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Inviso posted...
Missing my write-up.

Fixed
I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back.
If you're gonna scream, scream with me
Great top 2 and a deserving winner even if I would've preferred The Shining.

I'll get the sign-up topic for our next list up shortly.
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I feel like I'd rank The Shining above but The Thing is more my kind of movie? However, like I said earlier I needed to watch The Shining twice to get into it and The Thing three times. The latter at least, feels like a movie that gets better with age.

Also huh we like snowy horror lol.
Why do people act like the left is the party of social justice crusaders?
Final Outlier
Inviso - 248
Jcgamer107 - 231
Fortybelowsummer - 218
Evilordexdeath - 216
Karo - 196
Johnbobb - 180
Snake - 165
Bitto - 164
Mythiot - 150
Seginustemple - 146
Rockus - 140
Lightning - 136
Plasmabeam - 136

Vis pulls off outlier pretty handily with Forty definitely getting more in line with the crowd as the project went on. Never too much changing in the bottom half however!

I'd like to thank everyone who participated and discussed along the way! This was an absolute blast to run and I'm glad I stepped up and hosted it! Horror is as many of you know my biggest passion and I just enjoy introducing new films to people whether they like them or not!
I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back.
If you're gonna scream, scream with me
LinkMarioSamus posted...
I feel like I'd rank The Shining above but The Thing is more my kind of movie? However, like I said earlier I needed to watch The Shining twice to get into it and The Thing three times. The latter at least, feels like a movie that gets better with age.

Also huh we like snowy horror lol.

This is the most normal post you've ever made. More like these, please.
Touch fuzzy. Get fuzzier.
Inviso
And the complete ranking

  1. The Thing (1982)
  2. The Shining (1980)
  3. The Fly (1986)
  4. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
  5. Possession (1981)
  6. Beetlejuice (1988)
  7. Videodrome (1983)
  8. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
  9. Predator (1987)
  10. Evil Dead II (1987)
  11. Hellraiser (1987)
  12. Re-Animator (1985)
  13. Gremlins (1984)
  14. The Dead Zone (1983)
  15. Christine (1983)
  16. Fright Night (1985)
  17. Phenomena (1985)
  18. Poltergeist (1982)
  19. An American Werewolf in London (1981)
  20. The Changeling (1980)
  21. Creepshow (1982)
  22. The Lost Boys (1987)
  23. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
  24. Childs Play (1988)
  25. Prince of Darkness (1987)
  26. Pet Sematary (1989)
  27. Friday the 13th (1980)
  28. Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
  29. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
  30. Basket Case (1982)
I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back.
If you're gonna scream, scream with me
Heck yes, The Thing.

Even after reading the write-ups, I still don't see The Shining being beloved. I agree that it does a lot right, but it stumbles the fundamentals in a way that I can't ever see myself loving it.
I can't live forever
With my head and my heart in the clouds
At least The Shining doesn't (couldn't tell you exactly why) feel like stuff happens for no rhyme or reason the way Event Horizon did. To me at least.

I do respect Event Horizon's cult following, but not the movie itself.
Why do people act like the left is the party of social justice crusaders?
Thanks for hosting Snake!
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Bit more crude than I wanted it but this project IS on the wiki now too
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Board_8_Ranks_1980s_Horror_Films
I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back.
If you're gonna scream, scream with me
super quick every Stephen King movie ranking I've seen:

  1. The Green Mile
  2. Misery
  3. The Shining
  4. The Shawshank Redemption
  5. 1408
  6. The Mist
  7. It (modern)
  8. It (original)
  9. Doctor Sleep
  10. Carrie
  11. Rose Red
  12. Children of the Corn (the original, I've seen some of the dumb sequels but couldn't tell you which is which)
  13. Desperation
  14. The Dead Zone
  15. Christine
  16. Pet Sematary
  17. In the Tall Grass
  18. Gerald's Game
  19. Cujo
  20. Needful Things
  21. Maximum Overdrive
  22. Thinner
  23. Creepshow
  24. Pet Sematary remake
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Well I had to do it too

