Field of 64 - Horror/Suspense

All righty then.

It looks like this is a go with the catagory being Horror/Suspense movies.

I'd like to do 2 out of 3 for the early rounds and 3 out of 5 for the later ones.

So, submit your favorites and in a couple of days I'll enter them all in and we'll begin!

:biggrin:

Edit: Anyone who previously submitted I'll go back to the old thread to get them.

Late entry: The Sixth Sense

Cape Fear (1991)
Psycho
Silence of the Lambykins

The Ring
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (original)
Night of the Living Dead

The Prophecy
Candyman
Stir of Echoes
The Ring
Nightmare on Elm Street
An American Werewolf in London (kept me awake as a kid)
The Grudge
Psycho
Gothika
Doppelganger (drew barreymore - B flick)

The Exorcist
Ringu (Japanese version of The Ring)
JuOn (Japanese version of The Grudge)

The Changeling
Halloween (the original)
Pet Sematery (just for the scene where he digs up the kid and hugs him -- that freaked me out bad and I haven't watched it since the first time)

The Shining
Last House on the Left
Aliens

Cape Fear (1962 earlier post must have been a typo) If I had seen this movie before I had children, it might have stayed that way.

Night of the Hunter

The Exorcist

Silence of the Lambs Eewwww...*shiver*

Das Boot NOT for the claustrophobic. You have been warned.

The Shining

The Thing

the gift

BigV wrote:

Cape Fear (1962 earlier post must have been a typo)

Two versions: 1962 with Robert Mitchum and 1991 with Robert DeNiro. Both of 'em classics.

Is it just me, or would you classify Das Boot under something other then Suspense/Horror?


And BigV, which version of "The Thing"?

salem's lot
evil dead
friday the 13th III

Silent wrote:

Is it just me, or would you classify Das Boot under something other then Suspense/Horror?

It's not just you ... I love Das Boot, but then I have a thing for U-Boots.

Definitely War/Drama in my book.

Unless, of course, you're clastrophobic. Maybe then it would be horror.

The Jagged Edge
The Usual Suspects <-- not sure if this fits, very suspenseful, but not scary.

if das boot and the usual suspects are in... then i want The Game included.

evil dead doesn't count Lj.. it's comedy! then again! I looooove that movie

The Exorcist
Silence of the Lambs
The Shining
Rosemary's Baby
Stepford Wives

I would have to say Das Boot doesn't qualify.

The Ususal Suspects is more of an Action/Drama, imo.

Evil Dead is in though. The original scared the crap out of me when I first saw it.

Hey, it's your thread. I was keying on "...Suspense".

The Blair Witch Project isn't the scariest thing around, but it was definitely an event.

Since we still have some room:
The Village
Wolfen
Dawn of the Dead

I was very scared by

Jaws

how many more do we need? And do you need more "oh yeah, me too" votes for the initial seedings??

I need 15 more to fill the 64 slots.

I think we can skip the confirmation votes.

Tee hee. I said "slots".

Just doing my bit ...

From Dusk Til Dawn
The Shining
Angel Heart
Seven

Misery
The Thing (1982)

Manos, the Hands of Fate

The Day of the Triffids

I don't actually know how good it is or how it comes out. My brother and I went to see it at the local theatre when it came out in 1963. I was 9 and my brother was 11. I thought it was pretty good, but my brother got scared and we had to leave.

I still tease him about that sometimes.

The Omen

Undertoad wrote:

Manos, the Hands of Fate

Torgo!!:joylove:

Equinox and The Car!

Christine

O.k.

I filled out the round with some suggestions from some friends:
Event Horizon
It
Alien

I think it's full and ready to go.

http://cellar.org/fieldof64/64.php?field=horror

If you see any ommissions or mistakes let me know.

Dude, no seeding? I just think it's funner with that.

I could do seeding.

Where most movies were nominated only once I made sure nobodies movies were competeing against each other, but that was it.

Now, if people wanted to vote for their favorites on the list it would be easier to re-arrange....

My input, to help with the ranking, in order of my favorite/scariest first.

