Hey it's halloween, everybody should shit their pants - ilx horror crew top tens.

Never seen Black Christmas either and always thought "the call is coming from inside the house" came from When a Stranger Calls.

When A Stranger Calls was 1979; Black Christmas was 1974

I knew one came before the other, but not having seen Black Xmas, I always just assumed the line came from Stranger, which I vaguely remember seeing.

Of note to Black Christmas fans: http://www.fright-rags.com/teaser/black-christmas-teaser.html

whoa that's cool

xxp: Well they did both use the line, and I think it's more common to see the invocation from When A Stranger Calls when it's brought up; just pointing out that BC got there 5 years earlier.

Just watched Amer, I really loved it, but um...

The adolescent scenes was pure brilliance, untouchable, I'm still digesting the other parts.

I've already started in earnest but I'm preparing for an utter deluge this year. Beyond just rewatching old faves, I've bought a bunch of stuff to fill some of my horror canon holes. Just watched Rosemary's Baby for the first time the other night (good value but still doesn't supplant the other two Apartment Trilogy installments in my esteem), and I have The Innocents, The Haunting, Black Christmas, and a Universal 4-pack (Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride, and Creature From The Black Lagoon) lined up. And the director's cut of Little Shop of Horrors. My GF's onboard with binging and there's a bunch of classic stuff that she hasn't seen that I'm looking forward to watching with her. Still trying to sell her on Possession while questioning the wisdom of trying to sell her on Possession.

Oh, in the spirit of the thread title, the top ten I'm looking forward to watching this year that weren't in last year's list:

Phantasm
The Stepfather
Jacob's Ladder
In The Mouth of Madness
The Birds
American Werewolf in London
the first four Romero Dead films (haven't rewatched in years...or in the case of Land, since I saw it in the theater)

Brain Damage
The Blob (1988)
The Tingler
Pieces
Cathy's Curse
God Told Me To
The Tenant
Return Of The Living Dead
Christine
Nightmare On Elm St. 4: The Dream Master

Whoops. Oh, well, I'll rewatch all that stuff, too.

Oh man, I should review this years watch list and throw one of these together

and my list for this year - again, not all new releases, but new to me, mostly streaming on netflix. no order.

Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil
Kill List
ABC's of Death
Lords of Salem
Sinister
Citadel
Evil Dead (remake obv)
V/H/S 2
Magic Magic
Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh

just missed the cut - House at the End of the Street, Mama, John Dies at the End, and kinda sorta Some Guy Who Kills People, which is not really even horror at all, but super appealing nonetheless

My horror top 10 x 10:

http://letterboxd.com/ephender/list/slant-magazines-100-greatest-horror-films-1/

great list

intrigued by decasia and leviathan, neither of which i know anything about

also a big fu to them for disallowing short films because outer space is so so worthy. next time tell them if they don't want to count it, they should just loop it ten times

if i'm gonna watch 1 netflix horror flick tnite, which one should i make it?

For some reason, the ed. there has this thing against counting short films in any of Slant's lists to the point that he doesn't even list Un Chien andalou among his favorites despite Bunuel being possibly his all-time favorite director. I find it infuriating, but have made my peace with it. Whatever gets one out of having to sift through which Chuck Jonze and Frank Tashlin Looney Tunes to count and which to exclude, I guess.

which ones from my 2 lists havent you seen mordy?

i've seen none of them!

Decasia is a really interesting choice, EH. I would never have thought of it fitting there, but I can totally see it.

oh, i've got a copy of john dies at the end just sitting on my computer - should i watch that?

its a total mess, but an endearing one. it would be about my last pick of what i listed

Thanks, emil.y. As I posted on Twitter earlier this week, I adore Horror Not Horror nearly as much as I do Disco Not Disco.

from my 2 lists, i would vouch most for absentia, the innkeepers, or last will and testament of rosalind leigh i think

i mean of the stuff that i know is streaming.

bit of crossover bc I watched a lot based on recommendations here, lots new to me

Cheap Thrills (only moderately horror-ish but...)
You're Next
Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Lords of Salem
Mama
Citadel
V/H/S 2
Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
The Innkeepers

decasia is aaaamazing but it's experimental, might as well suggest the act of seeing with one's own eyes

why is marienbad on the slant list

Because I adore Horror Not Horror, sez the list-creator.

oh wait, you did!

xp to self

might as well suggest the act of seeing with one's own eyes

This is def pretty horrifying.

re: John Dies at the End

it is def a mess, and I can't really remember exactly what happens in it but it gets points for throwing out a lot of ridiculous ideas a mile a minute.

might as well suggest the act of seeing with one's own eyes

http://www.film.com/movies/the-act-of-seeing-with-ones-own-eyes-is-the-scariest-movie-ever-made

(revises list of films he will never, ever watch)

hey eric have you gotten any blowback for including freddie got fingered in your list?

Nope. Just another lone voter on that one, obv.

Seriously, though, a revisit of that movie's highlights confirmed my belief that it was on some sort of Bunuel-on-bath-salts wavelength.

Yeah, pretty sure Ebert said roughly the same thing in his zero-star review.

Dead minds think alike.

Even if only for the sake of riling those who've argued that it decidedly is not a horror film, I wanna double down on the praise I gave Martha Marcy May Marlene in one of these horror threads. I rewatched it the other night and it holds up. It's like a horror film with the horror cored out. Beautiful and dreamlike but with lots of slowly mounting dread (and a slow reveal of that dread's source). And I only noticed this time around (trying not to spoil...) the possibly horrific implication of the line of dialogue regarding the specific type of children John Hawkes has.

films that are new to me from eric's list:

inside
in a glass cage
joshua
otto

horror not horror:
lots of bergman

So, I watched House With Laughing Windows last night. Really good, actually, though the bits I kind of want to talk about are spoilers. But good.

I'm really champing at the bit this year so I've already gotten started on the marathon. I still have a bunch of older stuff I never got around to watching and a whole slew of new stuff to boot. I've been whetting my appetite with episodes of Tales From The Darkside and Ray Bradbury Theater (both oozing the brand of creepy '80s low-res video cheese that I have a huge fondness for). Here's what I haven't seen but hope to get to in the next month and a half:

Night Of The Comet
Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders
Let's Scare Jessica To Death
Salem's Lot
The Omen
The Funhouse
Phantasm 2
The Innocents

I also ordered the Val Lewton box sight unseen and I'd like to get at least one of the Amicus anthology films (also sight unseen).

Good list, there are some on there that are super high on my to watch list as well (Valerie, innocents). I really should get the DVD part of Netflix added so I can see that kind of stuff.

yes you should
september is horror blackout and then october is ALL HORROR ALL THE TIME
i am excited about october

I want to watch horror with all you guys ;_;

Also: time to start reading Bradbury and Ligotti

Yeah, I wanna finally read From The Dust Returned! I also bought an Arthur Machen collection that I haven't gotten to yet.

I really want the new Constantine show to be good, as I've always thought a faithful Hellblazer adaptation would be my favorite horror film/TV series ever. I don't have high hopes.

Love horror movies - hate crappy haunted house jumpfests though. What are some good non-jumpy films in the style of the Wicker Man, the Others or what have you, that I might have missed?

The Tenant is one I can never recommend enough.