Cool - thanks!
BTW, someone on Facebook just shared this little two-minute horror short:
http://vimeo.com/82920243
It scarred the crap out of me!
― Darin, Wednesday, 19 March 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/the-feminist-power-of-female-ghostsworth a glance
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Friday, 21 March 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
A FIELD IN ENGLAND: I still don't know exactly what was happening in a few parts but I liked it; it had some really beautiful sequences, great music and impressive techniques. I was lukewarm on Kill List and his overly straightforward ABC segment but I'm more enthusiastic about the potential of Wheatley now.
UNDER THE SKIN: I know this book/film has two threads but I'll put it here. I saw this film in the same location as the early parts of the film and that was quite strange. I think Glasgow people nervously half expect to see themselves in the film. Even though I knew I shouldn't set my expectations too high, I was slightly underwhelmed because some people built this film up as an eternal mighty masterpiece. Although I wouldn't urge people to see it, it is a good strange atmospheric film with some really striking moments.
ANTICHRIST: I'm amazed this film was from 5 years ago, it feels like much less. I'm finding myself lured to things I wasn't interested in at the time they came out but start to really desire in a change of mood. I have no problem with extreme violence but it puts me off when I hear about endurance test style violence, which makes me wince and squirm and that tends to be closer to annoying than harrowing (like somebody pinging your ear and fingering your belly). Maybe loads of horror fans really do get turned on by violence because drawn out scenes that somehow bore, annoy and wincify me would make sense in that light. I think the violence in this film was exaggerated by the media. I really liked this, especially in the aesthetics but the level of craziness of the woman escalating that much seems like too much of a jump for me; I know she had horrendous grief but it didn't really account for how extreme it goes, am I missing something? I'm sure there is lots of discussion online and probably on this forum but I'm not sure I can be bothered.
These 3 films above are making me increasingly of the opinion that a lot of the best films don't entirely add up /make a coherent whole. For me, a film being a unique and interesting experience is the most precious and rare thing. It's amazing how much I swing so far in and out of enthusiasm about films. I've seen a lot of really stimulating stuff recently and it's hard to see why I was so unenthusiastic a few months ago. Maybe I used to be too intent in getting certain types of films.
Anyone else see that French film Livid from a few years ago? Pretty decent, some were saying it was a bit like a new Jean Rollin film but there were several computer and sound effects that significantly spoiled the whole thing. I hope the director goes on to better things because I liked the general approach of the film.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 23 March 2014 01:49 (ten years ago) link
The directors of Livide Bustillo & Maury also made Inside. I definitely have both eyes on their next project, Among the Living.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Sunday, 23 March 2014 04:24 (ten years ago) link
^^ high expectations for 'among the living' too. and this movie called 'starry eyes' seems promising from what i read.
speaking of cults, 'faults' seems to be something along the lines of 'sound of my voice' or 'mmmm'. might be of interest.
loved 'a field in england'. still, i'm something of a wheatley stan - didn't care much for his 'ABC's' short and never saw 'down terrace' tho. he already proved he knew how to tell a story on 'kill list' and 'sightseers', 'a field in england' shows he can deal in more abstract waters with impressive results. he manages to pull some great performances from his casts as well.
― rusty_allen, Monday, 24 March 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
I finally saw Big Bad Wolves...I think I wasn't in the right mood for it? like it wasn't really that much of a twist. idk, I was bummed, I'd been looking forward to it.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
I continue to find those guys really overrated
― Simon H., Monday, 24 March 2014 03:16 (ten years ago) link
tonally it kinda bothered me too
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 03:37 (ten years ago) link
BBW's brilliance isn't in the delivery of big plot twists, but in the utter unease generated by the skilled juggling of deadly serious and darkly comic scenes. Even if you thought the plot predictable, you can't tell me that you were able to anticipate the relentless tonal shifts. I thought they made for an exceptionally tense and entertaining watch.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Monday, 24 March 2014 03:42 (ten years ago) link
But i don't think Simon and i have agreed even once in this thread. So i am not shocked.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Monday, 24 March 2014 03:43 (ten years ago) link
fwiw I love Inside so we agree on that probably?
― Simon H., Monday, 24 March 2014 03:47 (ten years ago) link
I found the folksy levity during the torture irritating, all that shit with the grandfather etc... I get the juxtaposition etc but it's not really new? it just felt like padding to me
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 03:49 (ten years ago) link
I don't know how Livide slipped by me, can't wait to watch it!!! Especially since the last horror movie I watched was The Returned. It started out with a great idea, but then they made the love story the central plot with no horror. I wanted a zombie outbreak at the end.
