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

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

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

― Darin, Tuesday, October 20, 2015 7:45 PM (12 minutes ago)

You mean the new Creep or the subway one? I'm assuming new, which I haven't seen. Subway one is so-so (and I think possibly too old for the remit of this thread? Early '00s iirc).

New creep is worth seeing. More than good less than great.

The imaginary horror film being made inside Berberian Sound Studio is plenty spooky. It gave me a bigger dosage than most horror films so I think it has a substantial claim.

Teeth is a pretty good laugh.

yeah Teeth was p good

Any love for Henenlotter's Bad Biology 'round these parts? I've been curious.

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.

In addition to others already mentioned, I'd nominate The Mist, The Descent, Inside, The House of the Devil and Black Death.

Black Death hell yeah

Bad Biology: my wife did the evil baby vocalizations in that movie

It is honestly too gross for me tho

The Mist is pretty great, The Descent and House Of The Devil were about 3/4 great.

One of my favorites from the past ten years is the divisive, "hey, that's not horror!" Martha Marcy May Marlene. It's made it into my semi-regular rotation of Halloween-time go-tos.

xpost That's rad! It does sound pretty gross, though, yeah.

MMMM is a fun one, yeah. I'm always up for creepy cult stuff. And I loved The Mist when I saw it in theaters, especially the ending, which was perfect and hilarious.