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

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.

Yeah Housebound was piss funny. I am not a fan of Clement/Waititi's previous work, but from the reviews this seems be very dark and funny.

Was it from this thread that I got the recommendation to watch BENEATH (the one where the teens are trapped on their boat by a devil-fish)? If so, damn you! So lousy!

Anyone seen the Iranian vampire movie, "A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YGmTdo3vuY

No, but I've been looking forward to it for some time.

it's good! virtually no horror elements to it at all tho'.

You mean other than it being about a vampire?

yes! there's no suspense at all. it's more of a dybbuk movie of sorts i think; kind of a peek into a world i don't know anything about.

I look forward to seeing it! Iranian cinema is so sneaky and subversive. This one in particular. In a society that targets women for being alone at night (under the pretense of prosecuting prostitution), it's pretty ingenious to have a female vampire wandering around at night preying on men.

Or completely regressive, female sexuality as predatory threat etc

idk I havent seen it

It was filmed in LA fyi (tho it is in Persian and set in a fantastical Iran)

What We Do in the Shadows is good fun with a few big laughs. It needed more of Rhys Darby's rival gang of werewolves, though. But yeah, if you liked Flight of the Conchords...

so a (former) substitute teacher was just convicted of four felony counts for (inexplicably) showing The ABCs of Death in class.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/01/15/Verdict_in_substitute_teacher_trial.html

wow

http://www.fright.com/edge/2014YearInHorror.htm

Always unpredictable and a little bit baffling in places. Happy about his top 2 though.

Yeah, it's an interesting list, though as you say, all over the place. To be honest, I'm somewhat disappointed by the preponderance of long-reach borderline horror, especially in the top 10: Nightcrawler, Blue Ruin, Sin City 2, Edge of Tomorrow, etc. The former two are excellent films, but it's not like 2014 was such a terrible year for genre horror that one has to push out into straight-up crime thrillers and "blockbuster" action pictures to fill slots.

My top 10 2014 favorites (many are no less stretched than the fright.com list):

1) Under the Skin
2) Moebius
3) The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
4) Rigor Mortis
5) Only Lovers Left Alive
6) Miss Zombie
7) The Babadook
8) Housebound
9) What We Do In the Shadows
10) Found

Five more I'd love to include, but which don't quite make the cut as 2014 releases:

A Field in England (Swedish DVD in Oct. 2013, but first played NY in 2014)
Here Comes the Devil (limited US release in mid-December 2013)
Byzantium (okay, this is a straight-up 2013 release I'm including just because I dug it)
Dark Touch (apparently played NY in 2013, but no other non-festival showings or DVD release until 2014)
We Are What We Are (US remake - another 2013 release I'm throwing in for no good reason)

The Worst:

Thanatomorphose
Horns
Crawl or Die
The Devil Incarnate
Septic Man
Judy
Hotel Inferno

dunno if this got discussed here but um:

Watch the eerie trailer for a horror film about a murderous EDM producer

i must check out more of your list contenderizer. only seen the Babadook out of that list (and most of Under The Skin), but I thought it was one of the best horrors I'd seen in years.

Great list, contenderizer. Lots of stuff to check out & reminds me to try to catch Strange Color of Your Body's Tears eventually somehow...

Is Under the Skin horror? Kind of funny to slot a movie of wobbly genre itself as your number one after listing all these movies with horrific elements as stretches.

yeah i wouldn't have called it a horror personally.

This person's lists seem to always make room for entries in the extreme suburban fringes of the genre. Compliance showed up on one of them.

speaking of which, is Compliance worth a watch or no?

Yes for Ann Dowd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uPK9Ov6Zd4

This looks fucking mental!

Kind of funny to slot a movie of wobbly genre itself as your number one after listing all these movies with horrific elements as stretches.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, January 16, 2015 6:16 AM (34 minutes ago)

sure, but i called myself out on it. and under the skin is, imo, extremely effective as a horror film (though it clearly isn't genre-bound).

Horror dilettantism is totally acceptable to me.

also, the primary connection to the horror genre in the four films i singled out is a combination of violence and suspense. i just don't see that as sufficient (a matter of personal preference). under the skin adds elements of both the fantastical and the grotesque/macabre, an uncanny atmosphere of lurking dread, and a dreamlike sense of isolation in a strange and threatening environment. to me, that's more than enough.

kind of dying to see I now.

I think Under The Skin as a horror seems obvious. Especially considering how inclusive most fans, creators and critics are.

I didn't see much last year and I don't really care for the most part.

But allowing for films that many of us only got to see last year.

1. A Field In England
2. Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears
3. Under The Skin
4. Borderlands

Probably should watch (from these lists, including even not so horrory stuff) the recent Kim Ki Duk films, Dance Of Reality, 300 Sequel & Sin City 2 (both on the strength of the reviews of Eva Green's hotness, and of the former films insane campness), Hard To Be A God, Beauty And The Beast (Gans), Badabook (I'm a bit reluctant because it seems like a lot of films I've seen), Nightbreed Directors Cut, I.