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

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I didn't like Dream Home

You are a terrible, terrible person.

a faded dose from rays gone by (contenderizer), Friday, 15 May 2015 02:38 (eight years ago) link

Also, re Hal Jam upthread: I was mean to poor little Spring, and for that I should be sternly punished. But it really does suck. Charisma-free lead killed any effective romance potential, and the SPOILER's mythology was dopey af ("internet slang" for "as a fish-woman monster thing").

It Follows, otoh, worked just fine to me because I don't have any closely-held opinions about the relationship of today's youth to sexual dread. Except I figure that some degree of confusion and anxiety where such things are concerned probably comes w/ your standard-issue human condition. And I didn't see any implied, crypto-Christian sex negativity in it. I saw it instead as a movie about young people existing in a transitional state on the edge of suburban American youth's sheltering idyll. Sex is alluring but destabilizing and with it comes intimations mortality and difficult questions about one's potential place in a less-than-idyllic adult world. Plus fun and clever spin on traditional slasher film survival rules.

a faded dose from rays gone by (contenderizer), Friday, 15 May 2015 02:59 (eight years ago) link

Dream Home was mostly interesting about modern Hong Kong and quite funny at times but not liking it isn't very damning. Not dislike exactly.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 15 May 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link

There are things that can never be forgiven.

a faded dose from rays gone by (contenderizer), Friday, 15 May 2015 03:15 (eight years ago) link

horror is like fashion in terms of divisiveness tbh

surm, Sunday, 17 May 2015 12:14 (eight years ago) link

For whatever it's worth: Inception won an award for best film at a horror awards show.

Good of them to recognize the truly horrible.

resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 17 May 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link

Clown is a surprisingly serious horror drama about a man who becomes possessed by a demonic clown suit. It is not very good.

a faded dose from rays gone by (contenderizer), Sunday, 17 May 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link

^ 2014

a faded dose from rays gone by (contenderizer), Sunday, 17 May 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link

I'm let down by hyped up horror stuff like 98% of the time, but I was kind of blown away by It Follows. Beyond the central conceit (which I think is deeper and muddier than the puritanical sex negativity angle mentioned above) the cinematography, music, mood were just so expertly and smartly handled. Loved the period ambiguity too. I imagine (hope?) Mitchell has a bright career ahead of him.

circa1916, Monday, 18 May 2015 01:12 (eight years ago) link

o boy i bet it's scary

surm, Monday, 18 May 2015 11:00 (eight years ago) link

Just saw It Follows today -- good movie, beautifully shot, good performances. I also didn't get any puritanical sense from it -- it struck me more like Buffy, where sex was a double-edged thing. (The whole scenario could have easily been a Buffy episode.) I liked that it didn't overexplain.

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 02:28 (eight years ago) link

Willow Creek. Actually pretty good but it needed more to differentiate itself from Blair Witch Project. I listened to a big Bobcat interview about this last year and I can't remember if he had seen Blair Witch Project before or after making this film (don't need to have seen a film to be familiar with it) but he did talk a lot about the similarities.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link

Starring was the office douche from God Bless America and the teacher girlfriend from World's Greatest Dad.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link

Finally watched The Babadook on Netflix. Damned good. Wears its metaphors on its sleeve, sure, but the tension building is terrific. And it's such a rare film that deals seriously with moms that not only don't like their children, they genuinely resent them.

Weird seeing creepy fuck from Snowtown Murders show up in that tiny nice-guy role. I expected something bad to happen, then he just disappeared from the movie.

I might like you better if we Yelped together (Phil D.), Sunday, 31 May 2015 02:42 (eight years ago) link

my boo put it on recently; it seemed good, i didn't finish it tho

surm, Sunday, 31 May 2015 02:56 (eight years ago) link

It Follows was a good, clever film. Kept me entertained. That same level of dread as when the hobgoblins used to come during ITV's Knightmare.

p:s nerds know (dog latin), Monday, 1 June 2015 12:40 (eight years ago) link

*SPOILERS THOUGH*, again it's a good horror movie let down by a pretty unsatisfactory ending. Shooting it in the head did (but didn't) kill off the monster, fine, but you'd think there'd have been a smarter way to deal with it and the main characters wouldn't be so naive to believe that was the end?

p:s nerds know (dog latin), Monday, 1 June 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link

