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

my interpretation is of A Field in England is not fully formed, but it does seem like there's some kind of magic/metaphysical underpinning to it. they all seem trapped in the field, deranged by it, and the stuff with the ropes and the dead returning and the hallucinations seem to require something more than any explicitly realistic interpretation.

My interpretation of "a field in England" is that I haven't seen it yet so each of these posts throw me into an eye covering panic.

On worse news, I'm about to watch "Wolf Creek 2". Not optimistic, tbh.

Jug Face last night (it's on Netflix instant now). I dug it a lot. It felt something from Creepy magazine drawn by Wrightson or something.

I saw some of "World War Z" the other day (the unrated cut, whatever that means). I hated it sooooo much, it was such a turd. Basically every scene, every line made me groan. At one point I thought, well, at least it must be wrapping up, but there was an hour left! So I turned it off.

Seriously, it just stunk. Everything about it was so lame. Possibly hammered home by the scene with David Morse pulling out his tooth. I thought, huh, this is a movie about a mass zombie outbreak, and this is where the so-far more or less bloodless movie pulls out its try-to-shock chops? Except it was just stupid and funny, and totally nonsensical.

Movie is barely horror. Certainly not scary. Directed by algorithm and phony across the board. Every set looks art directed down to the cheap trash blowing around, a trend begun really early on when they escape from some NYC (I think?) traffic jam in this conspicuous late-model R/V that popped out as obviously as the Mystery Machine.

Nothing we've posted will ruin A Field in England for you imo -- it's more of a full sensory experience type movie. Figuring out the plot is something I would care about maybe the 2nd or 3rd time I saw it. Get the soundtrack!! It's great.

Jon Lewis- I've never heard of Jug Face but you've interested me greatly with that Wrightson comparison.

I picked up a DVD copy of Strange Color Of Your Bodies Tears today, but I had no idea it had even been shown at anything more than festivals, I thought it was going to come out at the end of the year or something!
Although it's probably a sad thing that it didn't get shown at the cinema (maybe GFT shown it?) I love surprises like that at shops.

Wasn't a huge fan of jug face, but it is streaming on Netflix for the interested

any words yea or nay on Last Kind Words?

My friend made that. But I've only read the script thus far ...

This is a hard sell but Afflicted is a decent found footage vampire movie, honest. It is more like a low budget but superior Chronicle. I mentioned it on here before and fully understand people's antipathy for a found footage, vampire movie.

Xxxp saw copies of Strange Color OYBT in Fopp, is it worth picking up? (how does it compare to Amer?)

Haven't watched it yet, maybe tomorrow night.

Is "Willow Creek" supposed to be any good? I generally like Bob Goldthwait's movies, which have all been pretty daring and original, but this one seems so much a straight-up "Blair Witch" retread that I wonder if there's something more to it.

i'm keen to see it

Hmmm take this with my tastes in mind, but I enjoyed paranormal activity the marked ones/5 and wolf creek 2 WAY more than I expected to.

OK, so "Willow Creek" is indeed exactly what you (I) expected, with really nothing at all added to the formula. Pretty weird that Bobcat would make it, in fact. That said, I guess it's done about as well as it could be done. Actors are pretty good, some long take intensity perhaps heightened by the relationship between the characters, and at least some of the requisite dumb behavior I can defend. Still ... I dunno. It's not "Grave Encounters."

Strange Color Of Your Bodies Tears was fantastic. Probably better than Amer, certainly way more violent. Loads of techniques, more direct references to Italian films (references tend to annoy me but it didn't here), lots of Art Nouveau. It's like they are determined to make every shot count.

My dad caught one of the more extreme scenes and was totally shocked and offended, saying that the filmmakers should be shot or put in jail. Every now and then I get a reminder that stuff I'm totally used to can really still shock people. Like when I bring up a topic into conversation that many people would rather not think about but usually doesn't bother most people you talk to.

There's a really beautiful girl in this who looks familiar (maybe a model), but the cast list doesn't really describe much to know who played who.

After a bit of research it appears to be model Aline Stevens.

Wow, looking into it, a lot of people absolutely HATE "Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears." Perhaps largely for being totally indulgent yet utterly humorless? Regardless, I'm intrigued.

People seemingly found it boring for all the reasons I found it exciting. Indulge away! More Incoherent nightmares! More! I want to get lost in the labyrinth sitting between Inferno and Inland Empire.
Shove your nice Christian American families and cocky teenagers up your asses.

Yeah, I kept spelling the title wrong.

Willow Creek was so inconsequential, nothing happens and annoyingly it is quite competent. I have better hopes for Oculus tomorrow night, which can't be that bad as is has Katee in it.

Willow Creek was so inconsequential, nothing happens and annoyingly it is quite competent.

This is OTM. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it, and aspects of it are way above average, and yet the movie is so inconsequential it's baffling, especially coming from Goldthwait. In fact, after I watched it I looked up some interviews, to see what was up. I guess he paid for it all himself, shot on location with a small crew, did a ton of research, and pretty much all the locals are real locals who may have thought they were being interviewed for a real documentary. Goldthwait was wary of going into a mode so played out (found footage), and even was very self-aware of its similarities to "Blair Witch," but uncynically just wanted to make this movie. I guess Goldthwait just really likes bigfoot.

One line he took repeatedly in interviews is that maybe critics and fans have seen a million movies of this sort, but he hadn't, so it was fresh for him. Also, he had a friend say, basically, that since he's working on a musical and a western, supposedly, and they are the most played out of all movie sorts, then why not found footage?

