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Dario Argento pulls off the hard fought and extremely close victory 8-7!
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Quarterfinals - Match 2
Our first combatant is coming off of two crushing victories over Christophe Gans and Takashi Miike for a total score of 19-0! Wes Craven - Last House on the Left, the Hills Have Eyes, Swamp Thing, Nightmare on Elm Street, Chiller, The Hills Have Eyes 2, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Shocker, The People Under the Stairs, New Nightmare, Vampire in Brooklyn, Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Cursed, Red Eye And his opponent, coming off of a 7-0 whooping of Herschel Gordon Lewis and narrowly escaping the 2nd round with a 7-5 victory over Sam Raimi... Tod Browning - Dracula (1931), Freaks, The Devil Doll, Dracula (1966) First one to 7 wins. |
Now you've got a real tourney since the fav's been tossed out.
anyway... Craven has 2 great films, one of which is often thrown into the conversation of 'greatest horror movie'. Also has a handful of horror classics. Browing has 2 great films and one ok film. Craven |
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Hmmm...a hack that happened to direct a couple great movies early in his career, or the man behind the greatest horror film of all time?
No contest, Tod Browning |
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You guys all suck... Anyway, Tod Browning. |
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Craven.
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Fuck Craven.
Browning ftw. |
Browning leads Craven 5-3!
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Wes Craven
Mostly because of Serpent and the Rainbow and giving us the first "reaL" zombie movie. As much as people like o belive he's a hack I think he really has talent... but he wants too much to make gobs of money to really let it shine. |
Browning still leading Craven 6-4!
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Damn! This one is hard! Two different directors that made a serious impact on the horror genre from two different eras. I almost feel like I shouldn't vote, so not to do a dis-service to the other!
As much as I love the old classics... I have to go with: Craven... based on the Last House on the Left. He went against some serious grain here folks, if it wasn't for Craven and LHOTL, who knows where the Gore and Slasher genre would be...if at all. |
now this one is real TOUGH...
hmm... Craven...for giving a new dimension to gore in horror... |
Wes Craven and Tod Browning are all tied up at 6 each!
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Tod Browning.
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Craven, but it was a tough choice
I'm sorry I missed out on the Hitchcock vote. |
Still tied! 7-7!
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I think that credit goes to Bava and Carpenter. |
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Because I'd give the honor to Bob Clark for Black Christmas over JC for Halloween. (Black Christmas came out a full 4 years ahead of Halloween but incorporated much of the same camera techniques that Halloween gets credit for. It is also, as far as I've seen, the first slasher film that was done in manner that resembles what we still see today.) Although, LHotL was a few years ahead of it, I wouldnt exactly think of that as a slasher film. (I certainly do credit Craven for having some balls back then though.) |
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Sorry, I meant Bob Clark and JC for Black Christmas and Halloween. I definately give Craven credit for having the guts to make a film like that at the time but he gets none for creating the slasher genre. Like I said that goes to Clark and Carpenter, at least imo. p.s. I often get Black Christmas and Sunday mixed up which is why I said Bava rather than Clark. |
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Slashers the first one (if we have to take all murder mysteries into the slasher genre) was in the 40s...Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None"... The first independent one was "Peeping Tom"(1960)...the year in which "Psycho" released too...then there was Herschel Gordon Lewis' "Blood Feast(1963)... Bava's "Blood and Black Lace" came in 1964...and "Bay of Blood" in 1971... although its claimed that "Black Christmas" was the first horror film to use the "the calls are coming from inside the house" plotline... |
We can debate the origin of the slasher sub-genre elsewhere.
Craven and Browning still tied at 7! Need more votes.... |
Craven!
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Wes Craven edges out Browning in a come from behind 8-7 victory to advance to the semi-finals!
Next match coming up soon. (So far, both quarterfinal matches have been decided by only 1 vote.) |
Quarterfinals - Match 3
Our next quarterfinalist earned his spot by first trouncing Takashi Shimizu 9-1 followed by a an absolute thumping of James Whale for a 7-0 shutout. Can he continue his path of destruction through the competitors? John Carpenter - Halloween, The Fog, The Thing, Christine, Prince of Darkness, They Live!, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, In the Mouth of Madness, Village of the Damned (remake), Vampires, Ghosts of Mars. And his opponent, making his way to the Elite 8 via a 7-0 shutout of Eli Roth and a very dominant and convincing 12-3 win over Lucio Fulci... David Cronenberg - Shivers, Rabid (aka Rage), The Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers |
ugh not another TOUGHIE...:confused:
hmm... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... C...errrrr...Carpenter for the Thing and Mikey... (boy now I need coffee after all that debate in my brains!?):D |
Carpenter (since horror, although Cronenberg is a better director IMO)
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John Carpenter takes a 3-0 lead.
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