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Suspense Movies Poll! (Patreon)

Published:
2024-05-07 18:09:19
Imported:
2026-06

Poll

Suspense Movies Poll!

  • No Country for Old Men (2007) 51
  • Memento (2000) 25
  • Oldboy (2003) 3
  • The Prestige (2006) 15
  • Chinatown (1974) 31
  • Get Out (2017) 13
  • Das Boot (1981) 25
  • Gone Girl (2014) 9
  • 2024-05-07
  • —2024-05-09
  • 172 votes
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Content

Here's the Suspense Movie Poll as picked by DavidRoel, our Quiz Night runner up! Voting ends Thursday (9th) evening!

Comments

Bartleby

Memento for the win!!! Memento is perfect film for a reaction for Detective Dawn.

David Harvey

"The Prestige" is a historical suspense film with a great script, direction, and wonderful acting. It's full of twists and turns and takes you on a magical thrill ride where you constantly think you have it figured out and then the big reveal at the end blows your mind!

YoureMrLebowski

i pick my movies based on hairstyles. so...

RicoRay317

How is No Country For Old Men a suspense film? It's a great movie but doesn't belong in that category. My favorite on the list is Get Out, a truly creepy movie, but Memento is a close second for me.

Zinphad
>>137350737

Did not vote for it, but I did find much of No Country For Old Men very suspenseful.

Louis Marzullo
>>137350737

What adjectives better describe "No Country" than "thrilling" & "suspenseful"? There are multiple extended scenes that are masterpieces in creating & building suspense & tension.

Shawn Aguilera

Just voted for the best film (No Country) but it's probably not categorized as suspense. Next I would do Gone Girl. Both films have great psychopaths.

YoureMrLebowski

great poll, every film is good. i always feel a little sad for a really good film like Gone Girl that's really pretty, but not as pretty as No Country for Old Men.

Eric Janssen

“Yeah, I’m a cynical Gen-Z badass…I tell the world ‘Seen it, like I care.’” (watches Chinatown) “😨”

JL Green

I'm a fan of all the choices especially No Country For Old Men and Get Out but overall Get Out edges out all the others as the most controversial and talked about film.

Zack Gallardo
>>137378383

Old boy would like a word with you. But seriously get out had quite the impact on cinema when it came out. Good choice.

Mannygogou
>>137350737

let me wrap my head around this... No, I think it's not a suspense film either. I searched and the definition is vague, thriller, crime? I think of a Hitchcock movie. But I think suspense should be from the point of view of the victim, the main character is "not strong" or... it's a mystery who is the killer, who is the victim? The suspense comes from the main characters being in danger.

Mannygogou

this is interesting... I do a search like this, "what movie genre is -------" (enter the title of the film) The result comes up with 10 to 15 genres, which is a lot. The results I find interesting. Yes, "suspense" is there... or not there...

Mannygogou
>>137401967

The film genre of "Suspense" shows up for all of the titles except not for these two, No Country for Old Men Memento ( Hey I'm not trying to change the world here... 😮🙃 )

Bill W
>>137401967

I believe "thriller" is often used in place of "suspense", Almost all of these except Das Boot (war film), Get Out (terror), and Chinatown (mystery) are listed as "thriller" on wikipedia.

Mannygogou
>>137401967

I was thinking about it when I made my title suggestions. I tried to take apart elements of the story in the movie that make it suspenseful. I came up with the ideas that the main characters must be at risk from a stronger element like a killer, mysterious enemy, even a major disaster or an oppressive society. Basically the movie might be from the point-of-view of victims. Online definition = creating feelings of anxiety that build up over an extended period.

Mannygogou
>>137401967

Das Boot show up as "suspense" genre. There must be suspense elements in the movie. Is there cat and mouse sequences, game of mental chess with life and death consequences? Must be suspenseful 🙂

Mannygogou
>>137401967

in Equilibrium which I suggested, they all live in an oppressive society that imprison people and worse... they drug people to control and suppress emotions. It's listed with many genres including suspense. But again - the poll isn't about strict definitions.

Mannygogou
>>137401967

I just found the genre topic interesting that's all. You mentioned "thriller" so now I gotta think about what makes a thriller hahaha. I suppose if a movie is thrilling. Or if a movie is suspenseful. These two emotions are not the same though.

Bartleby
>>137378383

Zack already said it, but yeah. You’ve obviously never seen OldBoy

JL Green
>>137378383

I have seen Oldboy and it's fantastic movie, but my comment pertains to who received the greater word of mouth.