I think we talked about how the elaborate pool booby trap was sort of a another '80s callback. Then again, one of the film's most memorable touches is the way it shifts from the characters in total abject horror to just sort of chilling out in slumber party mode; for people in constant fear of death by relentless pursuer, they're pretty mellow, unlike, say, the characters in "Elm Street" popping caffeine pills and whatnot. What's stuck with me most about the movie is not all the metaphors but how all the metaphors sort of fall just short of metaphors. It's a very richly ambiguous movie.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 June 2015 13:14 (eight years ago) link

xp ...they don't believe it's the end. They've resigned themselves to the inevitable future trying to survive It for the rest of their lives, but at least, together. It's a pretty damn bittersweet ending IMO

Nhex, Monday, 1 June 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link

There was a real Halloween vibe to the street they lived on as well. Loved the John Carpenter-style music too.

p:s nerds know (dog latin), Monday, 1 June 2015 14:07 (eight years ago) link

xp - i guess it makes sense. they're together, therefore they're both vulnerable, therefore they look out for each other

p:s nerds know (dog latin), Monday, 1 June 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link

i guess we're past the point of spoilers: imo (and this may just be a restatement of what you're saying) that they accept that the other is a wounded child at heart, as we all do when we engage in a relationship with someone who has dealt with sexual abuse or been sexually injured. the film's open ending feels like a suggestion that you never stop being afraid, even older or wiser or with a partner. the unknowable of disease, shame, mental blockades, unshakeable fear stays with you well past the point where it's reasonable to be afraid but it never really stops following.

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link

and it's weird to me that reading isn't part of everyone's takeaway but i've found lots of folks for whom it isn't the case!
i think it's a question of personal experience and how raw that spot is for you maybe

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 June 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link

Anyone see "Late Phases?" I made it pretty far before I pulled the plug. I suppose an OK scenario squandered by being inept or unbalanced or ... just sucking?

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 June 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link

Yeah, I watched it a few months back. Like you, I was underwhelmed, though I'm loath to say it outright sucked. I'd rather call it a promising near miss, a slow-burn monster movie that, despite an interesting concept and a strong certral character/performance, never quite catches fire.

Perhaps I'm being too generous. Here Comes the Devil, Argentine director Adrian Garcia Bogliano's previous film, is a recent personal favorite I count among the best horror movies of the new millennium. It's every bit as wild, brave and cinematically adventurous as Late Phases is stoically drab. The latter is not only Bogliano's first English-language effort, it's also his first time directing from a screenplay he he didn't write (either alone or with his brother and frequent creative partner Ramiro).

Though I went in with sky-high expectations and came out disappointed, I'd rather anticipate his Spanish-language follow-up, Scherzo Diabolico (filmed, like Here Comes the Devil, in Mexico), than cry over spilt werewolfs.

a faded dose from rays gone by (contenderizer), Saturday, 6 June 2015 02:04 (eight years ago) link

Cant think of an appropriate thread but this is weird and disturbing, MUST SEE clip of interactive outdoor theatre called Snuff Puppets. Amazing that they performed this in front of families.

https://vimeo.com/121001475

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 6 June 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link

lol, that is astounding!

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 June 2015 03:56 (eight years ago) link

good lord!! on that snuff puppets

Nhex, Friday, 12 June 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link

HFS where is that from

Οὖτις, Friday, 12 June 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link

love how the audience (and kids!) are just laughing and clapping and running around through the whole thing

Οὖτις, Friday, 12 June 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link

It's an Australian troop.

nickn, Friday, 12 June 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link

That video was amazing - like a body-horror version of Survival Research Labs.

the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 17:37 (eight years ago) link

“Ash vs Evil Dead,” which is currently in production in New Zealand, is the long-awaited follow-up to the classic horror film franchise The Evil Dead and is set to premiere on STARZ in Fall 2015. The 10-episode first season of the half-hour series is executive produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell, the original filmmakers of the franchise, and Craig DiGregorio who will serve as executive producer and showrunner.
Campbell will be reprising his role as Ash, the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. When a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, Ash is finally forced to face his demons –personal and literal. Destiny, it turns out, has no plans to release the unlikely hero from its “Evil” grip.
The cast is led by Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, “Burn Notice”) in the role of Ash Williams, Lucy Lawless (“Salem,” “Spartacus”) as Ruby a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause of the Evil outbreaks, Ray Santiago (“Touch,” Meet the Fockers) as Pablo Simon Bolivar, an idealistic immigrant who becomes Ash’s loyal sidekick, Dana DeLorenzo (A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas) as Kelly Maxwell, a moody wild child trying to outrun her past and Jill Marie Jones (“Sleepy Hollow”) as Amanda Fisher, a disgraced Michigan State Trooper set to find our anti-hero Ash and prove his responsibility in the grisly murder of her partner.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link

