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

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.

like okay they're like bats, they're blind, that doesn't mean they can't detect you if you're quiet

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?

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.

some kind of like super terrifying picnic at hanging rock scenario would have been more amazing.

I think it's probably more the emphasis on action than the monsters that does it.

Which ending did you see?

didn't know there was more than one... the ending I saw she crawls out of the ground, runs away, steals a truck, parks by the side of the road > jumpscare w vision of her dead friend and then she's back underground w the vision of her dead daughter again. Would've been fine without the extra dead daughter bit, which implies she did not actually get out.

I would've prefered the movie if it were simply about a doomed spelunking expedition.

yeah the most terrifying stuff seems like it's all before the monsters reveal

obviously could've still had a pit of bones (nothing gets out of here alive!) and previous expedition signs and all that, monsters turn it more into an action gore-fest

Borderlands kinda reminds me of it. That had a great ending.

finally sucked it up and watched "the poughkeepsie tapes" on youtube, and wow. its got some flaws, but definitely rises to the top of the found footage pile.

I've been to Poughkeepsie. I should watch that.

I'm starting the thnig's 31 horror films in 31 days twitter challenge today (we were on vacation so I got a late start) with Maniac, which I see everybody here hated (and I suspect the number of women I need to see scalped is pretty low, too), so maybe I will abandon it and watch Apartment 143 instead.

No, Maniac is pretty good. If I recall, the women scalpees were really likable, which was good to see, but also, you know, bad.

That sounds like my kind of challenge. My GF's out of town this weekend so I might binge pretty hardcore to make up the difference (I've shamefully only watched, like, two horror movies since the beginning of October).