I watched Strip Nude For Dark Drops Of Autumn Vice The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears last night and enjoyed it. It looks fabulous, the soundtrack (mostly culled from various Morricone / Nicolai works) is great and there are lots of nice homages to genre classics (down to one of the characters being called Edwige). Although there isn't really much attempt made to match Amer's build-up of suspense, visually there are lots of scenes that surpass their previous work. I do feel they need to do something different next time, though. As beautiful as Amer and SCOYBT are, it's not something they can get away with repeating endlessly. It would be interesting to see them applying the aesthetic to something a shade more conventionally structured.

I agree about there being a danger in mining this territory too long but I think the unconventional structure is something they (and other directors) should keep going with.

I was thinking about this recently how I generally dislike the idea of very studied retro pieces, yet many of my favourite films of recent times have been like that to some extent. To The point where I'm starting to wonder if anyone will do a good Franco/Rollin style thing or any other types of revivals. Some people called Livid a Rollin type thing and it was a bit, but without the nudity.
But I'd prefer people used the old influences as a springboard into something new that doesn't blatantly refer back.

In a review of Strange Colour i read recently, there was a mention of a couple of Rollin-influenced films coming out soon but no details.

Chris Alexander, the editor of Fangoria, did a studied Rollin/Franco homage, Blood for Irinia. it's not very good.

Xan Cassavetes' Kiss of the Damned is too competently directed to be a tribute to Franco, but the Rollin-isms are pronounced and likely intentional. better than Irinia, though not much less derivative. i did like KOTD quite a bit.

i finally saw insidious the other day. i was surprised how much i enjoyed it. between that & the conjuring, james wan is getting better & better at bringing on the oldhouse creeps

insidious 2 was a bit odd though. kinda collapsed in on itself with all the backstory, kinda sloppy

but i have such a big soft spot for whannell & wan together. i even dug the first Saw movie before it got beaten like a dead horse

Insidious seemed so promising at the start but with that scary lady in the darkness and the creepy music but it just taken all the worst things about Poltergeist and amplified them. Conjuring went even further to an infuriating degree.

Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears is like a homage to giallo based on an oral description of giallo surmised by a screening of a giallo parody. Expertly silly.

I've heard that Evil Dead 4 might be made as a tv series. Nightbreed tv series is also a possibility.

Just saw trailer to a Dracula origin story that doesn't look great but what made the strongest impression is a bad cover of Tears For Fears "Everbody Wants To Rule The World" that tries to make the song dark and edgy.

Lorde?

I've no clue. I don't know what they sound like.

Lorde

lol, i dialed that up on youtube to see what you're talking about and hooboy it's overwrought

I do feel they need to do something different next time, though. As beautiful as Amer and SCOYBT are, it's not something they can get away with repeating endlessly.

― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, July 10, 2014 12:13 AM (3 weeks ago)

a tiny trace of amer's magic dissipated when i watched the filmmakers' earlier short films (included on the DVD release). crude little candy-colored retro fetish exercises about observation, leather gloves, female flesh, penetrative knives, etc. all of which is still present in amer but given a much broader and more interesting/challenging context. not sure how far they can go on "i am fascinated by the texture & trappings of this one particular pop genre," but it seems to be working so far...

Yeah, I loved all their stuff so far but the danger is looming. I thought the screwdriver scene in one of the short films felt a bit too much for their style though.

has anyone else seen argento's dracula 3d. it's really cheap looking. this happens in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssE_6DmL_dk

Stage Fright is fairly entertaining. The first half an hour is substantially better than the rest and it suffers from the traditional horror-comedy complaint of not being tense or funny enough to fit into either genre well but it's likeable.

Also saw Mr Jones which wastes a moderately intriguing premise.

watched Oculus yesterday

it's interesting, but there is a lot of visual/atmospheric sleight of hand distracting you from the fact that the story is very halfassed

it gets kinda neat in the middle & goes crazy with timeline shifts, vaguely kinda sorta lynchian in places. better than expected.

awful lot of plate eating, mouths full of blood & teeth falling out. and choking. lots of choking.

side note: the dad is stonerdude Slater from Dazed & Confused :D

Hey just in case found footage shit doesn't make you want to bang your head against the wall yet, 2 new flicks streaming on NF. "Alien Abduction" (which has got to be in the running for worst marketing and branding department this year) is a pretty effectively creep out tension pounder, certainly dumb in spots but man when it works it really works, and they actually wring out a few new and effective tricks i havent seen before.

"The Conspiracy" on the other hand is way slower and tenser, milking a great burn up to the end, way better than expected - more thriller than horror maybe but the piling of anticipation and dread is very well done. Dark hand behind the curtain secret society creeper shit here, but it works.

Proxy is up today. Will probably watch that over the next few days.

The Conspiracy was definitely watchable.

wait where is proxy streaming? not turning up on instantwatcher

I'm watching it on US Netflix now.

http://us.whatsnewonnetflix.com

hmm maybe instantwatcher is going on the retirement list, lots of stuff has been sorta slipping through the cracks there as of late

The first half of Proxy is excellent - like the chilly Hitchcockian thrillers you used to get loads of coming out of France in the eighties and nineties. The second hour is pretty by-numbers.

I think once Netflix hid its expiration dates, instantwatcher lost its sense of purpose.

Speaking of Netflix, anyone watch The Reef, the Australian shark movie? People seem to like it OK.

I found it very drawn out and uninteresting.