The 2015 Orloks - 1932 Results

Started many moons ago by Prof-Hieronymos-Grost, the Orloks were a yearly poll on the IMDb horror boards where users submitted Top 5 lists of their favorite horror movies for each year. All of the results were then tabulated to come up with a definitive list of the year's most-liked genre offerings. Alas, when the good Professor decided to depart the boards years ago, the awards went with him... that is until now. IMDb-er seth_yeah - taking on responsibilities as both host and calculator - has decided to bring back this long-standing tradition in 2015, and now the awards will have a permanent place right here on this blog. Scoring is rather simple and done on a weighted system where first choice receives 5 points, second choice 4 points, etc., with a +1 bonus then awarded to the #1 selection on each list. IMDb release years are being used, but it is left up to voters to determine what they may or may not consider horror (which may be in conflict with IMDb's genre labeling system). If you'd like to participate, head on over to the IMDb HORROR BOARDS to vote! So without any further ado, the results...

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1932

Top 5

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1. Freaks

USA / 63 points / Tod Browning

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2. Island of Lost Souls

USA / 61 points / Erle C. Kenton

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3. White Zombie

USA / 44 points / Victor Halperin

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4. The Mummy

USA / 41 points / Karl Freund

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5. Vampyr

France, Germany / 32 points / Carl Theodor Dreyer

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Making the Top 10:

6. Old Dark House, The / USA / 23 points / James Whale
7. Most Dangerous Game, The / USA / 21 points / Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
8. Murders in the Rue Morgue / USA / 13 points / Robert Florey
9. Mask of Fu Manchu, The / USA / 10 points / Charles Brabin
10. Kongo / USA / 6 points / William J. Cowen

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Others receiving votes:

- Doctor X / USA / Michael Curtiz

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The 2015 Orloks - 1993 Results

Started many moons ago by Prof-Hieronymos-Grost, the Orloks were a yearly poll on the IMDb horror boards where users submitted Top 5 lists of their favorite horror movies for each year. All of the results were then tabulated to come up with a definitive list of the year's most-liked genre offerings. Alas, when the good Professor decided to depart the boards years ago, the awards went with him... that is until now. IMDb-er seth_yeah - taking on responsibilities as both host and calculator - has decided to bring back this long-standing tradition in 2015, and now the awards will have a permanent place right here on this blog. Scoring is rather simple and done on a weighted system where first choice receives 5 points, second choice 4 points, etc., with a +1 bonus then awarded to the #1 selection on each list. IMDb release years are being used, but it is left up to voters to determine what they may or may not consider horror (which may be in conflict with IMDb's genre labeling system). If you'd like to participate, head on over to the IMDb HORROR BOARDS to vote! So without any further ado, the results...

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1993

Top 5

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1. Return of the Living Dead III

USA / 49 points / Brian Yuzna

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2. Cronos

Mexico / 46 points / Guillermo del Toro

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3. Trauma

Italy, USA / 24 points / Dario Argento

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4. Schramm

Germany / 23 points / Jörg Buttgereit

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5. Bat sin fan dim: Yan yuk cha siu bau 
(The Untold Story)

Hong Kong / 22 points / Danny Lee, Herman Yau

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Making the Top 10:

6. Temnye vody (Dark Waters) / Italy, UK, Russia / 20 points / Mariano Baino
7. Nightmare Before Christmas, The / USA [animated feature] / 15 points / Henry Selick
8. (tie) Dark Half, The / USA / 11 points / George A. Romero
8. (tie) Fire in the Sky / USA / 11 points / Robert Lieberman
9. (tie) Body Bags / USA [TV] / 9 points / John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper
9. (tie) Leprechaun / USA / 9 points / Mark Jones
10. (tie) Body Snatchers / USA / 8 points / Abel Ferrara
10. (tie) Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday / USA / 8 points / Adam Marcus
10. (tie) Necronomicon: Book of the Dead / France, USA / 8 points / Christophe Gans, Shûsuke Kaneko, Brian Yuzna

