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

how you gonna do a blood elevator climax in something that's not a tall building

Fair enough, that is the most ott bit in the movie, they probably started with that and worked backwards.

I could have sworn I heard that the latest "Scream" movie wasn't that bad, but it pretty much was, and was boring, too. "Infinity Pool," on the other hand, was incredible.

talk to me was EXCELLENT. was so pleased with every decision it made

dammit now you're making me want to leave the house again tonight.

Against all reason I watched the new Texas Chainsaw on Netflix. So unbelievably stupid and bad, gory but never once suspenseful or scary. Avoid.

I almost did, I started trying to watch em all for completist purposes and god, after 2 anything interesting about this franchise just disappeared

loved Birth/Rebirth

it's psychological, more of a prolonged discomfort. it takes swings at a lot of things - the sacrifices that American society regularly forces single mothers to make, a labor culture that is increasingly anti-worker, and how struggling civilians are forced to acquire what they have by stepping on the backs of other people. particularly how society pits women against each other as well and expects them to be at their best without regard for their wellbeing. moreso though it's pretty grounded in the way it presents the premise (resurrection), one which has been done to death in horror, but nicely avoids almost all of the usual cliches.

ending is pretty devastating.

Earwig by Lucile Hadžihalilović. This is really good, I liked Evolution a lot and Innocence is pretty good too. Brian Catling (writer of the novel) said she could change as much as she liked so I'm not sure if the novel will help me understand the film more. Very quiet film.

I'll check it out.. I thought Evolution was fantastic, I often forget if I've seen a film but not that one.. it was very singular

The film removes a lot of the context and specificity found in Catling's novel, especially around the title character and his history - probably in the interest of making everything more ambiguous - but otherwise hews pretty close to the overall plot. Would say the novel is quite a bit more coherent than the film, which has a fabulous atmosphere but seems just a bit too shapeless.

Catling was a really interesting person, would hope that as this film continues to make the rounds more people will check out his work.

Finally saw Resurrection. Didn't like it at all. Thought Roth completely phoned it in.

Always love Rebecca Hall but this story was too bonkers even for me

"Totally Killer" was so bad from the start we watched the whole thing convinced it was in on the joke and there would be some smart twist but no, it was just bad.

Bout to watch Slotherhouse

when evil lurks very creepy and perverse argentinian horror from the guy who made terrified. will be on shudder soon afaik

saw x was also super entertaining

argentinian horror

Read this as algorithm horror, lol, which is a good way to describe a lot of dreck that pops up on streaming services.

I really enjoyed the Shelley Duvall-esque mom character in When Evil Lurks. Good movie!

Some very small talk upthread but I watched The Outwaters last weekend..

really enjoyed it, as a good Cosmic Horror/found footage experience.

more like that please...

Slotherhouse showed some promise as a horror comedy for the first 40 minutes but then they completely half-assed the rest of it.

Not sure where to slot it, but I thought "No One Will Save You" was really well done. Very ambiguous, which can be risky, since people like answers, but I appreciated the ambition.

THANKSGIVING!!!!! god. it gave thanks. five stars

Fucking loved it

Felt like a love letter to the off-brand slasher flick thread

Watched TALK TO ME last night (rentable on Amazon), thought it was well made and the cast was strong — Sophie Wilde in particular. Not a feel-good movie lol. Some plotting problems and even with necessary disbelief suspension some things were hard to buy. Reminded me at various points of Hereditary and It Follows, though not as stylistically striking as either.

I highly recommend Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor if you want to experience your heart stopping multiple times.

Really? Cool!

It's great, matches the original. I skipped the two middle sequels based on reviews.

Loved the original so will check this out

Hmmm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puY9AthRUCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF_J3-DmiS0

rose glass (saint maud) returns!!! this looks like a riot

Evil Dead Rise - better than I expected. Has there been a movie based on the inevitable lifetime of therapy the young girl who survives would be forced to go through? Like a rom com about 20-somethings but our protagonist’s entire family was slaughtered 20 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkcrNh9XSSw

whoa

Enjoyed Suitable Flesh a lot, but then I'm a sucker for Stuart Gordon films so that might not be surprising. Barbara Crompton is great in it.

It was not bad but I think it could have looked a bit better and maybe a slightly better script but performances were fine.

Had to go to a cinema I've never been to before in the Phoenix chain. I think my brother said it was the only cinema in scotland showing it, oddly

I just seen The Vourdalak. It's not like many other horror comedies I've ever seen because the sensibilities are very different. There's a corpse character created completely through puppetry and I don't think it works completely but it's a bold choice. Based on the same Tolstoy story that was in Mario Bava's Black Sabbath. It's pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOltHm9cloY

immaculate was imo the first great horror movie of the year and the best catholic horror in who knows how long. mean and nasty and bloody and screaming. plethora of jump scares but i think jump scares are value neutral, they can be good or bad depending on execution, and when they are good they make you feel as trapped in the movie as the main character is, and this movie has very good ones. thought sydney sweeney was great

Can't wait to see that one next. I'm at Late Night with the Devil RN but Immaculate is next. Glad to hear it's solid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-uiy20_zM

Infested, coming on Shudder. Watched this teaser yesterday and dreamt about it that night. Ugh.

So, Late Night with The Devil.

To say "Satanic panic horror" is shopworn at this point is stating the pathetically obvious. the margin for error is very small because it's been done so much that it only takes little mistakes for a jaded aficionado to say "meh - I've ridden this ride before". Or filmmakers simply turn it into a CGI fest of jump scares and endlessly twisting heads.

This one succeeds using a novel setting (a late night 70s talk show), dry humor, and a young actress who knows how to leer at a camera in unsettling fashion.

it doesn't have anything new to say, per se. But it goes refreshingly lean on exposition, has a persistently unsettling atmosphere, and goes big at the right times. Recommended - it's a lot of fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uS3t6nFgY

maxxxine looks fantastic

also saw the first omen the other night, actually felt like a legit transmission from '70s cinema. also: finally a catholic horror movie that has the sense of cosmic horror, like an error in the world

The First Omen felt a lot like Immaculate. I had a hard time dealing w/ what felt like too much effort in lining up the events just right with the first film and not enough being terrifying, but I loved the recurring shots of Italy, Nell Tiger Free, and enjoyed it overall.

also I watched Megan is Missing last night and why oh why did I ;_;

Late Night With the Devil is a lot of fun, yeah. David Dastmalchian is great, the whole cast is good, the ‘70s retro thing not new obviously but done very well.

it's also mega fun to see late at night in keeping w/ the theme

I’m not a horror person at all but tagged along to LNWTD and it got the craven ‘70s chat show thing just right, was tons of fun. The patrician skeptic reminded me of any number of similar highbrow guests on MOR shows of the era.

Also reminded me of the PBS funding week that got hijacked by the Backwards Masking brothers buying time off the local station when I was a tween.

So X was kinda grindhouse, Pearl was kinda twisted Douglas Sirk melodrama, Maxxxine, based on the trailer, looks like '80s Argento. I'm in!

btw, all these horror movies rooted in Catholic theology, do any of them ever address other religions?