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

loved his spring-loaded ball-throwing backpack

As I said above, he reminded me of Katherine Heigl a lot.

babadook ending is a def high point; the suggestion that those hard memories still demand their pound of flesh but over time they find a kind of equilibrium and we learn to cope with the sadness and horror that is our life through routine, faith and patience
thought "It Follows" is very much in the same lane

I haven't seen It Follows yet, but it's on my list obviously

btw, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night just upped on netflix streaming
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/A_Girl_Walks_Home_Alone_at_Night/70301280
not too much horror but worth a watch for sure. some indelible images.

There might be a better place to put this but I can't think of one: the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark book series is getting a documentary film.

xps yeah, good comparison b/w It Follows and Babadook endings

From a supernatural perspective, I like how the Babadook monster is too strong to meet a demise. There's no ectoplasmic ray gun or special chant which will make him go away.

in both films, the monster is emotional (and/or sexual) injury: the darkest part of our soul's makeup given legs
would support a bunch more of magical realism horror films; preferably with fewer hoary genre tropes

btw, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night just upped on netflix streaming
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/A_Girl_Walks_Home_Alone_at_Night/70301280
not too much horror but worth a watch for sure. some indelible images.

^^ i guess it's the kind of movie that horror buffs and arthouse freaks will hate while everyone else gets on board. great direction and photography and capable of conveying some sort of hopelessness and dread, but veers too much towards a pale indie-sensibility (how music is used, for example).

i wouldn't argue with that? it's not a world changing film but there are several great ideas, beautifully shot and that's good enough for me.
wish it had something a bit more solid at its core

i actually liked the movie. there were a couple of moments where i couldn't quite stomach the romantic naivety, but not enough to ruin it.

It Follows was dope

Unfriended made me glad not to be 18 anymore

the latter was maybe the first time I've ever seen the party game "Never Have I Ever" used as a horror conceit.

some of the more tense scenes involved furious mouse clicking

Please tell me the entire movie is shown through video chat windows

watched 'Sleep Tight' last night. Solid and creepy as heck. Excellently made.

Nhex
Posted: April 27, 2015 at 8:11:02 AM
Please tell me the entire movie is shown through video chat windows

This exists btw, I just can't remember the name at the moment. Megan is Missing maybe?

I think that's literally what Unfriended is!

Well not just video chat but it's all on a computer screen I think?

yeah i think so

https://youtube.com/watch?v=e3hVmpGzl7A

Anyone else really excited by this trailer? I haven't been this impressed by a film trailer in fuck knows how many years.

In case the link disappears it's Tale Of Tales by Matteo Garrone

Based on a 17th century collection of fairy tales by Italian author Giambattista Basile, the film weaves realistic and fantastical elements together into three different storylines, one of which involves Salma Hayek eating the heart of a giant beast. Vincent Cassel, John C. Reilly and Toby Jones also star.

Please tell me the entire movie is shown through video chat windows

― Nhex, Monday, April 27, 2015 2:11 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is!

it's kinda a strange film - an embarrassing Youtube video of a high school girl having fouled herself appears at least four times with more footage each time.

it should have been called "teenagers are horrible and should be killed pt 1"

Reilly Jones and Hayek is a promising cast

xxp

For me it's most promising to see a fantasy film that seems to respect fully functioning eyeballs. A film that embraces visuals? What a great idea. Okay, yes there are lots of good looking films but rarely in the genres I want to see.

looks pretty cool, rag

"Robert Adam Gilmour
Posted: April 3, 2015 at 1:50:31 PM
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?"

I've been sitting on this for a while, but other than agreeing with the initial spark point of abcs of death 2 being pretty much crap (though I felt the first one was surprisingly good), the rest of this argument really frustrates me. I'm just tired of the self-loathing horror fan as archetype maybe?

Maybe my rant unfairly characterises the audience and creators of some of this stuff but I think there is a portion that is roughly what I described. I don't know how much self-loathing comes into what they do.
I generally try my best to avoid making fun of people or aggression but here I found it very difficult to say what I meant without being insulting.

I have a feeling I've completely missed your point but please tell me.

