The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2126 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:21 pm

Feego wrote:
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Anyone else vote for Bambi their number one slot?
I actually did vote for one animated Disney feature, although it fits more conventionally into the genre than others. I'll reveal all after the final list is posted!
I hadn't tallied your list yet and had to scroll down to see WTF you could have voted for and had to admit your choice was a good one!

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2127 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:34 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:03 pm
I can tell you right now that some horror movie fan web community will find this list and make fun of us... there are significant under-representations of very popular horror movies, many of which fared better last time. But I must preemptively remind anyone from the XXXL Black T-shirt Brigade that we are taste-makers, darling
I'm worried that it might have been partially my decision to do my submission of fifty titles this time as a 'sequel' to the 2012 round of voting, discounting every film I voted for the last time around, secure in the feeling that everyone else would be voting for Alien, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, etc to balance it out a little. If you want I can substitute things back for my previous list instead!

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2128 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:35 pm

One of the three films you mentioned garnered all of two votes, to give you some clue as to what is coming

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#2129 Post by terabin » Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:41 pm

I'm actually super excited about an idiosyncratic list, particularly if it includes a bunch of unique films I haven't seen yet.

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2130 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Tue Apr 21, 2020 3:05 pm

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I assume I can vote for Richard Ayoade's Garth Marenghi's Darkplace? I wish I'd realized this earlier to properly recommend it to everyone. It's basically a much more farcical take on the premise of Riget, which rather fittingly came out the same year as Stephen King's remake
It can be very hit and miss, but the funny bits are extremely good.

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2131 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:30 pm

domino harvey wrote:
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I'm knee-deep in tallying and can confirm that this list is shaping up to be, uh, idiosyncratic
If no else votes for Jaws and The Exorcist (which didn't seem to be too popular in the comments here), I'll be upset. But then it won't be the first time!

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#2132 Post by swo17 » Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:33 pm

And here I am worried about the big horror titles from the '20s and '30s

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2133 Post by DarkImbecile » Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:34 pm

Rayon Vert wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:30 pm
If no else votes for Jaws and The Exorcist (which didn't seem to be too popular in the comments here), I'll be upset. But then it won't be the first time!
Don't worry, I at least kept those two from being orphaned... they're actually back-to-back on my list!

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2134 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:38 pm

I didn’t even consider Jaws once under horror over the last six months, which means I must have looked right past my copy the several times I pulled movies out to view 8-[

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2135 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:45 pm

swo17 wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:33 pm
And here I am worried about the big horror titles from the '20s and '30s
If I’d been making this list a year or two ago there would have been many more in these decades, but unfortunately I cut most of these... my ‘oldest’ film is from 1930 and it’s animated.

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2136 Post by sinemadelisikiz » Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:46 pm

First iteration of the project I looked at Alien as sci-fi so I didn't even consider it, which makes no sense to me now.

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2137 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:58 pm

List should be coming within the hour. These 100 movie lists are killers, I forgot how long they take to compile and organize (I think it took me a couple days last time due to all the ballots). In the meantime, a moment of silence for the two members who had their number one pick orphaned...

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2138 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:05 pm

Oof, that's rough. Assuming zedz submitted a list, I think I'm in the clear.

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#2139 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:54 pm

When I was writing my list, I realized how many titles could lead to mistakes in tabulation if the year or director isn't mentioned, because there have so many remakes in this genre, often with the exact same title: Cat People, Carrie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dawn of the Dead, etc. etc. etc.

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2140 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:00 pm

I hope you at least marked which Macbeth!

I just put the year next to mine, for while I don’t think anyone is going to vote for the ‘98 Psycho over the Hitch, there have got to be a lot of outlier opinions on the rest. I would vote for the Dawn of the Dead remake 50 films before the original (though neither made my list)

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#2141 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:07 pm

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2142 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:09 pm

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THE HORROR LIST REDUX

01 Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock 1960) 10 (1)
02 Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg 1973) 10
03 Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski 1968) 8 (1)
04 the Shining (Stanley Kubrick 1980) 9
05 the Innocents (Jack Clayton 1961) 8
06 the Thing (John Carpenter 1982) 9
07 the Blackcoat’s Daughter (Oz Perkins 2015) 8
08 Alien (Ridley Scott 1979) 9
09 the Fly (David Cronenberg 1986) 6 (1)
10 Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 1997) 5 (2)