  1. The Mist
  2. The Shawshank Redemption
  3. Misery
  4. It (1990)
  5. The Green Mile
  6. Gerald's Game
  7. Dolores Claiborne
  8. Carrie (1978)
  9. The Shining (1980)
  10. Stand by Me
  11. 1408
  12. Salem's Lot (1979)
  13. The Stand (1994)
  14. Creepshow
  15. Cujo
  16. 1922
  17. Doctor Sleep
  18. Hearts in Atlantis
  19. The Night Flier
  20. The Dark Half
  21. Pet Sematary
  22. It (2017)
  23. The Running Man
  24. The Dead Zone
  25. Christine
  26. It Chapter Two
  27. Castle Rock
  28. Needful Things
  29. Cat's Eye
  30. The Langoliers
  31. Dreamcatcher
  32. The Tommyknockers
  33. Kingdom Hospital
  34. Secret Window
  35. Maximum Overdrive
  36. Rose Red
  37. In the Tall Grass
  38. Thinner
  39. Creepshow 2
  40. Desperation
  41. Storm of the Century
  42. Sometimes They Come Back
  43. Pet Sematary Two
  44. The Rage: Carrie 2
  45. Bag of Bones
  46. Carrie (2013)
  47. Creepshow (TV series)
  48. Sometimes They Come Back... Again
  49. The Mangler
  50. Firestarter (1984)
  51. Children of the Corn
  52. A Return to Salem's Lot
  53. Silver Bullet
  54. The Mist (2017)
  55. Trucks
  56. Sleepwalkers
  57. Under the Dome
  58. The Dark Tower
  59. Pet Sematary (2019)
  60. The Lawnmower Man
  61. The Shining (1997)
  62. Creepshow 3
  63. Firestarter (2022)
Not confident in this at all btw! Except for the top.
I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back.
If you're gonna scream, scream with me
PAYOUTS!! Vis and Bitto close out this contest with a cool $600 each. Special thanks to both of you for helping The Thing secure the #1 spot!

CONGRATS TO BITTO ON EARNING A SPOT IN THE VEGAS HALL OF FAME!!

Vegas Hall of Fame:
  • 2010s Horror: Inviso
  • ABCs of Death: Tom Nook
  • Organized Crime: fortybelowsummer
  • Satire: Pokewars
  • Animated Movies 4: Johnbobb
  • Road Trip Comedies: Suprak
  • 80s Horror: Bitto


Final 80s Horror Leaderboard :
1) Bitto $7400 (The Shining 600, A Nightmare on Elm Street 500, Beetlejuice 650, Videodrome 650, Hellraiser 900, Poltergeist 2000,Creepshow 650, Tetsuo: The Iron Man 600, Sleepaway Camp 650)
2) Exdeath $5400 (The Fly 500, A Nightmare on Elm Street 500, Possession 500, Evil Dead II 900, Re-Animator 600, Creepshow 650, Friday the 13th 500, Killer Klowns From Outer Space 600, Sleepaway Camp 650)
3) Inviso $5450 (The Shining 600, A Nightmare on Elm Street 500, Possession 500, Re-Animator 600, Gremlins 850, Creepshow 650, Killer Klowns From Outer Space 600, Sleepaway Camp 650, Basket Case 500)
4)Lightning $4950 (A Nightmare on Elm Street 500, Possession 500, Videodrome 650, Christine 800, The Changeling 200, Creepshow 650, Friday the 13th 500, Sleepaway Camp 650, Basket Case 500)
5) Johnbobb $4650 (Hellraiser 900, Re-Animator 600, The Changeling 2000, Friday the 13th 500, Sleepaway Camp 650)
6) Seginus $3800 (A Nightmare on Elm Street 500, Beetlejuice 650, Fright Night 700, Phenomena 1000, An American Werewolf in London 200, Sleepaway Camp 650)
7) fortybelow $2550 (The Fly 500, A Nightmare on Elm Street 500, Possession 500, Gremlins 850, Poltergeist 200)
8) jcgamer $1700 (Possession 500, An American Werewolf in London 200, Tetsuo: The Iron Man 600, Killer Klowns From Outer Space 600)
9) rockus $1350 (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 700, Creepshow 650)
10) Karo $650 (Sleepaway Camp 650)

The House Won On:
  • +1000 Pet Sematary (1989)
  • +1000 Prince of Darkness (1987)
  • +2000 Childs Play (1988)
  • +2000 The Lost Boys (1987)
  • +1250 The Dead Zone (1983)
  • +1100 Predator (1987)
~Jacksonville Jaguars~
Snake, thanks for running this.

Everyone else, thanks for all your hard-earned money.
~Jacksonville Jaguars~
I could've taken the easy small victories and gotten second, but there's no prize for second
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I respect that. You gotta play to win.
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fun list, snake! had fun reading everyone's thoughts.
Putting this here just to make sure everyone sees it:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/80753207
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Quick Stephen King Ranking:

  1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  2. Doctor Sleep (2019)
  3. The Mist (2007)
  4. The Green Mile (1999)
  5. The Stand (TV-1994)
  6. The Shining (1980)
  7. Storm of the Century (TV-1999)
  8. It (2017)
  9. It (TV-1990)
  10. Carrie (1976)
  11. 1408 (2007)
  12. Mr. Mercedes (TV-2017-2019)
  13. Stand By Me (1986)
  14. The Dead Zone (1983)
  15. The Running Man (1987)
  16. Under the Dome (TV-2013-2015)
  17. Needful Things (1993)
  18. The Shining (TV-1997)
  19. The Tommyknockers (TV-1993)
  20. Rose Red (TV-2002)
  21. The Langoliers (TV-1995)
  22. Secret Window (2004)
  23. Dreamcatcher (2003)
  24. The Dead Zone (TV-2002-07)
  25. Christine (1983)
  26. The Dark Half (1993)
  27. The Stand (TV-2020-2021)
  28. Firestarter (1984)


