1st Annual - HORRORPHILE HALL OF INFAMY - 2008
June 13th 2008 02:11
The votes have been tallied. The results are in. Here’s the 1st Annual Pleasure of Nightmares Hall of Infamy!
US 1979 Directed by Ridley Scott
Space crew aboard a mineral ore freight ship tries to survive against a ferocious alien beast.
“I admire its purity. A survivor ... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality … I can't lie to you about your chances, but ... you have my sympathies.”
Gore Score: 4/5
Terror Factor: 9/10
Atmosphere Level: High
US 1973 Directed by William Friedkin
A young 12-year-old girl is possessed by a demon, Pazuzu, and two priests, one of them an exorcist, are called in to try and drive the evil spirit from her ravaged body.
“The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen.”
Gore Score: 2/5
Terror Factor: 8/10
Atmosphere Level: Medium
US 1982 Directed by John Carpenter
US Antarctic Research Station is infiltrated by a grotesque and ferocious alien creature which can absorb and imitate its victims.
“I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.”
Gore Score: 5/5
Terror Factor: 8/10
Atmosphere Level: High
Japan 1998 Directed by Hideo Nakata
A mysterious video claims the lives of whomever watches its weird, unsettling images, and it is revealed to be the work of malevolent female ghost called Sadako.
“It's not of this world. It's Sadako's fury. And she's put a curse on us.”
Gore Score: 1/5
Terror Factor: 9/10
Atmosphere Level: High
US 1968 Directed by Roman Polanski
A young couple - the wife is pregnant - moves into an apartment but discover the neighbours to be very strange, with a disturbing and diabolical agenda.
“Rosie, a pain like that is a clear sign that something is not right. We just want you to get another opinion, see someone else, that's all.”
Gore Score: 1/5
Terror Factor: 7/10
Atmosphere Level: Medium
US 1984 Directed by Wes Craven
In the dreams of his victims a powerful demon, once a child murderder, stalks the children of the lynch mob who took their revenge upon him.
“Whatever you do don't fall asleep.”
Gore Score: 3/5
Terror Factor: 8/10
Atmosphere Level: High
Australia 2005 Directed by Greg Mclean
Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive.
“I'm going to do something now they used to do in Vietnam. It's called making a head on a stick.”
Gore Score: 4/5
Terror Factor: 8/10
Atmosphere Level: Medium
US 1980 Directed by Stanley Kubrick
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil presence possesses the father into a deranged and malevolent state of mind, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
“No sir, YOU are the caretaker. You've always been the caretaker. I ought to know: I've always been here.”
Gore Score: 2/5
Terror Factor: 8/10
Atmosphere Level: High
Canada/US 2000 Directed by John Fawcett
The older of the two Fitzgerald sisters - suburban Goth outcasts - gets bitten by something hairy in the woods, and it certainly wasn’t frost. Soon enough she’s got major teething problems.
“I get this ache... And I, I thought it was for sex, but it's to tear everything to fucking pieces.”
Gore Score: 3/5
Terror Factor: 6/10
Atmosphere Level: Medium
US 1981 Directed by John Landis
Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists, whilst one becomes the undead, the other realises he must die to prevent the curse from perpetuating.
“Beware the moon … And stick to the road. Oops.”
Gore Score: 4/5
Terror Factor: 8/10
Atmosphere Level: High
US 1974 Directed by Tobe Hooper
Five friends pick up a dodgy hitchhiker who leads them to a rundown house where they are hunted down and terrorized by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of cannibals.
“My family's always been in meat.”
Gore Score: 2/5
Terror Factor: 8/10
Atmosphere Level: High
US 1978 Directed by John Carpenter
A psychopath, institutionalised since childhood, escapes and returns to his hometown on a murderous rampage, while his doctor desperately pursues him.
“It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare.”
Gore Score: 1/5
Terror Factor: 9/10
Atmosphere Level: High
US 1995 Directed by David Fincher
Two cops, one new and arrogant, and the other about to retire, track a clever serial killer who is using the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.
“This isn’t going to have a happy ending.”
Gore Score: 2/5
Terror Factor: 7/10
Atmosphere Level: High
Here are clips from each of the movies kicking off with the rarely seen extended chestbursting scene from Alien and culminating with the brilliant title sequence from Se7en:
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Comment by JohnDoe
Film & TV on DVD
Most all are great horror films (though i still don't see the attraction of Wolf Creek). Cool to see Ginger Snaps make the cut.
I'm bugged I didn't get a chance to vote in the final tallies but in the end we have talked about our favourites so many times it kind of balances out.
Good work and happy Friday the 13th.....I'm having another horror marathon tonite with "Teeth" being the premiere event of the evening.
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Yes, intriguing to note no vampire flicks made the cut, and no zombie movies either. No Argento, but two Carpenter flicks. Two werewolf flicks too, which I'm stoked about. Two alien-monster movies, yay! But I'm disappointed Halloween didn't feature near the top. Ginger Snaps and Se7en are the two wild cards, great movies though.
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
2 alien monster movies
2 werewolf movies
2 demonic movies
2 serial killer movies
2 ghost movies
1 slasher movie
1 psycho-cannibal movie
and 1 hybrid demon-slasher movie
Comment by David O'Connell
Screen Fanatic
I'm fond of all of these films, except maybe Rosemary's Baby which I've just never been able to appreciate for some reason and Nightmare on Elm Street which I thought was very dated in certain ways the last time I saw it.
But yes, it's great to see Ginger Snaps there, a brilliant cult classic.
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Comment by Cibbuano
20/20 Filmsight
Science News
Hunt Famous
Orble Post of the Day
Fat Cult
Techbreak
Alien - yeah!
Comment by D. Armenta
The Florida Keys and Everglades
The Black Sheep Chronicles
What constitutes bad manners?
The male mystique
Debate Fan
L.A.M.P.
"He has his father's eyes."
Awesome, you featured one of my all-time favorite movie lines:
“I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.”
And another from :"The Thing"-- "Aw, you gotta be fuckin' kidding me.."
The Thing --is what a remake is supposed to be: better!
Oh yeah--and you know what the absolute scariest scene in "Alien" was and still is for me? When Harry Dean Stanton is calling to the cat, Jonesy, and you see the alien rising up behind him..and then it cuts to the cat's eyes watching as Stanton suffers a horrible screaming death in the background. I'm getting goosebumps right now writing about it.
In my opinion, that is one of the all-time most effective scenes I have ever seen--right up there with Hitchcock!
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Comment by Triple B
SPL Focus
Black Books
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile
Comment by D. Armenta
The Florida Keys and Everglades
The Black Sheep Chronicles
What constitutes bad manners?
The male mystique
Debate Fan
L.A.M.P.
Now isn't that funny--neither scene showed any gory detail. (Well, I guess if it showed the jaws going thru Brett's cap, but I didn't see that!) The cat's eyes, just taking it all in with no reaction-- that sort of reminder that mother nature is one violent bitch--that just chilled me. Our imaginations supply a much more horrifying image, as the legendary Hitchcock always said.
Comment by Bryn
Horrorphile