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

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.

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

lol, that is astounding!

good lord!! on that snuff puppets

HFS where is that from

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

It's an Australian troop.

http://letterboxd.com/rabbitroom/list/favorite-horror-films-2000-2014/

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

“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.

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

timely

Timely?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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

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.

(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.)

that is totally a horror movie!

I can't watch it

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%’.”

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.

it was a golden age, true - a lot of those effects still look great imo

Well, Walking Dead is headed by Greg Nicotero, right? And he was mentored by Savini, who sort of passed the practical torch. I think for budget reasons computers are the norm now, and they have their pluses (like not needed to clean up squib mess between takes). It used to be messy FX were all low budget horror had going for it. Now CGI offers a budget shortcut, and what practical stuff shows up here and there seems really slipshod, especially because it takes such pains to revel in its practical-ness, which will never rival the heyday of Savini, Bottin, et al.

I could be wrong, but it seems that CGI violence has an easier time with the ratings board than practical stuff, which comes off so much more grisly. Like, I didn't like the Hostel movies, but Nicotero is what gives them their wince factor.

I've got mixed feelings about Walking Dead (I think it's mostly good though) but those water bloated zombies from a recent season were utterly incredible and made me think about what horror and fantasy movies are really missing out on today.

As well as cost cutting, I feel that film studios probably put superficial newness ahead of other aesthetic considerations. I really hate those pointlessly textured superhero costumes but I've heard that the studios insist on costumes that look as three dimensional as possible. I was really pleased when I saw that funny review where some guy said "why is Superman's costume made of basketballs?".

It Follows is less appealing the more I think about it. I'm not sure it was that scary really. It looked nice though

i tried watching it follows but there was something about the story that felt v handwavey to me

idk i may need try again

screaming mad george is a genius. i wish he did more stuff. a master of gloopy body horror. his most famous thing is probably the cockroach scene in nightmare on elm street 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n4lVWFwFoM

nightmare on elm street script and acting is outstandingly terrible but the cockroach bit is aces

It Follows is a pretty good movie that happens to also be a pretty bad horror movie imo

I was also watching Screaming Mad George's music videos from when he was a frontman of his own rock band his videogame Paranoiascape.

Screaming Mad George also did makeup effects in Freaked.

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.

No jokes, this is my nightmare.

It Follows was OK. Still doing the Suburban Girl and the Price of Sex thing tho, huh?

Pool scene seemed a quasi-hommage to Cat People, perhaps. There's a DVD extra on the music, and the composer is cuuuuuute. (If overly indebted to John Carpenter.)

http://ocremix.org/files/images/artists/disasterpeace-2549.jpg

finally catching the guest, this shit fuckin rules

Never heard of this until catching up with this thread. What an effective trailer!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQJy1465NSU

I really enjoyed We Are Still Here last night, it is slightly pastichey and not terrifying but is very entertaining and it is nice to see a horror with a load of oldies in it for a change.

Yeah The Guest kind of rules

ya damn right it does.

I need a night to digest it, but I think "Creep" (found footage, Duplass content) might be one of my top ten for the year. Streaming on Netflix.

I mean, not found footage. Handcam? We need a new term for this.

Thanks for the tip, was totally gonna skip that one.

Watched The Guest last night. Thanks for the recommendation. Solid and slightly goofy '80s/'90s-esque thriller. We watched it just after seeing the new Mission: Impossible, so it seemed like an interesting inversion on a certain character type that's become prevalent in action movies.

JacobSanders, I just noticed that you posted the Testament trailer! I must have stumped for it a dozen times on the board previously, but it honestly might be the most dread-inducing movie I've ever seen, if you're into that sort of thing.

Enemy a few hours ago. Really not understanding all the spider imagery but I liked it quite a bit.

I've watched a lot of flops recently: Angel, Dead Rising Watchtower, Final Girl and Dark Places. Maybe I'll try Creep next.