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

hmm don't know anything about May or Blood on Satan's Claw

xp

do tell

Not putting that business out on the street other than to say it's pretty f'n creepy.

Also, I appreciated Paranormal Activity more after I watched the sequels. My vote for it was honestly more a vote for the entire franchise.

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

― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 11:21 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

^ this, basically. I was quite entertained, but self-awareness played for farce in horror movies doesn't often age well.

oh ha see i was going to put something negative on here abt paranormal activity but then realized that i had liked the first one ok but that the second one had ruined the whole thing for me retrospectively xpost

I terrify easily, but I look forward to reading the wiki plot summary for most of these.

Ultimately, though, I think Paranormal Activity would work better as three short films that you watch in a row than three full-length features. There's a lot of filler in there. But I also think they have to be separate movies to work as well as they do. I told you I think about these movies a lot!

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

This X 1,000,000. I mean, it's not like you can even tell from this vantage point that the rest of the results are going to consist mostly of '90s Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequels and installments from the Scary Movie franchise.

and just fyi now that pontypool is sinking into the dregs of shameful memory, i really intend not to bag on anybodies personal voting choices here (reserving the right to go back on that if theres a Space Jam Soundtrack moment obv). I'm down w/anybody geeking out abt whatever horror!

I'm glad James Whale's entire oeuvre is finishing above these

I have seen the future of this poll and I tell you it is rife with Children of the Corn sequels.

"All SEVEN and we'll watch them fall ... down DEAD!"

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93. SE7EN
David Fincher, 1995
(189 points, 10 votes)

Se7en (1995) -- Is ther anybody who didn't get the gag in this about ten minutes in?
― ex-jeremy (x Jeremy), Friday, September 17, 2004 7:34 PM (7 years ago)

I mean Zodiac has a couple of flaws, but comparing it to a piece of hackwork garbage like Seven (fuck putting the 7 in the middle) does it a grave disservice.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:21 PM (3 years ago)

seven was gross and rainy, but okay for a laff. [fincher's] a moody motherfucker. probably fancies himself a bit of a tough guy and a rebel. i dunno if this means he has a small weewee or not. his blues are pretty blue alright. would like to see him work some red in. trent and him play d&d at sharon tate's house i think. which is cool. i can't remember which one is the troll.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, September 17, 2004 7:39 PM (7 years ago)

David Fincher -- c/d?

Circling back to May (only one of these so far that I voted for), I'd put Angela Bettis on that list of great horror performances.

Paranormal Activity had a couple of decent scares, but nothing in it would make me vote for it as one of the 100 GOAT, nor lead me to want to watch Paranormal Activity N.

I dont think Show Boat is going to make it morbs sorry

Love Se7en. Not horror.

would've voted for this if I considered it horror.

was gonna make that joke, thx jjj.

may kinda reminds me of secretary (both came out in 2002 incidentally). quirky damaged girl seeks love in the modern world, except secretary is a comedy which means it ends in a wedding (of sorts), and may is a tragedy which means, well, you know. la lechera otm about it being very late 90s/early 00s indie, there are some cheesy music video editing choices, but bettis' performance was on my alltime great list.

"All SEVEN and we'll watch them fall ... down DEAD!"

roflz

kinda resent this movie for foisting Kevin Spacey on us all

Even if I had liked Se7en enough to vote for it (I didn't), I wouldn't have voted because I wouldn't call it horror, either. However, scott seward's comment there is so great that I can't gin up any irritation at its appearance on these results.

really, we'd be fine if Kevin Spacey had been limited to this amount of screentime in everything.

thought cabin in the woods was pretty weak as satire and didn't work at all as horror. some fun, chaotic times in last act but give me something sincere over ironic meta lols.

this review (which I found via the ilx citw thread) really nails everything that's wrong with it imo:
http://outlawvern.com/2012/04/17/the-cabin-in-the-woods/

se7en dances on that crime procedural/thriller/serial killer line. it's so gothy and grand guignol I can see why ppl would consider it horror. its lack of a sense of humor is prolly its greatest crime.

ehh seven (not doing that 7 thing sorry) has definite elements of horror - gasping thought he was dead dude on the bed rivals the better moments of most horror films actually

Much like the comedy poll, movies wound up closer to the bottom of my ballot either because I favored them less or because I felt their status as 'horror' was a little more tenuous. Seven (yeah, fuck a number in the middle of the title, indeed) fell victim to the latter rationale, but I'm glad it made it. It is creepy as fuck, horror or no.

really, we'd be fine if Kevin Spacey had been limited to this amount of screentime was asked about masturbating in his own feces in everything.

and the uh lust gauntlet or w/e it was

xps

Seven is appropriately grim, but it didn't hold up to a second viewing for me.

One strike against it, it gave us Leland Orser as "Twitchy Dude" in like EVERY MOVIE for a couple of years. (cf. Alien: Resurrection)

we'd be fine if Kevin Spacey was asked about masturbating in his own feces in everything.

woulda perked up his Bobby Darin biopic

I find Se7en embarrassing for some reason, probably because it reeks of 1995 and also what Scott said.

I anticipate silence of the lambs placing fairly high here, and it'd be tough to pinpoint much differentiation between that and se7en tbh

Like this could be a still from ANY of his roles from 1995-2000.

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was pretty impressed by seven when I was 13. especially by the credits scrolling UP instead of down.

and by that I mean in formal mechanics, silence of the lambs >>> se7en obv

xps

The difference is Jodie Foster and that is a huge difference!

xxp Wait until your seven-year-old self sees Irreversible.

I put Se7en toward the back of my ballot b/c, even though it is mostly a police procedural in form, there is also plenty of awesome grotesquery in the unveiling of its many dark corners & the nasties who inhabit them .

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Bobby, when you're just sitting around, reading "Guns and Ammo", masturbating in your own feces, do you just stop and go, "Wow! It is amazing how fucking crazy I really am!"?

I have not seen irreversible but do the end credits scroll sideways? because that's just crazy! xxp

Don't most credits scroll up?

Good point about Silence of the Lambs. I don't think it's properly horror, either, but I placed it on my ballot in accordance with its place in my heart.

I also told myself I wasn't going to care about whether something was horror or not, so pretend I didn't post what I posted about Se7ven.

Ebert on Bettis in May:

Bettis makes May peculiar but fully human. There are scenes here of such close observation, of such control of body language, voice and behavior, evoking such ferocity and obsession, that we are reminded of Lady Macbeth. It is as hard to be excellent in a horror film as in Shakespeare. Harder, maybe, because the audience isn't expecting it.

probably because it reeks of 1995

Things that aren't new suck so much!

Seven is the dark fairytale of the '90s that has some actual menace. So much better than that squishy Welshman hissing about the lambs.

i like seven more than silence of the lambs

Sesevenen, call it by its name.

The difference is Jodie Foster and that is a huge difference!

Agree with that--I think she's so affecting in Silence. (Also much prefer Hopkins to Spacey.)

I'm beginning to think that I overestimated the awesomeness of the ilx horror fan contingent.

Don't make me go Morbs on you all.

the only really great performance in silence of the lambs is Ted Levine.