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

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.

This is what you are looking for.

Bruno Nicolai "Sabba"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxDF94LNCKA

Bruno Nicolai was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director and musical editor most active in the 1960s through the 1980s. While studying piano and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, he befriended Ennio Morricone and formed a long working relationship, with Nicolai eventually conducting for and co-scoring films with Morricone. Nicolai also scored a number of giallo exploitation films and wrote a large number of scores for director Jess Franco.

You're a star! Thanks.

It's the theme from All The Colours Of the Dark. I was sure I knew it but couldn't place it.

So "Slaughter"

1. Terrible generic name
2. Horrendous cover art
3. Part of the after dark horrorfest 3 box set my buddy tony bought at a pawnshop for a dollar

Probably the best horror film I've seen this year, certainly in the top 5. Easily in the top 50 overall modern horror films. Hits that dark center in a way almost no american horror films do, honestly feels like something from the French extreme camp or the Aussie bleak nightmare period. I am so completely shocked by how good this was.

Horror reviewers seem to hate it, which is sadly typical - if you understand why mid point refn or the reflecting skin are horror, and can get behind slow building bleakness, it's worth a shot.

ABC's of Death 2? exponentially better than the first film. More mature, more ambitious, more director diversity, more thematic consistency. I was very impressed with all but maybe four of the shorts. U through Z are esp. OUTSTANDING. A, F, J, O, and S are also excellent.

If you liked Slaughter, check out Keepsake.

Will do! Thanks for the rec.

Looks like Miike's Over Your Dead Body is not just a new version of Yotsuya Kaidan but a film about people performing the play and being haunted by the Oiwa ghost.
I just watched the trailer.

dug the Descent a lot w some minor quibbles (ambiguous ending felt unnecessary and tacked on, monsters were kind of stupid)

Pretty much exactly my take.

What's stupid about them? They just look like standard monsters from Buffy.

Personally I think it's pretty decent but I just wish they had focused on more extreme claustrophobia. It could have been way more nightmarish than it was.