The Horror List Discussion and Suggestions (Genre Project)

[Mr Sausage]

Oh, fuck me, I totally forgot to vote for Don't Look Now. I am such an idiot.

Fortunately I doubt it would be left out of the top ten though if it is I am personally blaming you.

I'd blame me too. That is such a mind-boggling omission. Easily top 10 material.

[Yojimbo]

It doesn't actually matter to me if people put giallos on their lists or not.

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Tell that to your overworked typing fingers!

It should be interesting to compare our respective lists to see how representative we each are of 'Horror' movies, however they should be defined

[knives]

Let's wait until Dom has added up the list first at least.

[Yojimbo]

Also, voting closed. Results soon. Please continue lamenting your mistakes, including not voting for Single White Female, making me the only sucker to have a number one pick orphaned

The only JJ Leigh film I was considering was 'The Hitcher'

[Yojimbo]

Let's wait until Dom has added up the list first at least.

yep

[Mr Sausage]

It doesn't actually matter to me if people put giallos on their lists or not.

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Tell that to your overworked typing fingers!

It should be interesting to compare our respective lists to see how representative we each are of 'Horror' movies, however they should be defined

Er, whether or not a long-standing horror sub-genre should actually be considered horror is kinda more what's got me typing than the vagaries of individual members' lists. To say that your claim has me nonplussed is nearly an understatement.

[Yojimbo]

Er, whether or not a long-standing horror sub-genre should actually be considered horror is kinda more what's got me typing than the vagaries of individual member's lists. To say that your claim has me nonplussed is nearly an understatement.

........or a long standing crime movies sub-genre, come to that!

[Mr Sausage]

It is a somewhat surprising revelation to learn that Dario Argento spent the great majority of his career not making horror movies. In fact, by my count he's only made four...and three of those are giallos as well, just with a supernatural element.

[Yojimbo]

It is a somewhat surprising revelation to learn that Dario Argento spent the great majority of his career not making horror movies. In fact, by my count he's only made four...and three of those are giallos as well, just with a supernatural element.

Double negatives are a minefield, aren't they?

[Mr Sausage]

I didn't use a double negative.

[domino harvey]

BOYS

[Mr Sausage]

BOYS

You'd better post the results soon before we start tearing each other apart! I'm not liking the glint in knives' eye...

[tarpilot]

I'm hiding behind Christopher Lee

[mfunk9786]

Speaking of whom, I am hoping that LQ included The Wicker Man high on her list...

[Mr Sausage]

Christopher Lee (along with Peter Cushing of course) cracks my top ten. Just wouldn't feel right if he didn't.

[knives]

Hopefully Price did too (not to mention Karloff and Lugosi). God if there was ever a film actor better than Price I have not seen any movies containing.

[Mr Sausage]

Hopefully Price did too (not to mention Karloff and Lugosi). God if there was ever a film actor better than Price I have not seen any movies containing.

Karloff I got at #4, how could I not? But Lugosi doesn't come in until #17 and poor Price sits at #49. What can I say, I never grew up watching Price, so he doesn't have the same meaning for me as those other four. Still, wouldn't be a horror list without him, so I snuck him in at the end.

EDIT: Goddammit! I forgot Witchfinder General, too. That totally would've gone higher on my list than #49. Between this and Don't Look Now, I'm fully expecting to get your vote for Richard Cranium 2013, knives.

[tarpilot]

Should I have tried to justify including Confessions of an Opium Eater? Top 10 in my 60s list just doesn't seem like enough

[knives]

Should I have tried to justify including Confessions of an Opium Eater? Top 10 in my 60s list just doesn't seem like enough

I desperately need to see it and have been anticipating it since I saw the tripping out scene about a decade ago. Looking back at my list I'm surprised only Karloff got into the top ten (twice in fact) with everyone else filled in by twenty though with Karloff in the clear lead. Poor Lugosi though has no solo films to call his own until number 38.

[Mr Sausage]

Hmm. Mine breaks down like this:

Karloff: 5
Cushing: 5
Lee: 3
Lugosi: 2

Karloff and Cushing are the actors most represented on my list. I was a bit surprised Cushing had so many more than Lee, but I see he snuck in on a couple of minor roles.

[knives]

Cushing was really a master of the one off (speaking of hopefully I can make up the lack of Rathbone in some other list).

Karloff:5
Price:3
Cushing:2
Lugosi:2
Lee:2

[Mr Sausage]

Cushing was really a master of the one off (speaking of hopefully I can make up the lack of Rathbone in some other list).