Silence of the Lambs
The Exorcist
Seven
The Shining
Alien
Aliens
Sixth Sense
Angel Heart
Psycho
American Werewolfe in London

It's OK if you just seed them yourself. The actual NCAA basketball seeding is done by committee and usually subject of much debate.

Undertoad wrote:

It's OK if you just seed them yourself. The actual NCAA basketball seeding is done by committee and usually subject of much debate.

It feels wrong to seed movies I've never seen...

I could probably seed movies that have been nominated once against ones that have more then one vote. There do seem to be some favorites.

Uh ... Torgo isn't a movie. He's a character in Manos, Hands of Fate.

And you might want to clarify that The Mummy is the one made in 1932, and Dracula has a different version every couple of years (My fav is the 1931, but I know some folks liked one or more of the others). Ditto for Frankenstein (1931).

FWIW ... I think that the seedings are artificial in this context ... when there's a lot of duplication, yeah, it's cool to know what leads going in, but it doesn't really have a lot of meaning. I think that you did a great job on the matchups!

If you can get the top four close to right, the rest doesn't matter as much.

wolf wrote:

Uh ... Torgo isn't a movie. He's a character in Manos, Hands of Fate.

See. There's what I know. :biggrindu

That means we have an open slot.
Any suggestions?

wolf wrote:

And you might want to clarify that The Mummy is the one made in 1932, and Dracula has a different version every couple of years (My fav is the 1931, but I know some folks liked one or more of the others). Ditto for Frankenstein (1931).

I'll make the notes.

I''ll rework the orders when I have a minute and try and keep four front runners in each field.

After you do that, I'll put in the seed numbering. That could have been automated better...

:smack:

How could I have forgotten??

Phantasm

And Poltergeist. I don't think anyone suggested that ... oh, somebody else pick, okay??

(oh, and clarify year of release on Night of the Living Dead)

Was I correct in noting that Amityville Horror 2 was listed, but not Amityville Horror??

wolf wrote:

:smack:

How could I have forgotten??

Phantasm

And Poltergeist. I don't think anyone suggested that ... oh, somebody else pick, okay??

(oh, and clarify year of release on Night of the Living Dead)

I'll make the changes.

wolf wrote:

Was I correct in noting that Amityville Horror 2 was listed, but not Amityville Horror??

Yup. Nobody nominated the original and imho, #2 was way better then #1.

Done (again), I think.

http://cellar.org/fieldof64/64.php?field=horror

Mistakes anyone?

Mistakes anyone?

well, let's see. there was my first wife... but the field of 64 looks good.

lookout123 wrote:

well, let's see. there was my first wife...

*rimshot*

Ladies and gentlemen, Lookout123. He's here 'til Thursday and don't forget to tip your waiter or waitress....
:lol:

Silent wrote:

Done (again), I think.

http://cellar.org/fieldof64/64.php?field=horror

Mistakes anyone?

Well, you misspelled Halloween and Leprechaun. But other than that, it seems all right. Although I will grumble about The Car being up against Poltergeist in the first round. It *is* only a B movie after all.but I suppose it would have to go up against a major motion picture release sooner or later. And it still might win if I get my vote in fast enough.

I will be watching closely!

I'm suprised I only had two spelling mistakes. Fixed.

Did we want to do best 2 of 3 for the early rounds?

I numbered the seeding for you

Still have Torgo in there, which was just Wolf making a remark and not an actual film

Undertoad wrote:

Still have Torgo in there, which was just Wolf making a remark and not an actual film

What!?

O.k., I see what I did. Obviously I didn't hit save that last change I made last night. Torgo was still there but Event Horizon was missing.
I knew I'd changed it at one point....

Are we good to start the races?
Anyone have any preferences for format?

Admin-related: Silent, when someone "wins", you can just copy and paste the winner into the next box... someday I'll write a little javascript button that will move it over.

Roger.

There are some tough, tough matchups on there!

Last night I watched two parts of a five part special on Bravo ... 100 Scariest Movie Moments. Quite a few of our picks were on their list. It finishes tonight, I believe ... check your local listings.

O.k.
Let's try best 2 out of 3 to start with. If it goes too slow we'll drop it.
Same rules as before.

The Ring
or
Last House on the Left

I abstain as I have seen neither film.

