ok lets all shit our pants to something new: post 2005 horror film thread

Oh shit wait, I did a recent horror ballot poll a while ago, give me a sec to go on computer not phone

Calvaire is not that graphic compared to the nu-French extreme stuff iirc

also it has one of the best musical sequences in the history of cinema imo

oh whoops, it was just a 2011 specific poll i think

eh anyway, off the top of my head:
deadgirl
evil dead remake
the taking of deborah logan
the children
babadook
100 bloody acres
absentia
baghead
the innkeepers
the guest

Innkeepers was great

ah shit, also eden lake. and lords of salem. and hostel 2. and 50 other things im not remembering right now.

innkeepers is the ti west movie i throw down for, as a dude who hates house of the devil

of interest wrt to this topic, btw: Hey it's halloween, everybody should shit their pants - ilx horror crew top tens.

Sooooo...Halloween 2. That sure was brutal. Not sure I understand why people tend to over- or underpraise it, as it's roughly on par with its predecessor. Malcolm McDowell was pretty good in his inverted portrayal of Dr. Loomis as a pissy famewhore. Essentially, though, if you think Zombie's first Halloween was disappointingly bereft of graphic head smashing and visceral neck sawing, this is the film for you!

Was it Halloween or the sequel that begins with an extended rape scene?

I have trouble slotting The Guest in as horror. It starts off like it could be horror, but it slowly morphs into "The Terminator" as directed by John Carpenter.

Yeah, The Guest isn't horror - it's a throwback action movie. And a great one.

Another vote for The Children. (Not to be confused with the kids-in-a-schoolbus-who-give-toxic-hugs The Children, which is also great, but in a different way).

man it's been a slow year for horror, huh? I wanna catch The Witch and that's about it.

Did anyone see Cooties? I heard good things but the trailer seemed to negate the good things that I'd heard.

My list would look similar to the others here, I'll add these
The Battery
La Casa Muda
Citadel
Lovely Molly
Triangle
Found

Lovely Molly was good yeah

Anyone seen the german thing this year with the mom that comes back from cosmetic surgery all sinister?

Goodnight, Mommy. Yeah, it's very good. Goes in a direction I wasn't expecting.

^^ loved it. truly disturbing.

some great choices around here. without repeating names (i hope)here are a few more :

end of the line
grace
here comes the devil/penumbra/36 pasos
red velvet
388 arletta avenue
sauna
the signal (canadian one)
tears of kali

not quite horror, but still worth mentioning : blue ruin

Did anyone see Cooties? I heard good things but the trailer seemed to negate the good things that I'd heard.

it was ok, i guess - a few good gags and rainn wilson. quite a number of horror comedies surfacing this year - bloodsucking bastards, deathgasm, the editor and that new one with zombies and boy scouts or something come to mind. but everything pales in comparison to 'what we do in the shadows' obv.

i mean, is there any need for more zom coms? or even vamp coms for that matter?

zombie comedies pretty well-worn territory at this point. I liked What We Do in the Shadows okay.

and also on a "is it really horror" type of situation, tho truly devastating and disturbing i need to add 'red, white & blue'

I was very impressed by Triangle and Kill List. In fact it's high time I saw these again.

I caught Red, White and Blue at a genre fest some years back - maybe it was because it was kinda hyped in that context, but I was nonplussed by it.

Anyone care to vet this list of underrated horror films available on Netflix? Some of the selections have gotten a round of thumbs ups in this thread so I'm curious about the rest.

The Sacrament = Ti West = not to be trusted

Mr Jones is watchable but not good in any meaningful sense.

I didn't like Creep at all but can see why it has its fans.

The Shrine is actively bad.

Taking of Deborah Logan is excellent and everyone should see it.

The Sacrament isn't really a horror film - it's Ti West's take on Jonestown by another name and although the lead Jim Jonesish performance is great, the film feels very shallow.

Let's not go over Pontypool again.

