Best Horror Movie Tournament - Nominations

[Still Servant]

Also, if we nominate 128 films, I can use this website to insert all the films and hopefully update them. It would be pretty cool. Of course, we'd have to do movie vs. movie matchups like the NCAA tournament. Not multiple films against each other at once. That could take a lot longer.

http://www.betterbracketmaker.com/

[barlow]

105. The Mummy Trilogy


A list of greatest Horror films MUST include, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Werewolf, The Mummy and a monster or two more!! LOL

You don't consider Jaws horror, but you do consider the Mummy trilogy horror? Are we talking about the Brendan Fraser films? I just don't get that. If that's the case, then we should consider Indiana Jones horror because it has melting skeletons and creepy voodoo dudes.

Thank you I was thinking the same thing! The project was originally going to be a remake of the original Mummy with a script by Clive Barker, I don't recall if he was going to direct, that would have been horror. I like the Brendan Fraser mummy films but I have always considered them action adventure films, I literally always considered them the poor mans Indiana Jones. but I am not going to argue their nomination to the list. But Jaws and The Silence Of The Lambs may not have supernatural elements but I have more of an argument for those films than the action adventure mummy films.

Ken

[barlow]

FYI Salem's Lot 1979 is eligible for nomination it was recut & released as a movie in Europe & in the U.S.A on VHS.

I think it should be however the shorter version that had the European theatrical release was not as good as the full length version, but we could consider the full length version the director's cut!

Ken

[barlow]

118. Hellraiser

[Merlin1958]

105. The Mummy Trilogy


A list of greatest Horror films MUST include, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Werewolf, The Mummy and a monster or two more!! LOL

You don't consider Jaws horror, but you do consider the Mummy trilogy horror? Are we talking about the Brendan Fraser films? I just don't get that. If that's the case, then we should consider Indiana Jones horror because it has melting skeletons and creepy voodoo dudes.

That is not fair. The Mummy is a supernatural entity even though the films are kinda "action/adventure". "Jaws" is a fish. Wholly natural.

[frik]

119. The Birds



sk

[needfulthings]

120. The Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954.

[mae]

Horror does not equal supernatural.

119. May

[needfulthings]

that should be
121. MAY

[Mattrick]

Movies that feature real animals I would still make a case for being horror provided they follow along the lines of a monster movie; Jaws, The Ghost In The Darkness, Lake Placid, Arachnophobia, Cujo and Anaconda are all examples of this and are all monster movies in my opinion. I hate subgenres but I'm pretty particular on horror sub-genres since there are so many that follow specific lines of horror.

[mae]

Godzilla or Cloverfield anyone?

[Mattrick]

Cloverfield is great so I have no issue with it. I've never really got Godzilla lol. I'd be okay with Hills Have Eyes (Aja version), The Relic, Slither, Dawn of the Dead (2004 as it's totally differeny from Romero's), Exorcism of Emily Rose. I've heard good things about Near Dark it's around for me to watch, maybe no one has thought of that one yet. Has anyone nominated Poltergeist?

[frik]

OK, I guess that makes Cloverfield an official nomination?

123. House of Wax (1953)

sk

[frik]

Only 5 nominations to go....what's everyone waiting for?

sk

[fearless-freak]

its hard to choose, i was gonna say Zombie Flesh Eaters but that's Zombi 2

Halloween

[frik]

Both have been nominated.

sk

[fearless-freak]

The Devil's Rock

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Has anyone nominated "I spit on your grave"?

[frik]

No.
124 and 125 are in.
Three to go.

sk

[mae]

126. The Vanishing

[Mattrick]

127. Silent Hill

[mae]

I can't believe nobody nominated this yet, so hopefully you won't mind if I go out of turn for the last spot:

128. Let's Scare Jessica to Death

[Mattrick]

Please, scare my ex all you want.

[Heather19]

Thanks everyone, nominations are now officially closed and here is our final list.

