The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

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

#2176 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:33 pm

Since I spent about half my viewing time watching Hammer flicks, here's where my favorites ended up on my list. Only the top one made the list!

22. Frankenstein Created Woman
23. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
24. Taste of Fear
25. Quatermass 2
27. The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
29. Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
33. The Mummy (1959)
34. Taste the Blood of Dracula
40. The Devil Rides Out
41. The Curse of the Werewolf
43. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
45. The Quatermass Xperiment
49. Captain Clegg

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#2177 Post by terabin » Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:36 pm

Here’s my top 10. I can say more about my full list when I have more time tomorrow. Thanks so much Domino!

1. Inland Empire - Lynch (2006)
2. The Curse of the Cat People – Fritsch and Wise (1944)
3. Juliet of the Spirits – Fellini (1965)
4. Night of the Hunter - Laughton (1955)
5. I Walked With a Zombie – Tourneur (1943)
6. The Horror of Dracula – Fisher (1958)
7. City of Pirates – Ruiz (1983)
8. Hour of the Wolf – Bergman (1968)
9. Christine – Carpenter (1983)
10. The Signalman – Clark (1976)

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#2178 Post by swo17 » Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:38 pm

Rayon Vert wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:33 pm
Since I spent about half my viewing time watching Hammer flicks, here's where my favorites ended up on my list. Only the top one made the list!

22. Frankenstein Created Woman
23. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
24. Taste of Fear
25. Quatermass 2
27. The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
29. Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
33. The Mummy (1959)
34. Taste the Blood of Dracula
40. The Devil Rides Out
41. The Curse of the Werewolf
43. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
45. The Quatermass Xperiment
49. Captain Clegg
That reminds me I forgot to vote for Rasputin the Mad Monk, which would've been an orphan anyway

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#2179 Post by terabin » Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:46 pm

In particular, I need to levy a defense of 6 of my orphans which are all made-for-TV movies from the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas series, mostly based on MR James short stories. Will expound more tomorrow, but whenever I watch one of these gems my wife comes in the room and says I thought you were watching a horror movie? And I usually say, the British figured out how to do it without screams and blood. And she usually says, that’s not a horror movie. And I try in vain to make my argument: uncanny, quiet terror is horror too!
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Re: The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

#2180 Post by Feego » Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:49 pm

After submitting my list, I realized I forgot to include Tod Browning's Freaks. I thought about adding it and resubmitting, but I figured what the hell, I'm happy with my list, and others will likely vote for it. Not a single vote.

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#2181 Post by Rayon Vert » Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:50 pm

swo17 wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:38 pm
That reminds me I forgot to vote for Rasputin the Mad Monk, which would've been an orphan anyway
The Fog pushed out Rasputin to no. 51 on mine!

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

#2182 Post by swo17 » Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:01 am

Feego wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 11:49 pm
After submitting my list, I realized I forgot to include Tod Browning's Freaks. I thought about adding it and resubmitting, but I figured what the hell, I'm happy with my list, and others will likely vote for it. Not a single vote.
It was on my last list. I kicked it off this time thinking the same thing

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#2183 Post by Rayon Vert » Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:10 am

So I guess with the horror list project coming to an end today, that means tomorrow the horror outside is also over, right? RIght?

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#2184 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:21 am

Nah, life is like I Am a Ghost, trapped inside and reliving the horror over and over, but maybe one day we will be able to leave.

Now that I look at it, a solid chunk of my list is classified by some form of imprisonment, physical or abstract or both. Sounds about right.

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#2185 Post by domino harvey » Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:27 am

knives wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:39 pm
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.
Half my top ten were Orphans! In these unsure and trying times, me loving films no one else feels as strongly about is something we can always rely on (or, to look at it more correctly, you’re all still wrong about so much)

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#2186 Post by domino harvey » Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:35 am

My Top Ten, with Orphans Hot Tamaled

01 Psycho
02 the Blackcoat’s Daughter
03 Triangle
04 Anguish
05 Detention
06 Hard Candy
07 Lord of Illusions
08 Matinee

09 Surviving Edged Weapons
10 Planet Terror


...and I've seen 83/100

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#2187 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:52 am

96/100

Blind spots
SpoilerShow
Fighting Edged Weapons
Frankenstein Created Woman
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
Pontypool

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#2188 Post by domino harvey » Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:55 am

I think you'll discover when you watch it that you can't fight them, that's the problem!

