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

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?

Honeymoon, with Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway, was decent enough. Breaks no new ground whatsoever but nicely executed and well acted.

Didn't the guy in the attic reprogram the bear? Thought Housebound was maybe an hour too long.

Wait, did you just call Pontypool implausible? that's pretty much the least controversial thing you can say about it.

ah, that would make sense.

Pontypool, and the whole 'speaking disease' premise and how they dealt with it, just didn't make any sense, not even for a horror/zombie movie. Nice idea to try an make a single-room, no monsters, zombie movie but the whole thing got so hammy by the end I just couldn't deal with it.

I almost feel as though Housebound could have made for a more streamlined film if they'd either dispensed with the whole Eugene plot or introduced his presence a little earlier on.

Pontypool, and the whole 'speaking disease' premise and how they dealt with it, just didn't make any sense, not even for a horror/zombie movie.

it makes perfect sense. it's not in the least plausible, but i don't see how that's a problem.

I almost feel as though Housebound could have made for a more streamlined film if they'd either dispensed with the whole Eugene plot or introduced his presence a little earlier on.

Wait wait how would this even work? I don't want to spoiler Housebound, but that's a little like saying psycho would have been more streamlined if they'd thrown a shot of Normans mother in after the shower scene.

The problem with Pontypool on the other hand is that it's terrible but we've been over that

I got so bored with Housebound I forgot what any of the characters had to do with anything.

Anyone seen "What We Do in the Shadows?"

Just watched Babadook. It's pretty much what I expected: very well made but too many overfamiliar elements from the past 15 or more years. Both the mother and Katherine Heigl as the little boy really put themselves through it so it's a shame it wasn't better. I think it needed a better story but they really did make it as well as could have been expected. Apart from the quibble of those also overfamiliar stock alien/dinosaur sound effects. Why do people use that stuff?

looking forward to Katherine Heigl playing a little boy, seems like a stretch but

taking of debra logan is pretty horrible but i like the opening idea of alzheimers transforming grandma into a monster
then snake people for no fucking reason

big monster reveal at the end of debra logan is all time, and the mother-daughter performances are great, but yeah, i've lodged my objections upthread.

have seen what we do in the shadows. it's pretty great. much more comedy than horror, but funny and smart, with strong writing and winning performances.

a couple nights ago, i watched one of the long list of horror movies that i'm anticipating in 2015: wyrmwood, an aussie hybrid of high-octane action and tongue-in-cheek zombie mayhem. was not worth the wait. it's an obvious labor of love with some nice ideas, but way too enamored of"badass", cgi-enhanced butt kicking and no-homo bro comedy. picks up toward the end, but leon burchill's benny really should have been the main character all along.

Yeah I'm allergic to anything that sees itself as "badass" at this point.

so after massive hype around it follows, its actually not THAT scary, and more of an indie horror, i.e. teen character study with a few scary moments/horror premise arching over it. its basically another film like the guest, a semi-80s b-movie semi-homage, right down to the score. i liked it, theres some interesting ideas about sex/adolescence/flipping of genre tropes in there somewhere, but i didnt get as much as hoped out of it, though i think maika monroe might be my new favourite american actress. i can see why so many people have gone crazy for it follows though - its a bit sinister, but its not really a Horror movie. its more a horror for people that dont usually watch the genre.

When does that movie open? Does it open wide, or as wide as something like The Guest opened? Been waiting a while and don't want to miss it.

not sure but its out in the uk this weekend

Have we talked about 100 bloody acres at some point? Because those peeps have something new going on, and I'm stoked.

maybe, but it's news to me (100 bloody acres). intrigued.

watched 2014's town that dreaded sundown remake last night. owes a lot to the meta-cinematic likes of wes craven's new nightmare and the last couple installments in the scream series, but slick, tense and inventive enough to stand on its own. ending's ridiculously contrived, but it didn't ruin the film for me (as it seems to have for others). probably helps to have seen the original.