11 Carrie (Brian De Palma 1976) 6
11 Triangle (Christopher Smith 2009) 6
13 La Ville des pirates (Raúl Ruiz 1983) 5 (1)
14 Night of the Living Dead (George A Romero 1968) 5 (1)
15 Repulsion (Roman Polanksi 1965) 6
16 mother! (Darren Aronofsky 2017) 6
17 Vampyr (Carl Th. Dreyer, 1932) 5
18 the Birds (Alfred Hitchcock 1963) 6
19 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (Don Siegel 1956) 6
20 the Haunting (Robert Wise 1963) 5

21 the Wicker Man (Robin Hardy 1973) 5
22 Videodrome (David Cronenberg 1982) 5
23 Hereditary (Ari Aster 2018) 4
24 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires 1970) 4 (1)
25 Lisa and the Devil (Mario Bava 1974) 5
26 Bride of Frankenstein (James Whale 1935) 3 (1)
26 Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Werner Herzog 1979) 4
26 Suspiria (Dario Argento 1977) 4
29 Jaws (Steven Spielberg 1975) 3 (1)
30 Cat People (Jacques Tourneur 1942) 5
30 Antichrist (Lars von Trier 2009) 4

32 Frankenstein (James Whale 1931) 4
32 La Chute de la maison Usher (Jean Epstein 1928) 4
34 Dead Alive AKA Braindead (Peter Jackson 1992) 6
34 Dracula AKA the Horror of Dracula (Terence Fisher 1958) 5
34 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman 1978) 4
37 Halloween (John Carpenter 1978) 6
38 Pontypool (Bruce McDonald 2008) 3
38 the Vanishing (George Sluizer 1988) 4
40 It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) 6

41 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian 1931) 4
42 I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur 1943) 3
42 L’annulaire (Diane Bertrand 2005) 4
44 Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene 1920) 3
45 the Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer 1934) 6
46 Let The Right One In (Tomas Alfredson 2008) 4
47 Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton 1955) 5
48 the Exorcist (William Friedkin 1973) 4
49 the Babadook (Jennifer Kent 2014) 3
50 Frankenstein Created Woman (Terence Fisher 1967) 4
50 the Seventh Victim (Mark Robson 1943) 3

52 Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2001) 3
53 Lost Highway (David Lynch 1997) 3
53 Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman 1964) 2
54 Kill, Baby… Kill (Mario Bava 1966) 4
55 the House of the Devil (Ti West 2009) 3
55 Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves 1968) 2
57 the Lighthouse (Robert Eggers 2019) 2
58 An American Werewolf In London (John Landis 1981) 3
59 Opera (Dario Argento 1987) 3
59 the Witch (Robert Eggers 2015) 3

61 Eraserhead (David Lynch 1977) 3
62 Midsommar (Ari Aster 2019) 3
62 Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma 1974) 2
64 Mulholland Drive (David Lynch 2001) 3
65 Peeping Tom (Michael Powell 1960) 4
66 Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky 2010) 3
66 Get Out (Jordan Peele 2017) 2
68 demonlover (Olivier Assayas 2002) 2
68 I Am a Ghost (HP Mendoza 2012) 2
70 L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo (Dario Argento 1970) 2
70 the Curse of the Cat People (‎Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise 1944) 2
70 Martin (George A Romero 1978)

73 the Blair Witch Project (Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick 1999) 2
74 Tutti i colori del buio (Sergio Martino 1972) 2
75 Evil Dead 2 (Sam Raimi 1987) 2
75 the Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper 1974) 2 (1)
77 Day of the Dead (George A Romero 1985) 2
78 Dawn of the Dead (George A Romero 1978) 2
79 War of the Worlds (Steven Spielberg 2005) 2
80 La cabina (Antonio Mercero 1972) 2

