HDC Presents: 100 Years of Horror

[The Villain]

Works for me. Bring on the '50's, my favorite decade of horror

[Straker]

Bring on the '50s!

[Kandarian Demon]

Originally Posted by Straker

Bring on the '50s!

I agree :cool:

[Sculpt]

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Okay, this is the final tally for the 40s. The Honorable Mentions are underlined.


IN THE CUT

Cat People (1942) - 9
The Body Snatcher (1945) - 9

I Walked with a Zombie (1943) - 7
The Wolf Man (1941) - 7

Isle of the Dead (1945) - 6

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) - 5
Dead of Night (1945) - 5
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) - 5
House of Frankenstein (1944) - 5
Son of Dracula (1943) - 5
The Spiral Staircase (1945) - 5
The Uninvited (1944) - 5

Bedlam (1946) - 4
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) - 4
Phantom of the Opera (1943) - 4
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) - 4
The Devil Commands (1941) - 4
The Leopard Man (1943) - 4

The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) - 3
The Lodger (1944) - 3
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) - 3 (backed by Straker, seconded by The Villain, Kandarian Demon, Sculpt) [IN]

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949 Animated Short) - 2 (backed by Despare, seconded by fortunato, Sculpt) [IN]

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HONORABLE MENTIONS

Before I Hang (1940) - 3 (backed by roshiq)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1949) - 3 (backed by hammerfan, seconded by The Villain)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1941 Short) - 3 (backed by hammerfan)
Dragonwyck (1946) - 2 (backed by Kandarian Demon)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940) - 2 (backed by realdealblues, seconded by Sculpt)
The Mummy's Hand (1940) - 2 (backed by realdealblues)


DEBATABLE

The Black Cat (1941) - 3 (backed by hammerfan) (-1)
The Corpse Vanishes (1942) - 3
The Seventh Victim (1943) - 3


MINORITY

And Then There Were None (1945) - 2 (-2)
Black Friday (1940) - 2
Daughter of Darkness (1948) - 2
Dr. Cyclops (1940) - 2
House of Dracula (1945) - 2
Man Made Monster (1941) - 2
Night Monster (1942) - 2
Rebecca (1940) - 2 (-2)
She-Wolf of London (1946) - 2
The Monkey's Paw (1948) - 2
The Mummy's Curse (1944) - 2


SINGLE VOTES TO

A Light in the Window (1942)
Black Magic (1944)
Bluebeard (1944)
Devil Bat's Daughter (1946)
Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1943)
Hangover Square (1945)
I Married a Witch (1942)
King Of The Zombies (1941) (-1)
Son Of Ingagi (1940)
Spooks Run Wild (1941)
The Brute Man (1946)
The Devil Bat (1940)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) (-2)
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
The Ghost Ship (1943)
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
The Jade Mask (1945)
The Mad Ghoul (1943)
The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
The Portrait (1948)
The Red House (1947)
Valley of the Zombies (1946) (-1)
Woman Who Came Back (1945)
Yotsuya kaidan (1949)


Now we move into the 50s...

[_____V_____]

The 50s - 1950 to 1959

IN THE CUT

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) - 10
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - 10
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) - 10
The Fly (1958) - 10

Godzilla (1954) - 9

Horror of Dracula (1958) - 8
The Blob (1958) - 8
The Tingler (1959) - 8

Diabolique (1955) - 7
House of Wax (1953) - 7
House on Haunted Hill (1959) - 7
The Mummy (1959) - 7
Them! (1954) - 7

Curse of the Demon (1957) - 6

A Bucket of Blood (1959) - 5

The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) - 4
The Thing from Another World (1951) - 4
The War of the Worlds (1953) - 4 (backed by The Villain, seconded by Sculpt, Kandarian Demon, metternich1815) [IN]

The Bad Seed (1956) - 3
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) - 3

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) - 2
The Night of the Hunter (1955) - 2 (backed by neverending, seconded by roshiq, Straker, The Villain) [IN]

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DEBATABLE


I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) - 4 (backed by neverending, seconded by realdealblues)
Tarantula (1955) - 4 (backed by The Villain, Sculpt) (-1)
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) - 4 (backed by The Villain, seconded by realdealblues, Straker, Sculpt, neverending)


Rear Window (1954) - 3
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - 3 (backed by Sculpt, seconded by Kandarian Demon, metternich1815)
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) - 3 (backed by neverending, seconded by metternich1815, Kandarian Demon)


MINORITY

20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) - 2
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) - 2
Fiend Without a Face (1958) - 2
Invaders from Mars (1953) - 2 (backed by The Villain)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) - 2
Rodan (1956) - 2 (backed by The Villain)
The Abominable Snowman (1957) - 2 (backed by neverending)
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) - 2 (backed by The Villain, Sculpt, neverending)
The Bat (1959) - 2
The Crawling Eye (1958) - 2 (backed by The Villain)
The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959) - 2
This Island Earth (1955) - 2
Ugetsu (1953) - 2


