Best Horror Film - The Tournament

rhett · 05-04-2002, 07:50 PM

Hey guys, this is a tournament to see which film will come out on top as the best horror film ever made. Since this is a tournament, we've got to have it setup with an exponential amount of contestants, and since I have much more than 64, we are going to have to goto 128. Taking all the requests from the thread on the General forum, as well as adding some forgotten classics, I've made up the entire 128 movie list as follows:

Advocate, The
Alien
An American Werewolf in London
Amityville Horror, The
Angel Heart
Army of Darkness
Bad Taste
Beast Within, The
Beautiful Girl Hunter
Beyond, The
Beyond The Door
Bird With The Crystal Plumage, The
Black Christmas
Blair Witch Project, The
Blob, The (1958)
Blood Feast
Boy Who Cried Werewolf, The
Brain Damage
Brood, The
Burning, The
Candyman
Cannibal Holocaust
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Carrie
Christine
City Of The Living Dead
Count Dracula (1970)
Combat Shock
Creepshow
Critters
Cube
Cujo
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Dead Alive
Dead Ringers
Dead Zone, The
Death Game
Deep Red
Dellamorte Dellamore
Demons
Dressed To Kill
Duel
Eraserhead
Evil Dead, The
Evil Dead II
Evil Dead Trap
Exorcist, The
Exorcist III, The
Fearless Vampire Killers
Fly, The
Fog, The
Friday The 13th
Friday the 13th – The Final Chapter
Fright Night
From Dusk ‘Till Dawn
Halloween
Hellraiser
Hills Have Eyes, The
Hitcher, The
House by the Cemetery
House on the Edge of the Park
House With Windows That Laugh, The
Howling, The
I Spit on Your Grave
Incredible Melting Man, The
Jacob’s Ladder
Jaws
Jeepers Creepers
Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Last House on Dead End Street
Last House on the Left, The
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death
Lord of Illusions
In the Mouth of Madness
Madman
Maniac
Maximum Overdrive
Motel Hell
Near Dark
Nekromantik
New York Ripper
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Nightbreed
Nightmare City
Nightmare in a Damaged Brain
Nightmare on Elm Street, A
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
Opera
Omen, The
Pet Sematary
Phantasm
Phenomena
Poltergeist
Possession
Prince of Darkness
Prom Night
Psycho
Rabid
Re-Animator
Return of the Living Dead
Return of the Living Dead Part 2
Repulsion
Rosemary’s Baby
Santa Sangre
Scanners
Scream
Serpent and the Rainbow, The
Se7en
Shining, The
Shivers
Silence of the Lambs
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Sisters
Sleepaway Camp
Stand, The
Street Trash
Suspiria
Tenebre
Terror Train
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The
Theater of Blood
Thing, The
Toxic Avenger, The
Twilight Zone, The
Videodrome
When A Stranger Calls
Wicker Man, The

If there are any problems with this...tough.

I want to jump right into things, and obviously everyone is not going to be 100% happy, but I've covered a variety of horror films, by location and by year, so it should be pretty good.

The tournament goes as follows: I will plot two of the above films against eachother, and all you have to do is vote for the film that you think is clearly the better horror film. Thew voting period for each set of films will be one day, and after that time, the film with the most votes in each bracket will advance to Round Two, which will commense after all the films in Round One have gone. So eventually, in this process we will get down to a single winner, which will have bragging rights as the "Horrordvds.com Best Horror Film of All Time".

Basically, the only rule is you have to have seen both of the films in order to vote. The films going against eachother will be picked in random order to make everything fair. If you have any questions, just ask them in the thread! So let's get this tournament under way!

LEGEND:
Red means the film has advanced to the next round.
Blue means the film has been eliminated from the tournament.

rhett · 05-04-2002, 07:55 PM

Round One, Bracket One:

The Evil Dead

vs.

Jaws

DefJeff · 05-05-2002, 06:10 AM

evil dead !!

05-05-2002, 06:22 AM

The Evil Dead.

05-05-2002, 06:46 AM

Evil Dead

05-05-2002, 07:22 AM

EVIL DEAD

Hellbilly · 05-05-2002, 08:19 AM

Um, ok.

Evil Dead

05-05-2002, 04:33 PM

Evil Dead

Beastus · 05-05-2002, 08:19 PM

...but I think I'll have to choose Evil Dead

rhett · 05-05-2002, 08:35 PM

And The Evil Dead is the first to advance into the next round with a whopping 7-0 victory!

Round One, Bracket Two

Tenebre

vs.

Poltergeist

STREET TRASH · 05-05-2002, 09:03 PM

Just when I was gonna step in with JAWS....

TENEBRE here.

Agent Z · 05-05-2002, 09:17 PM

First Match-Up was too difficult for me, but this one's a piece o' pie.......TENEBRE.....all the way......

Hellbilly · 05-05-2002, 09:30 PM

I love Tenebre but I'm going to vote for
POLTERGEIST
...one of my favorite scary flicks when I was a kid.

05-05-2002, 11:31 PM

"Tenebre"

DVD Connoisseur · 05-05-2002, 11:39 PM

....Tenebre for me.

One of my favourite giallos.......