Karloff:5
Price:3
Cushing:2
Lugosi:2
Lee:2

No Rathbone for me either, sadly. I really wanted to put Son of Frankenstein on there, but I figured if I didn't keep myself to a strict limit my entire list would be nothing but Hammer and Universal films. Lost amid the tragic cuts: Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Wolfman, Dracula, and countless others.

[knives]

The cutting of Brides of Dracula and Plague of Zombies are the biggest hurts for me. I don't think I could fit another Whale on my list so The Invisible Man and Frankenstein don't hurt too much. I figure at least the former could be reserved for the comedy list.

[Mr Sausage]

The cutting of Brides of Dracula and Plague of Zombies are the biggest hurts for me. I don't think I could fit another Whale on my list so The Invisible Man and Frankenstein don't hurt too much. I figure at least the former could be reserved for the comedy list.

Getting rid of Plague of Zombies hurt for sure.

I decided to only make room for one Whale on my list (not an easy choice for my first ever favourite director), but I figured I made up for it with the high placing of the one I did choose.

[domino harvey]

THE HORROR! THE HORROR! GENRE LIST TOP 100

01 Psycho (1960) 638
02 Vampyr 562
03 Night of the Living Dead (1968) 547
04 Alien 545
04 Don't Look Now 545
06 I Walked With a Zombie 473
07 the Shining (1980) 450
08 the Innocents 427
09 Rosemary's Baby 413
10 the Thing (1982) 407

11 Bride of Frankenstein 371
12 Suspiria 358
13 the Seventh Victim 343
14 the Night of the Hunter 328
15 the Black Cat (1934) 320
16 City of Pirates 319
17 Halloween (1978) 318
18 the Birds 317
19 the Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 311
20 the Wicker Man (1973) 303

21 Cat People (1942) 302
22 Repulsion 295
23 the Haunting (1963) 293
24 Eyes Without a Face 290
25 the Brood 266
26 Videodrome 260
27 Cure 255
28 Nosferatu (1922) 244
29 Carnival of Souls (1962) 242
30 La Chute de la maison Usher 235

31 Frankenstein (1931) 230
31 Freaks 230
33 Carrie (1976) 229
34 Eraserhead 221
35 the Island of Lost Souls (1935) 217
36 Hour of the Wolf 214
37 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) 209
38 the Fly (1986) 203
38 the Old Dark House (1932) 203
40 Dawn of the Dead (1978) 201

41 Kill, Baby Kill! 198
42 Deep Red 197
43 Jaws 196
44 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 194
44 Witchfinder General 194
46 Martin 189
47 Pulse / Kairo 185
48 Lisa and the Devil 181
49 Black Swan 174
50 the Exorcist 169

51 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders 165
52 Dead of Night (1945) 162
53 the Ring (2002) 160
54 Kwaidan 159
55 the Horror of Dracula 158
55 the Tenant 158
57 the Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920) 155
58 the Evil Dead (1981) 154
59 Dead Alive / Braindead 149
60 AntiChrist 142

61 Curse of the Cat People 141
61 Let the Right One In 141
61 the Unknown (1928) 141
64 Hangover Square 137
65 Inland Empire 136
66 Peeping Tom 135
67 Possession (1981) 134
68 King Kong (1933) 132
69 Night of the Eagle / Burn Witch Burn 131
70 Day of the Dead (1985) 129

71 L'annulaire 125
72 Black Sunday (1960) 124
73 Pontypool 123
74 the Devil Rides Out 122
75 City of the Dead / Horror Hotel 121
76 Haxan 117
77 Dead Ringers 113
77 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 113
79 Poltergeist 108
80 the Return of the Living Dead 106

81 Black Christmas (1974) 105
81 Quatermass and the Pit 105
83 the House of the Devil (2009) 103
83 the Spiral Staircase 103
85 Outer Space 102
86 It's Alive (1974) 100
86 the Masque of Red Death (1964) 100
88 Riget / the Kingdom 97
89 Audition 92
89 the Blair Witch Project 92
89 Faust (1926) 92
89 Mad Love (1935) 92

93 Inferno (1980) 90
93 Se7en 90
95 the Host (2006) 88
96 the House on Haunted Hill (1959) 87
97 All the Boys Love Mandy Lane 86
98 the Cremator 85
98 the Others 85
98 Shivers / They Came From Within 85
98 Triangle (2009) 85


ALSO RANS Two or more votes cast. Listed by total in descending order

84-80 V Picnic at Hanging Rock, Anguish, the Hitcher, Invaders from Mars, Near Dark

