A knockout tournament is better (except when people vote incorrectly... ) but how about a combination of both options?

Everyone submits two titles and we have a poll for each (i.e Poll no 1 is all of our collective first choices and the second poll our second choices) with the stip that we can't vote for our own choice then the top 4 from each poll becomes our top 8 for the knockout rounds.

Thoughts?

OK Heres the list:

Alien, Jaws, The Shining, Psycho, Dark Water, Ringu, The Exorcist & Halloween. There was some discussion about these but these are the 8. The first round matches are as follows:

Halloween Vs. The Shining

Alien Vs. Ringu

Dark Water Vs. Psycho

Jaws Vs. The Exorcist
You have until Saturday Night at 10 pm to cast your round 1 votes.

Do you know what after posting this I thought oops Hellraiser... Anyway we only had 8 places so we had to include the genres best and most original.

Dark Water & Ringu are the J-Horrors as selected by MiB. Threst of the list if you feel anything was omited and I have to add on this list:

Ju On: The Grudge
The Thing (Kurt Russell Version)
Nightmare on Elm St.
Evil Dead

these were all under consideration and came close but we had to goto 8.

Anyway in the last month we are going to have a Battle Royale Qualifier for all of the contenders that just missed out, so hopefully they'll get a chance there.

I think i understand your point Mib ^^ but im amazed Jaws is in this category, is it really a horror film? I actually have never seen it so maybe im wrong.I am sad that Alien and and Ringu was paired together though..terrible! And then the omission of Hellraiser, no excuses guys! Im kidding,that Battle Royale thing Dark M mentioned sounds good :).

This is a conversation that has come up more than once. Yes Jaws is listed as a horror. Think about it, it's about a near perfect killing machine that could be considered a monster. There's several deaths, the head in the botom of the boat is one of the true movie shock make youe scream/jump moments ever.... I'd say it was a horror.


Halloween Vs. The Shining

Alien Vs. Ringu

Dark Water Vs. Psycho

Jaws Vs. The Exorcist

Not really a big horror fan either, and not even heard of a few of these! Anyhow, here are my choices.

Halloween Vs. The Shining

Alien Vs. Ringu

Dark Water Vs. Psycho

Jaws Vs. The Exorcist

Halloween Vs. The Shining
Alien Vs. Ringu
Dark Water Vs. Psycho
Jaws Vs. The Exorcist

Booo Eve. You're letting the Asian fans side down. Surely you've seen Ringu?

OK sorry once again for the delay. The results are as follows...

Halloween (1) Vs. The Shining (6)

Alien (6) Vs. Ringu (2)

Dark Water (4) Vs. Psycho (4)

Jaws (6) Vs. The Exorcist (1)

So Dark Water and psycho go through on a draw and thus the next round looks like this:

Jaws Vs. Dark Water

The Shining vs. Alien Vs. Psycho

Jaws Vs. Dark Water

The Shining vs. Alien Vs. Psycho

my votes are in BOLD

Halloween Vs. The Shining

Alien Vs. Ringu

Dark Water Vs. Psycho

Jaws Vs. The Exorcist

Jaws Vs. Dark Water

The Shining vs. Alien Vs. Psycho

I vote for Dark Water and Psycho. Alien misses out as its sequel was perhaps even better.
Dark Water is such a perfect film, it has these bone chilling moments but is also very touching and moving.

Of films that never made the cut, check out the original black and white version of The Haunting.

Alien by a some distance for me.

so the final is here Alien Vs. Jaws well thats a hard choice beacuse both films were genre breaking and both were fan bloody tastic.

but in the end on pure scare facor and after careful nail biting I vote ALIEN

Got to go with Jaws for me. The tension was better built up and was consistent whereas Alien was pretty much remembered just for the chest bursting sequence.