything (wasn't on my ballot), but it's fun and even though you know early on exactly how it's going to eventually use its main gimmick, it's still effective when it happens.

I cannot -- cannot -- be the only one here to love At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul. There is nothing else like it!

― The Thnig, Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:31 AM (1 hour ago)

I went with the coffin joe reboot, embodiment of evil

It's probably good that I don't have an office because if I did, I would shut the door and watch Anguish instead of working.

Two of my picks on here (The Finishing Line and Quatermass & The Pit), I'll go for Fearless Vampire Killers though. Surprised more people don't rate it, there's a strange eerie feel to it although some of that could just be the foreknowledge of what happened to Sharon Tate irl.

I like Fearless Vampire Killers, but I don't love it. And it's one of those comedies that, while they use horror tropes, are very much still comedies to me, and I wouldn't count them in the horror pantheon (maybe horror-comedies rather than comedy-horrors?). Obviously the distinction is personal, but I just couldn't see myself voting for it in a horror poll.

She's 39, she hates her life, why not become a witch
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http://deathensemble.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Empowerment-through-high-hair-and-witchcraft.jpg

djp did you not vote for alien? i thought that might be another xover vote.

I still have not seen the entirety of any of the Alien movies EXCEPT for Alien: Resurrection, which I freely admit I only saw because of Winona Ryder with a pixie cut

john carpenter wrote laura mars, folks! c'mon!

you can smell him?

w/out checking, I think Charisma is mine, as in life.

Wait Until Dark | POINTS: 38

Mildly surprised that this one only managed one vote tbh.

aw djp you should totally watch alien, i think you would dig it actually. aliens as well, but thats for when you feel more action frenzy than horror bound

I was totally in the mood for Alien the night I tried to watch it, but I started it at 3 AM and kind of passed out about 15 minutes in (ah, college)

Since then, I've heard/read so much about the plot and seen so many scenes that I sort of feel like I've already seen it (even though I haven't).

i just watched alien with my horror disliking wife, and beforehand i did the dutiful hey you dont need to watch this if its going to freak you out and she responded with duh i dont live on a spaceship why would it freak me out, which was a fair point i think.

xpost see alien is def one where the summaries arent going to measure up to seeing it, the look of the movie is so incredible that even a dude like me who has seen it a billion times and knows every twist and the timing of everything still finds it totally riveting.

haha <3 yr wife

sadly this skill does not transfer over to "hey im not traveling in europe" or "hey i am not in the middle of the woods all alone"

well considering that there's at least a chance you guys could go travel in Europe and yr folks live in the middle of the woods and you guys like to vacation in rural areas, those fears are much more understandable

sadly this skill does not transfer over to "hey im not traveling in europe" or "hey i am not in the middle of the woods all alone"

It does for me, tho.

i like a ton of these, but calvaire, quartermass and the pit, horror of dracula, lifeforce, marebito, the howling, the trial and visitor q are all excellent. a few i excluded due to non-horror-ness, others i cut thoughtlessly or with regret. picking visitor q just for the sick lols. "this isn't a miracle of nature, it's shit!"

that said, there are a bunch here that i feel sheepish abt never having seen, especially all the colours of the dark, five dolls for an august moon, season of the witch, the shout and virgin spring

apparently a horror board now

I swear, one of these days I'm gonna start posting in the ILB threads about how boring and awful and overly-discussed baseball is. Juuuuuust wait.