79-70 V House (1977), Onibaba, Re-Animator, Amer, Ganja and Hess, the Fog (1980), Hard Candy, the Silence of the Lambs, the Beyond, the Devil-Doll (1936), La Donna del Lago, Juliet of the Spirits, the Leopard Man, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, All the Colours of the Dark

69-60 V An American Werewolf in London, Fright Night (1988), Oh! I can't stop…, Scream and Scream Again, Session 9, Final Destination 3, the Invisible Man, the Thing From Another World, the Boxer's Omen, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, the Omen, Tenebrae, From Beyond the Grave, Funny Games, the Seventh Continent, the Brides of Dracula, demonlover, the Hunger, A Page of Madness, Frankenstein Created Woman, Ugetsu, the Phantom Carriage, Seconds

59-50 V Bedlam, Bug, [REC], 28 Days Later, Cemetery Man, Doctor X, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Scream 2, the Slumber Party Massacre, Nosferatu (1979), Isabel, Night of the Demon (1957), Opera, Devil's Backbone, Les Diaboliques (1955), Katalin Varga, La Cabina, Street of Crocodiles, Targets, X - the Man With X-Ray Eyes, Jacob's Ladder, the Territory

49-40 V Blood and Black Lace, the Mist, the Penalty, Spider Baby, Isle of the Dead, Taste / Scream of Fear, Der Student von Prag, the Iron Rose, May, the Tomb of Ligeia, the Abominable Dr Phibes, Alice, Sweet Alice / Communion, Le Orme, the Short Night of Glass Dolls, the Skin I Live In, the Woman Who Powders Herself, Last House on the Left (1972), the Mummy (1959), the Descent, the Entity, Hellraiser, the Man They Could Not Hang

39-30 V A Tale of Two Sisters, Santa Sangre, Zombi, Evil Dead II, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Blue Velvet, the Collector (1965), the Wolf Man (1941), Bram Stoker's Dracula, Cronos, In the Mouth of Madness, Blood For Dracula, Gozu, In My Skin, Trouble Every Day, the Changeling, the Girl Who Knew Too Much, the Man With Wax Faces, West of Zanzibar, Dracula (Browning 1931), "the Forms of Things Unknown" (the Outer Limits episode), the Body Snatcher, the Mummy (1932), the Pit and the Pendulum, Rebecca, the Village

29-20 V Lifeforce, Event Horizon, Godzilla, Straight on til Morning, Wait Until Dark, the Legend of Hell House, Jigoku, La Vampire nue / the Nude Vampire, Paranoiac, Surviving Edged Weapons, Spirits of the Dead / Histories extraordinaires, Straitjacket, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Wolfen, Basket Case, Daughters of Darkness / Les lèvres rouges, Bay of Blood

19-6(66) V A Bucket of Blood, Deathline / Raw Meat, the Face of Another, the Tell-Tale Heart (1953), the Blob (1958), the Hills Have Eyes (1977), I Bury the Living, the Man Who Laughs, the Horrible Dr Hitchcock / L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock, House of Wax (1953), From Beyond, Twice Told Tales, Dead and Buried, Cat People (1982)


ORPHANS One vote cast. Listed in alphabetical order

A Chinese Ghost Story, A Night to Dismember, A Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A Quiet Place in the Country, Abominable Snowman, the Addiction, Alice (1988), Aliens, Alucarda, the Amityville Horror (Non-Ryan Reynolds one), An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge, --And Now the Screaming Starts, Apaches, the Appointment, Arrebato, Asylum, the Awakening, the Awful Dr Orloff / Gritos en la noche

Bad Dreams, the Bad Seed, Bad Taste, the Ballad of Tam Lin, Beetlejuice, Begotten, Behind the Mask: the Rise of Leslie Vernon, the Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Black Narcissus, the Black Room, Black Sabbath, Blind Beast, Blood Feast, Blood on Satan's Claw, Bluebeard (1944), the Book of Stone, the Boston Strangler (1968), the Boys, the Brotherhood of Satan, Brotherhood of the Wolf / Le pacte des loups, Bukarest Fleisch, the 'Burbs