81 Carnival Of Souls (Herk Harvey 1962) 4
82 the Cremator (Juraj Herz 1969) 2
82 Surviving Edged Weapons (Dennis Anderson 1988) 2
84 Dead of Night (var. 1945) 3
84 Grave (Julia Ducournau 2017) 2
86 Anguish (Bigas Luna 1987) 2
87 Hangover Square (John Brahm 1945) 2
87 the Omen (Richard Donner 1976) 4
88 Häxan (Benjamin Christensen 1922) 2
88 House of Usher (Roger Corman 1960) 2
88 I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House (Oz Perkins 2016) 2
88 Isabel (Paul Almond 1968) 2
88 La piel que habito (Pedro Almodovar 2011) 2
88 Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver (José Mojica Marins 1967) 2

94 Profondo rosso (Dario Argento 1975) 3
95 Kwaidan (Masaki Kobayashi 1964) 3
96 Silence Of The Lambs (Jonathan Demme 1991) 3
97 Dellamore Dellamorte (Michele Soavi 1994) 2
97 Final Destination 3 (James Wong 2006) 2
97 the Howling (Joe Dante 1981) 3
97 the Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak 1946) 3

# of lists voting for film [out of 14] (# of lists with film ranked first)

ALSO RANS

Les Yeux sans visage (Georges Franju 1960) = the Mummy (1958) = Paperhouse = Sredni Vashtar by Saki = Upstream Color / the Old Dark House (1932) = Viy / Dracula (1931) / Amer = Black Sabbath = La vie lointaine / Kuroneko = the Unknown (1927) / Audition = Tenebre / In the Mouth of Madness = Poltergeist (1982) = Scream of Fear AKA Taste of Fear / Night of the Demon (1957) / Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed / Happy Death Day / the Body Snatcher (1945) = the Flypaper (Tales of the Unexpected episode) = Inferno (1980) / Night of the Eagle AKA Burn Witch, Burn = Scream 2 / Onibaba = the Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll / Candyman (1992) / Mad Love (1935) / Halloween III: Season of the Witch / Don't Go to Sleep (1982) / Island of Lost Souls / Blind Beast = the Fog / the Devil Rides Out = the Ring (2002) / Twixt

ORPHANS

A Bucket of Blood, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, À l'intérieur, A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Warning to the Curious, the Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Aftermath (1998), Alien: Covenant, Aliens, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, And Soon The Darkness (1970), Angel Heart, Antiviral

Bad Dreams, Beetlejuice, Benilde or the Virgin Mother, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Black Sunday (1960), the Blob (1958), the Blob (1988), Blood and Black Lace, Blue Velvet, Body Snatchers (1993), the Brotherhood of Satan, Bug, Burnt Offerings

Cannibal Holocaust, Captain Clegg, Cargo 200, Cat’s Eye, Christine, City of the Dead (1960), Color Me Blood Red, Coma, the Conjuring 2, the Crazies (2010), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Creepy, Cronos, the Curse of the Werewolf

Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, Dead Ringers, the Dead Zone (1983), Der Fan, Der Golem (1920), Der Student von Prag, Detention, Devil Doll (1964), Dolores Claiborne, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Dutchman, the Dying Swan

El espinazo del diablo, Empire of Passion, the Eternal, the Evil Dead, the Evil Within, the Exorcist II : Heretic, the Exorcist III

the Face at the Window, the Faculty, Falling Pink, Fear in the Night (1972), Fiend Without a Face, the Finishing Line, Fish & Cat, the Flesh and the Fiends, the Flesh-Eaters, 1408, Freaked, Freeway, Friday the 13th Part IV: the Final Chapter, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, From Beyond the Grave, Fun, Funny Games (1997)

Ganja and Hess, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, the Gate, Ghost Ship, Ghosts of Mars, the Girl in a Swing, Giulietta degli spiriti, Gremlins 2: the New Batch

Hannibal, Hard Candy, Hausu, He Who Gets Slapped, Hellraiser, Hollow Man, Honeymoon Killers,
Hour of the Wolf, House of Frankenstein, the House on Haunted Hill (1999), the House That Jack Built, Howling VI: the Freaks, the Hunger

In Fabric, Inland Empire, Innocent Blood, Invasion of the Bee Girls, the Invisible Man (1933), the Invitation

Katalin Varga, the Killing of a Sacred Deer, King Kong (1933)