Also, I really liked the Cattet/Forzani and Hardcastle pieces from the first film a great deal.

i really was genuinely frightened by It Follows, it didn't help that I actually heard someone clattering about at the back of my house whilst I was watching it. One of my favourite moments was the debunking of this "electrocuting people" (or in this case an ill advised attempt to electrocute a sexually transmitted curse demon) in water motif, which has no credible place in any movie made in the RCBO era. [SPOILER] "It doesn't work!" No shit Sherlock, this isn't 1900 - the circuit breaker ain't a fucking nail these days! Sorry if this is a bit normish, but the qualified electrician in me salutes this electrical realism.

i loved that bit because it was TOTALLY a horror film/teenager-concieved plan that backfires miserably. that scene was fantastic

It Follows was terrifying. its conceit was clever - forced the affected characters to analyze benign movement and determine if it was friendly or hostile quite quickly, all without sounding insane to their friends.

for a guy who already has a phobia of being approached by strangers in public, it was even more terrifying.

also liked that the cast wasn't full of 'generic shitty people', and you could genuinely root for them all, for the most part.

as opposed to Unfriended, where I was so fucking glad when characters were dispensed

latest stuff i saw. not a good run :

'lord of tears' was a somewhat interesting folk/ghost story almost ruined by tacky dialogue and some poor performances. props for the owlman, tho.

'kristy' is a sleep-inducing slasher/survival horror. basically the final girl running from a group of hooligans (wouldn't even call them a cult) for almost the whole movie. totally pointless. 'preservation' was slightly better, but the influence of 'ils' is becoming obnoxious.

'clown' seemed like it could be fun and tried a new approach to the clown mystique, but drags along in whole the family drama. starts good, just gets boring.

really liked 'what we do in the shadows' btw - it's a comedy, i know.

I'm still raging for spending €30 on Lord of Tears. It looks amazing but the acting is truly painful

I had to turn off Lord of Tears because of the lead actor, so bad I thought they were maybe taking the piss.

At least when they were acting, they weren't dancing.

i don't know if i can watch it follows

i think i just need to watch the descent again

but like, alone

bc i can't be disturbed

bc it's so good

also it's been at least 2 months since i've watched black swan which is kind of like, a problem

also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_Vk5iloGrw

'it follows' is amazing

ugh i know i rly should suck it up and see it

Looking forward to watching the second instalment of Enfield Haunting tonight.

Recently:

It Follows
Liked this a lot. It's not quite multiplex-slick in its pacing & construction, but I dig the rough edges, they help give it some character. Plus interesting contrast between hazy, Virgin Suicides-style teen languor and Detroit's (sub)urban decay. 8/10

Ex Machina
Not horror, but spooky at times and quite suspenseful overall. Definitely worth catching in the theater. 8/10

Unfriended
Fucking awful. Hated everything about it. Just die already. 2/10

Lesson of the Evil
Turgid drama/black comedy about a high school shooter. I don't think Miike's made a film I care about since Gozu. 4/10

Spring
Horrible horror romance about star-cross'd love between a dull young American tourist and some kind of immortal fish woman monster thing. Spoiler alert. 3/10

As Above, So Below
Not bad! Inventive and energetic handycam horror wherein a daredevil archaeologist & her team spelunk the Paris catacombs in search of the Philosopher's Stone. Dopey but quite entertaining. 6/10

TaxidermiaB
Clever, visually spectacular and SO SO GROSS. One of the most revolting films I've ever seen. Hooray for gross things. 7/10

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
A stylish and romantic coming-of-age drama about a skateboarding, hijab-wearing vampire girl. And a very good cat. I love this movie! It's everything Only Lovers Left Alive should have been but (mostly) wasn't. Slight in the best possible way. 9/10

Unfriended
Fucking awful. Hated everything about it. Just die already. 2/10

now I'm curious about what it takes to get 1/10 or 0/10

Here I thought Unfriended was supposed to be the best of the last few months.

(Haven't seen it.)

I don't think Miike's made a film I care about since Gozu.

― a faded dose from rays gone by (contenderizer), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 17:46

Not even Great Yokai War? I think I enjoyed the tasteless deleted scenes to 13 Assassins more than the actual film.

I bought Izo recently and hope to watch it at the weekend. Over Your Dead Body hopefully someday.

Unfriended is like watching a building implode and thinking it was for the best