The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

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

#2151 Post by DarkImbecile » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:42 pm

My top 10:
1. Rosemary’s Baby
2. The Shining
3. The Thing (1982)
4. Hereditary
5. The Fly (1986)
6. Eraserhead
7. Psycho
8. The Lighthouse - Many thanks to whoever else listed this to get it in at #57!
9. Repulsion
10. Don’t Look Now

Also Rans:
37. Night of the Demon - Just a baffling result given the enthusiasm for Indicator's amazing release a couple of years ago...

Orphans:
23. King Kong - How dare you people
24. Se7en - Probably my most twbb-like borderline horror pick, so I'm not surprised.
40. Prince of Darkness -
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Me trying to pull this one into the tier of respected Carpenter films.
47. The Brotherhood of Satan - Et tu, domino?
48. Tremors - How dare you people (this was a sentimental pick because I loved it as a kid, and it's now my daughter's favorite monster movie)
49. 1922 - Wouldn't be surprised if literally no one else submitting watched this
50. Cronos - A last second panic addition upon being told I had accidentally double-listed Eraserhead twice; I felt a bit of guilt over having extremely little representation for vampirism, but I now realize I should have gone with In Fabric, which I inexplicably blanked.

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

#2152 Post by knives » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:43 pm

Rayon Vert wrote:
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.
It was between that and Twixt for mundane number 50.

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

#2153 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:44 pm

Ferocious Detritus wrote:
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therewillbeblus wrote:
Mon Apr 20, 2020 9:34 pm
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"
Hope that was worth it! See ya

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

#2154 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:45 pm

knives wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:43 pm
Rayon Vert wrote:
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.
It was between that and Twixt for mundane number 50.
Thanks knives for restoring my faith in humanity

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

#2155 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:48 pm

Rayon Vert wrote:
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.
Thanks, this has now been added to the also rans

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

#2156 Post by knives » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:49 pm

Even despite the autocorrect mistake. Not bad. To cut my last twenty or so I basically just went what is the most representative films here. Otherwise I may have put on Unsane.

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

#2157 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:49 pm

My top 10:

1. Jaws
2. The Exorcist
3. The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
4. The Thing (1982)
5. Alien
6. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (the '78 is at no 14)
7. Psycho
8. Don’t Look Now
9. Rosemary’s Baby
10. An American Werewolf in London

@DI: I also voted for Night of the Demon, apparently not high enough.

I'm guessing I share Spielberg's War of the Worlds with domino.

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

#2158 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:50 pm

Thanks domino! Really appreciate the hard work.

The list doesn't look that strange barring a few glaring omissions, but it's amazing how even with 14 it'll gravitate towards a pretty normal top ten at least.

I assume Unsane was an orphan? That's the only film on my list I don't see anywhere (And I'm guessing mfunk didn't submit a list since that and May were orphan'd)

Apologies to whoever voted for Riget... I was set to place it high but bumped it after a rewatch didn't emphasize the horror as much as the office politics in the second part. I also knocked off O convento, Black Sunday, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: the Next Generation towards the end, on top of a good chunk of those also-rans.

Had somebody mentioned Personal Shopper and Killing of a Sacred Deer in the thread I surely would have voted for both, but didn't think of either off hand. Also, a potentially proactive apology to whoever voted for Fish & Cat since I have that all queued up to watch tomorrow, and have been sitting on it for months not aware it was a horror.

Glad that I Am A Ghost made the list in a decent spot based on high placement from (I assume) knives and me.

Thanks again, domino

Edit: Hey, that's like seven whole paragraph breaks!

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

#2159 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:52 pm

Rayon Vert wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:49 pm

I'm guessing I share Spielberg's War of the Worlds with domino.
Of course it's me! And sorry DarkImbecile, Brotherhood of Satan still rules / hail the dark lord, &c, I just had to make some judicious cuts. I also didn't even vote for the film that topped my list last time, as in the interim I have decided Single White Female is not what I'd call a horror film anymore. Still a perfect example of the kind of thriller it is, but that's not quite the same thing

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

#2160 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:54 pm

I think I will see a lot of these titles again when we do Sci-Fi later this year-- a lot of overlap between the two

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#2161 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:55 pm

Nice things were said here also about Browning's Dracula (1931). I voted for it and I gather likely only one other person did.

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#2162 Post by Mr Sausage » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:00 pm

Rayon Vert wrote:Nice things were said here also about Browning's Dracula (1931). I voted for it and I gather likely only one other person did.
That’d be me.

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#2163 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:01 pm

therewillbeblus wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:50 pm
Edit: Hey, that's like seven whole paragraph breaks!
Reading this thread's page again, now I get the joke.

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

#2164 Post by domino harvey » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:02 pm

What I want to know is where the hell was my the Village crew leaving me holding the bag like that? We already face an uphill battle, we need all the support we can get

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

#2165 Post by knives » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:04 pm

I didn't think of that one otherwise it might have had a fighting chance.

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

#2166 Post by DarkImbecile » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:05 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:54 pm
I think I will see a lot of these titles again when we do Sci-Fi later this year-- a lot of overlap between the two
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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2167 Post by Mr Sausage » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:08 pm

I’m really happy to see Hereditary, Midsommar, It Follows, The Witch and The Babadook on the list. The modern horror film at its very best.

