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

not yet plz I still haven't seen it!

Yeah, I think more people need to see it. All the reviews went up, but then I couldn't find it playing anywhere!

it's not even on DVD/Bluray yet

I downloaded it last weekend, it's really good and the ending, though fucking odd as hell, does not suck!

Cognitive dissonance warning, the terrifying lead sociopath from Snowtown Murders is in it and is not a psycho.

Babadook is pretty good (playing at IFC in NYC) but it has some drastic tonal missteps and, while i do understand why the monster is designed to look the way it does, it lost me everytime they put the baddie onscreen. As always, much more frightening when it's not shown. but the ending is excellent and adds a level of sophistication and complexity to the story. I'd like a list of horror movies where adults are the monsters... Shining, Night of the Hunter, Parents, what else?

A Girl Walks Home at Night Alone is not any sort of horror movie but it's as good or better than babadook and it's got vampires.

babadook's biggest weakness is its overly auteuristic flair; there were a lot of shots where I just wanted the director to calm down... though child in the closet was shades of Devil's Backbone

Babadook is great. Starry Eyes is good. Looking forward to catching A Girl Walks Home... and Housebouund soon.

I just did not like the Babadook (just got finished watching it.) I guess that's some backlash. I liked a lot of parts of it, but not the whole movie. I thought the ending was pretty clever though.

Strange color of your body's tears (the amer follow up) now streaming on Netflix.

Yr man who did The Pact has a new film on US Netflix, At The Devil's Door. It's at least as good.

FOUND FOOTAGE TRIGGER WARNING ALERT

watched "Mockingbird" which from clown box art etc would not have ever been on my viewing list, but it turns out that it's done by the dude who did "the strangers" and it sits comfortably in that same zone themewise, yes yes it's FF but the explanation for why is at least sound and overall i was pretty knocked out by it. nice feel of being kind of a puzzle movie, despite knowing what pieces are sliding into place it still feels surprising and fresh. good stuff. you'll probably hate it.

I did!

Partly because it was so obvious what was going to happen and partly because the route it took to get there was so silly. I did like The Strangers though.

haha that was meant as a general you, but point proven!

Strangers was great up until the last 5 minutes. good enough that I would watch other stuff dude did, although FF is def at the bottom of the pile in terms of horror tropes I like to watch

Strangers I always thought was a remake of Ils/Them, but I guess not? Anyway, looked up the team that did Ils/Them, and their career has been - how you say? - not so hot.

Saw Babadook at the cinema a few months back and I still think about it a lot. Haven't bought a DVD in ages, but I'm thinking of doing so with this one.

Echoing ShariVari and the thign upthread, holy fuck you guys, the taking of Deborah Logan is stunningly good.

Sorry, the thnig

YES, ITS FOUND FOOTAGE SHUT UP

Also, in the not horror more thriller Primer vein, Coherence is very much worth the hype. Should scratch the thinky thinky itch for all you terrible Pontypool types without ruining it all by being Pontypool.

the taking of Deborah Logan is stunningly surprisingly good

Anne Ramsay and Jill Larson are fantastic. To the extent that the movie concerns their characters and interactions, it really is stunningly good. Problem is that it's at least equally concerned with the utterly vapid team of youngsters conducting the investigation and doing the filming. And the found footage conceit is completely unnecessary here. And it's taken to ludicrous extremes - there is simply no reason for them to place cameras in the house's hallways (and the elderly subject's bedroom for god's sake). And the "spookiness" is exaggerated for no good reason (your senile mother wanders naked around the house at night, you don't act all terrified by the non-diegetic soundtrack, you take her a fucking blanket). Then again, the mystery plot was more interesting and satisfying than is typical for films of this type. A mixed bag with, yeah, stunning high points.

agree with all of the above.

Totally disagree that this movie would have worked the same as a non ff/handcam pseudodoc - the movie (and the 2 lead performances) need to be personal and up close to work as well as they do, and the interview/investigation is the setup for that. FF isn't always about cheap jump scares, it's more about where you place the viewer, which I think this does near perfectly.

Yeah, agree that the found footage aspect added to the sense of immersion (and in some instances, realism). But it could have been dialed back quite a bit, and better thought through besides. At this point in the game, I think hybrid FF almost always works better. But that's just me.

the Taking of Deborah Logan is stunningly surprisingly good mediocre.

I'm really hoping Crimson Peak is gonna be good (saw a lovely photo from it last week) because I don't think I've heard about anything that looked intriguing this year, but I'm not sure horror films are anymore stagnant than usual.

Thought this was dead on, for anyone who didn't see it. Totally reminded me of the end of "The Guest," with bits of "Saw" (obv.), but I thought it nailed it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCw-iEJoVfY

hehe yup

The Soska sisters' most recent film, See No Evil 2, is on UK Netflix now. Stars Katherine Isabelle should any more inducement be required.

^ ok, this was terrible - don't bother.

How did you rate American Mary?
It didn't do much for me but it was a little different.

Yes, that's more or less what I thought. It wasn't a great film but did indicate that the Soskas had a potentially interesting vision.

Babadook really held up on 2nd viewing. The things that seem genuinely scary (e.g. hating your child, and furthermore learning how to manage that hatred) manage to cut through the almost too-frequent scare setpieces.

It's a solid horror film. Maybe not entirely deserving of the season's hype, but I personally loved the themes you just mentioned. The portrayal of the kid was a great, honest thing, I think, because children ARE beasts, even if it's not their fault.

The overbearing director's eye took me out of the story regularly but that's first film problems i guess

maybe some day the babadook will be available to me in some viewing format and i can share my IMPORTANT OPINIONS on it

icefilms icefilms baby

i dont even know what that is? not to go all tuomas or anything

in 30 years when we're all old and incontinent there should be an ilx thread just called "ok let's all shit our pants"

I'm super looking forward to Babadook, still, but it really scans, at least loosely, very similar to Mama.

it's not available on VOD in your area yet, jjjusten? It went day and date in the US I think

huh i could check that i guess, im just baffled that netflix doesn't have it on disc yet honestly

Also, it's technically still playing in the Cities -- St. Anthony Main.

it's still in theaters out here in NYC!

Can't say I outright loved The Babadook, but it's damn good, considerably better than (and not terribly similar to) Mama. Agree w/ Eric H. that the psychological elements are more interesting and better handled than the more overtly scary scenes, which aren't bad but do make the rookie mistake of giving too much away. I'd also have preferred a somewhat less thematically obvious conclusion, but of what I've seen, it's still the year's best traditional horror film.

My friend the young widowed mother got blindsided by it but found non-horror elements very in line with her own experiences.

Been reading some good reports about What We Do in the Shadows i.e a couple of people saying it is the best horrom/com since Braindead and Peter Bradshaw gave it a 5 star rave review.

horror/com

Housebound is my favorite recent horror comedy (good year for Antipodean chills), but I'm now quite curious about What We Do In the Shadows.