The Ring

I have to abstain on most of these... not a fan of the genre

ditto. But I'll help when I can...

Well, I've heard of the Ring. So I would vote for that. Except I'm going to abstain as well, since I haven't seen either one.

The Ring. Spooooky, in the best trembling teenager tradition.

I mean, the teenagers watching it at my house trembled, there aren't really any teenagers in the film itself.

*raises hand*

Procedural question. Does a vote in a contest disqualify one from voting in the subsequent contest?

TIA

It does. Same as before.

i'm late to the party, but The Ring freaking rules!

hey silent - can you link to the seeding in your signature line, please?

lookout123 wrote:

hey silent - can you link to the seeding in your signature line, please?

Ohh! Good Idea! Please!

And what about a link to "the rules"?

Done.

Nightmare on Elm Street
or
Psycho

changed my mind. i don't know. psycho as awesome but so was the original NOES. no vote here.

Psycho (After checking to make sure the next match up is not one for which I have a very strong opinion)

just a thought, but if we don't have a large number of people participating, this may drag on quite a long time if people can't vote in consecutive contests. i think the best 2 of 3 rule will suffice to keep one person from running the show. could we eliminate one of those two rules to speed up play? at least until the finals, when everyone seems to really get involved?

Silent wrote:

Done.

Nightmare on Elm Street
or
Psycho

sig needs help...

Psycho

are you voting, or are you refering to BigV?

Psycho

lookout123 wrote:

just a thought, but if we don't have a large number of people participating, this may drag on quite a long time if people can't vote in consecutive contests. i think the best 2 of 3 rule will suffice to keep one person from running the show. could we eliminate one of those two rules to speed up play? at least until the finals, when everyone seems to really get involved?

If it slows down I'll wave the rule. I don't want it to run too quickly as I won't be able to keep up. :biggrin:

The Prophecy
or
Texas Chainsaw Masacre

the prophecy, of course

TCM!!!

lookout123 wrote:

are you voting, or are you refering to BigV?

:haha:

I was referring to Silent's signature, pointing out that the information to the field of 64 "link" was not working...

But I appreciate the compliment!

Cut and paste man.

Just to stop Lookout from melting down ...

quote this message. Remove the quote tags, and all this extraneous text.

Field of 64 - Horror/Suspense

(only the linked text should remain)

hey! i'm not the one that complained. am i? i better check, but i don't remember complaining about the cut and paste necessity...

and BigV - c'mon man, i thought that was funny.

Thanks Wolf.
I just didn't have the time or patience to work that out.

I learned the syntax because of quick reply ...

Alright, let's see if we can speed this up a bit.

Let's wave the "Can't vote twice in a row" rule.

Still need at least one more vote in the current contest.

TCM!!!

lookout123 wrote:

hey! i'm not the one that complained. am i? i better check, but i don't remember complaining about the cut and paste necessity...

and BigV - c'mon man, i thought that was funny.

clap. clap.

I was focused on getting sig in line. No offense taken.

Hello Silent!

Thanks for waiving the consecutive vote rule. That's a good idea, in my opinion. Also, thanks for putting the link in your signature.

I have an observation from previous Fo64s. I thought it was exciting to watch the upcoming matches--I know I'm not alone in this--wolf even mentioned holding her fire for a more desireable target. But a few times UT mixed it up and chose a contest that was not strictly adjacent to the previous one. He jumped around in a given level (64, 32,16, etc) and that was really cool.

I felt like those animals in the zoo that had their food hidden so they had to work for it....heheheh... ok, I thought it was funny. Just an idea.

BigV wrote:

Hello Silent!

Thanks for waiving the consecutive vote rule. That's a good idea, in my opinion. Also, thanks for putting the link in your signature.

np

BigV wrote:

I have an observation from previous Fo64s. I thought is was exciting to watch the upcoming matches--I know I'm not alone in this--wolf even mentioned holding her fire for a more desireable target. But a few times UT mixed it up and chose a contest that was not strictly adjacent to the previous one. He jumped around in a given level (64, 32,16, etc) and that was really cool.

I felt like those animals in the zoo that had their food hidden so they had to work for it....heheheh... ok, I thought it was funny. Just and idea.