1. The Shining
2. The Exorcist
3. El Orfanato (The Orphanage)
4. La Maschera del Demonio / Black Sunday (1960)
5. The Others
6. Halloween
7. House of 1000 Corpses
8. Dracula / Horror of Dracula
9. Psycho
10. Rosemary's Baby
11. The Omen (1976)
12.The Wicker Man (1973)
13. Alien
14. Pontypool
15. Nightmare on Elm St. (1984)
16. A Tale of Two Sisters
17. The Bad Seed (1956)
18. The Conjuring
19. Frailty
20. Absentia
21. Jacob's Ladder
22. Ils (Them) 2006
23. Evil Dead 2
24. Jaws
25. Who Can Kill A Child
26. The Evil Dead
27. Scream
28. Phantoms
29. Carnival of Souls
30. The Haunting (1963)
31. Session 9
32. Stir of Echoes
33. Night of the Living Dead 1968
34. Phantasm
35. The Mothman Prophecies
36. Escalofrio
37. Friday the 13th
38. Zombi 2 aka Zombie (1979)
39. Event Horizon
40. Dark Corners
41. The Changeling
42. Pet Semetary
43. Let The Right One In
44. Frankenstein (1931)
45. Two Eyes Staring (Zwart water)
46. The Thing
47. Carrie
48. The Ring
49. Fragile
50. The Thing From Another World (1951)
51. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
52. 28 Days Later
53. 1408
54. HENRY Portrait of a serial killer (1986)
55. The Devil's Backbone
56. From Dusk till Dawn
57. Poltergeist
58. The Fly (1986)
59. The Uninvited (1944)
60. The House on the Haunted Hill
61. The Silence Of The Lambs
62. Ju-on
63. Audition
64. Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) 1975
65. Freaks
66. Re-Animator
67. Nosferatu (1922)
68. Mimic
69. Bay of Blood (1971)
70. Onibaba
71. American Gothic (1988 )
72. The Descent
73. The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
74. 2000 Maniacs
75. Los Condenados
76. In Fear
77. Black Sabbath (1964)
78. Repulsion
79. Sixth Sense
80. Aparecidos
81. Suspiria
82. Bud Abbott & Lou Costello meet Frankenstein (1948 )
83. Cold Fish
84. The Innocents
85. Orphan
86. Joshua (2007)
87. Dawn of the Dead (1978 )
88. Army of Darkness
89. Fear(s) of the Dark
90. An American Werewolf London
91. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
92. The Dark (2005)
93. Funny Games
94. The Mist
95. The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
96. Dark Waters (2005)
97. Near Dark (1987)
98. Insidious
99. Eyes Without a Face
100. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
101. Blair Witch Project
102. Paranormal Activity
103. Kill List
104. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
105. The Mummy Trilogy
106. Picnic at Hanging Rock
107. Puppet Master
108. Cannibal Holocaust
109. Don't Look Now
110. Class of Nuke 'Em High
111. Saw
112. King Kong (1933)
113. The Last Exorcism
114. Pan's Labyrinth
115. [REC]
116. Wes Craven's New Nightmare
117. Misery
118. Hellraiser
119. The Birds
120. The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
121. May
122. Cloverfield
123. House of Wax (1953)
124. The Devil's Rock
125. I Spit On Your Grave (1978 )
126. The Vanishing (1988 )
127. Silent Hill
128. Let's Scare Jessica to Death

I'm assuming I Spit on Your Grave is the original version, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Same goes for The Vanishing?

[Heather19]

Also, if we nominate 128 films, I can use this website to insert all the films and hopefully update them. It would be pretty cool. Of course, we'd have to do movie vs. movie matchups like the NCAA tournament. Not multiple films against each other at once. That could take a lot longer.

http://www.betterbracketmaker.com/

That's pretty neat. Too bad you can't alter it to include more. My plan was to do larger brackets, or it's going to take forever. I have an excel spreadsheet going now, and I was going to put them into a randomizer, and create the brackets that way. I'm hoping to get the first polls up later today.