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Others receiving votes:

- Addams Family Values / USA / Barry Sonnenfeld
- Arcade / USA / Albert Pyun
- Are You Afraid of the Dark?: "The Tale of the Shiny Red Bicycle" / Canada [TV] / David Winning
- Baby of Mâcon, The / France, Germany, Netherlands, UK / Peter Greenaway
- Bloodstone: Subspecies II / USA / Ted Nicolaou
- Body Melt / Australia / Philip Brophy
- Clean, Shaven / USA / Lodge Kerrigan
- Darkness / USA / Leif Jonker
- Dirty Weekend / UK / Michael Winner
- Doppelganger / UK, USA / Avi Nesher
- Ed and His Dead Mother / UK, USA / Jonathan Wacks
- Emmanuelle au 7ème ciel (Emmanuelle VI) / France / Francis Leroi
- E.T.A. Hoffmanns Der Sandmann (The Sandman) / Germany / Eckhart Schmidt
- Ghost in the Machine / USA / Rachel Talalay
- Good Son, The / USA / Joseph Ruben
- Hocus Pocus / USA / Kenny Ortega
- Jack Be Nimble / New Zealand / Gareth Maxwell
- Jûbê ninpûchô (Ninja Scroll) / Japan [animated feature] / Yoshiaki Kawajiri
- Krvavý román (Horror Story) / Czechoslovakia / Jaroslav Brabec
- Man's Best Friend / USA / John Lafia
- Mit moon cham on: Yit saat (Daughter of Darkness) / Hong Kong / Kai-Ming Lai
- My Boyfriend's Back / USA / Bob Balaban
- Needful Things / USA / Fraser Clarke Heston
- Night Owl / USA / Jeffrey Arsenault
- Nostril Picker, The / USA / Mark Nowicki
- Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings / USA / Jeff Burr
- Skinner / USA / Ivan Nagy
- Ticks / USA / Tony Randel
- Tommyknockers, The / New Zealand, USA [TV] / John Power
- Warlock: The Armageddon / USA / Anthony Hickox
- When a Stranger Calls Back / Canada, USA [TV] / Fred Walton
- Zombie Bloodbath / USA / Todd Sheets

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The 2015 Orloks - 1919 Results

Started many moons ago by Prof-Hieronymos-Grost, the Orloks were a yearly poll on the IMDb horror boards where users submitted Top 5 lists of their favorite horror movies for each year. All of the results were then tabulated to come up with a definitive list of the year's most-liked genre offerings. Alas, when the good Professor decided to depart the boards years ago, the awards went with him... that is until now. IMDb-er seth_yeah - taking on responsibilities as both host and calculator - has decided to bring back this long-standing tradition in 2015, and now the awards will have a permanent place right here on this blog. Scoring is rather simple and done on a weighted system where first choice receives 5 points, second choice 4 points, etc., with a +1 bonus then awarded to the #1 selection on each list. IMDb release years are being used, but it is left up to voters to determine what they may or may not consider horror (which may be in conflict with IMDb's genre labeling system). If you'd like to participate, head on over to the IMDb HORROR BOARDS to vote! So without any further ado, the results...

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1919

Top 5

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1. Herr Arnes pengar (Sir Arne's Treasure)

Sweden / 10 points / Mauritz Stiller

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2. Unheimliche Geschichten (Eerie Tales; Uncanny Stories)

Germany / 9 points / Richard Oswald

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3. J'accuse! (I Accuse)

France / 6 points / Abel Gance

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4. Die Pest in Florenz (The Plague in Florence)

Germany / 4 points / Otto Rippert

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5. Die Ahnfrau (The Ancestress)

Austria / 3 points / Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck

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Making the Top 10:

6. Die Teufelskirche (The Devil's Church) / Germany / 2 points / Hans Mierendorff
7. Wicked Darling, The / USA / 1 point / Tod Browning
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Others receiving votes:

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