HDC Presents: 100 Years of Horror

[Straker]

I'll definatly throw an extra vote to Bucket of Blood, looks like it is already gonna get there, but I want to back two movies that I really expected to see with more votes than just mine.

Dementia: Low budget masterpiece, surreal film noir/ horror complete with an amazing example of a sexy female anti-hero. Quality score, quality concept, just a brilliant movie with bags of atmosphere. AKA Daughter of Darkness, try to watch the original version, not the version with the cheesy narration overdub. Awesome movie, way ahead of its time, plenty of faults but really think it is more than worthy of a top 20 spot...

El Vampiro: So, while I wasn't that surprised to see Dementia didn't feature in many/ any lists but mine, I was kinda surprised to see this movie not getting a few more vote. This, in my opinion, is an essential inclusion in the top 20. Predating hammer's Horror of Dracula you get this beautiful mexican offering filled with all the tropes that made Christopher Lee a horror icon. Beautiful cinematography, great atmosphere, sleek and stylish. This is a must watch for any fan of horror and to see Horror of Dracula in the top 20 and El Vampiro slip out with just one vote would be a tragic. If this movie didn't inspire hammer's Dracula, it was certainly a reference point. Really urge people to give this a watch if they havent seen it already.... Gonna link one scene from youtube, keep in mind while watching the scene that this movie predates Horror of Dracula. Pay attention to the score, the atmosphere, the shots and the style, could so easily be watching hammer's Dracula..... Please give it a watch.

[Sculpt]

Lots of great movies. I would only consider Rear Window a non-horror movie, though that's totally subjective. Obviously a ton of these are sci-fi, but I wouldn't say they aren't horror, unless anyone wants to say The Thing 82 isn't a horror movie.

From your list of films on the borderline...

I think these 4 films stand as colossal great films of the wider horror genre. If I may include all of them at once, these films are full stories, based on books, amazing ideas full of ramifications to life, true classics:

1. The Day the Earth Stood Still
2. The Incredible Shrinking Man
3. The War of the Worlds
4. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

These three are the same types of movies, but the stories/films are not quite as epic:

5. This Island Earth
The Amazing Colossal Man
The Thing from Another World

These 2 are worthy movies, that are famous and unique, but in my opinion, don't have the depth of the above mentioned.

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
The Killer Shrews

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Thank you, everyone. We have found FOUR more films which takes the overall tally to 19.

Just need to select ONE more. Please check the updated Master List on the previous page for details.

Thanks to Giganticface for submitting his Top 20 entries for the 70s.

I expect at least 10 more lists by this weekend. The Master List for the 70s starts from the bottom two posts here - http://www.horror.com/forum/showthre...=57593&page=25, and continues into the next page.

On that note, submissions for the 60s are still open. Master List here - http://www.horror.com/forum/showthre...=57593&page=21 (posts #206 & 207)

[neverending]

This was even more difficult than the 60s. My first draft had 34 titles. Had to cut a lot of personal favorites. A lot of old school got cut in favor of more modern horror. By the 70s Hammer's Frankenstein and Dracula films were stretching a bit thin for plot lines, so even though I love them, I cut them all. My final cut was The Other, which is an excellent horror film, and deserving of a place in the top films of the 70s. That's how brutal it got. So much of the weird, low-budget, sleazy horror of the 70s... I cut it all.

[realdealblues]

For the 50's I'll add my backing of

The Thing from Another World (1951) - 4 (backed by The Villain, seconded by roshiq)

For me it's the best in Sci-Fi/Horror.

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A BIG thanks to everyone. We have our chosen 20 from the 50s.

As we roll through the 70s with entries, we tackle the chosen 20 for the 60s in a couple days' time. Keep an eye on this thread for updates.

[Straker]

Sad to see no love for El Vampiro. :(

I'll throw together a 70s list in the next few days.

[neverending]

Originally Posted by Straker

Sad to see no love for El Vampiro. :(

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Certainly an intriguing clip. While I see influence on Hammer there, I also see nods to Lugosi and other vampire films of the 40s and 50s. An important transitional film, for sure.

[Giganticface]

Originally Posted by neverending

This was even more difficult than the 60s. My first draft had 34 titles. Had to cut a lot of personal favorites. A lot of old school got cut in favor of more modern horror. By the 70s Hammer's Frankenstein and Dracula films were stretching a bit thin for plot lines, so even though I love them, I cut them all. My final cut was The Other, which is an excellent horror film, and deserving of a place in the top films of the 70s. That's how brutal it got. So much of the weird, low-budget, sleazy horror of the 70s... I cut it all.

No doubt. The 80s are going to be impossible to cut down to 20. Seriously though, to prevent the 80s final list from being nothing but the staples, maybe we should submit 30 or more. :)

[neverending]

Originally Posted by Giganticface

No doubt. The 80s are going to be impossible to cut down to 20. Seriously though, to prevent the 80s final list from being nothing but the staples, maybe we should submit 30 or more. :)

Um, no...



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