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

"All Cheerleaders Die" by Lucky McKee ("May," "The Woman") and Chris Sivertson ("The Lost," "I Know Who Killed Me") is a total blast. So much fun.

― Walter Galt, Monday, April 28, 2014 4:31 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cool, looking forward. I loved loved LOVED The Lost. McKee struck out with The Woman but I'm still into him.

Still really wanna see Thale. Thanks for the reminder.

huh that is a split decision for sure, mostly love mckee, almost entirely hate sivertsons stuff. mainly this just makes me want to watch the woods and red again.

yeah, the woods is so good

red too, even better perhaps

jjj u did not like The Lost??? The lead psycho's performance, if nothing else...!

honestly im trying to remember the lost, my memory is that it was sort of grimy in all the wrong ways for me, although that might just be a jack ketchum thing more than anything else

Thx to contenderizer for the Miss Zombie recommendation, that was good.

Has anybody seen Jack & Diane? I'm not sure if it even belongs in the horror thread, and reviews weren't too kind to it, but the Quay Brothers connection if nothing else makes me want to give it a shot

I guess the new Ti West is available via VOD? I don't have any idea whether that means we'll get it because I never order anything on demand but I'll figure that shit out in this case because Ti West is the business

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/05/01/the-sacrament-ti-west-joe-swanberg/

Moebius (2013, Ki-duk Kim)

well, I made it about halfway through this one. found it fairly silly, "almost absurdly on-the-nose" sounds about right. am I missing much if I don't wrap it up?

My blog-thoughts on Moebius. Short version: Prefered it massively to Pieta, excatly because it's so silly. It does not takes itself seriously. I'm really surprised at contenderizer finding that it is a 'gorgeous film, exquisitely well crafted'. I thought it looked like ugly, cheap digital. However, this once again helped the off-the-cuff-ness of it all. I'd say check the last half.

thanks, and yeah, I found it sorta funny too. mostly dad's googling.

I was massively disappointed by The Sacrament but to discuss why would spoil plot details.

Has anyone seen Proxy? Hearing very good things (my understanding is that it's closer to Repulsion than straight horror)

couldnt make it past the first 30 min of executive koala.

Haven't seen any talk of Plus One on this thread but i thought it was creative and hilarious. I kinda wish they would've taken the concept a little but further but aside from parts of the poor-man's-Dawson's-Creek plotline I enjoyed every bit.

Quite liked Magic Magic. Though I'm not really sure if the audience was supposed to know the cause of Temple's mental troubles.

i rubbernecked through the remake of the first one because i'm a masochist. two made me actively angry, rather than passively in a "well at least they haven't shit all over robocop in the 21st century yet" sort of way.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 01:26 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I too recommend Borderlands. They take a lot of conventions that could be annoying but worked it into something very good. Pretty creepy with an unsettling finish.

It had some really good claustrophobic scenes. I don't know why more films haven't used claustrophobia more extensively; The Descent was disappointing in that respect, felt like a missed opportunity.

I've always assumed it's simply because claustrophobia is hard to represent on film.

I'm not sure what way you are meaning. Tsukamoto's Haze is great for this. Obviously Buried did it.

I just wish Descent had more parts with people stuck in horribly tiny tunnels and get attacked by monsters.

As the resident freak that loved "Rubber" and "The Oregonian" (because that disclaimer might be kind of important here) I really recommend that people give "Escape From Tomorrow" (the rogue Disney violating film) a shot. It's a glorious fantastic mess, and the horrendous awkward humor that people are so irritated by seems to magnify the creepy, and IMO intentionally so.

One of my favorite things I've seen this year. Not kidding. At the same time, I can see why people hate the hell out of it.

At the same time, I can see why people hate the hell out of it.

is anyone watching penny dreadful?

2nd ep was dope

I'm interested; it doesn't show in UK until next week I think. I thought any potentially big show would be kept closer on the international airing dates. When a thread gets made its just weird when some people are several weeks ahead of the others.