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#2189 Post by bottled spider » Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:08 am

That was fun. Mostly an unexplored genre for me before now. The Babadook was the scariest out of what I watched, followed by The Others.

1 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jires, 1970)
2 Carrie (De Palma, 1976)
3 Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht (Herzog, 1979)
4 The Eternal (Almereyda, 1998)
5 The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014)
6 The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963)
7 Pontypool (McDonald, 2008)
8 You are Not I (Sara Driver, 1981)
9 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, 1978)
10 Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968)

plus nineteen more orphans and four also rans.

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#2190 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Wed Apr 22, 2020 6:41 am

Sorry for not participating. Don't Look Now, the Innocents and the Thing would definitely have featured very highly for me. I could have stopped Eyes Without a Face, Paperhouse and Night of the Demon being also-rans. The Village (assume this is the Shyamalan), Ugetsu and others would also not have been orphans! I need to stop being lazy.

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#2191 Post by knives » Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:07 am

Feego wrote:
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.
38. The Tenant (1976, Roman Polanski)
Dang it. Knew I forgot something. This would have been a top five if I had a better memory.

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#2192 Post by Rayon Vert » Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:14 am

A few people forgot films. The way I do my list is I make it as I go along, ranking each film when I see it (or starting off the bat with those I've seen and don't need to see again). Just a thought if it can be a helpful strategy.

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#2193 Post by Mr Sausage » Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:26 pm

Top ten plus orphans

1. Night of the Living Dead
2.The Innocents
3. Jaws
4. Frankenstein (1931)
5. Lisa and the Devil
6. Halloween
7. Suspiria
8. Cure
9. The Haunting
10. The Horror the Dracula

13. Ode to Nothing (no surprise. I'm not even sure it's available to watch, but if it ever is, you'll find this movie from the Philippines one of the more beautiful, sad, and grotesque horror films of these last few years).

21. Katalin Varga (I thought at the least swo17 would've voted for it. It was his recommendation the last round that got me to see it. But maybe other Strickland films have outpaced it for him)

33. La Donna del lago (I would've thought its recent wide availability would've helped it.)

41. Ravenous (one of the more unusual tones ever found in a successful horror film)

45. The Witch in the Window (the best modern haunted house film. Check out my and zedz' write ups in this thread).

50. House of Frankenstein (same as last list and I expected no less. A childhood favourite I delight in returning to.)


I've seen 95/100, which I think is slightly better than last time.

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#2194 Post by swo17 » Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:28 pm

I still love Katalin Varga but replaced it this time with In Fabric, which is more straightforwardly a horror film

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#2195 Post by Rayon Vert » Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:44 pm

I've got to give Lisa and the Devil another chance one of these days.

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#2196 Post by Rayon Vert » Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:48 pm

Mr. Sausage, I'm curious, what other Hammers if any did you have in your list?

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#2197 Post by Mr Sausage » Wed Apr 22, 2020 1:01 pm

Rayon Vert wrote:Mr. Sausage, I'm curious, what other Hammers if any did you have in your list?
The Mummy, Frankenstein Created Woman, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll.

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#2198 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:31 pm

I really slacked on the Hammer and classic horror this project and will look to remedy that during the Wilder project which I suspect won’t carry my full investment. Thanks for posting your tops RV and Sausage, I’ll start with those (though I’ve seen a few of them)

bottled spider, Valerie barely escaped my top ten - admirable pick for the number one slot, I briefly considered doing the same at one point!

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#2199 Post by Rayon Vert » Wed Apr 22, 2020 3:12 pm

Hey, I slack on all kinds of things! There's a fair amount of films in that list I haven't seen... including The Blackcoat's Daughter. I'll make sure to catch that when I get a chance.

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#2200 Post by Rayon Vert » Wed Apr 22, 2020 3:12 pm

Mr Sausage wrote:
Wed Apr 22, 2020 1:01 pm
Rayon Vert wrote:Mr. Sausage, I'm curious, what other Hammers if any did you have in your list?
The Mummy, Frankenstein Created Woman, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll.
Good taste. :)

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