Haven would be somewhere in the late teens if I watched more of it, possibly higher.
"DiGiorno's for the oven, Totino's for the microwave... and the memories are for us." - Angela Giarratana
Compatibility sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GYYXAzwBwX16rW6d9hE9XFtvaySIendm7ZVJyn4SKhM/edit?usp=sharing

Green for exact matches/1-offs and red for biggest gaps.

Fun Stats:

Best Buds: Lightning and Mythiot at 142 points.
Biggest Rivals: Evilordexdeath and Inviso at 358 points.
Most Friends: Lightning (Invisio, Mythiot, and Plasma) and Seginus (Fortybelowsummer, Karo, and Rockus) with 3 users each as their most compatible.
Most Rivals: Inviso (Evilordexdeath, Johnbobb, Plasma, and Snake) with 4 users as their least compatible.
Most Middling: Bitto, Johnbobb, and Snake for having 0 users as having them as their most or least compatible.
I can't live forever
With my head and my heart in the clouds
Yeah, me and Evil being the biggest rivals makes sense >_>
Inviso thinks all starters should be Fire/Fighting.
http://i.imgur.com/oOSm64C.gif
Johnbobb posted...
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c656160d.jpg

Haha that's great.

Thanks for hosting, Snake, great job as always.

See you guys when we get around to 70s horror!
All hail the coming of the Destroyer - the Slayer's time...is now.
Live and let live.
Thanks to Snake for hosting a great list and everyone who made it through...or even part of the way through for participating. Good excuse to revisit some old favorites and discover some new ones, and I always enjoy reading through the variety of reactions in the writeups
You bow to no one, azuarc
Yeah thanks for running this Snake. I know I dissed on 80s horror some but it was still great revisiting some of these, especially the Top 2.

Might do a Stephen King ranking later, but I wanna say that Gerald's Game is really fantastic and scary, had no expectations going in and it freaked me out in a great way. By far Mike Flannigan's best work imo.

LinkMarioSamus posted...
Also huh we like snowy horror lol.
Yes snowed in horror a very good sub-genre

Evillordexdeath posted...
Great top 2 and a deserving winner even if I would've preferred The Shining.
^^^

LightningStrikes posted...
Jack Nicholsons performance is what stopped The Shining from ranking higher for me, and turned a potential 5/5 into a 4/5. Its cartoonish when it shouldnt be, and he just feels fundamentally miscast. I warned there was a hot take coming back near the start! But yeah hes pretty bad in this. Its not that its a maximalist performance, its that hes acting like a deranged madman when hes not supposed to be to the point that it strains believability that anybody would not instantly run from this man.
I think you should delete this comment....
https://youtu.be/CCjhF25w4jc?si=9NhK5k_3Fi5LeObf
azuarc wasn't even home. he was playing Magic the Gathering at his buddy's store, which is extremely easy to verify
I personally thought Shelley Duvall was at least as good as Nicholson in The Shining if not better. At the very least, I doubt I'd react any differently.

That also makes me want to ask who else here has seen the 2000 horror movie What Lies Beneath. Some endorse it as a more faithful adaptation of The Shining than the Kubrick movie for reasons like Michelle Pfeiffer resembling the book's description of Wendy better and Harrison Ford having been considered to play Jack in the Kubrick movie. I personally thought it didn't work because the first act or so was pointless, but the two leads' performances and Zemeckis's direction helped save face somewhat. I saw the movie because I was bored, it's on Disney+ where I live (20th Century Fox was the international distributor), and Harrison Ford is my favorite actor. I will also admit I enjoyed admiring his abs.
Why do people act like the left is the party of social justice crusaders?
This is the first time I've seen a horror ranking countdown on this board (especially one focused on the 80's) and it was fun to read through it all. A lot of places I did not agree with, but you nailed Numbers 1-4 perfectly. I even learned about a couple of films that I never heard of before.

Excellent work from all those involved. Not sure how many of these you have done, but I look forward to the next one.
"You can't make a choice, if you don't really know what all the choices are...can you?"
- Sam Silver
Though The Shining towards the top of people's lists feels kind of default judging against the rest of the list, I dare anyone who listed it as #1 to watch it again in a theatre or without any distractions (book/phone/Shining as background) and see how it holds up to you. The movie is a slog.

