How on earth did Dawn of the Dead make the top 10? 49. Director: John Llewellyn Moxey. Hancock took certain elements from Kalcheim's script, but opted to write a straightforward horror film set at a remote farmhouse. Director: Philip Kaufman. The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces nominees for their top film honors of 2021; winners will be announced at the organizations annual awards ceremony, a virtual event for Association members to be held on Wednesday, December 15. Director: David Fincher. Sal or the 120 Days of Sodom / Sal o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975). "[41] Film scholar Gary A. Smith remarked Lampert's performance as Jessica as "laid back to the point of somnambulism. David Manners. Image of Boris Karloff and Gloria Stuart in The Old Dark House: Universal Pictures. Heather Graham. The festival opens with a screening of Sundance Audience Award winner CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH (pictured) with filmmaker and star Cooper Raiff in attendance and closes with SXSW Grand Jury and Audience Award winner I LOVE MY DAD, a charming comedy starring Patton Oswalt as a well-meaning father who inadvertently catfishes his own son. Patsy Kelly. Jennifer Connelly. 60. Beatrice Straight. Director: David Cronenberg. As for the people who bitch about lists, you need to relax. Oh yeah let me guess, Triology Of Terror with its 7 inch tall Voodoo doll and Open water(a rip off jaws) is scarier, hehehe. Robert Burton. Veronica Cartwright. Piper Laurie. Take the horror element out of the film and its a fascinating look at mans inhumanity to one another, and their inability to see past external superficialities. 52. Wallace Ford. Saul Stein. Director: Wes Craven. Finally Im glad to be able to respond to the Chicago times critic list, let me just say that some of the usual mainstream crap shouldnt be there. The complete list of 2022 Chicago Film Critics Award winners is as follows:BEST PICTURE: The Banshees of InisherinBEST DIRECTOR: Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at OnceBEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, TRBEST ACTOR: Colin Farrell, The Banshees of InisherinBEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kerry Condon, The Banshees of InisherinBEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at OnceBEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Women Talking by Sarah PolleyBEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonaghBEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Guillermo del Toro's PinocchioBEST DOCUMENTARY: Fire of LoveBEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Decision to LeaveBEST ART DIRECTION: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Jason Kisvarday & Amelia BrookeBEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Decision to Leave, Kim Ji-YongBEST COSTUME DESIGN: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Shirley KurataBEST EDITING: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Paul RogersBEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Babylon, Justin HurwitzBEST USE OF VISUAL EFFECTS: Everything Everywhere All at OnceMOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Austin Butler, ElvisMILOS STEHLIK AWARD FOR BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Charlotte Wells, Aftersun. Below is the list of the Chicago Film Critics' Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time, including their directors and key cast members. The Fly (1986). When a hand reaches into the boat from the water, she stabs the person in the back several times with a pole hook. Miriam Hopkins. "Psycho" 2. Dennis Hopper. Heather Langenkamp. Director: Sean S. Cunningham. Claiming the organizations top honor as Best Picture of the year is THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, directed by Martin McDonagh. Simon Oakland. Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time/Scariest Movies Ever Made: Chicago Film Critics' Choices - Page 3 show list info list stats leaders vote print comments How many have you seen? 87. [2] The song sung by Costello's character was initially going to be dubbed by a professional singer, but Hancock and the producers decided to keep her voice as it was recorded. Director: Fritz Lang. "[5], The decline of 1960s counterculture has been cited as a theme by critics and observers. "Jaws" 7. Wait Until Dark (1967). 'RoboCop': All the Failed Attempts to Adapt the Movie to TV. Cmon! This is a great way of giving all the great horror movies their due credit (obviously were missing a few- The Grudge, Jacobs Ladder, Dementia 13, The Haunting (1962 version is actually *very* creepy)), and is a useful way to find new movies, but it is impossible to expect people to agree on what is scary, and pretty hard to be tasteful and accurate. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Keith Gordon. "[34] John Simon described Let's Scare Jessica to Death as a mess. Evil Dead 2? Lauren Bacall. Another possibility is Francis Ford Coppolas costlier and better-known 1992 film, which shares the same original title though its chiefly known as just Dracula; Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, and Keanu Reeves star. Richard Johnson. 27. 39. Cast: Lon Chaney Jr. Warren William. Cast: Adrian Pasdar. Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Johnny Depp. [15], In preparation, both Lampert and Costello worked with acting coach Mira Rostova for their respective roles in the film. Dressed to Kill (1980). Accept Read More. 15. Examples include Alfred Hitchcocks widely revered Psycho, which happens to be the top film on the list; Rob Reiners Misery, less a horror movie than a (not very suspenseful) suspense thriller; William Friedkins The Exorcist, despite all the avocado vomit and Mercedes McCambridges demon voice; and M. Night Shyamalans Signs, which has aliens killing off a few billion humans just so Mel Gibson can have his faith in God restored. Well, all credibility goes right in the poop saloon, as far as Im concerned. Well, there are definitely comedic touches. I saw a revival in a San Francisco theater and it worked beautifully. Ken Foree. Purchased by producer Charles B. Moss, Kalcheim's original screenplay, entitled "It Drinks Hippie Blood",[2] followed a group of hippies camping on a cove who are attacked by a creature that lives in the water. Cast: David Caruso. Director: Tod Browning. In 2006, Halloween was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Jenny Wright. Cast: Mel Gibson. