It was the one with George C. (My Groin!) Scott and Brad (Grima Wormtongue) Dourif.

And a wonderful scene about threading a three foot catheter into the inferior vena cava.

the gift

My bad. Sorry.

nah, you're right too ... this dude compiled a list of evil doll movies ...

" Trilogy of Terror (US-1975; dir. Dan Curtis -- Part 3 "Amelia", released separately as a short titled "Terror of the Doll")"

Dan Curtis, incidentally, was the producer/director/creator of Dark Shadows.

Times up.
The Gift wins.

Evil Dead
or
Friday the 13th 3

Evil Dead

evil dead

The Changeling
or
Gothika

Abstain, haven't seen either (I'm very surprised at the number of times I'm posting this particular statement, given that I really, really like the genre. But I am more into the classics ...)

You must see The Changeling. It is proabably #2 all time in my books.
None of that jump-out-of-the-closet crap to scare you, just a lot great setup and disturbing moments.
Him listening to the the tape recording of the sceance...very unsettling.

The Changeling

Silence of the Lambs
or
The Village

Silence of the Lambs

Silence of the Lambs

silence of the lambs, clarice

Theater of Blood
or
John Carpenters The Thing

The Thing

Damn. I can't vote two in a row can I? Not that it would have helped. I am realistic about such things. Sorry Vincent. (incidentally, I think The Thing is superior to John Carpenter's The Thing.)

the thing the thing the thing the aaahhahggggccckk *thump*

We waived that rule in the interest of moving things along. As it is half of the winners so far have received ony one vote.

Halloween
or
Night of the Hunter

Halloween

Night of the Hunter

(sorry, wolf)

If there is not a tie breaking vote shortly I will cast the deciding vote in the interests of moving things along.

fine, choose wisely.

the holy grail


er, i mean halloween

Jaws
or
Salems Lot

Jaws

Jaws

Amityville Horror 2
or
Wolfen

Christ, how did I manage two add ons against each other...

Wolfen

Time's up.

Dracula, Prince of Darkness
vs
The Omen

The Omen!!

scary damn scary. and the part about the plate glass.. oohhhwewwweeweee.....*shudders*

The Omen (yes, even though I nominated D,POD)

The Haunting
or
Misery

Misery

The Haunting

Misery

Feh. What do you guys know. The tense psychological horror of The Haunting is far superior to the over the top S&M fantasy of Misery. pfft.

The Sixth Sense
or
Christine

any movie with a former Back Street Boy as a murderer is a good movie in my book.

the sixth sense, it is.

Christine!

Here you go Wolf, a chance to strike back at all the Stephen King lovers.

king books = good. king movies = blow chunks.

"shit wipes off" vs. "I see dead people"

6th Sense it is

I would have gone for 6th Sense, as it is clearly the superior film. Certainly more suspenseful than outright horror, though.

And yes, for the record, outside of The Shining, which was only mostly based on the Stephen King novel, and Creepshow, movies made of his books have an unfortunately tendency to suck ass.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (5)
or
Aliens

We're waiting - whoever nominated these must have an opinion? I must regretfully abstain. (One Alien was enough for me, thank you very much - Shamefully haven't seen the Cabinet - Wolf?)

Aliens.

i liked aliens. never heard of the other one.

Cabinet is classic, its the scary look. but like playing a vintage ball player in todays leagues...

Aliens.

House of Wax
or
It

It

House of Wax

Now, just to say a little something about Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. (on that pairing I would have gone for Aliens, BTW. I love Caligari, but when it comes to horror, Aliens has it all going for it. One of the extraordinarily few good sequels. Anyway ...

1920s Germany produced some awesomely interesting avant garde work that was one of the things that got the collective Germanic Lederhosen in a bunch and allowed for the rise of the National Socialist Party. They thought that this weird artistic stuff was too subversive and permissive for the general populace. Anyway ... if you get the chance, see this movie. Rent it. I would expect it to be in the collections of a lot of libraries. Back in the day (mid 70s at a guess), the first time I saw it was by taking an 8mm print out of the library. Caligari presents a surreal landscape in which the absurd becomes normal, and the normal impossible. Cesare, the somnambulist is played by Conrad Veidt, whom you probably better recall as Major Strasser in Casablanca. Another bit of minor movie trivia involves Fritz Lang's M, another of my favorite films ... the head of the group of criminals (whose character name escapes me) wears a pair of gloves that are the negative of the gloves worn by Caligari. The sets are pieces of surrealist artwork in and of themselves, but enhance the overall experience of the film rather than distract from it.

So, basically, see this movie. It's only about an hour long, but does a lot more in that hour than most current films do in two.

Well someone is going to have to break the dead lock on this one 'cause I haven't seen House of Wax.

That, unfortunately, won't be me, since I already voted. House of Wax is the Vincent Price original. It is one of Charles Bronson's, credited as Charles Buchinsky, earliest movies (he plays the mute assistant, who is of course named "Igor"). The film was made during the 3-D craze. There is a totally useless scene involving a guy playing paddleball at you that only makes sense if you know that. Big business is evil, a true artist suffers for his work, loose women deserve what they get, beauty can be preserved forever, and love conquers all.

With screaming. You can't leave out the screaming. Proper classic horror screaming by the heroine, with her fist clenched in front of her mouth because she is so paralyzed with terror. That screaming. The kind that pre-dated the unattractive open-mouthed shrieking, as popularized by Jamie Lee Curtis.

It, on the other hand, was a somewhat lackadaisical made-for-TV miniseries adaptation of one of Stephen King's longer books. I only saw this once. I remember Tim Curry being fairly creepy, but I don't have a lot of patience with anything that Richard Thomas stars in. Harry Anderson was good for the first two years of night court, but I got quite tired of him. I was probably disappointed that the Chinese Dinner scene was not sufficiently graphic.

:innocent look: no, of course I'm not trying to influence the voting ...

yaay! let it be me.

the winner is house of wax.

It sucked.

But I thought you liked House of ...

Ooooooh.

It sucked.

yeah. okay. nevermind. I think I might go to sleep now. Thanks, you've been a great audience. Don't forget to tip your servers and bartenders.

*rimshot*

in school, among my small circle of friends, this kind of humor was considered the finest. quick, topical, you know, clever. some of the best was economical with words, like this one, other times bonus points were awarded for misdirection... I still enjoy this wordplay, but sadly, very few of my current circle "gets it". Certainly for the natural and appropriate reason that they're often just not funny.... but this one (which I regard as quick, clever, 5 out of 10 funny) would have failed to ruffle the hair of any of my day to day aquaintences. :(

So thanks wolf for validating my little joke. I wish I'd been able to hang out with you in school. would have been a howl.

Well it looks like The House of Wax gets to take on more Stephen King in the next round

Manos, the Hands of Fate
or
Pitch Black