I can do that. I suspect I'll end up doing it inadvertantly.
:biggrin:

Ringu
or
Night of the Living Dead

Silent wrote:

I can do that. I suspect I'll end up doing it inadvertantly.

Funny! :lol:

Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead!!

Stir of Echos
or
Cape Fear (1991)

Cape Fear

Cape Fear

The Exorcist
or
An American Werewolf in London

The Exorcist

I didn't stay for the whole movie, a rarity for me. And I stayed away from the movies for a year or so following. FREAKED me out. Maximum heebie jeebies.

*shivers*

The Exorcist

Doppelganger
or
JuOn

Blues Brothers RAWK!!

Doppelganger.


best movie that Drew Barrymore ever did! for real.

Abstain. Have not seen either film. Shit, have not HEARD of either film.

JuOn is the original japanese version of The Grudge. creepy. but doppelganger is a solid B movie about evil twins from alternate realities... sweet.

Prolly waaay too late to contribute to this but we missed several major contenders:

Bride of Frankenstein (an amazingly layered allegorical horror piece)
Cat People (a Freudian maelstrom...more psychiatric monographs have been
written about this movie than any other)
Island of Lost Souls (wow....hard to describe....truly weird Laughton)
Freaks (like no other movie ever made)
Nosferatu
Twin Peaks (the series, not the chopped up 2 hour movie)
Cell, The (pure evil, unforgettable visuals)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (found usually in Sci-Fi, really political horror)

and....

The third story in Karen Black's "Trilogy of Terror"...the one with the tiny African cannibal fetish chasing her around her apartment) All you women out there that saw this know what I'm talking about, heheheh.... Yikes!

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Beyond that, what are the rules to this ladder... how does one vote for each level? :question:

I would vote for that third of Trilogy of Terror. I think we discussed it here somewhere. Spent a long time trying to find out what the hell that TV movie was that kept me from sleeping for such a long time. I must have been about 12 when I saw it and I don't believe I've fully recovered yet.

Were they walled up in a basement?

The only case i can remember of somebody getting walled up in a basement was Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado". In your memory, was the victim wearing a jester's costume with bells on his hat, that were the last things the killer heard as he plastered in the last brick?

the current contest is 25 hours and counting... do we want to consider 1 vote wins until the semi finals?

How does one vote on this damned thing?

One waits until the latest contest is posted and states ones choice.

(I'm going to be missing out on anything happening today because I have two parties to go to. Damn, but I'm popular.)

lookout123 wrote:

the current contest is 25 hours and counting... do we want to consider 1 vote wins until the semi finals?

I would say so.

The Grudge
or
Pet Sematary

wolf wrote:

One waits until the latest contest is posted and states ones choice.

We're are currently doing a best 2 out of 3 format.

Another film that contains a scene of being walled up alive is an adaptation of "The Pit and the Pendulum". I forget who directed, but it does have graphic torture scenes, and gratuitous nudity. Overall I gave it a thumbs down due to sucky storyline and bad special effects but if you're a fan of that genre, have at it. The walling up of the bishop was pretty good and managed to strike a chord with the claustrophobic in me.

Brian

Pet Sematary!

The reason I asked about the walled up thing, is I saw a movie when I was 7-9ish. Scared the be-jesus out of me. But all I remember now is:
1) A new couple movie into an old house
2) Them opening up an old fireplace (in the basement?) and wondering why it was bricked up.
3) The villians were, like, 10" tall and hated the light.
4) They end up dragging the women in the film back into the fireplace and she turns into one of them. She attempted to fend them off with a flash camera.

I have yet to find out what that movie was called.

Oh damn. I saw that.

I can't remember the title either.

For some reason I recall a blonde british woman rather than kim darby, but I would have seen it in the early 70s, so my recall may be fading ...

Happy Monkey wrote:

Was it this?

That could be. I remember the rope thing, I think.

I also remember the ending:
They re-brick the fireplace and as the camera zooms out from the house you hear the whispering voices of the little demons and then her voice saying "We have time. We have all the time in the world..."

Times Up!
Pet Sematary wins.

Exorcist 3
vs
The Gift

Abstain.

