Results tagged “Lists”

(I’ve also annotated my ballot.)

The results are in.

The top five:

1. The Shining (1980)
2. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
3. Halloween (1978)
4. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
5. Psycho (1960)

Despite complaints in the comments, it’s a pretty damned respectable list.

Ballots for Ed Hardy Jr.’s 31 Flicks That Give You the Willies are due by the end of October 28. Remember: Your movies can’t win if you don’t play.

Here’s my ballot, sent without consulting my nominations.

(And, as of November 2, the list is fully annotated.)

At Shoot the Projectionist, Ed Hardy Jr. is accepting nominations for “31 Flicks That Give You the Willies.” Although he’s not explicit about it, we can safely assume that we’re naming our favorite horror movies. The deadline for nominations is Saturday, October 13.

Mine follow, and an explanation is probably in order.

First, I excluded from my nominations obvious choices that nearly everybody will choose.

Second, there’s an important distinction in my mind between something that “gives me the willies” and something that’s a great horror movie. Horror doesn’t have to scare me or creep me out to be great in my book. Conversely, something that does give me the willies isn’t by definition a great horror movie. I am abiding by the spirit of the prompt rather than the letter.

Last, some of my choices are more comfortably associated with a genre other than horror. But while Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream might be an explicit after-school special on drug addiction, it’s still a horrifying experience.

I don’t expect many people to actually read through this entire list, let alone try to find patterns or analyze it. But it’s an interesting ongoing exercise for me, listening to the collection album by album, song by song, and figuring out which ones I like best.

I don’t expect many people to actually read through this entire list, let alone try to find patterns or analyze it. But it’s an interesting ongoing exercise for me, listening to the collection album by album, song by song, and figuring out which ones I like best.

The first movie I remember seeing was Bambi, probably when I was about four years old. We went swimming that day, and there was a thunderstorm, and the mental image the day conjures is me standing in the baby pool with nobody else around. I have no idea if the memory is accurate.

The top 10: Apple, Fiona — When the Pawn ...; Case, Neko — Blacklisted; Clash, The — London Calling;
Coil — Horse Rotorvator; Hendrix, Jimi — Band of Gypsies; Lovett, Lyle — The Road to Ensenada; Portishead — Roseland NYC Live; Radiohead — OK Computer; Sleater-Kinney — Call the Doctor; Tool — Aenima

1. Magnolia, 1999; 2. Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, 1997; 3. Calendar, 1993; 4. Memento, 2001; 5. The Truman Show, 1998; 6. Antonia’s Line, 1995; 7. Fearless, 1993; 8. Trees Lounge, 1996; 9. Vertigo, 1958; 10. Requiem for a Dream, 2000.