I'm sure it could be worse, ie a Bad Comedy board

Mod req to start I Love Horror

I'm sure it could be worse, ie a Bad Comedy board

I'm not sure if that would fly, Morbs, if only because I don't know how many people besides yourself would participate in discussions of pre-1980 "comedy".

horror polls spilling out and infecting rest of board, and also apparently reality as well

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/30/luka-rocco-magnotta-video_n_1557573.html
http://www.northjersey.com/news/Hackensack_man_stabs_self_throws_intenstines_at_police.html
http://www.redding.com/news/2012/may/31/even-police-shocked-gore-miami-face-chewing-attack/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7787039/Cage-fighter-ripped-out-heart-of-training-partner.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/japanese-chef-serves-own-genitals-for-dinner

http://s3.amazonaws.com/files.posterous.com/haggis/ndaoyEjsrABejFhdwEkIzrDCACBEkouernsqeygCFpBdltEouCoEcDypfgoC/media_http8mediatumbl_rvAJm.jpg.scaled500.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJFZAE65UYRT34AOQ&Expires=1338494022&Signature=JhRh6YcKqGh1t7fhajtyN4bmHlM%3D

that Telegraph story... WHAT THE FUCK

Am I really the only one to vote for The Howling?

xp - yeah, that's the latest one. just this week we've had face eating, intestine throwing, and now live organ donation. plus a murder spree in seattle.

Plus the mom who ate her newborn's brain.

plus the what

Oh wait, that happened two years ago. Nevermind.

don't forget David Plouffe sitting in on Obama's Tuesday drone-murder meetings

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9F8vsO0MZvg/TAZnq5nTxUI/AAAAAAAAArg/0j3Sku7yZfs/s1600/scream_of_fear_strasberg_scream1243474176.jpg

xp - yeah, that's the latest one. just this week we've had face eating, intestine throwing, and now live organ donation. plus a murder spree in seattle.

aaaand one more cannibal attack:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/bs-md-ha-dismemberment-follow-20120531,0,4066697.story

Yeah, I don't know if it's just me getting old or what, but this string of stories is inceasingly freaking and bumming me out, in roughly equal measure.

it really says a lot that the story about the dude butchering his roommate and eating his brains is the least bizarre murder story of the week

Yeah, I don't know if it's just me getting old or what, but this string of stories is inceasingly freaking and bumming me out, in roughly equal measure.

me too, but i imagine i'd have been just as freaked and bummed when i was 20 (maybe more the former and less the latter, i dunno)

This shit happens and has happened all the time; the only difference is whether or not we're paying attention. The person behind you in line at Target could be a total psychopath, you just never know!

sure, bad things happpen, it's a mean old world, but this has nonetheless been a remarkable week for psycho batshit happenings in the US.

end times, obv

this has nonetheless been a remarkable week for psycho batshit happenings in the US.

This (emphasis mine). To the extent that I've started legitimately wondering if there isn't some bad batch of drugs going around this week or something.

bath salts iirc

Of this batch, "The Howling" for sure. What a smart movie, with pioneering Bottin effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKGj-jWJNNY&feature=player_embedded

Scary, funny.

yeah, transformation scene in the howling is great. this image in particular really freaked me out as a kid:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/howlingwerewolf.png

just found a higher quality youtube, but ah well, what's done is done

Demons or Creepshow 2, which would essentially be a vote for The Hitchhiker - easily my fave Creepshow short, tho the other two in C2 are not really up to par (I'll give The Raft a pass b/c it is good fun, but it is also pretty half-assed imo).

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Voted for the Fearless Vampire Killers cause after all, I'm the one responsible for its inclusion.

Would definitely not get into a heated argument if it fits accordingly everyone's conventional borders for a proper horror film but I have fond childhood memories of scaring me real good back then in some scenes, and I love it still.
Beautiful scenery, flawless atmosphere and awesome soundtrack from Kristofer Komeda.

And I really, really need to see Calvaire, Marebito and The Shout finally.

this poll should've had the corollary that you can't vote for a movie if it was on your ballot

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fuck, i'm sure i voted for visitor q :(

Voted for Hammer's Drac, and it's not showing. Hmmm.

Again, more grist for my theory that early votes in ILX polls get wiped out somehow.

I voted for Wolf Man, The.

VINDICATION. Testament at number one! Even if it is a tie, I'll take it.

Yeah, tied with Blade. Congrats.

That does take a bit of the shine off the trophy.

NO IT DOESN'T

really sad that the tyranny of ilx polls took away the rights of all the other people that voted for Marebito, right? Right?