But I forgot to vote for all of them. I threw my list together last night in a couple minutes. I voted for films I like waaaaay less.

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

#2168 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:17 pm

knives wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:49 pm
To cut my last twenty or so I basically just went what is the most representative films here. Otherwise I may have put on Unsane.
I wish you had, it was such a crazy pick it didn't even make the orphan list, or maybe I'm just unsane

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

#2169 Post by swo17 » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:28 pm

Thanks domino! Here's my full list up until my first orphan:
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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2171 Post by knives » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:39 pm

Top ten plus orphans and also rans. Who am I, Dom, with all those orphans? Though I suppose I should be glad that all but the obvious one of my top ten made the list.
1. The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)
2. Witchfinder General (Reeves)
3. The Wicker Man (Hardy)
4. The Masque of the Red Death (Corman)
5. This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (Marins)
6. Frankenstein Created Woman (Fisher)
7. Martin (Romero)
8. Don't Look Now (Roeg)
9. The Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein)
10.The Tomb of Ligeia (Corman)

12.Ready or Not (Radio Silence)
14.Ganja and Hess (Gunn)
16.The Hunger (Scott)
19.Shanks (Castle)
21.Morgiana (Herz)
22.In the Mouth of Madness (Carpenter)
24.Theater of Blood (Hickox)
25.Under the Skin (Glazer)
26.Inferno (Argento)
30.Poltergeist (Hooper)
31.Bug(Freidkin)
32.Raising Cain (DePalma)
33.The Old Dark House (Whale)
36.Creepy (Kurosawa)
38.The Flesh and the FIends (Gilling)
39.The Shout (Skolimowski)
40.Amer (Cattet & Forzani)
41.The Iron Rose (Rollin)
43.Fear in the Night (Sangster)
45. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
46.Sleepy Hallow (Burton)
47.Blind Beast (Masumura)
48.Burn Witch Burn a.k.a. Night of the Eagle (Hayers)
49.Near Dark (Bigelow)
50.Twixt (Coppola)

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

#2172 Post by DarkImbecile » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:48 pm

swo17 wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:28 pm
Thanks domino! Here's my full list up until my first orphan:
SpoilerShow
01 Riget
I assume you were also one of the votes for Viy, which I really wanted to catch up on in the final days, but would have had to sign up for Shudder to do so...

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

#2173 Post by swo17 » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:54 pm

Actually, I couldn't make room for it. A ton of other people's orphans too, same story. Lots of great films, in and out of the list

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#2174 Post by Feego » Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:57 pm

Thanks for the hard work, domino. And thanks to everyone who actually participated in the fabulous discussions (unlike me). I always have fun reading them. And now for my top 10 plus also-rans/orphans:

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper)
2. The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
3. Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero)
4. Frankenstein (1931, James Whale)
5. Repulsion (1965, Roman Polanski)
6. Vampyr (1932, Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7. Haxan (1922, Benjamin Christensen)
8. Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale)
9. The Haunting (1963, Robert Wise)
10. Cat People (1942, Jacques Tourneur)

11. The Evil Dead (1983, Sam Raimi)
12. Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau) -- Wow!
14. Blood and Black Lace (1964, Mario Bava)
28. Kuroneko (1968, Kaneto Shindo)
31. Black Sabbath (1963, Mario Bava)
33. Tenebre (1982, Dario Argento)
36. The Fog (1980, John Carpenter)
37. Scream 2 (1997, Wes Craven)
38. The Tenant (1976, Roman Polanski)
39. The Phantom of the Opera (1925, Rupert Julian)
41. Paperhouse (1988, Bernard Rose)
42. The Golem (1920, Paul Wegener, Carl Boese)
43. Black Sunday (1960, Mario Bava)
44. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949, James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney)
45. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954, Jack Arnold)
46. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969, Terence Fisher)
47. Inferno (1980, Dario Argento)
49. The Unknown (1927, Tod Browning)
50. Village of the Damned (1960, Wolf Rilla)

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

#2175 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:21 pm

My Top Ten

1. City of Pirates
2. Lost Highway
3. The House of the Devil
4. Antichrist
5. demonlover
6. The Seventh Victim
7. The Blackcoat’s Daughter
8. The Trial (Orphan) - Colin seemed to agree on this as horror, maybe next time
9. Psycho (1960)
10. Unsane (Orphan?) - Perplexing omission

11. Twin Peaks: The Return (Orphan) - I was on the fence on this eclectic mood piece and it only popped into my head the night before lists were due, but the horror in this film is cosmically overwhelming and that final moment tops any, ever. I know some say Lynch ain't horror but a story about supernatural evil spirits is fundamentally horror outside of my own weird criteria, not to mention the abrasive technique and dark milieu that sell it!

13. Under the Sun of Satan (Orphan)

20. Benilde or the Virgin Mother (Orphan)

25. Dutchman (Orphan)

31. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Orphan) - Best depiction of trauma-as-horror using actual externalizations of horror imagery
32. May (Orphan)

42. Swing You Sinners! (Orphan) - I thought people here loved this surreal animated hell

44. La vie lointaine (Also-Ran)
45. Upstream Color (Also-Ran)

47. Sredni Vashtar (David Bradley, 1940) (Also-Ran)

49. Onibaba (Also-Ran)
50. The Flypaper (Also-Ran)

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