Best Horror Film - The Tournament

[rhett]

My Vote:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Well, this is the 500th post in this thread, and this post will also determine who has a one in four chance of winning. In another frustrating matchup, The Evil Dead ties 7-7 with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, forcing me to do another coin toss. After a hesitant flip...The Texas Chainsaw Massacre slices its way into the Final Four. I am pretty sure though, that most of us would have been happy if either of the films advanced.

Because of such a tough loss for The Evil Dead, I think that everyone next matchup should include an Ash one-liner with their vote out of respect. :)



Round Five, Bracket Two

A Nightmare On Elm Street

vs.

The Thing

[Hellbilly]

The Thing

"Gimme Some Sugar Baby" :D

[Jason25]

The Thing

"This is my Boomstick"

[swamptours]

A Nightmare on Elm Street

"Groovy!"

[Pukenstein]

The Thing.

Why only one bracket at a time? Speed it up and finish the contest.

Shop smart, shop S-mart

[Egg_Shen]

The Thing

"Well, hello Mr. fancy pants!"

[thrashard76]

A Nightmare On Elm Street

Yo, she-bitch! Let's go!

[nlogax]

the thing

[DVD Connoisseur]

The Thing

You ain't leading but two things right now - Jack and Shit. And Jack just left town.

[Cujo108]

THE THING

"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun."

[Max Yokell]

Hmm

The Thing

All the Ash one liners that jumped to my mind have been taken, but I will go watch Army of Darkness and edit one in later. :)


Edit: Buckle Up Bone Head, Cause you're going for a ride.

Max

[Andrew]

THE THING

"But we can't bury Shelly...she's a friend of ours."

[rhett]

Originally posted by Pukenstein
Why only one bracket at a time? Speed it up and finish the contest.
I did the one bracket thing to slow it down a bit. There are only five brackets left, so I wanted to make it a little longer so the ending wouldn't be so rushed.

Next matchup I will do two brackets, but I've got to slow it down to one bracket a match as soon as we get into the final four.

Hope that is better! :)

[STREET TRASH]

NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

I don't like the EVIL DEAD trilogy much, so I'm not gonna do a quote :P

[rhett]

My Vote:
The Thing

"It's a trick...get an axe."

John Carpenter's The Thing morphs into the Final Four as it demolishes A Nightmare On Elm Street with a 10-3 victory. I was expecting a better showing from Mr. Fred E. Krueger, but I guess the 40 year old burn victim just aint what he used to be. :)

An ass kicking in the final rounds is tough to take, so we should all give ANOES some respect by naming our favorite murder sequence from the series in our next vote.



Round Five, Bracket Three

Dawn of the Dead

vs.

Friday the 13th



Round Five, Bracket Four

Halloween

vs.

The Shining

[Hellbilly]

Dawn Of The Dead
The Shining

Favorite Murder Sequence in A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET:
Johnny Depp's cool bed-of-blood death.

[Pukenstein]

Dawn of the Dead
Halloween


Nancy's friend rolling on the ceiling and seeing cuts happening was cool.

[DVD Connoisseur]

5,3 Dawn of the Dead

5,4 Halloween

I, like HellybillyDeluxe, nominate the bed jet of blood sequence from the first (and best) Elm Street. Original and jaw-dropping stuff.....

[swamptours]

Dawn of the Dead

Halloween

Nightmare on Elm Street 3- Freddy controlling the kid who loves puppets. It's very freaky when all the veins and sinews come out of the kid's body so that Freddy can control him. Cool stuff indeed.

[Jason25]

Dawn Of The Dead

The Shining

[nlogax]

Dawn Of The Dead
The Shining

[Max Yokell]

Dawn of the Dead

Halloween.


The scene in the first one where the girl gets tossed all about the room and gets lsiced up while her boyfriend is watching.