05-04-2002, 07:50 PM	#1
rhett Moderator Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Canada Posts: 8,882	Best Horror Film - The Tournament Hey guys, this is a tournament to see which film will come out on top as the best horror film ever made. Since this is a tournament, we've got to have it setup with an exponential amount of contestants, and since I have much more than 64, we are going to have to goto 128. Taking all the requests from the thread on the General forum, as well as adding some forgotten classics, I've made up the entire 128 movie list as follows: Advocate, The Alien An American Werewolf in London Amityville Horror, The Angel Heart Army of Darkness Bad Taste Beast Within, The Beautiful Girl Hunter Beyond, The Beyond The Door Bird With The Crystal Plumage, The Black Christmas Blair Witch Project, The Blob, The (1958) Blood Feast Boy Who Cried Werewolf, The Brain Damage Brood, The Burning, The Candyman Cannibal Holocaust Carnival of Souls (1962) Carrie Christine City Of The Living Dead Count Dracula (1970) Combat Shock Creepshow Critters Cube Cujo Dawn of the Dead Day of the Dead Dead Alive Dead Ringers Dead Zone, The Death Game Deep Red Dellamorte Dellamore Demons Dressed To Kill Duel Eraserhead Evil Dead, The Evil Dead II Evil Dead Trap Exorcist, The Exorcist III, The Fearless Vampire Killers Fly, The Fog, The Friday The 13th Friday the 13th – The Final Chapter Fright Night From Dusk ‘Till Dawn Halloween Hellraiser Hills Have Eyes, The Hitcher, The House by the Cemetery House on the Edge of the Park House With Windows That Laugh, The Howling, The I Spit on Your Grave Incredible Melting Man, The Jacob’s Ladder Jaws Jeepers Creepers Killer Klowns From Outer Space Last House on Dead End Street Last House on the Left, The Let’s Scare Jessica to Death Lord of Illusions In the Mouth of Madness Madman Maniac Maximum Overdrive Motel Hell Near Dark Nekromantik New York Ripper Night of the Living Dead (1968) Nightbreed Nightmare City Nightmare in a Damaged Brain Nightmare on Elm Street, A Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens Opera Omen, The Pet Sematary Phantasm Phenomena Poltergeist Possession Prince of Darkness Prom Night Psycho Rabid Re-Animator Return of the Living Dead Return of the Living Dead Part 2 Repulsion Rosemary’s Baby Santa Sangre Scanners Scream Serpent and the Rainbow, The Se7en Shining, The Shivers Silence of the Lambs Silent Night, Deadly Night Sisters Sleepaway Camp Stand, The Street Trash Suspiria Tenebre Terror Train Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Theater of Blood Thing, The Toxic Avenger, The Twilight Zone, The Videodrome When A Stranger Calls Wicker Man, The If there are any problems with this...tough. I want to jump right into things, and obviously everyone is not going to be 100% happy, but I've covered a variety of horror films, by location and by year, so it should be pretty good. The tournament goes as follows: I will plot two of the above films against eachother, and all you have to do is vote for the film that you think is clearly the better horror film. Thew voting period for each set of films will be one day, and after that time, the film with the most votes in each bracket will advance to Round Two, which will commense after all the films in Round One have gone. So eventually, in this process we will get down to a single winner, which will have bragging rights as the "Horrordvds.com Best Horror Film of All Time". Basically, the only rule is you have to have seen both of the films in order to vote. The films going against eachother will be picked in random order to make everything fair. If you have any questions, just ask them in the thread! So let's get this tournament under way! LEGEND: Red means the film has advanced to the next round. Blue means the film has been eliminated from the tournament.

05-05-2002, 06:10 AM	#3
DefJeff Franca Stoppi's #1 fan Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Hamden, CT Posts: 3,112	evil dead !! __________________ Thrash explains TWIN PEAKS!: <thrashard76> its the ultimate tribute to Italian cinema, no real plot but fun just the same My Growing DVD Collection

05-05-2002, 08:19 AM	#7
Hellbilly Water-squirting greatness Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Franconia Posts: 13,676	Um, ok. Evil Dead __________________ "Common sense turns me on"

05-05-2002, 08:19 PM	#9
Beastus Stalker Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Norway Posts: 394	It's a tough one... ...but I think I'll have to choose Evil Dead __________________ My DVD Collection http://www.homeofhorror.com/phpdvdprofiler/

05-05-2002, 09:17 PM	#12
Agent Z "Get to the river... Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 5,499	First Match-Up was too difficult for me, but this one's a piece o' pie.......TENEBRE.....all the way...... __________________ ....and get some water for billy!"

05-04-2002, 07:55 PM	#2
rhett Moderator Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Canada Posts: 8,882	Round One, Bracket One: The Evil Dead vs. Jaws

05-05-2002, 06:22 AM	#4
Andrew Guest Posts: n/a	The Evil Dead.

05-05-2002, 07:22 AM	#6
thrashard76 Guest Posts: n/a	EVIL DEAD

05-05-2002, 08:35 PM	#10
rhett Moderator Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Canada Posts: 8,882	And The Evil Dead is the first to advance into the next round with a whopping 7-0 victory! Round One, Bracket Two Tenebre vs. Poltergeist

05-05-2002, 09:03 PM	#11
STREET TRASH Synthicide Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: hobo central - playing "toss the penis" Posts: 561	Just when I was gonna step in with JAWS.... TENEBRE here.

05-05-2002, 09:30 PM	#13
Hellbilly Water-squirting greatness Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Franconia Posts: 13,676	I love Tenebre but I'm going to vote for POLTERGEIST ...one of my favorite scary flicks when I was a kid. __________________ "Common sense turns me on"

05-05-2002, 11:31 PM	#14
dvdasia62 Guest Posts: n/a	"Tenebre"

05-05-2002, 11:39 PM	#15
DVD Connoisseur Moderator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The UK - Home of Censorship Posts: 2,309	Has to be...... ....Tenebre for me. One of my favourite giallos.......

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