Just in case that isn't a standard press release, here's the source
http://hellnotes.com/starz-to-release-the-ash-vs-evil-dead-trailer-at-comic-con-2015

Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link

timely

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link

Timely?

Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link

i just meant that the prime moment for an evil dead revival is probably not 3q 2015... maybe more like '95

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link

don't get me wrong, i will tivo (and maybe even watch) it but still

like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link

I'm just quite sceptical about making it a tv series. At best the films built up the madness and went crazy but in a series that may last longer than one season, I don't see them being able to do that. I guess it shouldn't matter as long it's of high quality but I'll be really annoyed if it in any measure becomes a serious survival drama.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 20:02 (eight years ago) link

four weeks pass...

After not watching a horror movie in what seems like forever, we finally saw It Follows last night. LOVED the music, and visually it was very engaging without devolving into a fashion shoot. After briefly scrolling up and reading what others have written, I can see how there would be multiple interpretations but basically forks otm. The pool scene was kind of goofy but otherwise I thought it was great.

Coincidentally, this morning when I was walking my dogs, a huge off-leash German shepherd ran out of nowhere and I started screaming and running away, so terrified that I was shaking. In my mind I could see my dogs being eaten alive, my legs chewed into ribbons of meat. It wasn't going to leave us alone, and the lady whose dog it was came over and grabbed it, assuring me that it was a nice dog and didn't want to hurt me or my dogs. I told her the truth, which was that 2 years ago a different off-leash dog did the same thing in the alley and almost killed my larger dog right in front of me. I told her as well as I could that I wasn't mad at her, that I had been traumatized by the incident 2 years ago and was just really scared. She was nice about it, and I hope she understood why my reaction was really disproportionate to what had happened (I know this) but man, trauma is real and it's way scarier than a monster.

La Lechera, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link

you can't punch a feeling of helplessness
i've been working a job where i deal with lots of aggressive people yelling at me for hours at a time and that shit really DOES follow you long past any point of it being useful.

you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 28 July 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link

https://youtube.com/watch?v=645HCNXxx6I

CGI animated films are a tough sell for me but 10,000 Years Later is said to be bulging with ideas and the trailer seems to support that.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 11:03 (eight years ago) link

"charlie victor romeo" was talked about a lil on the netflix thread and belongs here. six vignettes with dialogue solely consisting of verbatim transcripts of black box recordings from planes that crashed. all done on a single, barely lit cockpit set. really unsettling.
"one of the most terrifying films i have ever seen" - ao scott

slam dunk, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link

I think I unconsciously use some sort of inverted uncanny valley thing to judge whether I'll watch a particular horror movie or not. A thing like that sounds a little more real than I care to deal with in my horror cinema, so I'll probably pass. Although it certainly does sound unnerving.

the lungs of either a horse or a human baby (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:54 (eight years ago) link

(This is probably why I'm the only person in the world who thinks non-horror movie Testament might be the most horrifying movie ever.)

the lungs of either a horse or a human baby (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:55 (eight years ago) link

that is totally a horror movie!

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link

I can't watch it

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 18:58 (eight years ago) link

http://www.fangoria.com/new/interview-brian-yuzna-talks-society-blu-ray-and-sequel/

Society possibly getting a sequel! But it's mostly him talking about the original film:“I always thought they should re-release SOCIETY with the tagline “the revenge of the 1%’.”

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link

Been looking around to see what the old special effects guys are doing. Tom Savini has his second feature length director film next year, called Nightmare City.

Difficult finding out about Screaming Mad George. There's footage of his 2014 exhibition with him being interviewed on YouTube. Maybe he's just painting now. Last film credits is a short film he directed a decade ago.

As crappy as the rubber age of horror films often looked, I miss it. Seems like all these type of guys just work on Walking Dead, whatever Del Toro is doing or bits of injury make-up here and there.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:25 (eight years ago) link


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