Max

[mystro]

DOTD

Halloween

[tyson]

Dawn of the Dead

The Shining

[STREET TRASH]

DAWN OF THE DEAD

THE SHINING

Tina being sliced and dragged on the ceiling in the first Nightmare. Classic murder, and apart from Johnny Depp's over-the-top death, probably the bloodiest kill in the entire series.

[Cujo108]

DAWN OF THE DEAD

THE SHINING

[thrashard76]

Dawn Of The Dead
Halloween ;)

[rhett]

My Votes:
Friday the 13th
Halloween

My favorite death scene was the illogical but fun pool party slash sequence in Part 2. It was over the top, and was discontinuous to Freddy being alive only in dreams, but it was damn cool!

Dawn of the Dead slices the head off the mother of all camp slashers, Friday the 13th, with a 13-1 humiliation. Come on guys, ol' Pamela deserved a little better! ;) And in a much closer matchup, Halloween scares The Shining out of the tournament, with a damn close 8-6 victory. Both are great films, and picking one of them was the toughest choice for me to make in the tournament. We are now down to Four, but some must go, so let's vote some more. :)

Also, lets respect the Friday the 13th films by naming your favorite murder sequence in the series in your next vote.

The Final Four
Dawn of the Dead
Halloween
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Thing

[Egg_Shen]

Dawn of the Dead

Halloween

[rhett]

Round Six, Bracket One:

The Thing

vs.

Dawn of the Dead

[DefJeff]

dawn of the dead


favorite friday kill- the wine cork thing/knife to the head combo of part 4

[Cujo108]

THE THING

Fav F13 series kill- road flare to the mouth in part 5.

[Egg_Shen]

The Thing

I enjoyed the kill in Part 2, where the wheelchair bound kid gets a hacthet buried in his face and tumbles down the stairs.

[DefJeff]

Originally posted by Egg_Shen

I enjoyed the kill in Part 2, where the wheelchair bound kid gets a hacthet buried in his face and tumbles down the stairs.

hahaha, there is something so evil about liking that kill :) (its one of my favs too :) )

[thrashard76]

Dawn of the Dead

In Jason Goes To Hell...the sex scene in the tent and the aftermath of the orgasm! :D Priceless... ;)\nn/

[Pukenstein]

Dawn of the Dead


Kevin Bacon's arrow thru the throat.

In Pt 4, when George Mcfly yells for the corkscrew.

[nlogax]

The Thing (jeez that hurt)

[Max Yokell]

Dawn of The Dead

[STREET TRASH]

DAWN OF THE DEAD

[WesReviews]

The Thing

[mystro]

DOTD

[DVD Connoisseur]

The Thing

Kevin Bacon's spear through the throat in the original Friday movie had me looking under the bed for days afterwards and so I'd say it's my favourite death scene of the series.

The Jason Goes To Hell tent slice is my close second....

[swamptours]

Dawn of the Dead

[rhett]

My Vote:
The Thing

My favorite Friday kill has to be the infamous "sleeping bag" murder in Part 7. The homage in Jason X was also hilarious as well!

Well, we really had to get our feet dirty for this matchup. Do we vote for what is arguably the best remake ever made, featuring still phenomenal makeup effects, or do we vote for perhaps the most socially relevant horror film in existance? You guys have spoken, and Dawn of the Dead is the first film to secure a spot in the final matchup by beating John Carpenter's The Thing with a very slim 7-6 victory.

It is a shame to see my tournament hopefull go down with such a narrow loss, and for the next voting bracket let's give The Thing some lovin' by stating who your favorite character from the film was.



Round Six, Bracket Two:

Halloween

vs.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[Egg_Shen]

Halloween

I'll go with MacReady.

[dcrw6]

Well, since I had no idea this was going on, (never really went into the polls area before) I hope I'm not too late to vote on this one.

I will say Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It really is disturbing and everytime I hear that chainsaw, my mind freaks. It really is a psychotic sound if you think about it.


Also, my fav kills in the Jason series are in part nine where Jason elbows that guy in the chin while in the diner kitchen and the sleeping bag bit in Jason X, funnier than anything I've seen all year.

