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

If it helps, I didn't much like The Innkeepers either.

Not sure if that was among the big upped.

LOVED The Taking of Deborah Logan. Great acting and pretty damn scary.

Yes, i think i underplayed how much i enjoyed it. It's definitely worth catching.

I think I big upped the Innkeepers quite a bit. Pontypool on the other hand.

Mr. Jones on streaming is a better than expected little diversion I thought. Suffers a bit from creeping "surreality will disguise that our ending isn't nearly as clever as we think it is", but I enjoyed it a bunch. Been digging a lot of the Darknet stuff, pretty impressive as anthology tv horror goes. THX CANADA!

The only way I'd watch a Pontypool sequel is if it's a silent movie.

not even then

Just dropping in to say I watched 'Tampopo' last night and the food + sex scenes are more disturbing than any horror movie.

Two thirds of The Babadook were really great but as so often the final act unravels and I left disappointed.

That's practially become a formula for near-classic horror movies these days (e.g. The Descent, House Of The Devil). Work on your endings, filmmakers!

Struggling to name one that doesn't fit the pattern, Absentia jumps to mind but beyond that...

I'm one of the few who liked the ending of The Strangers.

Another measure by which Inside emerges as one of the recent greats.

Seriously?

All I remember is a zombie policeman.

Cabin in the Woods sticks the ending. Um, "The Orphanage" sticks the ending. Erm ...

Cabin in the Woods def sticks the ending. Ending of the Strangers really bummed me out, it was so anticlimactic.

I mean really all it needed was maybe a decent monologue from the killers and I would've been happy. but no.

Cabin In The Woods is probably the best horror film I've seen from the last ten years.

Forgot to mention in this thread that I watched The Mist last week. That's certainly up there, as well (although the ending, again, is problematic).

I liked The Mist a lot, save Oscar winner's horrible overacting. There was a really good fan ending I saw somewhere, set to Dead Can Dance, iirc.

All I remember is a zombie policeman.

Think you're remembering Les Mis or something.

xpost Dead Can Dance played over the theatrical ending.

I'd argue that whatever one feels about the ending of The Mist, the movie definitely doesn't go out with a whimper.

No, the film in general didn't pull any punches, which I loved.

Had it been an original screenplay, Welp You're Fucked would've made an excellent alternative title.

And, of course, Drag Me To Hell.

Maybe it's just the Ti West movies have problems with lame endings.

You're Next did a fine job

Some fine examples but this is still a thing ok.

Didn't like You're Next's ending because it's not really an ending, it just sort of ... stops. "Drag Me to Hell" is a great ending, though of course it (like everything else) is borrowed from Curse of the Demon.

That Mist ending really divided people but I liked it.

Honestly, I think good horror film endings have always been rare, I can't think of many satisfying endings. That famous double bill of Don't Look Now and Wicker Man must have packed a punch when nobody knew the endings, heads would have been nicely fucked for that night.

In fact I think it's a story thing in general that good satisfying endings are rare. I actually prefer abrupt endings that are a bit annoying than the general practice of the conventional comfortable wrap up which approximates the shape of a good ending but doesn't really manage it.

I actually prefer abrupt endings

Yeah, nothing wrong with this, tbh. Anyone watch "Vertigo" lately? It and "Psycho" are obviously masterpieces, but I'll take the sudden ending of the former over the protracted ending of the latter any day.

Ending of the Strangers really bummed me out

I think that is rather the idea.

RAG otm, it's not a new thing. Endings are almost by definition anti climactic and most of the best ones leave some ambiguity or open-ness. Texas Chainsaw Massacre feels like one of the strongest.

the 'you're next' ending was p great i thought, i like endings that are that type of exclamation point.

yeah, they managed to throw together homages to Home Alone, The Shining and Night of the Living Dead within the space of two minutes!

seeing the babadook tomorrow. it had better be great!

Tall Man stayed solid all the way to the end IMO

'Scuse me real quick while I head to the ILX quoted out of context thread...

Lol

so darknet takes a serious downward turn by the end of the first season. 5th ep is pretty bad, last ep is pretty terrible. i think they were opening a second season path but yeesh, it's a harsh decline in those last 2.

"the woman" (2011) was excellent. a shame about all the bar rock stinking up the soundtrack tho.

Kimberley Pierce's "Carrie" remake = crap, tons of wasted opportunity
Ti West's "The Sacrament" = tasteless, pointless Jonestown pastiche

otm re: both points on The Woman. McKee is an interesting filmmaker with terrible taste in music.

So the Babadook was flipping excellent.

Yeah, apart from the end. The mum and the kid are both fantastic.

It's a shame you don't see more of Daniel Henshall too, just because he's so good in Snowtown, but also nice that they didn't feel they had to shoehorn a romantic subplot in.

Yes! Mixed feelings about the ending - sort of anticlimactic but at least it made sense and resolved in a way best suited to the rules and tropes of the monster.

Don't know much about, but in passing the movie sound a bit like ... "Mama"?