(Was Exorcist 3 the one with the bees, or the one actually based on Legion by William Peter Blatty?)

It was the one with George C. (My Groin!) Scott and Brad (Grima Wormtongue) Dourif.

And a wonderful scene about threading a three foot catheter into the inferior vena cava.

the gift

Undertoad wrote:

I would vote for that third of Trilogy of Terror. I think we discussed it here somewhere. Spent a long time trying to find out what the hell that TV movie was that kept me from sleeping for such a long time. I must have been about 12 when I saw it and I don't believe I've fully recovered yet.

My bad. Sorry.

nah, you're right too ... this dude compiled a list of evil doll movies ...

" Trilogy of Terror (US-1975; dir. Dan Curtis -- Part 3 "Amelia", released separately as a short titled "Terror of the Doll")"

Dan Curtis, incidentally, was the producer/director/creator of Dark Shadows.

Times up.
The Gift wins.

Evil Dead
or
Friday the 13th 3

Evil Dead

evil dead

The Changeling
or
Gothika

Abstain, haven't seen either (I'm very surprised at the number of times I'm posting this particular statement, given that I really, really like the genre. But I am more into the classics ...)

You must see The Changeling. It is proabably #2 all time in my books.
None of that jump-out-of-the-closet crap to scare you, just a lot great setup and disturbing moments.
Him listening to the the tape recording of the sceance...very unsettling.

The Changeling

Silence of the Lambs
or
The Village

Silence of the Lambs

Silence of the Lambs

silence of the lambs, clarice

Theater of Blood
or
John Carpenters The Thing

The Thing

Damn. I can't vote two in a row can I? Not that it would have helped. I am realistic about such things. Sorry Vincent. (incidentally, I think The Thing is superior to John Carpenter's The Thing.)

the thing the thing the thing the aaahhahggggccckk *thump*

wolf wrote:

Damn. I can't vote two in a row can I?

We waived that rule in the interest of moving things along. As it is half of the winners so far have received ony one vote.

Halloween
or
Night of the Hunter

Halloween

Night of the Hunter

(sorry, wolf)

If there is not a tie breaking vote shortly I will cast the deciding vote in the interests of moving things along.

fine, choose wisely.

the holy grail


er, i mean halloween

Jaws
or
Salems Lot

Jaws

Jaws

Amityville Horror 2
or
Wolfen

Christ, how did I manage two add ons against each other...

Wolfen

Time's up.

Dracula, Prince of Darkness
vs
The Omen

The Omen!!

scary damn scary. and the part about the plate glass.. oohhhwewwweeweee.....*shudders*

The Omen (yes, even though I nominated D,POD)

The Haunting
or
Misery

Misery

The Haunting

Misery

Feh. What do you guys know. The tense psychological horror of The Haunting is far superior to the over the top S&M fantasy of Misery. pfft.

The Sixth Sense
or
Christine

any movie with a former Back Street Boy as a murderer is a good movie in my book.

the sixth sense, it is.

Christine!

Here you go Wolf, a chance to strike back at all the Stephen King lovers.

king books = good. king movies = blow chunks.

"shit wipes off" vs. "I see dead people"

6th Sense it is

Silent wrote:

Here you go Wolf, a chance to strike back at all the Stephen King lovers.

I would have gone for 6th Sense, as it is clearly the superior film. Certainly more suspenseful than outright horror, though.

And yes, for the record, outside of The Shining, which was only mostly based on the Stephen King novel, and Creepshow, movies made of his books have an unfortunately tendency to suck ass.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (5)
or
Aliens

We're waiting - whoever nominated these must have an opinion? I must regretfully abstain. (One Alien was enough for me, thank you very much - Shamefully haven't seen the Cabinet - Wolf?)

Aliens.

i liked aliens. never heard of the other one.

Cabinet is classic, its the scary look. but like playing a vintage ball player in todays leagues...

Aliens.

House of Wax
or
It

It

House of Wax

Now, just to say a little something about Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. (on that pairing I would have gone for Aliens, BTW. I love Caligari, but when it comes to horror, Aliens has it all going for it. One of the extraordinarily few good sequels. Anyway ...

