The Ring. Spooooky, in the best trembling teenager tradition.

I mean, the teenagers watching it at my house trembled, there aren't really any teenagers in the film itself.

*raises hand*

Procedural question. Does a vote in a contest disqualify one from voting in the subsequent contest?

TIA

It does. Same as before.

i'm late to the party, but The Ring freaking rules!

hey silent - can you link to the seeding in your signature line, please?

Ohh! Good Idea! Please!

And what about a link to "the rules"?

Done.

Nightmare on Elm Street
or
Psycho

changed my mind. i don't know. psycho as awesome but so was the original NOES. no vote here.

Psycho (After checking to make sure the next match up is not one for which I have a very strong opinion)

just a thought, but if we don't have a large number of people participating, this may drag on quite a long time if people can't vote in consecutive contests. i think the best 2 of 3 rule will suffice to keep one person from running the show. could we eliminate one of those two rules to speed up play? at least until the finals, when everyone seems to really get involved?

sig needs help...

Psycho

are you voting, or are you refering to BigV?

Psycho

If it slows down I'll wave the rule. I don't want it to run too quickly as I won't be able to keep up. :biggrin:

The Prophecy
or
Texas Chainsaw Masacre

the prophecy, of course

TCM!!!

:haha:

I was referring to Silent's signature, pointing out that the information to the field of 64 "link" was not working...

But I appreciate the compliment!

Cut and paste man.

Just to stop Lookout from melting down ...

quote this message. Remove the quote tags, and all this extraneous text.

Field of 64 - Horror/Suspense

(only the linked text should remain)

hey! i'm not the one that complained. am i? i better check, but i don't remember complaining about the cut and paste necessity...

and BigV - c'mon man, i thought that was funny.

Thanks Wolf.
I just didn't have the time or patience to work that out.

I learned the syntax because of quick reply ...

Alright, let's see if we can speed this up a bit.

Let's wave the "Can't vote twice in a row" rule.

Still need at least one more vote in the current contest.

TCM!!!

clap. clap.

I was focused on getting sig in line. No offense taken.

Hello Silent!

Thanks for waiving the consecutive vote rule. That's a good idea, in my opinion. Also, thanks for putting the link in your signature.

I have an observation from previous Fo64s. I thought it was exciting to watch the upcoming matches--I know I'm not alone in this--wolf even mentioned holding her fire for a more desireable target. But a few times UT mixed it up and chose a contest that was not strictly adjacent to the previous one. He jumped around in a given level (64, 32,16, etc) and that was really cool.

I felt like those animals in the zoo that had their food hidden so they had to work for it....heheheh... ok, I thought it was funny. Just an idea.

np

I can do that. I suspect I'll end up doing it inadvertantly.
:biggrin:

Ringu
or
Night of the Living Dead

Funny! :lol:

Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead!!

Stir of Echos
or
Cape Fear (1991)

Cape Fear

Cape Fear

The Exorcist
or
An American Werewolf in London

The Exorcist

I didn't stay for the whole movie, a rarity for me. And I stayed away from the movies for a year or so following. FREAKED me out. Maximum heebie jeebies.

*shivers*

The Exorcist

Doppelganger
or
JuOn

Blues Brothers RAWK!!

Doppelganger.


best movie that Drew Barrymore ever did! for real.

Abstain. Have not seen either film. Shit, have not HEARD of either film.

JuOn is the original japanese version of The Grudge. creepy. but doppelganger is a solid B movie about evil twins from alternate realities... sweet.

Prolly waaay too late to contribute to this but we missed several major contenders:

Bride of Frankenstein (an amazingly layered allegorical horror piece)
Cat People (a Freudian maelstrom...more psychiatric monographs have been
written about this movie than any other)
Island of Lost Souls (wow....hard to describe....truly weird Laughton)
Freaks (like no other movie ever made)
Nosferatu
Twin Peaks (the series, not the chopped up 2 hour movie)
Cell, The (pure evil, unforgettable visuals)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (found usually in Sci-Fi, really political horror)

and....

The third story in Karen Black's "Trilogy of Terror"...the one with the tiny African cannibal fetish chasing her around her apartment) All you women out there that saw this know what I'm talking about, heheheh.... Yikes!

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Beyond that, what are the rules to this ladder... how does one vote for each level? :question:

I would vote for that third of Trilogy of Terror. I think we discussed it here somewhere. Spent a long time trying to find out what the hell that TV movie was that kept me from sleeping for such a long time. I must have been about 12 when I saw it and I don't believe I've fully recovered yet.

Were they walled up in a basement?

The only case i can remember of somebody getting walled up in a basement was Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado". In your memory, was the victim wearing a jester's costume with bells on his hat, that were the last things the killer heard as he plastered in the last brick?

the current contest is 25 hours and counting... do we want to consider 1 vote wins until the semi finals?

How does one vote on this damned thing?

One waits until the latest contest is posted and states ones choice.

(I'm going to be missing out on anything happening today because I have two parties to go to. Damn, but I'm popular.)

I would say so.

The Grudge
or
Pet Sematary

We're are currently doing a best 2 out of 3 format.

Another film that contains a scene of being walled up alive is an adaptation of "The Pit and the Pendulum". I forget who directed, but it does have graphic torture scenes, and gratuitous nudity. Overall I gave it a thumbs down due to sucky storyline and bad special effects but if you're a fan of that genre, have at it. The walling up of the bishop was pretty good and managed to strike a chord with the claustrophobic in me.

Brian

Pet Sematary!

The reason I asked about the walled up thing, is I saw a movie when I was 7-9ish. Scared the be-jesus out of me. But all I remember now is:
1) A new couple movie into an old house
2) Them opening up an old fireplace (in the basement?) and wondering why it was bricked up.
3) The villians were, like, 10" tall and hated the light.
4) They end up dragging the women in the film back into the fireplace and she turns into one of them. She attempted to fend them off with a flash camera.

I have yet to find out what that movie was called.

Oh damn. I saw that.

I can't remember the title either.

For some reason I recall a blonde british woman rather than kim darby, but I would have seen it in the early 70s, so my recall may be fading ...

That could be. I remember the rope thing, I think.

I also remember the ending:
They re-brick the fireplace and as the camera zooms out from the house you hear the whispering voices of the little demons and then her voice saying "We have time. We have all the time in the world..."

Times Up!
Pet Sematary wins.

Exorcist 3
vs
The Gift

Abstain.

(Was Exorcist 3 the one with the bees, or the one actually based on Legion by William Peter Blatty?)