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

"I have these to watch soon: Dark Places, Contracted Phase II, Hidden and Time Lapse. Any thought on these without giving away spoilers?"

Curious about Dark Places, based on a decent enough novel by the Gone Girl lady. Surprised that it didn't get a bigger release esp. with this cast hmmn maybe not a good sign actually... Wow critics hated it.

Original Contracted has a really unpleasant premise also descriptions of some of gross out bits--"maggots falling from vagina"--from first film are really (o_O)--not sure if that's too spoilery. Can't imagine sequel is worth watching here.

Time Lapse is decent Twilight Zone-ish fare. Not really much horror at all.

Just finished it. I've found his previous movies literally unwatchable (tried to revisit Rejects the other day and lasted about 20 minutes, which is about as far as I got into Halloween 2), but this one is great. 75% of it is stolen from Kubrick or Ken Russell, but it's really meditative and beautiful, and the trio of elderly present-day witches are hilarious. I also liked the relative lack of explicit gore and jump scares.

― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, October 16, 2015 10:18 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Huh guess I need to watch this now. I have never seen corpses but I think Rejects is fun and I love the ending. I watched his Halloween last weekend and it . . . wasn't good but I don't know why he would have wanted to touch that anyway.

I just watched Zombie's Halloween last night. Agreed that it was neither great nor entirely necessary, but I thought the first half (minus all of the WE ARE POOR WHITE TRASH DO YOU SEE HOW OTT TRASHY WE ARE garbage) fleshed out Michael Myers nicely. Gonna watch the sequel tonight and see what the limited hype is all about.

Since the horror polls never progressed this far, I'm curious if anyone has a top ten list of recommendations for the years that fall within the remit of this thread. I realized recently that the past decade is the most poorly-represented (aside from maybe the '40s) in my horror movie collection. There have been a lot of good recommendations in this thread but I wonder what stuff has really stuck with y'all.

1. A Field In England

2. It Follows

3. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

Technically all three are 2014 though.

Nevermind saw that you asked for past decade.

Martyrs
Kill List

The Strangers (Scott Speedman, Liv Tyler, 2008)

Cabin In The Woods is just about the only unqualified recommendation I can think of (off the top of my head) from the past ten years.

Trying to remember if the Lucky McKee movies I've loved are all more than 10 years old. Oy the string of disappointments.

Inside
Halloween II
Bug
Joshua
Antichrist

i suppose the overrated Babadook is still good enough to make the cut here
and both Swedish and American versions of Let the Right One In

I just watched the Babadook and thought it was fucking ace. Though sadly I can't join in any previous conversation about it here as when I try to load all answers the thread seizes up. Maybe time to start a newer new film thread? Or just time for me to get a new computer?

Trying to remember if the Lucky McKee movies I've loved are all more than 10 years old. Oy the string of disappointments.

― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, October 20, 2015 3:31 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

May is great, The Woman is cool, Red got taken away from him, the rest have been short films, right?

May and Red both make my cut if they're recent enough to fit the criterion. The Woman sucked. Another one he didn't direct by had a hand in, The Lost, would also make my list.

and both Swedish and American versions of Let the Right One In

Otm

i am hard pressed to think of any other foreign genre movie remake that was as well served by its US version

Tops from recent years:
Borgman
Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh
Trash Humpers (yeah I know it's just me)

Lords of Salem is 75% amazing. I have my doubts Zombie can ever close the deal on the last 25% though.

tons of great horror in the past decade imo, most already mentioned - Under the Skin, It Follows, Babadook, Kill List, A Field in England, Cabin in the Woods, Let the Right One In (original),

May was v good. Can't wholeheartedly get behind the Strangers because the ending is botched so badly. Oculus probably deserves a mention.

Oh, yeah! Under the Skin and A Field in England -- both tremendous.

I gotta find my horror ballot and then I can answer this question probably. Despite some definite split opinions just upthread, I think "Deadgirl" is amazing.

Flanders

"i am hard pressed to think of any other foreign genre movie remake that was as well served by its US version"

We Are What We Are supposed to be good no?

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The Bruno Dumont movie? I think it's possible to see all of his movies as horror movies, but Hors Satan is the one, if so.

Woops I meant Dogtooth not Flanders (I saw them at same time and for some reason get the titles confused).

Yeah, if Under the Skin counts then The Lobster would also quality (also: Hard to be a God)

Hated Oculus. Super hated it. The only thing I've loved by those people is Insidious. And that for basically being an unabashed pastiche.

I think I'd like to throw in the paranormal activity installment with the witch cult which number was that?

Also

Fucking troll hunter yo

I've seen quite a few surprisingly good found footage joints mostly thanks to the explorations of jjj but I'm having trouble remembering all of them now

Oh yeah (not found footage): The Woods

Ohhhhhhhhh Home Movie was a good recent-ish found footage horror film.

a subgenre I will never support

Home Movie might be my favorite found-footage flick.

And yeah, the witch-cult Paranormal Activity was really good.

There are a handful of good found footage horror movies, but I agree that I don't support it as a genre because most people have no idea of what to do with it. It's a facile go-to because it's cheap and quick. The conceit probably needs to go away altogether for a decade or so until someone has an idea that employs it effectively.

given how much I hated the Blair Witch Project I'm very disinclined to investigate its progeny

I liked Resolution quite a bit.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1977895/

Home Movie is probably objectively better than Blair Witch (the latter of which was really only effective for me when I first saw it at a preview screening and had no idea what it was).

I've heard of Resolution and want to check it out. Absentia, too. There's a good review of that one here.

Absentia was very good but not quite top 10 for me. Likewise yellowbrickroad. Both well worth watching and I'll probably rewatch both.

I've never seen Home Movie!

Looked super promising but sorely disappointed me: mama, thale, the woman, the reeds, that movie about the guy in the wilderness who mails haunted packages to ppl.

Yeah, I saw yellowbrickroad. It was OK.

What's the movie that had the horrifying scene with a girl and a deer corpse? That was hard to watch.

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i am hard pressed to think of any other foreign genre movie remake that was as well served by its US version

yeah, i would agree on the ring

Trying to choose a horror movie to watch on Netflix tonight. Has anyone seen The Canal, Creep or Starry Eyes?

Could swear there was a poll thread for this but this is what I would recommend within the thread's time.

A Field In England
Amer
Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears
Borderlands (very good found footage)
Haze (Tsukamoto)
Drag Me To Hell
Pan's Labyrinth
Martyrs
Thirst
Stoker
Black Swan
Berberian Sound Studio
Inland Empire
Beyond The Black Rainbow (for a few great bits but it takes patience)
Under The Skin
Babadook (after the hype has faded I guess it's just good enough to list here)

Berberian Sound Studio

yes def, this one didn't get enough love imo

Slither too, that's 2006. so great

berberian is great but the horror elements are virtually nil