1920s Germany produced some awesomely interesting avant garde work that was one of the things that got the collective Germanic Lederhosen in a bunch and allowed for the rise of the National Socialist Party. They thought that this weird artistic stuff was too subversive and permissive for the general populace. Anyway ... if you get the chance, see this movie. Rent it. I would expect it to be in the collections of a lot of libraries. Back in the day (mid 70s at a guess), the first time I saw it was by taking an 8mm print out of the library. Caligari presents a surreal landscape in which the absurd becomes normal, and the normal impossible. Cesare, the somnambulist is played by Conrad Veidt, whom you probably better recall as Major Strasser in Casablanca. Another bit of minor movie trivia involves Fritz Lang's M, another of my favorite films ... the head of the group of criminals (whose character name escapes me) wears a pair of gloves that are the negative of the gloves worn by Caligari. The sets are pieces of surrealist artwork in and of themselves, but enhance the overall experience of the film rather than distract from it.

So, basically, see this movie. It's only about an hour long, but does a lot more in that hour than most current films do in two.

Well someone is going to have to break the dead lock on this one 'cause I haven't seen House of Wax.

That, unfortunately, won't be me, since I already voted. House of Wax is the Vincent Price original. It is one of Charles Bronson's, credited as Charles Buchinsky, earliest movies (he plays the mute assistant, who is of course named "Igor"). The film was made during the 3-D craze. There is a totally useless scene involving a guy playing paddleball at you that only makes sense if you know that. Big business is evil, a true artist suffers for his work, loose women deserve what they get, beauty can be preserved forever, and love conquers all.

With screaming. You can't leave out the screaming. Proper classic horror screaming by the heroine, with her fist clenched in front of her mouth because she is so paralyzed with terror. That screaming. The kind that pre-dated the unattractive open-mouthed shrieking, as popularized by Jamie Lee Curtis.

It, on the other hand, was a somewhat lackadaisical made-for-TV miniseries adaptation of one of Stephen King's longer books. I only saw this once. I remember Tim Curry being fairly creepy, but I don't have a lot of patience with anything that Richard Thomas stars in. Harry Anderson was good for the first two years of night court, but I got quite tired of him. I was probably disappointed that the Chinese Dinner scene was not sufficiently graphic.

:innocent look: no, of course I'm not trying to influence the voting ...

yaay! let it be me.

the winner is house of wax.

It sucked.

But I thought you liked House of ...

Ooooooh.

It sucked.

yeah. okay. nevermind. I think I might go to sleep now. Thanks, you've been a great audience. Don't forget to tip your servers and bartenders.

*rimshot*

in school, among my small circle of friends, this kind of humor was considered the finest. quick, topical, you know, clever. some of the best was economical with words, like this one, other times bonus points were awarded for misdirection... I still enjoy this wordplay, but sadly, very few of my current circle "gets it". Certainly for the natural and appropriate reason that they're often just not funny.... but this one (which I regard as quick, clever, 5 out of 10 funny) would have failed to ruffle the hair of any of my day to day aquaintences. :(

So thanks wolf for validating my little joke. I wish I'd been able to hang out with you in school. would have been a howl.

Well it looks like The House of Wax gets to take on more Stephen King in the next round

Manos, the Hands of Fate
or
Pitch Black

For the record, I thought we were talking about the "House of Wax" (remake?) that just came out in theatres and sucked. I didn't realize there was an older one.

Pitch Black.

Manos, the Hands of Fate was excrebly bad, which is what made it perfect MST3K fodder.

Clodfobble wrote:

For the record, I thought we were talking about the "House of Wax" (remake?) that just came out in theatres and sucked. I didn't realize there was an older one.

Another reason to hate remakes. They erase the originals from memory.

Oh, and could someone explain the Night of the Living Dead remake to me? The first one was excellent ... dark, claustrophobic, and black and white. A great choice, even if it was for budgetary reasons. Made the movie lots, lots creepier.

Pitch Black. Very cool film, VD, of course, and just creepy. Worthy.

The creatures in Pitch Black reminded me of what I'd pictured "The Dark" to be like from the Darwath Trilogy.

Poltergeist
or
The Car

Poltergeist

Poltergeist!

