Flex Grossman
Funky
I love Wes but John Carpenter owns my top 2 horror movies of all time.
The Thing
Halloween
gotta go Carpenter
The Thing
Halloween
gotta go Carpenter
Masters of Horror Face off :Craven or Carpenter? Poll closed.
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No Craven is. That's why they call him the Master of Slasher -
Without Craven there would be no Halloween. Wes Craven started the slasher subgenre. Before Halloween, there was Chiller, Last House on the Left.
Nightmare on Elm Street was iconic.
Halloween was only popular bc it took the babysitter trope and expounded on it. The Thing is popular because most men like monster type movies anyway, just like aliens. As a female horror fan, I'm already in the minority so whatever. I don't think "monster" movies are all that horrorfying in the first place. The Ring was scarier than The Thing imo.
No Craven is. That's why they call him the Master of Slasher -
Without Craven there would be no Halloween. Wes Craven started the slasher subgenre. Before Halloween, there was Chiller, Last House on the Left.
Nightmare on Elm Street was iconic.
Halloween was only popular bc it took the babysitter trope and expounded on it. The Thing is popular because most men like monster type movies anyway, just like aliens. As a female horror fan, I'm already in the minority so whatever. I don't think "monster" movies are all that horrorfying in the first place. The Ring was scarier than The Thing imo.
ok ok. Let's get back to the polls.Also you consider Last house a slasher? I figured it was just greenhouse. And chiller was released in 85. Halloween was 78.
I see about 4 votes where people talked about music. So that means discounting those votes, the score is actually 8 to 4, not 12 to 4I can't because the poll won't let me specify.
It's still 9 to 4.I see about 4 votes where people talked about music. So that means discounting those votes, the score is actually 8 to 4, not 12 to 4
It's one of them
I don't know if id go greatest but it's top 5 for me
That's disappointing.
Theolodius_Black
Whoopin suckas with a bag of oranges
I'm sorry mama but The Thing is utterly brilliant
Halloween still my personal number 1 but The Thing is Top 5
I'm about to leave work and get on the train. I'll be back on to evaluate this later. ... The Banshee Chapter is your favorite horror movie ???My favorite Horror movie is the Banshee Chapter.The Thing is the best horror movie of its kind to ever be made.
Yeah, we need to have a talk
you're still not helping, that's stillllll not helping my cause .I'm sorry mama but The Thing is utterly brilliant
Halloween still my personal number 1 but The Thing is Top 5
I like Halloween but Halloween and Thing are Carpenter movies
. My favorite is Craven. Craven>>>> Carpenter.Why does everyone like The Thing so much
Know what, I'm going to rewatch that and see what the hype is bc I don't remember being that impressed by it. I'll watch for a different perspective.
mannnn..stop bragging. you're going to make me late for my train messing with this poll. I still have hope that it will even out by the time I get back on later tonight.It's still 9 to 4.
How about in the meantime, you put the movie titles in your Original Post like I requested, so people can reference it and put a disclaimer in there that the movies are not based off soundtracks or musical scores.
@JAY? get in here and vote for Craven, you know that you like Craven .. Nightmare on Elm street and all that.
..I don't think I ever participated in the past ones that yall had on here. This would be my first time voting. Let's do it. 
What were the results from previous years?
you're still not helping, that's stillllll not helping my cause .
Why does everyone like The Thing so much
Look, I will completely agree with you that The Thing is more of a "guys" movie. Completely. Not to say women can't or shouldn't like it because I know of plenty who do, but on the surface level, that's a movie that speaks to a man first and foremost. So I completely get why that shyt just leaves you
Now that's out of the way, here's why the movie is do dope. Most monster movies work where they don't show you the monster. They keep it in the dark. The Thing says nah fukk all that and shows you every single thing and its scarier than you could possibly imagine. It's some shyt we haven't seen before on screen and haven't seen since. It's tense, it's moody, it's got a stellar cast, and Carpenter directs the hell out of every single frame. And that's not even talking about the ending, which is ambiguous and dark. It's so damn dark. It's basically saying "yeah we're all fukked. Oh well,"
The craft of that movie, from the sets, to the creatures, to every damn thing is perfect. And it's got these two damn scenes which are two of the best in all of horror
Then the movie is also an AIDS allegory?
The fact the thing takes the shape of whatever and you don't know who the thing is and who isn't the thing. It can get you when you least suspect and once it gets you, you're gone. And it spreads and spreads and spreads. We're all fukked.
Now as far as Wes and slashers, Carpenter is officially credited with starting American slashers. You can make the case for Hitchcock with Psycho too. And shyt, without Bob Clark with Black Christmas, Halloween doesn't happen. But Clark is Canadian and Black Christmas is a Canadian flick
Craven's first actual slasher wasn't until 84 with Freddy. Last House on the Left is more revenge movie than slasher to me. Hills Have Eyes is just stalking and killing lol.
But see now we need to define what a slasher is, and for me, it needs to be a killer with a knife or blade, or something to that effect. Scream is a slasher. Nightmare is a slasher. And they're phenomenal slashers and just phenomenal flicks in general. But are they better than Halloween?
What were the results from previous years?
I gotta find it. Someone tried to dig it up and couldn't find it
Found it!
https://www.thecoli.com/threads/wel...st-voting-thread.254618/page-40#post-10579223
10.Hellraiser
9. Psycho
8. Scream
7. Alien
6. Texas Chain Saw Massacre
5. The Exorcist
4. The Thing
3. Nightmare on Elm St
2. The Shining
1. Halloween