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

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.

It's completely generic and covers the exact same ground as every other English-country-house/boarding-school things-that-go-bump-in-the-night film but The Woman In Black 2: Angels Of Death is very solid and often beautifully shot. The 3* reviews from Jonathan Romney and Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian feel closer to the mark than the near-universal panning it received everywhere else.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/04/woman-in-black-2-angel-of-death-review

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/dec/25/woman-in-black-2-angel-of-death-review

I had no interest in the remake of the original but might give it a go.

yo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQXmlf3Sefg

Looking good. Lord knows there aren't enough goats in horror films.

Witch movies, on the other hand:

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view2/20141008/5119779/lords-of-salem-goat-ride-o.gif

And dinosaur movies:

http://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2015/04/21/11/jurassic%20world%20goat.jpg

And this horror classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H6dD7X5_SY

Not really enthused by The Witch trailer, but I've heard good things

i like the trailer, looks creepy af

Trailer is good enough.

someone upthread mentioned 'late phases' and while it's basically 'silver bullet' with a blind old man instead of a kid on a wheel chair, i still enjoyed throughout. bogliano's direction was quite assured considering it was his first time filming in the states and something he didn't wrote - good performance from damici as well. he's def one of my fav directors of the past few years - got both eyes on 'scherzo diabolico'.

cosign the love for 'creep'. prob the only recent example i can think of where the ff framing really made some sense - making the whole thing way more unsettling in its proximity, flaws and all. it stuck with me in a way i wasn't expecting.

on a sort-of-side note, 'entrance' was kind of a bore - the mumblecore overtones surely didn't help - but i tend to remember it way more often that i should.

i've asked on a couple of threads but i was kind of keen to discuss 'The Nightmare' a little bit. anyone seen it?

when you guys were talking about creep, i thought you meant the terrible UK mid-00s tube-train horror.

"creep" didn't work at all for me. (mild spoiler) i guess duplass' benign suburban dad-ness was supposed to work in its favor but he never seemed credibly threatening to me. though yeah i did appreciate that they didn't really fudge the found footage conceit too much.

"Starry eyes" from last year has a p rudimentary script-it hammers on its "hollywood is corrupt and corrupting" theme over and over in such a basic, tired fashion-but alex essoe gives a really fantastic lead performance. i found it surprisingly moving and pathos-laden for being a clumsy rosemary's baby with modern french body horror on top.

oh yeah and i watched "Clown" (by the director of the upcoming spider-man film) on youtube....it sucked but i still liked it. a man puts on a clown suit and can't take it off. because it is infested with a clown demon that needs to eat children. i do wish that modern directors of horror garbage would value conciseness more. if a movie only needs to be an hour...just make it an hour long, guy! you'll save money! you can pad it out with credits. follow the example of 'gingerdead man' (70 minutes).

the lead performance really transforms starry eyes from gross whatever into really skin-crawling gross whatever

thanks to shudder and my roommate i ended up watching deadgirl recently, i think that may be the worst movie i've ever seen

Oculus - despite being quite different and even having a spooky moment or two, it just didn't leave much of an impression.

when animals dream - patient, somber and hypnotic take on lycanthropy. i guess comparisons to 'let the right one in' or 'a girl walks home alone at night' seem kinda inevitable, tho 'ginger snaps' would be the most obv prescient. coming of age.

ooh, that sounds good to me.

Has any body else seen The Visit? I watched it last night and was very unsettled but it. At first I thought it was going to be old people weird habits viewed by kids, but it became a lot more brutal that I expected. I think it's one of his better movies.

yeah, it's decent. good for him to strip down and make it simple compared to his over-the-top shenanigans of the last decade

there is no TWIST: confirm / deny?

i might watch it if there's no twist.

there is, but it's not as egregious as his others. it's more like, "oh ok, that's what's up, yeah."

well... ok i'm underplaying it a little bit. but it sure as hell isn't "water kills the aliens thanks to god!" level