― JacobSanders, Monday, 24 March 2014 03:54 (ten years ago) link
We're apparently bound to disagree on this one, VG? The tonal shifts kept me on edge and felt fully functional. It was one of the more effective uses i've seen for this particular dramatic device. As for the grandfather,, maybe i'm more forgiving because I've known Israelis my whole life and, yeah, they're just like that.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Monday, 24 March 2014 04:04 (ten years ago) link
The line must be drawn here, etc
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 04:06 (ten years ago) link
Am I supposed to know what you mean by that? Because I really do not. Not an inkling.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Monday, 24 March 2014 04:10 (ten years ago) link
re: tonal shifts + torture; The Loved Ones did it better.
― Simon H., Monday, 24 March 2014 04:13 (ten years ago) link
xpost forget it. picard line from a star trek movie, my materialis wasted itt ;)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 04:15 (ten years ago) link
Never got into the Star Wars.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Monday, 24 March 2014 04:20 (ten years ago) link
The Loved Ones has not held up all that well. Diminishing returns with each re-viewing. I suspect my admiration for BBW will only deep with time and familiarity.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Monday, 24 March 2014 04:22 (ten years ago) link
*deepen
t's possible I would like BBW better had I not seen Rabies.
― Simon H., Monday, 24 March 2014 05:04 (ten years ago) link
Was decidedly nonplussed with "the lived ones"
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Monday, 24 March 2014 07:12 (ten years ago) link
Loved ones
Going to sleep, but just watched you're next and need to unravel my thoughts on it tomorrow
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Monday, 24 March 2014 07:13 (ten years ago) link
Was disappointed in that one after a bunch a friends talked it up
― Darin, Monday, 24 March 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
Easily my favourite moment in Livide was when the girl walks through the garden along with some really enchanting guitar sounds at that brief moment. It stuck out in my memory. It's funny that often the best moments in horror films are just people walking around places (Lynch and Argento in particular) It had a lot of good things but the animal sound effects for the scary people sounded like cheap videogame stuff. There is also too much of that jerky editing of movements to make someone look twisted/fucked up, the sort they used to use in nu-metal era music videos, maybe even that Christina Aguilera video. If it weren't for a few ill advised effects it would have been much better. It's really annoying how many good films are spoiled by special effects scenes that could easily been avoided.
The 13 Assassins bull scene was a great idea and obviously they couldn't have done it without cgi but they really should have left it out because it just looked far too fake.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 24 March 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
the most illuminating thing for me abt you're next is watching the special features making of (yeah i know) and having a bunch of the involved dudes talk about how funny it was intended to be and how they were trying to revamp the home invasion thing, and thinking that they really failed on both accounts. I didn't dislike the movie, but there was a def feel that they were trying to do something and missed the mark pretty completely, esp knowing what that something was. also the twist was a no brainer through the entire movie. i think wingard is an interesting dude, and i do like pop skull for what it is, but yeah, a little too inside his own head about how surprising he thinks this movie was.
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
yeah I did an interview with Simon Barrett before you're next came out and everything he said he was trying to do with it, comedy-wise, made me really psyched to see it...and then I watched it and I was like, okay wtf happened
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
I liked You're Next, but wow, has it faded from my mind. I don't remember shit about it now. Except how awesome Joe Swanberg's character was.
― The Thnig, Monday, 24 March 2014 17:49 (ten years ago) link
I was surprised youre next didnt do well at the box office but then again it makes sense, lionsgate originally planned for a Halloween release when they acquired and I think releasing it when they did was a bit of a mistake.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 24 March 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
I liked Livide although it was a little hard to follow near the end. I enjoyed how dark much of the film was and like Inside I was actually scared and didn't know what was coming. I didn't mind the jerking movements since the girl was broken. I'm excited to see what they do next.
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 07:31 (ten years ago) link
The thing i liked best about You're Next, is that it continued the trend of Ti West as supporting actor in mediocre independent films. Not sure if anyones seen the trailer for his next film, about the Jonestown style cult, but it looks kind of interesting.