Cape Fear 1962
or
Equinox

Equinox!

abstain

Time's up.

The Mummy
vs
Alien

Alien

Alien

Frankenstein
or
Seven

Se7en

7

Leprechaun
or
The Blair Witch Project

blair witch

blair witch

Yes, leprechaun sucked even worse than Blair Witch.

Actually Blair Witch is sheer marketing genius. And it was pretty spooky. I saw it in one of the theaters with the travelling museum display.

I thought Leprechaun was hilarious.

Hellraiser
or
Day of the Triffids

Hellraiser.

My beloved classics do pretty much fall flat in the face of much modern horror ... and that's taking into consideration plotting, scripting, set design, make-up, and acting.

Silent wrote:

Cape Fear 1962
or
Equinox

CAPE FEAR!!

Silent wrote:

Time's up.

The Mummy
vs
Alien

shit.

Hellraiser.

Dracula
or
The Jagged Edge

which drac? if it is the one from the '90's with Keanu Reeves then it gets my vote.

You couldn't have said "The one from the '90's with Gary Oldman"?

or winona ryder, or... you knew which one i was talking about dincha?

uhoh. i better be careful, i heard that HM likes to kill people just to watch 'em die. i saw it on the internet, it MUST be true.

Just keep some shiny objects around to distract me.

Drac-u-la

I believe it is this one:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079073/

Wolf nominated it so she has the final say.

It is the (original) Bela Lugosi Dracula.

"Ah, the children of the night, what music they make!"

"I never drink, wine."

And it gets my vote.

The Jagged Edge is one of those movies that I saw once and was done with. I have the same opinion of Fatal Attraction.

The Shining
or
Angel Heart

The Shining

the shining

The Wolfman
or
Event Horizon

The Wolfman

Event Horizon tried way too hard, and missed.

Anything BUT Event Horizon. That movie sucked so bad, I'd buy a copy just to destroy it to keep it from wasting two hours of anyone else's life. I HATED Meet the Parents, and I'd rather watch that every day than see Event Horizon again.

Oh... sorry, The Wolfman. Yeah. The Wolfman, please.

And the last one of the first round:
Dreamcatcher
or
From Dusk 'til Dawn

Dreamcatcher

From Dusk Til Dawn.

I can't get the time I spent watching Dreamcatcher back, can I? What about reading it??

And I really like Stephen King.

We need a tie breaker tonight or I will decide tomorrow morning.

COME ON! I'M CALLIN YOU OUT! LET'S THROWN DOWN!

Honestly, I don't see it as much of a contest. Bloody monster in a toilet battled by a motley assortment of childhood friends with extreme personal problems (each of which was at sometime the personal property of a certain Mr. S. King) vs. Vampires, George Clooney, Quentin Taratino at his anxious, disorganized killer best, and quite possibly the best speech in any movie. Ever. Delivered quite believably by Mr. Cheech Marin.

Chet Pussy: All right! Pussy, pussy, pussy! Come on in, pussy lovers! Here at the Titty Twister, we're slashing pussy in half! Give us an offer on our vast selection of pussy! This is a pussy blowout! All right, we got white pussy, black pussy, Spanish pussy, yellow pussy! We got hot pussy, cold pussy, we got wet pussy, we got smelly pussy, we got hairy pussy, bloody pussy, we got snappin' pussy! We got silk pussy, velvet pussy, Naugahyde pussy! We even got horse pussy, dog pussy, chicken pussy, come on in pussy lovers! If we don't got it, you don't want it! Come on in pussy lovers!


Chet Pussy: Attention pussy shoppers! Take advantage of our penny pussy sale! If you buy one piece of pussy at the regular price, you get another piece of pussy of equal or lesser value for only a penny! Try and beat pussy for a penny! If you can find cheaper pussy anywhere, fuck it! (laughs)

(That, and other memorable movie quotes available here.)

In order to move this along......

From Dusk 'til Dawn

And now we move on to round two. Some interesting match-ups here. I think I'll start with......

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
or
Night of the Living Dead

night of thte living dead

oooooooo.... toughie. damn. I soiled two pairs of shorts on these, so I need a different tiebreaker.

