SCFZ poll: Tim Burton

[Silga]

Wes Craven - 8
Sam Raimi - 6
Guillermo del Toro - 4
Tobe Hooper - 1
George A. Romero - 1

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i've seen 5 by whale, and 3 or 4 by craven, hooper, raimi and del toro (only 1 from romero), so i can't help much with any of them, but hopefully one of them will work - if anyone has seen several films by any of these directors, please post here!

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Larry Cohen? Jack Arnold? Tod Browning? Some director famous for horror films has got to work.

[nrh]

hooper i've proposed every time we've done these polls and he never works have seen 10+ for everyone but would love to do whale because whale is the best

[ofrene]

Wes Craven - 5
Sam Raimi - 8
Guillermo del Toro - 8
Tobe Hooper - 1
George A. Romero - 3
James Whale - 1

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hooper i've proposed every time we've done these polls and he never works have seen 10+ for everyone but would love to do whale because whale is the best

Yeah, I remember you asking before and just hoped some people might have gotten to 8 or 10 by now, but I really figured Craven had a good shot and would be an appropriate enough choice, but, yeah, Whale is the one most deserving if he does somehow have enough views. Looks like Lencho has charted a bunch, so maybe he can work.

I'd also prefer Whale since it'd give me an excuse to try and watch a couple of his films I haven't seen yet, the others probably aren't gonna get that treatment.

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I've got ten Browning

[greennui]

5 Whale

The only horror director I can help out with is Jess Franco, 10+.

[Evelyn Library P.I.]

4 Whale
6 Browning
7 Arnold

Would try to watch a couple more for any of them during a poll.

[oscarwerner]

Wes Craven - 15
Sam Raimi - 10
Guillermo del Toro - 10
Tobe Hooper - 2
George A. Romero - 4
James Whale - 3

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it already sounds like a few of the directors will work. happy to wait for more responses, but if there's a director that already has 10+ from one person, and 7+ from two others (and the nominator can be one of those three people of course), we can go ahead with that poll right now. i'll leave it up to greg to decide.

[grabmymask]

seen 13 Burton

1. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2. Ed Wood
3. Edward Scissorhands
4. Beetlejuice
5. Batman


I got 13 for Craven and 9 for Hooper, planning on watching Salem’s Lot soon though

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Looks like Craven has the most views, so let's go with him this time. I'll be curious to see how his late eighties/early nineties movies, Deadly Friend, Shocker, Serpent and the Rainbow, and People Under the Stairs are ranked, if they get mentioned at all.

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two interesting (to me) things about the voting:

- of the six features tim burton has made since 2010 (alice in wonderland, dark shadows, frankenweenie-2012, big eyes, miss peregrine's home for peculiar children, dumbo), five got no support at all in our poll, and the sixth film, dark shadows, received just a single 4th place vote. but every other burton feature film did get a vote besides planet of the apes. so burton's recents efforts fared extraordinarily poorly in this poll;

- when i was a quarter-way through the tally, the winner seemed a foregone conclusion. i don't know if we've ever had such a big point differential (30 points!) between first and second place -- the difference alone is greater than the point total the 2nd place film received. so this might be our clearest cut winner yet.

results
1. Ed Wood (1994) -- 57 pts
2. Edward Scissorhands (1990) -- 27 pts
3. Beetlejuice (1988) -- 25 pts
4. Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) -- 22 pts
4. Batman Returns (1992) -- 22 pts
6. Sweeney Todd (2007) -- 21 pts
6. Batman (1989) -- 21 pts
8. Sleepy Hollow (1999) -- 19 pts
9. Big Fish (2003) -- 15 pts
10. Mars Attacks! (1996) -- 12 pts
11. Vincent (1982) -- 6 pts
12. Frankenweenie (1984) -- 5 pts
13. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) -- 3 pts
14. Dark Shadows (2012) -- 2 pts
14. Corpse Bride (2005) -- 2 pts
16. Conversations with Vincent (1994) -- 1 pt

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