La Donna del lago, La rose de fer, Lake Placid, Le Daim, Le testament du docteur Cordelier, the Legend of Hell House, the Leopard Man, Les diaboliques (1955), Lifeforce, Little Otik, Long Weekend, Lord of Illusions, Lost Hearts

Macbeth (2010), Mandy, Maniac (1934), Martyrs, Matinee, May, Morgiana, the Moth Diaries, the Mummy (1932), Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

Nadja (1994), Near Dark, Next of Kin, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, 1922, the Ninth Gate, Nosferatu (1922), Number 13, Nurse Diary: Beast Afternoon

O convento, Ode to Nothing, Oh, I Can't Stop!, One Missed Call (2003), Only Lovers Left Alive, the Ossuary, the Others (2001), Outer Space (2000), the Owl Service

Paranoiac, Paranormal Activity, the Penalty, Personal Shopper, the Phantom of the Opera (1925), the Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Pitch Black, Planet Terror, Possession (1981), Premonitions Following an Evil Deed, Prince of Darkness, Psycho II

the Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass 2

Rabid, Race With the Devil, Raising Cain, Ravenous, Ready or Not, Resolution (2012), Return of the Living Dead, Riget (1), Ringu 2 (1), Ringu Zero: Bāsudei

Salem’s Lot, Santa Sangre, Saw VI, Scanners (1981), Seance (2000), Session 9, Se7en, Shanks, Sheena Is a Parasite, Shivers, the Shout, the Signalman, Sleepy Hollow, the Slumber Party Massacre, Society, the Sorcerers, Sous le soleil de Satan, the Stalls of Barchester, Strip Nude For Your Killer, Swing You Sinners!

Targets, Taste the Blood of Dracula, the Tenant, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the Next Generation, Theatre of Blood, Throne of Blood, the Tingler, the Tomb of Ligeia, the Tragedy of Macbeth (1971), the Trial, Train to Busan, Tremors, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Twin Peaks: the Return

Ugetsu, Under the Skin, Une nuit sur le mont chauve, Unsane, Us

the Village, Village of the Damned, the Virgin and the Beast

Werewolf of London, When a Stranger Calls Back, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, the White Reindeer, the Witch in the Window

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2143 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:11 pm

Fun fact while we all gape in amazement at Blackcoat's Daughter being that high: about one or two points separated spots 4-7, so really you might as well look at those as practical ties!

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#2144 Post by knives » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:15 pm

Thanks Dom
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I hope you at least marked which Macbeth!

I just put the year next to mine, for while I don’t think anyone is going to vote for the ‘98 Psycho over the Hitch, there have got to be a lot of outlier opinions on the rest. I would vote for the Dawn of the Dead remake 50 films before the original (though neither made my list)
8-[

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#2145 Post by DarkImbecile » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:20 pm

Thanks, domino! Love that mother! made it into the top 20 and Hereditary into the top 25

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#2146 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:29 pm

Thanks very much once again domino, hopefully not for the last time!

Great list, nice mix of the more conventional and the... less. Most of my Hammers got... hammered (and I didn't vote for Fisher's Dracula!) - not surprised since they were mostly in my bottom half.

With all the rave comments, I was expecting Rosemary's Baby to top the list, but it got near.

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#2147 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:31 pm

One more fun fact: Twixt qualified with the bare minimum possible, finishing at number fifty on two ballots (one of them mine-- my prediction of this becoming a cult classic never came to pass.... but there's still time to recognize the error of your ways, everyone)

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#2148 Post by Ferocious Detritus » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:31 pm

therewillbeblus wrote:
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And in that moment he will giggle to himself and say: “Intentionally, ultimate, Hell.”
Are you suggesting I'm "high"? You're the "dude" who can't even bother to insert a paragraph break more than every 3500 words in your multiple reviews on this site. Lay off the pipe, "Bro"

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#2149 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:36 pm

I'm surprised I'm the only one who voted for The Portrait of Dorian Gray given the nice reception it got in the 40s list.

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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2150 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:38 pm

A possible mistake, domino: Scream of Fear and Taste of Fear, orphans, if both 1961, are the same film.

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