1FF's Top 100 Horror Films

[Craig]

I quite like Zombie's films, even his Halloween remakes. Not a massive fan of Asian horror, though one did make my list, but I can certainly see the appeal.

[REC] and Night of the Living Dead are a couple that came damn close to making my list too.

 

[Smudge]

The Crow was mine. I have a couple that are sort of cross genre like that one. It's also revenge though so maybe I can nominate it for the Film Club so I can watch it again!

Nightmare on Elm Street 3 was mine too. Not a fan of sequels but I love this. Like all the best 80s films, has an over the top cheesy rock theme tune as well! Some very creative deaths too, the 'puppet' being a particular favourite.

 

[Cas]

Btw, are all these 1-5 pointers outside the Top 100??

Didn't even manage to get 100 films nominated I don't think

 

[Craig]

What the hell is the hold up Cas?

 

[Cas]

Eating Haribo and playing World of Warcraft. You shall wait.

 

[Craig]

My Monday night soap's start at 7pm pal.

 

[Cas]

Six Pointers

Santa Sangre
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide

I've not seen it.

Deep Red
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a feisty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.

Peeping Tom
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

Dog Soldiers
A squad of British soldiers on training in the lonesome Scottish wilderness find a wounded Special Forces captain and the carnaged remains of his team. As they encounter zoologist Megan, it turns out that werewolves are active in the region. They have to prepare for some action as there will be a full moon tonight...

1408
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror. The film was based on Stephen King's short story of the same name.

The Skeleton Key
A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid going-ons centered around a group of Hoodoo practitioners.

The Hills Have Eyes (Original)
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.

The Craft
A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them.

 

[KevinMcallister]

when are we in top 25 ffs! these are all terrible films, only 1 of mine has been seen yet (smug)

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Slowest countdown ever.

 

[Leewilson]

I think we should give Cas credit as he's already exceeded his efforts on the Disney list.

Which is here by the way: http://www.onefootballforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/top-50-100-disney-movies-list.6547/

Great read, highly recommended.

 

[Craig]

The Hills Have Eyes (Original)
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.

Mine. Ought to have nominated it as my revenge film I suppose. Inspired by the story of Sawney Bean an all American family take a short cut through the desert and fall foul of some nasty cannibal types. Another one cut to ribbons on its initial release some of the scenes stand up even today as pretty brutal. My favourite Wes Craven film and an early role for Dee Wallace who went on to star in a whole bunch of genre classics. Admirably remade my Alexandre Aja in 2006. I have a soft spot for wrong turn backwoods horror and this is one of the granddaddies.

 

[Smudge]

Cas? CAS!!! Priorities man!

 

[Son of Cod]

Santa Sangre was one of mine. Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. I've only seen this and El Topo by him, but based on those two alone I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest he's somewhat of a madman genius. There's loads of horrid violence in this such as the aforementioned chopping off of arms along with an adequate dose of testicle/sulphuric acid abuse. Looks and feels older than a film that was made in 1989, to me. Dripping with pyschadelia and surrealism and comes with a bit of a moral message. Also the second of mine to feature dwarves.

Mine. Ought to have nominated it as my revenge film I suppose. Inspired by the story of Sawney Bean an all American family take a short cut through the desert and fall foul of some nasty cannibal types. Another one cut to ribbons on its initial release some of the scenes stand up even today as pretty brutal. My favourite Wes Craven film and an early role for Dee Wallace who went on to star in a whole bunch of genre classics. Admirably remade my Alexandre Aja in 2006. I have a soft spot for wrong turn backwoods horror and this is one of the granddaddies.

Was one that I was considering too. Also my favourite Craven film, although I do really like The People Under the Stairs too.

 

[Cas]

if u want a faster countdown do it ur fucking self then

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

if u want a faster countdown do it ur fucking self then

Bit touchy.

 

[KevinMcallister]

CAS out!

 

[Murphy]

Bollocks, missed the deadline for this

 

[Martino Knockavelli]

Six Pointers
Peeping Tom
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

Mine #15. 1960. Another wellspring of horror themes and tropes and imagery... fetishistic voyeurism, the male gaze, spectatorship, and the way that both audience and film-maker can be implicated in those equations. It gets labelled as "the British Psycho", which is slightly annoying but not entirely unreasonable. It came out the same year, and there's a bit of a multiple discovery thing going on on the way that they represent 2 halves of a whole. There's something epochal about it too, specifically with it being set in London, at a tipping point between stiff upper lip sexual repression and a new, more liberated and (purportedly) swinging era. It's odd to watch now (particularly since I had seen about a million films that it had influenced before hand), simultaneously radical and familiar... dead good

 

[Cas]

Seven Pointers

Predator
My favourite film of all time, so I'm glad that someone voted for it. Predator is a sci-fi, action and horror film directed by John McTiernan. It features Arnold Schwazarneg...Arnold Schwazrzne...it stars Arnie as the central character, Major Dutch Schaefer. It also features Carl Weathers, Bill Duke and Sonny Landham. Dutch's team, an elite special forces squad, are dispatched to rescue hostages from central America. However, they run into one ugly motherfucker (It's an alien thing) and all hell breaks loose. Great kills, ex wrestlers who can't act for shit and some great kills sees Predator deservedly make this list. GET TU DA CHOPPAH.

