well all the ones on that list that I have seen are great, guess I should see the rest then
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 September 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Kick And They Slap A Friend (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
I would say 3/4 great in the case of The Descent.
― Kick And They Slap A Friend (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
To toot my own horn: http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/the-25-best-horror-films-of-the-aughts
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
TOOT TOOT
(heeeeey)
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Also works as a less escapist take on "Captain America."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 September 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
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,
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
The Babadook looks awesome, just from reviews which are all very positive.
― xelab, Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Saturday, 20 September 2014 10:25 (nine years ago) link
always happy to see Bug get props.
― Simon H., Saturday, 20 September 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― JacobSanders, Monday, 22 September 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
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.
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 25 September 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
The guy playing quasi-Jim-Jones in The Sacrament was excellent. Everything else was blah.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
More focus on that character / his motivations and less on the Vice crew hiding from gunmen would have made it approx twice as good.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Thursday, 25 September 2014 18:33 (nine years ago) link
Shakey, the Innkeepers is pretty awesome
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 25 September 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
Oops sorry for doxxing u
Yeah the innkeepers is the best thing he's ever done
― yarn (jjjusten), Thursday, 25 September 2014 22:59 (nine years ago) link
Again, tho, didn't stick the landing.
― Eric H., Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
it makes me think up-and-coming horror guys should start with the ending and work backwards
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 25 September 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
Endings are for losers
― yarn (jjjusten), Friday, 26 September 2014 02:16 (nine years ago) link
Especially endings that lose me.
― Eric H., Friday, 26 September 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link
Finally saw Absentia. That was really great. Non-loser ending, too. I got a little teary during the ending convo between the two detectives!
― OU281 (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 27 September 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
not strictly a horror movie but man THE GUEST was SO FUN
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 06:11 (nine years ago) link
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.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 2 October 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that movie got a lot of love itt but I wasn't a big fan, either.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
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)
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 2 October 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
gonna watch the Descent tonight
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
The Demon's Rook just hit VOD.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Thursday, 2 October 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
ABCs of Death 2 for me tonight.
― xelab, Friday, 3 October 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Saturday, 4 October 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
This is what you are looking for.
Bruno Nicolai "Sabba"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxDF94LNCKA
― xelab, Sunday, 5 October 2014 03:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Sunday, 5 October 2014 03:28 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Sunday, 5 October 2014 06:41 (nine years ago) link
So "Slaughter"
1. Terrible generic name2. Horrendous cover art3. 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.
― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Sunday, 5 October 2014 07:30 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Sunday, 5 October 2014 07:40 (nine years ago) link
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.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Sunday, 5 October 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
If you liked Slaughter, check out Keepsake.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Sunday, 5 October 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
Will do! Thanks for the rec.
― Ass Tchotchke! (jjjusten), Sunday, 5 October 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
dug the Descent a lot w some minor quibbles (ambiguous ending felt unnecessary and tacked on, monsters were kind of stupid)
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
Pretty much exactly my take.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
like okay they're like bats, they're blind, that doesn't mean they can't detect you if you're quiet
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
The Descent's horror is almost self-contradictory because it's so scary and intense before they even add the monsters, so much so that the monsters actually deflate/decrease the scares.
Which ending did you see?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 October 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I personally think the monsters are kinda unneccessary, for the exact reason you mention. I would've prefered the movie if it were simply about a doomed spelunking expedition.
― Certified Genious (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
some kind of like super terrifying picnic at hanging rock scenario would have been more amazing.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 6 October 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link