Night of the Living Dead.

*shivers*

Doppelganger
or
Pet Sematary

doppelganger!

drew barrymore's comeback, young, nubile, nude, and playing two roles.


the story was good too.

Doppelganger

have you seen it? if so that is awesome. or are you just voting for a young and nude drew? that is awesome too.

or is pet semetary so bad that you would vote for anything that ran against it?

q1 -- no
q2 -- YES
q3 -- YES!

I dig Stephen King. I have 95% of his books (and that's a lot of books). In hardback. I really enjoy reading his work. His stories, like many authors, range in qualiity, and my enjoyment of them likewise ranges. Unfortunately, *VERY* few of his stories, good bad or otherwise, have translated into good films.

The Shining is the (shining) exception to this. Awesome story, terrifying movie. *thinking* I enjoyed Christine, but it can't touch The Shining. Ohh! The Dead Zone. Excellent story, excellent movie. I liked Stand By Me, but not a horror film (have temporarily lost track of the story on which it was based.) Ditto for Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Favorite SK story, and a very fine film. The Green Mile. Both excellent. I liked both Miserys. Carrie, so-so. But.

On the other hand we have: Children of the Corn, Cujo, Maximum Overdrive, It, Lawnmower Man, more Children of the Corn II, Children of the Corn III, Children of the Corn IV, Children of the Corn V, Children of the Corn 666 , (If I ever get my hands on the f*cker handin out the corn, :rar: ), The Dead Zone (TV), Secret Window... I'm just cherry pickin here, but you feel my pain, right?

Go Drew!

Cape Fear (1991)
or
The Exorcist

Exorcist

The Exorcist.

Seeing the first part of this movie in the theater (I walked out) kept me out of the theater for over a year. Scared? Naw, SCARRED!

The Ring
or
Psycho

Psycho

which Psycho is this?

The real one. Tony Perkins. Janet Leigh.

Assume original unless otherwise specified (as was done with Cape Fear (1991)).

Oh, and I'm votin' for it. Psycho.

Pitch Black
vs
The Omen

the omen

The Omen.












Spoiler warning:
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Damn.

Was that "Damn, that spoils the movie for me."

or

"Damn, Vin Diesel can kick the shit out of Gregory Peck anyday."

option 2.

Vin Diesel can kick the shit out of Gregory Peck anyday. If Vin Diesel had been the dad in the Omen, he would have simply ripped Damien in two like a turkey wishbone at birth, and completed the film as a buddy movie with the Demonic Rottweiler in which they would both go to Hell, tell Satan it was looking pretty cold in there, and pull his heart out of his chest so he could watch the last few beats.

Actually it was also "Damn, I like them both!" and "Damn, I slept through the vote."

The Sixth Sense
or
Poltergeist


Tough one...

Yeah, tough one. Both good, but I'll pick Poltergeist, because it scared me more. I was younger and could more easily identify with the youngsters in the movie. Yeah, Poltergeist. Plus Drew. heheheh

Sixth Sense was a better movie. I vote Sixth Sense.

Sixth Sense.

A good horror/suspense movie is about more than sensational gore and dramatic big-screen special effects.

Aliens
vs
Equinox

Aliens.

Duh.

I will be without internet for a few days. Hopefully I'll be back on Thursday.

Don't have too much fun without me.

Aliens.

I wasn't going to vote on that round because I really don't want to be in a position where I either am or seem to be monopolizing the votes. I'm big into the fairness thing, see.

But since nobody has touched the voting since, Fri, I got frustrated waiting and the lack of resolution irks me.

Back at last.

NYC is insane. And the sales guy who was driving me around was a baaadddd influence.

Oh Mr. Toad, I'm getting a 404 error when I try to log into the admin url.

Welcome back Silent.

Looking forward to the next round. The cellar had a little problem with some freestyle remote administration.

There will be a short delay while I figure out why there is no longer a horror file or administration program.

Undertoad wrote:

There will be a short delay while I figure out why there is no longer a horror file or administration program.

Oh no! That's horrorible!

or

[Lt Kurtz]The horror...the horror.[/Lt Kurtz] Here horror horror horror. *whistles* Here boy!

Any progress?