Vampyr
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire. Vampyr is a german-French horror film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer.


Dark Water
Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) wants to move away from her ex-husband, Kyle (Dougray Scott), and take her daughter, Ceci (Ariel Gade), with her. Relocating to a dreary tower block, Dahlia and Ceci discover eerie, dark water leaking through the ceiling of their new apartment. Dahlia petitions the supervisor (Pete Postlethwaite) and the building's owner (John C. Reilly) to fix the leak, yet it only gets worse. Now having nightmares about the dripping, Dahlia is driven to confront the problem herself.

Dark Water is a remake of the 2002 Japanese film of the same name.

The Blood on Satan's Claw
When a mysterious corpse is accidentally dug up by a boy in a small town, a group of local teens starts acting very strangely. The adolescents, led by a girl named Angel (Linda Hayden), are convinced the corpse was once possessed. Hoping to get in touch with the devil through the body, the teens act out a series of demonic rituals that causes a stir among the townspeople. When word of the satanic activity spreads, certain parents start trying to lock up the kids behind the spooky stunts.

 

[Smudge]

I haven't actually seen Predator since I was a kid, probably needs a rewatch

 

[Leewilson]

The Conjuring featured highly on my list so that placing is wrong.

Cas

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

I never got the big hoo har with Predator.

 

[Cas]

The Conjuring featured highly on my list so that placing is wrong.

Cas

Okay calm down. It's fixed.

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

Okay calm down. It's fixed.

If Predator is your favourite, shouldn't it be higher?

 

[Leewilson]

Okay calm down. It's fixed.

I am calm. Just pointing out an error. Relax mate.

 

[Craig]

FARCE!

 

[ZianfrancoGoal]

Dark Water
Dahlia (Jennifer Connelly) wants to move away from her ex-husband, Kyle (Dougray Scott), and take her daughter, Ceci (Ariel Gade), with her. Relocating to a dreary tower block, Dahlia and Ceci discover eerie, dark water leaking through the ceiling of their new apartment. Dahlia petitions the supervisor (Pete Postlethwaite) and the building's owner (John C. Reilly) to fix the leak, yet it only gets worse. Now having nightmares about the dripping, Dahlia is driven to confront the problem herself.

Dark Water is a remake of the 2002 Japanese film of the same name.

did somebody really vote for this

because i voted for the good one

 

[KevinMcallister]

RECOUNT!!!

 

[Cas]

Eight Pointers

A Bay of Blood
Following the murder of Countess Federica Donati (Isa Miranda), an heiress possessing a beautiful piece of beachfront property, members of her family and the surrounding community engage in a killing spree, each with his own secret agenda. In addition to the string of creative murders, a group of hippies arrive on the premises, engage in promiscuous sex and find themselves dying one by one in this cult classic that's considered to be the original slasher film.

Salem's Lot
THERE'S TWO OF THESE FILMS BUT SOMEONE DIDNT MENTION WHICH FUCKING ONE EH EH EH.

Based on the Stephen King novel, Ben Mears (David Soul) has returned to his hometown of Salem's Lot to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House that resides on a hill overlooking the small town. His project is curtailed, however, when he finds out that someone has bought the long-empty property. But when people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.

Devil's Backbone
After losing his father, 10-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which shelters orphans of the Republican militia and politicians, and is taken in by the steely headmistress, Carmen (Marisa Paredes), and the kindly professor, Casares (Federico Luppi). Soon after his arrival, Carlos has a run-in with the violent caretaker, Jacinto (Eduardo Noriega). Gradually, Carlos uncovers the secrets of the school, including the youthful ghost that wanders the grounds.

Videodrome
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend (Deborah Harry) auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

 

[Cas]

Nine Pointers

The Faculty
To the students at Harrington High, the principal and her posse of teachers have always been a little odd, but lately they've been behaving positively alien. Controlled by otherworldly parasites, the faculty try to infect students one by one. Cheerleader Delilah (Jordana Brewster), football player Stan (Shawn Hatosy), drug dealer Zeke (Josh Hartnett) and new girl Marybeth (Laura Harris) team up with some of their other classmates to fight back against the invaders.

Them
No idea which film. There's a few horror films with this title. Let's pretend it's all of them.

Threads
Documentary-style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England, and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.

Think that's the film anyway. Probably wrong.

Near Dark
Cowboy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) meets gorgeous Mae (Jenny Wright) at a bar, and the two have an immediate attraction. But when Mae turns out to be a vampire and bites Caleb on the neck, their relationship gets complicated. Wracked with a craving for human blood, Caleb is forced to leave his family and ride with Mae and her gang of vampires, including the evil Severen. Along the way Caleb must decide between his new love of Mae and the love of his family.

The Orphanage
Laura (Belén Rueda) has happy memories of her childhood in an orphanage. She convinces her husband to buy the place and help her convert it into a home for sick children. One day, her own adopted son, Simón (Roger Príncep), disappears. Simon is critically ill, and when he is still missing several months later, he is presumed dead. Grief-stricken Laura believes she hears spirits, who may or may not be trying to help her find the boy.

The Descent
A year after a severe emotional trauma, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) goes to North Carolina to spend some time exploring caves with her friends; after descending underground, the women find strange cave paintings and evidence of an earlier expedition, then learn they are not alone: Underground predators inhabit the crevasses, and they have a taste for human flesh.