One of my most disappointing theatre experiences was going to watch a special showing on the big screen. I'd seen it plenty of times before, loved the book and Room 237 and had some Nostalgia Critic-induced praise for the miniseries, and was going to see it with another horror-King friend. So while The Shining has so many great moments and memorable scenes... it feels like a four or five hour slog when you're just sitting there waiting for anything at all to actually happen. It is a slow, boring movie. I am so glad it didn't take top spot and The Thing did.

It's still a great piece of cinema! I've enjoyed it again since, at home--when I can do other things during 80% of the runtime. But I completely understand it getting blasted with terrible reviews for its theatrical run. It's insane to me how opposite The Shining is to a lot of other movies where Big Screen > Small Screen.
"DiGiorno's for the oven, Totino's for the microwave... and the memories are for us." - Angela Giarratana
ReaperCloud posted...
Excellent work from all those involved. Not sure how many of these you have done, but I look forward to the next one.
This is the 4th horror ranking so far (80s, 90s, 00s and 10s) but it's probably close to 30 rankings overall so far across genres
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Mega_Mana posted...
Though The Shining towards the top of people's lists feels kind of default judging against the rest of the list, I dare anyone who listed it as #1 to watch it again in a theatre or without any distractions (book/phone/Shining as background) and see how it holds up to you. The movie is a slog.
Watched it in the theater for the first time this past Halloween. It held my full attention the entire time and I appreciated it even more, great experience.

The soundtrack hit even harder too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQOxBE4FKtQ

My Stephen King movie/miniseries ranking:

1) The Shining (1980)
2) Gerald's Game (taught me the term degloving ......yeesh)
3) Misery
4) Carrie (1976)
5) 1408
6) Rose Red
7) Shawshank Redemption
8) The Green Mile
9) The Dead Zone (1983)
10) 1922
11) It (2017)
12) It (1990)
13) Pet Sematary (1989)
14) Mr. Harrigan's Phone
15) The Mist
16) Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
17) Pet Sematary (2019)
18) Creepshow (1982)
19) The Shining (1997)
20) Christine
21) Secret Window
22) Thinner (the concept freaked me out as a kid.......then I watched it and wow, it's bad)
azuarc wasn't even home. he was playing Magic the Gathering at his buddy's store, which is extremely easy to verify
Oh my god they actually made a movie out of Mr Harrigan's Phone? They really will jump on even the tiniest of short stories for the IP
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Mega_Mana posted...
Though The Shining towards the top of people's lists feels kind of default judging against the rest of the list, I dare anyone who listed it as #1 to watch it again in a theatre or without any distractions (book/phone/Shining as background) and see how it holds up to you. The movie is a slog.

Hey now, I gave every entry my full attention at least once and it wasn't hard for The Shining! I think the fact that we can even attend theatrical screenings of this 40-year-old movie speaks to how well it holds up, few movies enjoy that kind of longevity.

If you're getting distracted by books while watching movies that just sounds like a focus problem
You bow to no one, azuarc
Oh man, I voted Manhunter in the poll, but I just realized The Vanishing is the biggest snub by far, what a classic. Probably would have put it 3rd but it's right up there with The Shining & The Thing.
azuarc wasn't even home. he was playing Magic the Gathering at his buddy's store, which is extremely easy to verify
Yeah shit time to redo the ranking that's a really good one!
I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back.
If you're gonna scream, scream with me
Mega_Mana posted...
Though The Shining towards the top of people's lists feels kind of default judging against the rest of the list, I dare anyone who listed it as #1 to watch it again in a theatre or without any distractions (book/phone/Shining as background) and see how it holds up to you. The movie is a slog.

One of my most disappointing theatre experiences was going to watch a special showing on the big screen. I'd seen it plenty of times before, loved the book and Room 237 and had some Nostalgia Critic-induced praise for the miniseries, and was going to see it with another horror-King friend. So while The Shining has so many great moments and memorable scenes... it feels like a four or five hour slog when you're just sitting there waiting for anything at all to actually happen. It is a slow, boring movie. I am so glad it didn't take top spot and The Thing did.

It's still a great piece of cinema! I've enjoyed it again since, at home--when I can do other things during 80% of the runtime. But I completely understand it getting blasted with terrible reviews for its theatrical run. It's insane to me how opposite The Shining is to a lot of other movies where Big Screen > Small Screen.

i should straight up admit my partiality towards Kubrick. Part of me also feels like I'm generally not particularly into ghost fiction, and I view The Shining and Poltergeist more as spins on haunted house horror while Ghostbusters is more like a high-concept SNL comedy. And even then, the only good Ghostbusters movie is the first one.
Why do people act like the left is the party of social justice crusaders?
ok done reading the first part, tagging so I can read the top 10 later
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