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

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.)

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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:

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And dinosaur movies:

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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

Yeah the twist was more a reveal that for me made the whole plot more terrifying.

it's good. it's just that the whole movie you're thinking, well, something is wrong, and then you get to that point and it's like, oh a twist that makes sense, solid.

For an opposing view, I thought The Visit was absolutely dire - tho' the nadir isn't reached until right at the end, when the obnoxious grandson (who uses the names of pop stars as swear words) raps about having a shit-smeared diaper rubbed in his face(an effective metaphor for this mess.) The whole film is contrived in such a way as to make the twist 'work', but even so, as soon as you start picking away at it, the plot pretty much falls apart. The 'found footage' schtick is pretty tired by now, but it's so flagrantly abused here as to make it an especially redunant filmmaking choice.

a shit-smeared diaper rubbed in his face(an effective metaphor for this mess.)

An improvement on Lady in the Water then.

Finally watched Sinister last week, and while it has some good scares, some intermittently interesting ideas and a great hook in the Super 8 movies, I got really ticked off that nobody's behavior in the movie made a single lick of sense, and it left far too much for the audience to assume without at least alluding to it. (Did he really have to move his entire family to write this book, rather than, say, stay in a hotel or B&B, visit the crime scene and conduct interviews? Did his publisher not give him an advance? I guess it's implied that they couldn't afford their old house, but he makes a promise to the daughter that they'll move back if things don't work out. I guess he's just a bad father.)

The nonsense with the older son, too. Use a previously-unmentioned psychological condition for a couple of cheap scares, and when you're done, drop the kid off the map entirely until you need his unconscious body in the closing scenes. If the screenwriter and director don't care how many kids the family has, you shouldn't, either!

The 8mm movies were really good, though. And the soundtrack.

the leadup was so good but then it got hella dumb towards the end

love love the 8mm stuff, and making a 70's ranch home creepy was p impressive

the scary figure in those 8mm movies was legit scary

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

No. A million times no.

CRIMSON PEAK

You may have heard Del Toro talking about how he does more commercial films to fund his personal projects (apparently the 3 Spanish language ones) and how he absolutely despises making compromises on films he's directing. Pan's Labyrinth was nearly a decade ago, so I thought this might be one of his passion projects. After seeing it I'd be shocked if it was because it feels very compromised.

The plot could have been serviceable but there's so many clichés layed on and things that stand out as quite silly (the father insisting his daughter have her heart broken, the spoon scraping really loudly against the plates in an attempt to increase tension).

Normally Del Toro's films use cgi far better than most but here you'd think they had a large quota to meet because it's used so many times unnecessarily. I constantly have this complaint but here I'm really surprised by the sheer amount of bad judgements. Most of the ghost appearances are far more cgi than they are actors/makeup/wax/plastic creations and it ends up looking too videogamey.
I'm less sure about the dog because I was struggling to guess when it was real but it often seemed like it was moving too fast and seemed fake when it barked and yawned. They must have wanted the scenes timed precisely with the dog's actions but it wasn't worth it looking that unnatural (again, I'm not totally sure but it often looked false to me).

It also seemed like it was partially tailored to Tom Hiddleston fans.

What I actually liked was predictable: the set designs, the costumes, scenery, great colors and Mia Wasikowska looking great. The English mansion looked particularly good and the details about the winds was one of the few nice evocative things in the story. Not so different from what I take from gothic Hammer and Corman films.

I hope Del Toro makes plenty of self-indulgent films soon and leaves At The Mountains Of Madness well alone(the script looks bad, the budget will probably ensure crappy elements and Lovecraft is doing just fine), Frankenstein too.

At the cinema there was a bunch of bad trailers with varying amounts of horror and the overall effect was very bleak.

Oh! and the serious injuries didn't do remotely realistic damage.

But is the movie any fun? That's the saving grace of so much Hammer etc., just reveling in its cut corners and fake mist and stuff.

I heard this movie only cost like $50 mil or something, which implies almost everything but the actors might be fake. Man, what it up with Del Toro? It seems like he keeps talking up all these cool passion projects, then in between makes compromised/half-assed expensive movies no one really want, like Pacific Rim (and I liked Pacific Rim). Meanwhile time passes on, and "Pan's," "Hellboy" et al. were so long ago... Maybe we can blame Jackson for breaking him.