Field of 64 - Horror/Suspense
 

All righty then.

It looks like this is a go with the catagory being Horror/Suspense movies.

I'd like to do 2 out of 3 for the early rounds and 3 out of 5 for the later ones.

So, submit your favorites and in a couple of days I'll enter them all in and we'll begin!

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Edit: Anyone who previously submitted I'll go back to the old thread to get them.

Late entry: The Sixth Sense

Cape Fear (1991)
Psycho
Silence of the Lambykins

The Ring
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (original)
Night of the Living Dead

The Prophecy
Candyman
Stir of Echoes
The Ring
Nightmare on Elm Street
An American Werewolf in London (kept me awake as a kid)
The Grudge
Psycho
Gothika
Doppelganger (drew barreymore - B flick)

The Exorcist
Ringu (Japanese version of The Ring)
JuOn (Japanese version of The Grudge)

The Changeling
Halloween (the original)
Pet Sematery (just for the scene where he digs up the kid and hugs him -- that freaked me out bad and I haven't watched it since the first time)

The Shining
Last House on the Left
Aliens

Cape Fear (1962 earlier post must have been a typo) If I had seen this movie before I had children, it might have stayed that way.

Night of the Hunter

The Exorcist

Silence of the Lambs Eewwww...*shiver*

Das Boot NOT for the claustrophobic. You have been warned.

The Shining

The Thing

the gift

Two versions: 1962 with Robert Mitchum and 1991 with Robert DeNiro. Both of 'em classics.

Is it just me, or would you classify Das Boot under something other then Suspense/Horror?


And BigV, which version of "The Thing"?

salem's lot
evil dead
friday the 13th III

It's not just you ... I love Das Boot, but then I have a thing for U-Boots.

Definitely War/Drama in my book.

Unless, of course, you're clastrophobic. Maybe then it would be horror.

The Jagged Edge
The Usual Suspects <-- not sure if this fits, very suspenseful, but not scary.

if das boot and the usual suspects are in... then i want The Game included.

evil dead doesn't count Lj.. it's comedy! then again! I looooove that movie

The Exorcist
Silence of the Lambs
The Shining
Rosemary's Baby
Stepford Wives

I would have to say Das Boot doesn't qualify.

The Ususal Suspects is more of an Action/Drama, imo.

Evil Dead is in though. The original scared the crap out of me when I first saw it.

Hey, it's your thread. I was keying on "...Suspense".

The Blair Witch Project isn't the scariest thing around, but it was definitely an event.

Since we still have some room:
The Village
Wolfen
Dawn of the Dead

I was very scared by

Jaws

how many more do we need? And do you need more "oh yeah, me too" votes for the initial seedings??

I need 15 more to fill the 64 slots.

I think we can skip the confirmation votes.

Tee hee. I said "slots".

Just doing my bit ...

From Dusk Til Dawn
The Shining
Angel Heart
Seven

Misery
The Thing (1982)

Manos, the Hands of Fate

The Day of the Triffids

I don't actually know how good it is or how it comes out. My brother and I went to see it at the local theatre when it came out in 1963. I was 9 and my brother was 11. I thought it was pretty good, but my brother got scared and we had to leave.

I still tease him about that sometimes.

The Omen

Equinox and The Car!

Christine

O.k.

I filled out the round with some suggestions from some friends:
Event Horizon
It
Alien

I think it's full and ready to go.

http://cellar.org/fieldof64/64.php?field=horror

If you see any ommissions or mistakes let me know.

Dude, no seeding? I just think it's funner with that.

I could do seeding.

Where most movies were nominated only once I made sure nobodies movies were competeing against each other, but that was it.

Now, if people wanted to vote for their favorites on the list it would be easier to re-arrange....

My input, to help with the ranking, in order of my favorite/scariest first.

Silence of the Lambs
The Exorcist
Seven
The Shining
Alien
Aliens
Sixth Sense
Angel Heart
Psycho
American Werewolfe in London

It's OK if you just seed them yourself. The actual NCAA basketball seeding is done by committee and usually subject of much debate.

It feels wrong to seed movies I've never seen...

I could probably seed movies that have been nominated once against ones that have more then one vote. There do seem to be some favorites.

Uh ... Torgo isn't a movie. He's a character in Manos, Hands of Fate.

And you might want to clarify that The Mummy is the one made in 1932, and Dracula has a different version every couple of years (My fav is the 1931, but I know some folks liked one or more of the others). Ditto for Frankenstein (1931).

FWIW ... I think that the seedings are artificial in this context ... when there's a lot of duplication, yeah, it's cool to know what leads going in, but it doesn't really have a lot of meaning. I think that you did a great job on the matchups!

If you can get the top four close to right, the rest doesn't matter as much.

See. There's what I know. :biggrindu

That means we have an open slot.
Any suggestions?

I'll make the notes.

I''ll rework the orders when I have a minute and try and keep four front runners in each field.

After you do that, I'll put in the seed numbering. That could have been automated better...

:smack:

How could I have forgotten??

Phantasm

And Poltergeist. I don't think anyone suggested that ... oh, somebody else pick, okay??

(oh, and clarify year of release on Night of the Living Dead)

Was I correct in noting that Amityville Horror 2 was listed, but not Amityville Horror??

I'll make the changes.

Yup. Nobody nominated the original and imho, #2 was way better then #1.

Done (again), I think.

http://cellar.org/fieldof64/64.php?field=horror

Mistakes anyone?

well, let's see. there was my first wife... but the field of 64 looks good.

*rimshot*

Ladies and gentlemen, Lookout123. He's here 'til Thursday and don't forget to tip your waiter or waitress....
:lol:

Well, you misspelled Halloween and Leprechaun. But other than that, it seems all right. Although I will grumble about The Car being up against Poltergeist in the first round. It *is* only a B movie after all.but I suppose it would have to go up against a major motion picture release sooner or later. And it still might win if I get my vote in fast enough.

I will be watching closely!

I'm suprised I only had two spelling mistakes. Fixed.

Did we want to do best 2 of 3 for the early rounds?

I numbered the seeding for you

Still have Torgo in there, which was just Wolf making a remark and not an actual film

What!?

O.k., I see what I did. Obviously I didn't hit save that last change I made last night. Torgo was still there but Event Horizon was missing.
I knew I'd changed it at one point....

Are we good to start the races?
Anyone have any preferences for format?

Admin-related: Silent, when someone "wins", you can just copy and paste the winner into the next box... someday I'll write a little javascript button that will move it over.

Roger.

There are some tough, tough matchups on there!

Last night I watched two parts of a five part special on Bravo ... 100 Scariest Movie Moments. Quite a few of our picks were on their list. It finishes tonight, I believe ... check your local listings.

O.k.
Let's try best 2 out of 3 to start with. If it goes too slow we'll drop it.
Same rules as before.

The Ring
or
Last House on the Left

I abstain as I have seen neither film.

The Ring

I have to abstain on most of these... not a fan of the genre

ditto. But I'll help when I can...

Well, I've heard of the Ring. So I would vote for that. Except I'm going to abstain as well, since I haven't seen either one.