SINGLE VOTES TO

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
Blood of Dracula (1957)
Bride of the Monster (1955)
Corridors of Blood (1958)
Dementia (1955)
El Vampiro (1957) (backed by Straker, seconded by neverending)
Frankenstein- 1970 (1958)
Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
I Bury the Living (1958)
I Married A Monster from Outer Space (1958)
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) (The Villain)
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Kronos (1957)
Lust of the Vampire (1956)
Not of This Earth (1957)
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Teenage Zombies (1959)
The Alligator People (1959)
The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
The Black Castle (1952)
The Body Snatcher (1957)
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
The Giant Behemoth (1959)
The Giant Claw (1957)
The Killer Shrews (1959) (Sculpt)
The Man From Planet X (1951)
The Monolith Monsters (1957)
The Screaming Skull (1958)
War of the Colossal Beast (1958)
X: The Unknown (1956)


SPECIAL SECTION - REST OF THE GIANT MONSTER FILMS OF THE 50s :-

Attack of the Giant Leeches 1959
Beginning of the End 1957
Behemoth, the Sea Monster 1959
Earth vs. the Spider 1958
Half Human 1955
Monster from Green Hell 1958
Monster from the Ocean Floor 1954
The Black Scorpion 1957
The Deadly Mantis 1957
The Giant Gila Monster 1959
The Monster That Challenged the World 1957
Varan the Unbelievable 1958



The initial backings/negations stay.

Adding a special "Giant Monster" films section at the end for due consideration, since it was demanded by Sculpt and supported by a few other members.

Remember, we are here to select TWO films from the remaining ones from the DEBATABLE section onwards.
The "In The Cut" section is NOT for debate.

Once that is done, we can proceed to select SIX films from the rest for our Honorable Mentions.

OR, if everyone is in joint agreement, we can select TWO films from the 4-votes section with enough backings, and get the Honorable Mentions from the rest which see backings behind them.

OR we can go the old-fashioned way and debate till we get our chosen films.

Either way, let's hear it.

[Sculpt]

Tough choices, as more than usual, we have to deal with what can be included as a Horror film. I'm in with defining a Horror film with at least one genuine scene of horror, and of course, that's going to be subjective, but also go with some common sense about it.

For 1950's #21 and #22, I back:

Gojira/Godzilla, King of the Monsters - together as one film selection. They are both the same and different films, but both were very good, and had many scenes of suffocating horror in it. Obvious and solid selection to me.

The War of the Worlds (1953) - I found many many scenes, and the whole film, horrifying. It's sci-fi subject matter to the core, but the film was made with a bus load of horror elements. We've just got sneak attacked by intelligent monsters from outerspace that appear to intend to wipe us out completely, and we're getting beaten so bad, it looks like were going to lose. To me, this script/film is us getting wiped out by mass murder. In that way, it plays as sci-fi/horror, like The Thing & Body Snatchers.

I think these two films are much better films than any of the others in the Debate and lower sections, with the exception of two films I don't consider Horror films (mentioned below).


(These aren't 'Negative Votes', just my reasons for not considering these Horror films.)

I've changed my mind on "The Day the Earth Stood Still". I don't see it as a Horror film anymore, as I don't think the film intended to horrify the audience, and I don't think I felt any horror viewing it.

I also don't consider "Rear Window" a Horror film either. I'd say it's suspenseful, not horrifying.

[neverending]

I agree with Sculpt and give a negative vote to Rear Window. It's a thriller, not a horror film.

I'm also going to break the rules and back Night of the Hunter as one of the 22. Oh, I see- I already backed it. Well, I call upon the rest of you to lend it your backing as well. It's not only a great horror movie, it's a damn good movie, period. Robert Mitchum's preacher is a chilling portrayal, a true monster.

I'd also like to know why Hunchback of Notre Dame is in the cut with two votes, when the movies in the debatable section all have 3 and 4 votes.

[Sculpt]

Originally Posted by neverending

I'd also like to know why Hunchback of Notre Dame is in the cut with two votes, when the movies in the debatable section all have 3 and 4 votes.

Here's the original 1950's Top 20 post. Looks like "Hunchback 56" was back in the Minority List with just 2 votes, and then you (never), Villain and I backed it during the Debate round, and it got into the Final 20.

I join Neverending in withdrawing my backing of Hunchback 1956 for the Final 20/22. (not really Horror; not the version I thought it was; great story, not great version) If that's acceptable.

In place of Hunchback 56, I back "Them!", a highly regarded 1950s monster/horror film.

So we'd really be asking everyone for 3 films to make our 22 list.

[neverending]

I didn't withdraw my support of Hunchback... I just didn't check how it got in the cut. V says the In the Cut section is not up for debate.