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

Hard To Be A God

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, January 16, 2015 7:14 AM (7 hours ago)

been putting this off for the better part of a week. so long, so poop.

Don't do it contenderizer, sin city sequel is fucking horrendous

okay, thanks, some semblance of reality restored

Just watched 300: Rise Of An Empire.

I'm just trying to get my head around this: some people recommended this as if it were silly to a pleasantly surprising, even sublime degree. But the film I just saw was every bit as dull as I would have expected if I had seen no reviews.
There's a daft sex scene and some fights are pretty well composed in places but that's spoiled by the special effects and this film is really just boring. Not nearly silly enough to be worth watching. Even Eva Green's bare breasts seem to be compromised by the cgi.

I too am sorry you watched 300

Badabook (I'm a bit reluctant because it seems like a lot of films I've seen), Nightbreed Directors Cut, I.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, January 16, 2015 7:14 AM (4 days ago)

Yeah, The Babadook slots in comfortably with the wave of slickly-produced, generally well-behaved, "things that go bump" style supernatural horror that's been cresting since Insidious. Films of this sort often feel rather generic even when they're quite successfully scary, but writing, performances and themes distinguish The Babadook from the subgenre. It's not perfect (like Oculus, it arguably fumbles at the goal line), but it's definitely worth a watch.

Disappointed by Clive Barker's Nighbreed remix, but I never dug the original. Strictly for the fans, I expect.

As a sort of long stand-alone episode, I thought Oculus was one of the few to actually stick the ending (once you get past the fact that the whole setup doesn't make a ton of sense). Speaking of which, the lightbulb-eating scene in that movie has stuck with me and still makes me shudder on a regular basis.

Badabook from trailers reminds me of Mama, Orphanage, House Of Voices and lots of the J-horror wave, more than anything like Insidious.
I prefer this style of film to a lot of things but I just wish they had a bit more going on.

i mentioned insidious cuz i see it as helping to kick off the recent flurry of housebound supernatural horror flicks, but yeah, the two don't have much in common

I'd suggest paranormal activity did it.

I thought Oculus was one of the few to actually stick the ending (once you get past the fact that the whole setup doesn't make a ton of sense)

agree w this completely

like there's no reason given that they don't just smash the mirror immediately but setting that aside everything else about it was v good imo

i wanted, for no good reason, to distinguish the current haunted everything trendlet from the ongoing found-footage boom. have to concede that insidious took after the paranormal activity flicks, though. in a broader sense, 1999 was ground zero for all such stuff (the sixth sense, the blair witch project, ringu outside japan).

i get you there

my problem with the ending of oculus is that it was telegraphed so relentlessly and delivered so suddenly that it couldn't help but feel a bit anticlimactic. "o shit!", roll credits. didn't sabotage the film, but i enjoyed the build-up a lot more than the payoff.

somebody tell me if we did this already, but do folks have a top 10 2014 horror films list?

I've got 13 sins, taking of deborah logan, big bad wolves and oculus as to be watched
Already saw Babadook, Under the Skin, A Girl Walks Home at Night Alone

Curious what others would point out as high points for the year.

(outside of contendo of course)

Did you see that Fright link above?

Haven't seen 13 Sins (or Cheap Thrills, for that matter), but 13: Game of Death, the 2006 Thai film it adapts, is great white-knuckle fun.

I still think Last Will & Testament of Rosalind Leigh rates as top 2014.

i have a field in england on my shortlist for netflix now

Field in England is incredible. idk how much of it is horror really but it's something.

Field in England is tops
Was Rosalind Leigh 2014?! Jesus that year went by slowly. Rosalind L > Deborah L, though the latter is well worth watching esp for the acting

It Follows is great. One of my favourite horrors for a long time. It didn't have a flawed ending either, which I think is really notable for an exciting scary film in the last few years. I saw it in the cinema in 2014 but it's not getting a general release till later this year.

awesome, been looking forward to that one for months.