― JohnSock, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/03/27/phantasm-5-ravager-trailer-exclusive/
― how's life, Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
http://mashable.com/2014/03/27/oculus-rift-facebook-horror-movie-social-media/#:eyJzIjoiZiIsImkiOiJfZTk1bWF5OWh3bXozM3BrdHprM2JydDJvd2RfIn0
― how's life, Thursday, 27 March 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
I seen Dream Home a few days ago and it was okay; some of it really nasty.
Not really a horror film but this 8min video is great...http://vimeo.com/83390470
Allison Schulnik done some Grizzly Bear videos, an unofficial Scott Walker video and she's a great painter. I think she's one of the best artists alive today. I really wish there was more opportunities for more expressive animation like this.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 28 March 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
Insidious 2 is a big ol waste of time, fyi
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Friday, 4 April 2014 06:09 (ten years ago) link
Watched that and the conjuring recently and man how did James wan remember which ghost hunters help tormented family haunted by serial killers movie he was working on - at least Patrick Wilson switched roles.
― da croupier, Friday, 4 April 2014 06:17 (ten years ago) link
I am watching The Borderlands tonight, it looks pretty solid from the reviews. It's a found footage account of some Vatican paranormal team sent to investigate a haunted West Country church.
― xelab, Saturday, 5 April 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
I would thoroughly recommend The Borderlands, definitely the best British horror movie I have seen in a long time.
― xelab, Saturday, 5 April 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
Afflicted is decent as well, it is a fucking Canadian found footage vampire film. As appalling as that sounds it actually is a very decent low budget horror movie.
― xelab, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 20:51 (ten years ago) link
Just watched 100 Bloody Acres, Aussie comedy horror starring Damon Herriman, the bumbling nazi buddy from Justified, and I absolutely loved it.
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 April 2014 05:22 (ten years ago) link
Like srsly watch this immediately if you want to see Wolf Creek channelled through the coen brothers with one foot in blood simple and the other in raising Arizona.
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Thursday, 10 April 2014 05:38 (ten years ago) link
It isn't bad at all is 100 bloody acres, it reminded me of early PJ with all the bawdy humour and severed limbs etc.
― xelab, Thursday, 10 April 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
On the other hand, "all the boys love Mandy lane" is complete fucking dreck
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Friday, 11 April 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
^^ cosign the hate for this. tries so desperately to convey some sort of hazy atmosphere ('virgins suicides' much?) but fails completely.
― rusty_allen, Friday, 11 April 2014 11:13 (ten years ago) link
Saw that about 5 years back at a fastival. I find it amusing how in the meantime it's developed a mystique by not being released; it's not good. Levine is such a hack.
― Simon H., Friday, 11 April 2014 12:01 (ten years ago) link
Just watched Sokurov's Faust. It has really nice visual effects and some great images but I didn't care for the constant rambling talk and Constance of characters stumbling around, weakly struggling against each other.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 11 April 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
By Sean O'Neal Apr 15, 2014 1:35 PMAs teased by that final, surprise shot of a hand bursting out to sign an agreement relinquishing all of Warner Bros.’ financial rights, Friday The 13th is set to rise again, again, at Paramount, with a reboot of the reboot of the long-running franchise last rebooted in 2009. Hoping to reboot the story of Jason Vorhees for a newer, younger generation of five years later, the studio is reportedly in talks with director David Bruckner, whose “Amateur Night” segment was a standout in the horror anthology movie V/H/S. As The Wrap suggests, Bruckner’s involvement could mean producers are interested in employing a found-footage approach to Friday The 13th, as “found footage” is among the few remaining gimmicks yet to be applied to a franchise that’s already employed 3-D multiple times, had crossovers with other horror movies, and sent its character to New York, Hell, and outer space. The remaining options would therefore be found footage or sending Jason to “Da Hood.”Like the 2009 reboot of Friday The 13th, the new Friday The 13th reboot will also be produced through Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes, where even the most recent of horror movie reboots are soon swallowed by the wind-whipped sands of time. While most of the details are still being decided, the release date has long been set for Friday, March 13, 2015, which is, frankly, the only detail that has ever mattered to Paramount.
Like the 2009 reboot of Friday The 13th, the new Friday The 13th reboot will also be produced through Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes, where even the most recent of horror movie reboots are soon swallowed by the wind-whipped sands of time. While most of the details are still being decided, the release date has long been set for Friday, March 13, 2015, which is, frankly, the only detail that has ever mattered to Paramount.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
photocopy of a photocopy XXIV: the recopying
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link