I gave up on The Canal after about half an hour, despite it being Irish.

I gave up on From The Dark after fifteen minutes despite it being set in my adopted obscure Irish county.

Stakeland is not worthwhile.

Damn, Stake Land and The Shrine are the two I put on my Amazon watch list. (I'm a little bit of a Jonestown/Peoples Temple freak - I find the whole cult thing fascinating.)

I liked stakeland a lot.

Sacrament sucked but was the first Ti West dud I've seen

What's the deal with Cub? I've only seen the poster which is distinctive (am assuming it's horror)

What did you like about Stakeland? I don't think it's terrible, there are decent shots in it but I found it very bland.

Just watched You're Next, which was a lot of fun. (It's on Hulu for free.)

I'll also throw down for stakeland, but from that list taking of Deborah Logan is miles in the lead

came across 'the taking of deborah logan' a bunch of times and it never piqued my interest. this couple of posts of support from credible sources made me give it chance. hope it holds up.

re: cub - liked it, but didn't love it. prefer to think of it as something of an arthouse european/detached take on some slasher tropes - take that as you will, i'd put the emphasis on the psychological aspect of it. beautifully shot and with a great soundtrack by steve moore.

also, from that list, 'creep' is this sort of unreasonable keeper for me. like it more everytime i think or talk to someone about it. and i found 'the canal' surprisingly touching.

Not sure if this is a problem now anymore than it has been for the last few decades but I find it difficult to care about most new stuff because there's so many generic characters who are probably supposed to be relatable. As much as I'm tired of scholars, horror writers, detectives, wry outsiders, priests, high society men visiting friends and relatives, it's often better than the modern incarnations of Person Peopleton and Manonymous McMediocre.
I actually like somewhat anonymous characters but it's probably the blandly aspirational quality that is part of what is bothering me.

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh is even better than Deborah Logan, though I love them both & often mix up the titles.

"What's the deal with Cub? I've only seen the poster which is distinctive (am assuming it's horror)"

Isn't this the Belgian lost boy scout troop encounters crazy family in woods one? I've heard it's good, but it's not streamable AFAICT.

Let Us Prey, which was added to Netflix USA today, is deeply silly but mildly entertaining.

Deborah Logan fell apart when it got to the whole snake thing imo

Yeah, just watched that, and while it starts out OK it devolves into kind of incoherence. Like, were the snakes even poisonous? Certainly no one seemed to be afraid of getting bitten. And I was really put off by the brazen found-footage Mad Libbing. Cameras posted all around? Check. Security camera footage? Check. A sequence with night vision? Check. Running through the woods at night with only the camera for light? Check. Not to mention the usual by the books jump scares. Approaching a character facing the other way? Check. Things that go bump in the attic? Check. Also a little irked by how long they let it go with only a modicum of safety concerns, considering the protagonist was at her best tearing off her own skin and speaking in tongues, at worse prone to attacking/biting people.

Pluses: still well-made, well-acted, and featuring the rare character who literally says fuck it, I'm leaving. Plus a penultimate monster moment on par with the reveal at the end of "Rec."

Docked points for the way it finally ended, which is a whole 'nother lame cliche.

But still: worth seeing, I think!

AV Club list of the 25 best horror movies since 2000

yeah, drag me to hell and ginger snaps are both excellent

uuuuugh @ It Follows being so high / on that list at all, but not terrible otherwise.

i loved It Follows, but you should know by now that overhyping a recent/controversial movie for a Top X list is a staple of the modern listicle

Yeah, 10 months ago and Babadook would've been #4 at the lowest.

I watched Knock Knock last weekend. Is Keanu Reeves hurting for work?

Tarantino was OTM when he described "It Follows" as so good you wish it were great. I think that's the best kind of backhanded compliment I've ever heard, because it's without a doubt a huge compliment. It's rare you encounter a movie so engrossing and so original you're disappointed that it's not perfect, especially in horror, where the standard is typically set so low we praise movies for not being terrible.