Other horror(ish) titles I'm anticipating in the one five:

Crimson Peak - Guillermo Del Toro directs a bunch of famous people in a spooky gothic period piece
High Rise - Ben Wheatley (A Field in England, Kill List) adapting J.G. Ballard, sign me the fuck up
The Duke of Burgundy - oddball relationship drama from Peter Strickland, who I'll follow anywhere after Berberian Sound Studio
Among the Living - latest from Bustillo & Maury (Inside, Livide)
Harbinger Down - long delayed, practical-effects driven tribute to Carpenter's The Thing
The Editor - tongue-in-cheek giallo homage from the Astron-6 crew (Father's Day)
Green Inferno - Eli Roth's 70s-style cannibal flick, almost certainly awful, but pushed back so long I'm now dying to see it
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - still haven't caught this >:[
It Follows - like kraudive says
Final Girl - not much to go on, the but premise (hit girl vs murder boys) and word of mouth are promising
Cooties - horror comedy about schoolteachers battling a pack of monsterized kids, can't miss!

my favs from 2014. roughly in this order :

starry eyes
honeymoon
housebound
late phases
coherence
abc's of death 2
the babadook

'oculus' and 'among the living' were ok, and i didn't hate 'the sacrament' as much as most people here, i guess - same goes for 'mockingbird' until that absolutely dreadful ending. 'the purge: anarchy' was way better than the first one, but that doesn't really count for much, does it?

still need to see : it follows, man in the orange jacket, a girls walks home alone at night, der samurai, under the skin. is 'the canal' any good? story doesn't seem that appealing, but i've seen some people rate it highly

i didn't hate 'the sacrament' as much as most people here, i guess - same goes for 'mockingbird' until that absolutely dreadful ending

^^ considering they're both ff, that is. something i find truly off putting these days.

i thought Babadook was brilliant in its depiction of the mother's mental state, feeling alone and completely overwhelmed. it was very hard to watch! the horror elements, though, were pretty standard fare.

What We Do in the Shadows is being released in Japan: http://t.co/GzTiH5NJZ2

put a bunch of these on netflix instant, thx

People shitting themselves over The Witch at Sundance.

There's two films with that title this year. This sundance one is set in 1600s?

Yeah, I think? New England. People are saying it's like a Kubrick "Crucible" or something along those lines.

Actually the titles are slightly different

The Witch
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4263482/?ref_=rvi_tt

Witch
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2936638/?ref_=rvi_tt

Which Witch is which?

The first is the sundance one I'm sure

http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/over-your-dead-body/

I guess this isn't horror but this is pretty much the only film thread I follow - anyone heard anything about this? The trailer looks amazing: http://www.okayafrica.com/news/ethiopian-post-apocalyptic-sci-fi-film-crumbs-trailer/

(Or point me to a good thread to discuss it on.)

that looks amazing and plenty horror enough for this thread. unfortunately, i have little to add to the discussion beyond "yes, please". and thank you.

will watch

This is really, really good, and fits on this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK-gwgaR0QI

cast of that is great, nonetheless, couldn't make it past more than a couple minutes. Adult Swim is the worst.

I guess this isn't horror but this is pretty much the only film thread I follow - anyone heard anything about this? The trailer looks amazing: http://www.okayafrica.com/news/ethiopian-post-apocalyptic-sci-fi-film-crumbs-trailer/

^^ came across that trailer on fb yesterday. it looks amazing indeed.

Saw As Above So Below finally and. Well, I'm not really sure where I fall on it. So much almost good, nothing per se terrible. Still sorting it out.

Since I'm on zing I can't bump the lets shit something old thread, so happy Friday the 13th y'all.

Chi chi chi chi chi ma am ma ma

did anyone see 'the pact 2'?

im not invested in the pact franchise as it were, but the ppl involved in 'entrance' wrote & directed I believe so my interest was def piqued

Crimson Peak trailer looks okay. Not much to say I suppose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBlG8Lv01k

Finally saw Pontypool a few nights ago. My god what a dreadful, implausible film.

Housebound, which we watched last night, was pretty fun, although I wasn't sure about the big reveal in the last third which seemed a little bit overdone for my tastes
*SPOILER* how to explain the teddy bear?