Bartleby
>>137378383

Well obviously any English language movie is going to typically have more word of mouth in the west than a foreign language film. But the level of shock and controversy surrounding OldBoy blows any such controversy Get Out might have had out of the water. Frankly I don’t recall too much “controversy” around Get Out at all. It’s a very safe kind of film to make current year. The themes are fairly predictable.

Bartleby
>>137401967

There definitely is a cat and mouse element in Das Boot. Don’t you think the word ‘suspense’ also suggests mystery and specifically heightened mystery.

JL Green
>>137378383

The fact that you didn't find much controversy in Get Out tells me all I need to know about you. Have a nice day.

Louis Marzullo

I'd like a poll of movies likely to make Dawn say my new favorite catch-phrase the most times: "OWAAAAAYYY!!"

Eric Janssen
>>137377859

Ie., it's one of those gritty 70's movies that today's poseur kids can't handle. You can't impress the Taxi Driver generation.

Bartleby
>>137378383

Frankly I didn’t think Get Out was a particularly interesting or compelling film. And I don’t find Jordan Peele to be a particularly interesting or compelling filmmaker. There are countless horror films far more unique, demented, and messed up than Get Out. And there are countless films and filmmakers dealing with the subject of race relations in a far more sophisticated, nuanced and complex manner than the obvious, heavy handed approach of Get Out. I’ll take a film like Precious, and directors like Spike Lee and John Singleton over Jordan Peele any day of the week! It’s not even a contest.

JL Green
>>137378383

Obviously you don't comprehend "Have a nice day" meant this conversation has ended. Let's try this, I agree to disagree with you Bartleby. Bye-bye.

Mannygogou
>>137401967

I do like the idea of "mystery and heightened mystery." I thought that "The Big Sleep" had mystery... but in the search that I used it did not label it suspense - probably "it's a bit happy" lol. "Heightened mystery" seems to me must be "risk of being murdered" or life threatening mystery. In other words risk to the characters we're following. I didn't think of it at the time but disaster movies could have suspense elements (although not in the "detective" or "crime" type category.)

Mannygogou
>>137401967

Oh, I just thought of "Jaws" ... the movie is basically a natural disaster movie (wild animals killing people is genre-adjacent to a volcano killing people.) Yup, Jaws shows up with "suspense" genre designation. When the shark has not been seen there is "mystery" there. Hold on... "Twister" is also categorized suspense - check.

Mannygogou
>>137401967

Okay let me watch that Hitchcock interview... I know the internet "or someone" had to go through the catalog of all movies to try and identify genre classifications... so someone had to go subjective at some point. While suspense can be identified, how much suspense should there be in a movie to give it the classification in the suspense genre.

Mannygogou
>>137401967

Very nice Hitchcock's description of how to create suspense. In his example of a bomb under the table, let's break it down, 1) death - risk of death, extreme danger 2) our characters are not invincible, not super strong - our character are "weak" compared to the power of the bomb - this creates "peril." (If for example the danger comes from a bad guy, but our main character can easily handle the bad guy, there is much less perceived peril.) 3) mystery or the unknown - our characters are unaware of the danger of the bomb, but the viewer can see the bomb in the example. In some cases the audience is also left in the dark. In The Invisible Man (2020) the main character we're following "does not know" there is an invisible man in the room. Heck we don't know. We as viewers are given cues that "there might" be an invisible man in the room but we don't really know. It's a fantastic build up of suspense. We both know and don't know if there is peril at any given scene. So in the video Hitchcock is describing "suspense" as existing in the mind of the audience. It is a feeling of anxiety created in the viewer over an extend period of time.

Mannygogou
>>137401967

bomb example - Superman in a courtroom with a bomb. Wait, wait... Superman and a bomb walk into a courtroom... The judge brow beats Superman. Neither knows of the bomb's existence. The judge continue to bully Superman through words... but we have the Hitchcock effect of being given a clue that something is wrong... The judge falters realizing that something is wrong... None of us know yet that there is a bomb - "the bomb is the twist" (A. Hitchcock) There are a few seconds of suspense. The peril is for all the humans in the courtroom... but also the peril for Superman is the public misperception that he is somehow involved or unwilling to prevent the disaster. Superman is not in physical danger but he stands amidst a carnage of humanity... and at that moment being invulnerable feels like a crime in itself. Not a suspense movie.

Mannygogou
>>137401967

I was waiting for Truffaut to make hand gestures like he does in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, lol. "No no no, these people were drawn to come here across great distances, inexplicably through all manner of dangers. No, this is an event sociological."

james johnston

memento is way out of dawns comprehension