[thrashard76]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ;)\nn/

[Pukenstein]

TCMass

[STREET TRASH]

TCM

[Max Yokell]

Halloween

Max

[Hellbilly]

Halloween

[Cujo108]

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

Dammit, I wanted THE THING to win the tournament! Now my hopeful to win is TCM.

[nlogax]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Fuchs rules

[DefJeff]

Halloween

[DVD Connoisseur]

Halloween

MacReady!

[Peter Vincent]

Halloween for me dude!!!!

[Jason25]

Halloween

[rhett]

My Vote:
Halloween

My favorite character from The Thing was Childs. Keith David is awesome, and his cocky persona adds some real life to the movie.

Well, after a long and fought out battle between chainsaws and butcher knifes, Michael Myers gets the final stab, as Halloween advances with an 8-6 victory. It looked bleak for John Carpenter, as TCM started off strong with a 4-1 lead, but Halloween prevailed with a strong 7-2 finish.

It is a faceless killer versus a horde of brain hungry shoppers for the final battle to determine the winner of being the "Best Horror Film Ever Made". I am going to keep this matchup open for a full two days in order to get the maximum amount of voters. So think it over and chalk up the last vote you'll ever make in this tournament!


Final Round:

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Dawn Of The Dead

vs.

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Halloween

[Jason25]

Dawn Of The Dead

[Cujo108]

Well, neither of these films are the best horror film ever made, but of the two, I choose:

DAWN OF THE DEAD

[DefJeff]

Dawn of the Dead

this was an awesome tourney Rhett... hate to see it end ;_;

[nlogax]

DAWN OF THE DEAD (sad to see 'the thing' go)

[thrashard76]

Well, this truely has been quite a journey you've sent us all on rhett. ;) Maybe down the line you'll consider another tournament matchup of horror's elite. :D

And so its with great pride that I choose Dawn Of The Dead as THE best horror film of this tourney. I'm out.....:cool:\nn/

[Pukenstein]

Dawn of the Dead

[Max Yokell]

Wow this is an odd way for things to finish up.

You see Halloween is really the best Horror movie and Dawn of the Dead is about the most well known gore movie but no where near Halloween as a horror movie.


Oh Fuck it I like Blood and Guts.

I am voting for

Dawn Of The Dead.


Max

[Hellbilly]

My final vote:

DAWN OF THE DEAD

[Max Yokell]

Hey Rhett,
I just noticed a problem with the format you used for this contest.

It really only tells us the Top 2 horror movies. in other words we will know who finished first and who finished 2nd but beyond that there are tons of ties, so if we were to want to take the data from this contest and maybe make a Top 25 list of Horror DVDs as voted on by Horror DVD forum members, it would be very hard to rank anything after two unless we had some runner up rounds.


Maybe you should take some of the data and have some run-off voting between winners and losers from the lower rounds and then we could complie a Top 25 list. Maybe Dave would put up a page with a link to the min page with the Top 25 list and then the rest of us could go out on the net and keep linking back to The Horror DVDs Top 25 Horror movies list. I would bet that many of the more mainstream DVD buyers would actually enjoy a Horror List made up by us Sickos that have sat through the good the bad and the ugly of Horror movies and use it has a guide.

Who knows might even get the site a little prestige.

So what I am saying is we need a run off vote between the two losing semi-finalists to see which was 3 and 4 and then down the line until we have a full 25.



OK I just refuse to accept that there is nothing more to vote on and that it is all over.:D

I don't want it to end.

[STREET TRASH]

DAWN OF THE DEAD

[rhett]

Good ideas Max, I had no intention of making a top horror film list, I just wanted to see which one would come out on top. But it would be cool to rank all the horror films. If more people want to do it this way, then I will go back to four matchups each set until we sort out the top films.

[DVD Connoisseur]

Halloween (I've changed my mind over a dozen times but I'm sticking with Carpenter's classic....at the moment!)

