Best Horror Movie Tournament - Nominations

[Heather19]

So I had the spot for Deep Red after all Bruce, it just got lost when I copied it. That means there was one open spot left, so I nominated The Innocents.

And here's our final list of nominees:

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 film)
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

Voting will begin soon.

[needfulthings]

We still have to decide if #56 The Shining T.V. Mini-series belongs on the list? I can understand if the T.V series Salem's Lot was on the list because it was cut & re-edited as a U.K. movie.

Spoiler:

Looks like a good place to sneak in The Innocents

[Heather19]

Personally I'm fine with it being there. I was pretty much leaving it up to the discretion of the people that nominated the films to decide if it belongs on the list or not.

[Still Servant]

It's up to whomever nominated it, but I feel we only need one Shining in the the tourney. They are inherently the same for the most part. By taking the TV movie out, it will allow us to add another deserving film into the tourney.

[Merlin1958]

I nominate we swap From Dusk til Dawn, for The Shining (TV version). Also "Jaws" is not a horror movie in any way. It's a modern day "Moby Dick". I say we go with Bram Stoker' Dracula instead Just some thoughts. Any one agree?

[Merlin1958]

It's up to whomever nominated it, but I feel we only need one Shining in the the tourney. They are inherently the same for the most part. By taking the TV movie out, it will allow us to add another deserving film into the tourney.

I'm good with that as whilst you were posting so was I. LOL However, they are very different films IMHO

[Still Servant]

Rotten Tomatoes did a list a few years ago and listed Jaws as the #10 best Horror film of all time. #2 on their list is a film that didn't make our tourney and one that I never thought of as a horror film and that is King Kong. Then I started thinking about it and realized that King Kong has a lot of horror ingredients in it.

Also, my parents tell me that people wouldn't even go in the ocean after Jaws came out. They were on their Honeymoon in Hawaii and they said people were really afraid to go in the ocean because the move had released that weekend.

[Merlin1958]

Rotten Tomatoes did a list a few years ago and listed Jaws as the #10 best Horror film of all time. #2 on their list is a film that didn't make our tourney and one that I never thought of as a horror film and that is King Kong. Then I started thinking about it and realized that King Kong has a lot of horror ingredients in it.

Also, my parents tell me that people wouldn't even go in the ocean after Jaws came out. They were on their Honeymoon in Hawaii and they said people were really afraid to go in the ocean because the move had released that weekend.

Yeah, showing my age, but I was there for the Phenomenon as well and while it was "Horrific" it was not a traditional "Horror" film, IMHO A horror film must include an element of the supernatural to me. While it may be argued that it was hinted at in "Jaws" I don't feel it qualifies. Of course, JMHO.

Are we agreed on the "Dusk til Dawn" switch for "The Shining, TV version"?

[needfulthings]

Are we agreed on the "Dusk til Dawn" switch for "The Shining, TV version"?

I'LL DRINK TO THAT!

Spoiler:

[Merlin1958]

If you're gonna do it, Bruce do it right!! LOL


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiCjUNI1GC0

[needfulthings]

I would "But don't want to put a strain on my pacemaker."

[Merlin1958]

I would "But don't want to put a strain on my pacemaker."

[Jean]

I'm surprised Jean didn't nominate Repulsion...

I am not sure it's a horror movie. I don't think I would have nominated Rosemary's Baby, either.

Google "Best horror films of all time" and I guarantee you Rosemary's Baby will be on every single list. It will probably be top 5 on every list too.

I know! it never ceases to fill bears' heart with joy, but never ceases to amaze at the same time

[Mattrick]

Salma Hayek in From Dusk Till Dawn taught me as a child what sexy was.

[mae]

I'd switch out The Shining miniseries for Cabin in the Woods. Or May. Or Eyes Without a Face. Or Kwaidan. Or The Birds. Or The Brood. Or Vampyr. Or Godzilla. Or Don't Look Now. Or They Live. Or...

[Mattrick]

The Brood was disappointing as is most of the early Cronenberg I've watched, but I mean EARLY Cronenberg. The Brood had some cool ideas but really meandered through most of it. Vampyr and Eyes Without A Face are on my horrors to watch list. I say Evil Dead 2 should be off the list since it's basically a comedic remake of the first one which is also nominated. I loved Cabin in the Woods but it's more a study on horror films than a horror film but I surely wouldn't disagree with it being in there.

I would really like to see The Last Exorcism be able to get involved, that or something like In The Mouth of Madness or [REC] (i'm in the minority who actually preferred Quarantine over [Rec] but I loved [Rec]2 and [rec]3 so I'd be okay with that franchise getting some recognition. And on topic but off topic, Quarantine 2 is surprisingly awesome, I've watched it a few times. And we should extend the nominations and throw in a few wild cards or something lol, but then again I'm not organising this. Even if a few more were added you could just eliminate that many in the first round to even it out, non? Wouldn't need to change the number advancing each round, just more films would be eliminated in the first round, kind of a round robin. We could squeeze in 24 more nominations this way and it wouldn't disrupt the later rounds. Would be a bloody first round with 24 more corpses for the champion to stand triumpantly over, with his chainsaw hand reving and his boomstick smoking.


Awww hell! Hail to the king baby!

[Heather19]

I nominate we swap From Dusk til Dawn, for The Shining (TV version).

Sounds good.

And I spoke with Feev, and if you guys want, we'll open it up to more nominations. We're just trying to figure out bracket wise how many more. I'm thinking maybe we'll just go to an even 100. So continue on with the nominations

[mae]

Alrighty then!

85. Orphan

[Jean]

86. Joshua (2007)

[barlow]

I nominate we swap From Dusk til Dawn, for The Shining (TV version). Also "Jaws" is not a horror movie in any way. It's a modern day "Moby Dick". I say we go with Bram Stoker' Dracula instead Just some thoughts. Any one agree?

Jaws is a monster movie, that did for going to the beach what Psycho did for going to the shower! Yes there is the adventure story as well. Rob Zombie said it made he afraid to go near water, including using the toilet for a while.

[Jean]

still no Saw anywhere? I am sure I won't nominate it, but I expected someone to; or Cube, or some similar shit. Probably because they come under thrillers rather than horrors, though

[frik]

87. Dawn of the Dead (1978 )

sk

[Merlin1958]

87. Army of Darkness


C'mon, it has to get it's due, no? "Hail to the King, baby"!!!

[mae]

89. Fear(s) of the Dark

[barlow]

90. An American Werewolf London