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

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.

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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.

Anyone seen Italian film from last year called Across The River?

Yes, it's not very good. Initially promising but really dull and disappointing.

xp hmm, i'll have to check out Sundown then

Jesus, does Deliver Us From Evil ever end? It feels like I've been watching it since Thursday.

one of the worst movies i saw last year

As this year's 'breakout' Indie Horror (in the UK at least), thought It Follows was a much more satisfying and inventive movie than The Babadook. Genuinely scary in places - the film really whispers to dream logic fears of slow, inescapable pursuit by something sinister - and the 'sexually transmitted demon' aspect was a nice inversion of the usual have-sex-and-die trope (the film definitely takes some of its suburban setting and visual cues from Carpenter's Halloween). Interesting the way that both this and Only Lovers Left Alive use Michigan's crumbling homes and decayed buildings to conjure the eerie and unsettling - post-austerity horror; the sequence in It Follows set in the abandoned building actually called to mind the ending of Tsai's Stray Dogs!

Jesus, does Deliver Us From Evil ever end? It feels like I've been watching it since Thursday.

I'm happy with the brightness settings on my TV, yet watching this, found minutes rolling by and forms barely distinguishable on the screen. Seemed like that happened throughout, as I fast-forwarded. Reminded me of the awful, also underlit "The Dark".

xp i can't wait for It Follows to play here

I still can't figure out where and when it opens here.

Oh, I see. Music Box next weekend. Kind of a bummer. How does a movie like "The Guest" get into big theatres and a massively buzzed about even more genre film like this gets sent to crappy screen and sound art-house purgatory?

I don't know about you, The Guest was in exactly one theater in my area and didn't even make it a week sadly.
I hear a rumor that this is actually going VOD very soon, which is probably why no theaters are taking it

it follows looks up my alley

It's on VOD from the 27th

Don't watch the trailer btw. Ruins a couple of the best moments

I really enjoyed As Above, So Below but it definitely felt like it fell short of its potential. Devolved into fairly standard found footage horror at times.

^^^ just watched it last night with some friends. Way WAY better than I was led to expect. Not great, but more than good. I want an mp3 of the insane choral music!

http://www.avclub.com/article/it-follows-getting-wide-release-wont-hit-vod-early-216832

That's what I'm talking about.

Backcountry isn't badly filmed but it takes FOREVER to stop dropping misleading hints and finally get to the part where the shoe drops and by the time it does, neither of the main characters are well delineated enough for me to care about them. Then we get into bad camera work through an artsy concussion filter and more-or-less torture sequences. Worst of all, it succumbs to the cardinal sin of arthouse horror: it's boring.

"It Follows" is excellent if a bit heavy handed. I'd kind of prefer that they played the subtext down just a tad (there's a character that's mostly there to read Dostoyevsky quotes for fucks sake) but the idea of sexual injury as a monster that violates us at or before puberty and that stalks us into adulthood is sharp and generally well-executed. The final shoe dropping of where the monster visualizations come from was well telegraphed and the scares were quite effective. Kinda wish they'd left off the HEY IT'S A HORROR MOVIE KIDS sequence at the film's start but I guess that's to be expected from a wide release. In sum, I'd recommend it highly.

Honestly, there's enough to talk about in that one film to merit opening a thread but I'm too tired to do it just now. This made an odd double header with Whiplash, lemme tell ya.

lol Whiplash. saw It Follows today too, very good work. glad it's getting a wide release and is doing decently this weekend.

Just watched ABCs Of Death 2, hard to believe but it's even several steps down from the last one. The only thing I liked was a Robert Morgan animation. There are a few that aren't terrible and there are some kinda interesting things (a women pregnant with a fully developed child, kids entering a world like Masters Of The Universe, a Bill Plympton animation with heads fighting) here and there but there's not much point going on about them. There is going to be a third one, and unless some really good directors are announced for it, I'll avoid. I could have swore this one had good directors initially attached who must have pulled out.

The tagline is "Some people never learn" and the end credits have a note stating that they love the internet hate. I feel stronger than ever about what I was arguing in the worst films thread: low budget horror films are often far worse than any blockbuster or prestige film. Regardless of inept craft, the stench of the banal lowbrow smugness is harder to stomach than mainstream stupidity and emptiness.
What's particularly sad is that I'd even prefer a soulless, cynically made film to one made by people personally invested in their proudly shallow ambitionless fare.

Why have a little genre ghetto when it's used to nurture such crap? I like any sort of horror done well enough but there's so much shit in the gore/sleaze area that I think maybe it's actually necessary that the Weird Fiction/Dark Fantasy/Ghost Story area drifts away from the shared "horror" umbrella. I'm so sick of having to wade through that sort of Xtreme crap to get to what I want. If a different genre name had stuck, maybe things would be a lot better?