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

That's fair enough. I think it's too long as well. But it's still one of my favourites. I think Amer suffers more from being too long. The first segment is near perfect but the last two don't have as much to dwell on.

I really wish short films had a better platform to be seen from. Obviously there is YouTube and Vimeo and you can score a huge hit but rarely as big as a feature length film. Most of the really famous short films I can think of are animated.

I finally saw Wolf Creek last night

idk I kind of feel like I separated into 2 people watching it.

On the one hand, it definitely did the Texas Chainsaw Massacre thing well - ie it's all hopeless, no there's no explanation, yes this guy's a giant creep and you better fucking run or you're going to die sorry we can't tell you why just run
i liked the setting, I thought John Jarrat was great. He reminded me of my dad in a weird way which was kind of lol/kind of upsetting

but then there was the other part of me that found it kind of boring and stupid. And I hated that we spend so much time with both girls over and over in endlessly stupid perilous situations (like I'm going to climb into a pit full of dead bodies just because I dropped my gun jfc) and watch them get tortured in a fair amount of detail meanwhile the other dude is tied up ~somewhere~ the whole time with a few cutaway shots and oh nvm he got tortured off camera, he gets himself free, and off he goes. I really hated that. It just felt SO lazy.

I think the campfire scene was good but I don't think there's a much to recommend the film. It is unpleasant but not in a way that really does anything impressive.

Anyone see "Coherence?" Dunno if horror is the right category for this one, anymore than "Upstream Color."

Yeah I really liked it, it was very similar to the excellent Spanish sci-fi movie Timecrimes. I am always a sucker for movies that have multi-verse, time travel type ideas and this one didn't disappoint. The low budget movies of this type are often the best ones and the low budget approach actually makes them more like horror movies than say Looper.

'so oculus was alright. Kind of muddy but effective and I jumped and gasped at the end. I watched this only because of karen gillan and was pleasantly surprised.

I watched a very bizarre and creepy Dutch movie tonight called Borgman about a bearded vagrant type who you first see living in a network of foxholes in a woodland area with other friends, who are getting hunted by a gang of killers lead by a priest. Then after fleeing he creepily imbeds himself into a wealthy household in a very insidious but horrifying fashion and steals the gardeners job and the surreal horror unravels slowly ...

??? That sounds perfect

It is very good, not perfect but definitely above average and worth your time.

Yeah, Borgman seems very much a future cult classic.

He made Oculus and has another one coming soon.

― Simon H., Sunday, August 17, 2014 10:31 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

More specifically, apparently he's adapting Gerald's Game.

― Simon H., Sunday, August 17, 2014 10:51 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ugh. really?

― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, August 17, 2014 10:55 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post

http://deadline.com/2014/09/i-know-what-you-did-last-summer-remake-horror-movie-sony-834570/

...huh.

I'm hoping his talent will outshine the questionable source material in both of these.

so The Guest is getting good 'quality' reviews.

(ie, it's a sea change from the V/H/S movies the guy did, i guess)

otoh, Sam Adams' complete L'box review:

I am not trusting any of you fuckers about Adam Wingard movies ever again.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/lists/10-great-horror-films-21st-century?utm_content=buffer27b32&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebookbfi&utm_campaign=buffer

well all the ones on that list that I have seen are great, guess I should see the rest then

The Descent and House of the Devil are both roughly 3/4 good (which I noted in the Halloween thread was also the case with Lords of Salem). I'm beginning to think I almost prefer horror movies that maintain a more mediocre consistency of tone to those that hit some serious heights for a good while only to stumble in the home stretch. It's as if some modern horror filmmakers grew up reading King and taking exactly the wrong storytelling lessons away from his stuff.

I would say 3/4 great in the case of The Descent.

I've seen May, Bug, and Berberian Sound Studio. The latter probably my favorite altho it's so meta I dunno if I would really call it a horror film. it's more like a film about horror films shot in the style of a horror film. May was great. Bug was a little one-note but solid.

To toot my own horn: http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-horror-films-of-the-aughts

I thought "The Guest," like a lot of movies from this hipster horror crew, was a ridiculous, underdeveloped lark, but it had a lot going for it as a particularly brazen pastiche. It's like John Carpenter traveled back to 1984 with a copy of "The Terminator" and "Drive" and gave them to Wes Craven.

TOOT TOOT

(heeeeey)

Also works as a less escapist take on "Captain America."

Saw The Quiet Ones and The Possession Of Michael King yesterday - the former very conventional but slightly above average, the latter with a moderately promising set-up but terribly executed and boring.

The Babadook looks like it might be worth seeing,

The Babadook looks awesome, just from reviews which are all very positive.

The first two thirds of Oculus were really good. Fell apart a little at the end. Rory Cochrane bears a disconcerting likeness to Danny Dyer.

always happy to see Bug get props.

I just watched Borgman and for the most part I enjoyed it, but what exactly happened? I really enjoy the build up but when it was over I couldn't tell you what happened, aside from being very unsettled by the whole film.

watched House of the Devil on Sunday. Was immediately taken with it just from the opening sequence and it was really strong until about 2/3rds of the way through when it just sort of... peters out halfheartedly. Really reminded me of the Strangers in that regard, where the setup and buildup of tension is really well done and then when it comes time to deliver it just fails. Too bad.

yeah... on balance, though, I very much like it. Now what about The Sacrament? I've liked every Ti West movie I've seen up til now but something made me turn this off less than 5 minutes in.

this was the first Ti West I've watched, would check out other stuff just based on his clear mastery of style - I kinda blame the script in House of the Devil more than anything else, just anti-climactic.

The guy playing quasi-Jim-Jones in The Sacrament was excellent. Everything else was blah.

More focus on that character / his motivations and less on the Vice crew hiding from gunmen would have made it approx twice as good.

Shakey, the Innkeepers is pretty awesome

Oops sorry for doxxing u

Yeah the innkeepers is the best thing he's ever done

Again, tho, didn't stick the landing.

it makes me think up-and-coming horror guys should start with the ending and work backwards

Endings are for losers

Especially endings that lose me.

Finally saw Absentia. That was really great. Non-loser ending, too. I got a little teary during the ending convo between the two detectives!

not strictly a horror movie but man THE GUEST was SO FUN

Watched OPEN GRAVE. Despite great premise -- man wakes up in mass grave with no memory of how he got there -- that premise pretty much lasts five minutes and then it's a solidly made snoozer. Kinda reminded me of TRIANGLE but less good.

Yeah that movie got a lot of love itt but I wasn't a big fan, either.

Everything contemporary horror in the last couple of months of netflix streaming additions looks really really shitty. My queue is getting scant; I've run out of little gems like absentia. Halp?

(finished The Possession last night. Some nice riffs I'll keep in the databanks (the throat fingers!) but it was basically an empty vessel)

gonna watch the Descent tonight

The Demon's Rook just hit VOD.

ABCs of Death 2 for me tonight.

Does anyone know where the music that plays over the end credits of Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears comes from? It has been bothering me for months and Shazam doesn't know it.