Cabin Fever, the Cabin in the Woods, the Call of Cthulhu, Candyman, Cargo 200, the Ceiling at Utsunomiya, the Children, Chopping Mall, Christine, Circus of Horrors, Cold Prey, Cold Prey 2, Color Me Blood Red, the Colossus of New York, the Company of Wolves, the Crazies (2010), Creature From the Black Lagoon, Creepshow, Cube, the Curse of the Crying Woman / La Maldicion de la Llorona, Curse of the Demon, the Curse of Frankenstein

the Damned, the Day of the Beast / El día de la bestia, the Dead Girl, Dead Snow, the Decay of Fiction, Demon Seed, Devil Doll (1964), the Devil's Rejects, the Devils, Dr Giggles, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1920), Dr Jekyll et les femmes, Dr Phebes Rises Again, Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary, Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Dressed to Kill, the Dying Swan

Eating Raoul, Eden Lake, Eight Legged Freaks, El Vampiro, Elephant (1989), Empire of Passion, Eugenie, Excision, eXistenZ, the Exorcist III

the Face at the Window, the Faculty, Fall of the House of Usher (1960), Falling Pink, Fear (1990), the Fearless Vampire Killers / Dance of the Vampires, Fiend Without a Face, the Fifth Chord, the Flesh and the Fiends, the Flesh Eaters, the Fly (1958), Frailty, Freaked, From Dusk Til Dawn, the Funhouse

the Ghost of Yotsuya, Ghosts of Kasane Swamp, Ghostwatch, God Told Me To, Goke Body Snatcher from Hell, the Grapes of Death, Gremlins, Gremlins 2: the New Batch

Habit, Halloween II (2009), He Who Gets Slapped, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Home Sweet Home, Homicidal, Horrors of Malformed Men, Hostel, House of Frankenstein, the House of the Devil (1896), the House on Haunted Hill (1999), the House on the Edge of the Park, Human Lanterns

I Married a Witch, the Incredible Shrinking Man, Incubus, the Innkeepers, Insidious, It, It Came From Outer Space, It! the Terror From Beyond Space

Joshua

the Keep, Killer Condom, Klute, Kuroneko

La fiancee de Dracula, Lady Vengeance, Lake Placid, the Last Wave, Le main du diable, Le moine, Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier, Link, Lips of Blood, Little Otik, Lord of Illusions, Los sin nombre / the Nameless, the Lost Boys, Lost Hearts, Lost Highway, the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, the Loved Ones

Macabre (1958), the Man and the Monster / El hombre y el monstruo, the Man From Planet X, Maniac (1934), Manos: Hands of Fate, Martyrs, Matinee, Midori, the Mill of Stone Women, Miracle Mile, Morgiana, Motel Hell, Mullholand Dr, Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly

Night of the Creeps, Night on Bald Mountain, Nightmare (1964), "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (the Twilight Zone episode), the Ninth Gate

Orphan

Pan's Labyrinth, the Perfume of the Lady in Black, Pet Semetary, Phantasm, the Phantom of Paradise, Phenomena, the Plague of Zombies, the Poughkeepsie Tapes, Prince of Darkness, the Prowler / Rosemary's Killer, Psycho II , Psychomania

the Quatermass Expirement, Quatermass II

Rasputin: the Mad Monk, Ravenous, Rear Window, the Reflecting Skin, Ringu, Rituals / the Creeper

Salem's Lot (1978), Salo, Scream, Seance, the Sect, Shanks, Sheena is a Parasite, Shiver of the Vampire, the Signalman, Silip / Daughters of Eve, Single White Female, the Sixth Sense, Sleepy Hollow, the Skull, Snake Woman's Curse, the Sorcerers, Sorority Row, Spider (2007), Splice, Sredni Vashtar by Saki, Stagefright / Aquarius, the Stepfather (1987), the Stone Tape, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance

Tales From the Gimli Hospital, Tales That Witness Madness, 10 Rillington Place, Tesis, the Testament of Dr Mabuse, Tesuo the Iron Man, Theatre of Blood, Them!, There It Is, They Came Back / Les revenants, Thirst, This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse, To Sleep With Anger, Torso, the Tower of Seven Hunchbacks, Tremors, Trilogy of Terror, Tucker and Dale Vs Evil, 28 Weeks Later, [Twin Peaks (European Theatrical Version of Pilot) -- pretty sketchy maneuver but technically allowed], the Two Faces of Jekyll, Two Orphan Vampires

the Uninvited (1944), the Uninvited (2009)

the Vampire Bat, the Vampire Lovers, Vampyros Lesbos, the Vanishing (1988), Venus in Furs / Paroxismus, Viy 33

Wake in Fright, the Walking Dead (1936), Werewolf of London, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, When a Stranger Calls Back, Whistle and I'll Come To You, White of the Eye, Who Can Kill a Child?, Woman in the Dunes