Ha Eric! Are you in the hated it camp? I'm always curious when we radically differ on stuff, since I think we have a pretty big taste overlap, esp within the horror stuff.

Definitely in the hated it camp. I was going along with it for a little while, but it eventually got so wrapped up in puerile-whiny-dad B.S. If I wanted that, I'd just watch more Judd Apatow thx.

been on a kiyoshi kurosawa kick lately. how's his horror stuff outside of pulse and cure? love both myself. I think I'm most interested in checking out his penance tv series next.

I've never seen that film and I know I've talked about this several times but it never ceases to amaze me how passionate people's film/tv responses are. There used to be a couple of films I hated when I was a teen insecure and dogmatic about how art/entertainment should be made, but after calming down about that, I can't think of a single film I hate. 93% of films range between annoyed, irritated, many different degrees of boredom but never hate.

I was actually laughing the other day imagining House Of Voices finishing on a cinema, most people saying either "that was boring" or "I actually kinda liked it" and Hal Jam still sitting down looking insane with fury.

I'm sure I only hate or love about 5% of the movies I see too.

And then there's that select 0.05% of movies I love and hate equally.

The remaining 7% was for the range of like to love. Very few films I love.

I started the Penny Dreadful thread.

Have you seriously never been betrayed by a movie?

Maybe, but you need to feel invested before you are betrayed and I am rarely invested in anything. A lot of people feel betrayed because they don't get the type of film they wanted but you can't criticize something for being what it never intended to be (although people constantly do).

However a general feeling of disappointment constantly hangs over films (and a lot of books and comics) for me most of the time in the sense that I always wish the general bar of quality was much higher. I even get furious about that, but not at specific films.

I don't hate Stakeland, I hate the fandom that fawns over it. But these days I'm more curious about how and why people adore things I was bored by.

There's Stakeland fandom? smdh

Loved Escape From Tomorrow

Stakeland seems to have been greeted very warmly by people who buy horror magazines and frequent the horror blogs.

I HATE people like that!

I try to replace my hate for horror, SF, fantasy, superhero fanboys with compassion because I am close enough in species to them that I feel sorry for their life of religiously hyped consumerism, tunnel vision and geeky trivialities because it should be spent pursuing things that evoke the qualities that made them a fan of this stuff in the first place.

I tend to find that fandom only problematic when it equates to "all remakes are terrible"/"wolverine would never have done that" sort of protective precious nonsense. If fandom makes you dismiss stuff out of hand, well, you suck imo.

cf: prometheus thread

:)

Fandom is a great support structure that enables some great things to happen. For all its flaws, metal fandom is an incredible thing. But fan cultures often tend to be quite decadent and not have enough healthy criticism.

Horror and fantasy is in my blood, I feel like it's a large fundamental part of who I am, so I really care about the general health of the genre and it pains me to see people who are some of the biggest fans treat it so poorly.

I like horror blogs and have no problems with fandom. I just hated Stakeland.

I like some horror blogs (I'm a member of one) and magazines but I was just trying to convey the type of fan who loves virtually everything that isn't totally incompetent.

There used to be a great blog devoted to scenery in films, but it seems to have stopped.

About to watch "Here comes the devil" per aeros emphatic recommendation upthread. Will report back. Streaming netflix, FYI.

Experiment ruined 20 minutes in by baby, but so far 90% whoa awesome, 10% huh camerawork.

I'm really surprised at contenderizer finding that it is a 'gorgeous film, exquisitely well crafted'. I thought it looked like ugly, cheap digital. However, this once again helped the off-the-cuff-ness of it all. I'd say check the last half.

― Frederik B, Monday, May 5, 2014 8:14 AM (1 week ago)

i thought it was lovely, sharp, beautifully composed digital, the latter not at all compromised by the loose, handheld approach. have never seen a bad-looking KDK film tho. re alan n: i often wondered while watching whether i should just bail on the thing, but an awful, rubbernecking fascination that held me through. it's really lingered in my mind, not just due to the yuk factor.

^ on moebius