This has to be the Thread of the Year, without question. Rhett, you've kept us hooked throughout the duration! You've done a brilliant job at keeping this poll going and keeping us entertained at the end of each round.

As Max has suggested, another poll to reach the ultimate 25 horror movies would be superb. An even more ambitious list would be the top 100! We could score each proposed movie out of 20 points (marks out of 10 wouldn't fine-tune scores) and list the films in order of points scored, or something like that...it's a mammoth exercise but would be fun.

I want to carry on voting! :p

[dcrw6]

My vote is for Dawn of the Dead.

I would also like a top 25 or 100 list. That would be very cool and it would give newbies a list to watch and would mean they would have more knowledge of the genre and give more intelligent discussion on the boards.

[swamptours]

Damn, this is a tough choice.

I will have to go with Halloween.

[Andrew]

Damn this is horrible. HALLOWEEN was the first movie I absolutely loved, and what really got me hooked on horror. But DAWN is a better film, and it's one of those that you can watch over and over, and it feels so epic. Gotta go with DAWN.

[rhett]

Well, as of now, Halloween is getting creamed 11-2, but there is still some hope left for the little indie that could.

I have been thinking that since some great films like Alien and Re-Animator bit the dust in the first round, that it wouldn't be fair to hold a Top 25 Tournament without their inclusion. So I thought that perhaps we could do it where we include all the 128 films in this tournament in a new poll, but instead of facing them off, do what Connoisseur said and have them all rated out of 10 or 20. Each set would contain 10 films, which would make things go a little faster than this tournament has. Let me know what you guys think!

[thrashard76]

Sounds good rhett, go for it. I'm up for some more fun. :D

[Max Yokell]

Well if it means we can continue to show up here and vote every morning, then I am all for it. :)

Max

[Hellbilly]

Same here. :)

[Egg_Shen]

'Dawn of the Dead'

That idea of Connoisseur's sounds good to me Rhett.

[DVD Connoisseur]

What I like about the points system is that new titles can be added to the list without causing too many problems. This way, some popular but not widely viewed films may actually have the chance to appear in the Top 100 if some voters are passionate about them, for example, Schramm, Xtro, Bride of Frank, etc.

rhett, in this tournament, I liked the way that the titles changed colour once they'd been checked off the master list but would it be possible to use a different colour than the blue one for the Top 100 (or 25) - in my old age I find it difficult to see the titles from a distance!:o

[rhett]

Sure Con, I will change the color next one, it was just that I thought that with a dark blue it would give the impression the film was out, without having to look at the legend to tell. :)

So if we are including extra movies, then maybe each person who takes a part in the voting for the next tournament can nominate two films to add to the rating list. That seems like the fairest to me.

[DVD Connoisseur]

Originally posted by rhett
So if we are including extra movies, then maybe each person who takes a part in the voting for the next tournament can nominate two films to add to the rating list. That seems like the fairest to me.

That sounds cool. I'm really looking forward to this....it should prove a definitive list of "must see" movies!

[rhett]

Well, voting has pretty much ceased, so it is about time to call this one.

The undisputed winner of this tournament, and current holder of "Best Horror Film Ever Made" on the Horrordvds.com message forum, is none other than:

DAWN OF THE DEAD

Winning the tournament with a strong 12-2 victory over John Carpenter's Halloween, DotD faced its toughest competition in the semi-finals, when it squeeked by another Carpenter classic, The Thing, with a nail biting 7-6 defeat.

This has been great fun for me, and I hope you all enjoyed the tournament as much as I enjoyed doing it! :)

[Jason25]

Excellent job there Rhett - thanks for your hard work, I had fun voting.

[DVD Connoisseur]

Roll on the next voting marathon!:D

[KillerCannabis]

Dawn of the Dead. What a great flick. And a great choice. How fitting that the best horror flick of all time is finally getting the treatment it deserves from AB in the form of that 3-disc set. Too bad its in April '03.