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) 9. "[55] Film scholar Kim Newman, as well as fiction writers Charles L. Grant and Stephen King, are among those who have named it one of their favorite horror films. Shelley Duvall. Nosferatu the Vampyre / Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979). Michael Nouri. Suspiria (1977). Cast: Pierre Brasseur. [11] To prepare the performers for the tone he hoped to accomplish, Hancock screened several films by Alfred Hitchcock to the cast prior to filming. Deborah Raffin. Abusive, inflammatory, spammy/self-promotional, baseless (spreading mis- or disinformation), and just plain deranged comments will be zapped. And no, I dont recall sensing a gay subtext between Karloff and the Old Dark wacko. Award-winners and contenders from Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (2022) Menu. Nancy Allen. Its actually quite a touching film because it speaks to elements of lonliness, societal ostracism, and to the desire for all living beings to be loved and accepted. It seems like they just threw in a load of old horrors even though they are not scary at all by todays staderds. Though completed without a distributor, the film was purchased by Paramount Pictures, who gave it a wide release in the United States in late August 1971. Having said that, where the hell is Alice, Sweet Alice?! Judith ODea. Director: Terence Fisher. Cast: Donald Sutherland. I gotta watch that movie again. [1] Sidney Berger. Director: Dan Curtis. [27] Paramount gave the film a wide theatrical release in the United States. In 2006, the Chicago Film Critics Association pronounced Let's Scare Jessica to Death one of the scariest films ever made. Laura Dern. God's Time. It was quite freaky, but I left watching the Exorcist completely freaked out. When the woman is caught and questioned by the couple, she remains silent and quickly flees when Emily approaches. The Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) today announces their 2022 award winners. Ian Watkin. Director: Kaneto Shind. But the Chicago Film Critics Association's list of the 100 Scariest Movies Ever Made, which came out in October 2006, does include several oldies - e.g., James Whale's Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein - in addition to, gasp!, a handful of non-American horror films such as Dario Argento's Suspiria, Werner Herzog 's Nosferatu the Vampyre, Ralph Bellamy. Scream 2 (1997). 99. Jessica runs through the orchard and comes across Woody's corpse, his throat slashed. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Chloe Zhao's "Nomadland" has earned seven nominations for 2020 honors from the Chicago Film Critics Association, followed by six each for Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods,R In their bedroom, the couple go to lie down; Jessica notices a cut on Duncan's neck, and Emily then enters the room brandishing a knife, with the townsmen following behind her. Alida Valli. Cast: Jack Palance. 4,905 Followers. Hahah LMAO, Shaun Of the Dead! Lampert gives a performance so overwrought that it has to rank as one of the most eccentric ever captured on film. As with many movies, the tone of Jessica is what matters, and that is indeed where it succeeds. Great movie, but its a comedy. And finally, only one film among the Chicago Film Critics top 100 scariest movies of all time has a woman director. Tweets & replies. The film may not take the curl out of your hair, but it will hold your interest even if the title will throw you offthere actually is no plot to scare Jessica. Sidney Blackmer. Lists as a means of measuring film history are indeed useless (just take a look at the AFI lists), but I bet that Sight & Sound will come up with another such list in 2012. When a Stranger Calls (1979). Great movie and book, but nothing scary to it. Sarah Michelle Gellar. Cast: Sam Neill. yeah, its almost criminal that jacobs ladder and the changeling werent on this list.. i would have also added polanskis the tenant, and flaws aside, the recent french film inside as well, but thats just personal opinion. Other surprises because theyre nowhere to be found on the Scariest Movies list despite their hair-raising reputation include: Also inexplicably missing from the Chicago Film Critics list of scariest movies ever made is Lon Chaney, whose star vehicles at Universal and MGM include both well-known classics and forgotten gems of the horror or at least the creepy genre, among them The Phantom of the Opera and The Unknown, in which he cuts off his arms in order to win the heart of a very young Joan Crawford (dont ask). [16] Hancock recalled of her casting: "I knew she would be perfect for the lead role. Isabelle Adjani. Moira Shearer. 69. Bill Paxton. Psycho (1960). Russ Tamblyn. I havent seen several of the films in their top-ten list. 79. The simplicity of the film worked perfectly to create a scary mood. Jessica is afraid to talk about these things with Duncan or Woody, for fear that they will think she is relapsing. The Masque of the Red Death (1964). Cinespace Studios Chicago is the Midwest's leading studio facility and service provider for TV, film, and commercial production. Ive never seen a good print of The Old Dark House. Whats available on video or on cable is a high-contrasty print. 57. Stephen Gevedon. Director: Terence Young. Se7en (1995). John Gavin. Nick Frost. Colleen Dewhurst. The film was #14 on Bravo's The 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004). Thanks again for being here! This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. 4. lists. Courteney Cox. Roddy McDowall. [49] Paramount released the film on DVD on August 29, 2006,[50] and reissued it on September 15, 2009. Janet Leigh. It was so boring I actually got a headache waiting for something interesting to happen. Freda Jackson. 26. Martin (1976; released in 1978). Martita Hunt. Cast: Sigourney Weaver. Kevin Bacon. Evelyn Ankers. "[8] Kalcheim is credited as a co-writer on the film under the pseudonym Norman Jonas. Omar Epps. 9. 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