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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 1:14:32 GMT
8. "It's Halloween; everyone's entitled to one good scare."Halloween (1978) Directed by: John Carpenter Points: 194 Number of Ballots: 14 Highest Ranking: #1 on 1 ballot
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Post by Viced on Mar 19, 2019 1:15:12 GMT
Awwww... was hoping Carrie would be top 5. There's still time for Sisters to make it though!!  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 19, 2019 1:16:05 GMT
the actual scares have been blunted though - I just don't see it as horror now. hot take here, I find the possession bits to be more funny than anything else. Exorcist III had some unintentionally funny parts too but it also delivered those classy operatic scares on a serious level. Really underrated film in my opinion. Exorcist I isn't scary to me at all. Not anymore. Not after it's been memed to shit. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 1:16:22 GMT
7. "I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it."The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Directed by: Tobe Hooper Points: 197 Number of Ballots: 14 Highest Ranking: #2 on 1 ballot
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 19, 2019 1:16:24 GMT
Carrie is my number 2 - it just finds terror in the common place, school, your body changing, romantic feelings, casual cruelty, it's so brilliant..........and the blood, first comes the blood and then come the boys.  |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 19, 2019 1:17:17 GMT
Hooper > Carpenter MAR has spoken!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 1:18:40 GMT
6. "Susie, do you know anything about... witches?"Suspiria (1977) Directed by: Dario Argento Points: 208 Number of Ballots: 16 Highest Ranking: #2 on 1 ballot
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 19, 2019 1:18:49 GMT
now how high can we make The Shining? Top 2 would be nice, #1 would be even better
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 19, 2019 1:19:16 GMT
also, goddamn i need to watch Suspiria
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 1:20:00 GMT
5. "REDRUM!"The Shining (1980) Directed by: Stanley Kubrick Points: 273 Number of Ballots: 15 Highest Ranking: #1 on 3 ballots
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Post by Viced on Mar 19, 2019 1:20:21 GMT
1. The Thing
2. Psycho
3. The Shining
4. Rosemary's Baby
5. Alien
eta: aaaaaaaand my prediction is already wrong
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 19, 2019 1:21:33 GMT
awww only #5
I'll take what I can get, but this is my favorite horror film of all time. I don't find it that scary but it's so precisely-constructed and it cuts like a knife. And Duvall and Nicholson really go off the rails, and in exactly the right ways. Really terrific cinema. The kind of atmospheric horror that I love.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 1:21:58 GMT
4. "He has his father's eyes."Rosemary's Baby (1968) Directed by: Roman Polanski Points: 279 Number of Ballots: 15 Highest Ranking: #1 on 2 ballots
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Mar 19, 2019 1:22:05 GMT
The Shining's such a brilliant example of building atmosphere to a tension billed climax. One of Jack's best performances too. I'm disappointed it isn't at least #2.
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Post by stephen on Mar 19, 2019 1:22:22 GMT
now how high can we make The Shining? Top 2 would be nice, #1 would be even better Sometimes I wonder about you, kid. Sometimes . . . I . . . wonder. |
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Post by DeepArcher on Mar 19, 2019 1:22:46 GMT
Had The Shining as my own number one but I'm fine with that placement, especially if it means we'll have something more inspired at our top spot.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 19, 2019 1:23:27 GMT
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM, YOU MANIACS !!!  this movie is something else. Love it to hell |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 1:24:00 GMT
3. "Micro changes in air density, my ass."Alien (1979) Directed by: Ridley Scott Points: 310 Number of Ballots: 19 Highest Ranking: #1 on 3 ballots
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Post by cheesecake on Mar 19, 2019 1:24:47 GMT
Loved how well The Innocents placed.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 19, 2019 1:24:58 GMT
Suspiria (my #4) and The Shining (#3) work in a lot of the same ways - both are ravishingly beautiful horrors - there's something to that that you see something beautiful and you're touched by its beauty but it scares you at the same time and they are both auteur movies in how they are framed and composed. I mean Suspiria I can just talk about the the look, sound, music and scene composition - stuff you don't normally ascribe to the genre.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 1:25:31 GMT
2. "A boy's best friend is his mother."Psycho (1960) Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock Points: 314 Number of Ballots: 17 Highest Ranking: #1 on 4 ballots
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 19, 2019 1:26:51 GMT
wait wait wait...The Thing is #1 then? Interesting.
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Post by stephen on Mar 19, 2019 1:26:52 GMT
Alien was robbed of the top spot, but The Thing is a worthy alternative.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2019 1:27:27 GMT
... and #1. "You gotta be fuckin' kidding."The Thing (1982) Directed by: John Carpenter Points: 331 Number of Ballots: 22 Highest Ranking: #2 on 1 ballot
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Post by Viced on Mar 19, 2019 1:27:44 GMT
Wait a second... I thought Tobe Hooper was better than John Carpenter? |
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