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

I finally got around to seeing "Triangle," which I knew I'd like, which is sort of why I took my time getting around to it. For some reason it had totally slipped my mind that it was the same guy that did "Severance" and "Black Death." I really liked "Severance." This one reminded me a lot of "Timecrimes," but obviously "Triangle" only makes sense sort of on its own terms. One thing I thought was really strange, though: literally the entire cast is Australian acting with American accents, and I think it was filmed in Queensland, but there's absolutely no reason for them to be American, since 90% of the movie takes place on a boat and the rest in an anonymous seaside community. So ... yeah, that's weird.

Frailty is great. Has Paxton directed anything since?

He only ever did Frailty, this, and the "Fish Heads" video. Weirdest director CV ever.

I watched the Green Inferno last night, I should've know better that he would do nothing surprising with the source material. I'm finished wasting time with Eli Roth.

"Goodnight Mommy" is Austrian and, although well made, gives the entire plot away in its German title (won't spoil it -- if I didn't know what the title meant, I'd have enjoyed the film more). This is a total Austrian art film/ theater school move which annoys the hell out of me.

xp he's a super boring director.

xp i don't see how the original title was a spoiler, am i stupid?

Yeah, those Austrian folks clearly come from the Haneke school of cheerful pick me ups.

Ich seh, ich seh was Du nicht siehst.

Austrian title of the Sixth Sense is Memoirs of a Dead Child Psychologist.

Kristy / Random is a fairly solid entry in the bunch-of-people-terrorise-another-bunch-of-people-for-no-obvious-reason canon.

It's a Weinstein film made in 2012 that nobody ever felt the need to release, but it has just surfaced on Netflix.

Thought I burned my bridges by making my wife watch "The Descent," which was so intense it unnerved her (fair enough), but I think "It Follows" won her back!

I was into The Descent when it was about being lost and trapped underground, glimpses of weird things lurking nearby, not knowing whether you're hallucinating. When the threat was made clear and it became about fighting morlocks, it was kinda over for me.

Just finished watching It Follows. A solid premise, with a few good moments. The rental was only 99 cents on Amazon, which seems about right.

It wasn't even remotely scary, but I think I liked "Unfriended," not as a horror movie but as a sort of PSA about how impulsive, self-centered, stupid kids and social media are a bad mix. The window novelty worked pretty well on TV - don't think I would have liked it in theaters - and something about the way the asshole kids were depicted seemed really accurate to me, both in the perennial sense (bullies be bullying, peers be pressuring; even the ghost was a dick) but also the way a lot of people (in my experience) live through social media. Anyway, not especially good but not bad.

I saw Unfriended in theaters and quite liked it. I was even more impressed with it after learning that it was mostly made of of rehearsed near-feature-length single takes.

*up of

Last Shift, which is just up on Netflix, is quite good. It's by the guy who did Cassadaga, which I don't remember being much cop, but very well executed.

Recently got around to watching "Calvaire." I'm not even sure it counts as horror, it's so surreal and fitfully (darkly) comic. It's more like some strange parody of torture porn/backwoods redneck horror, paced like molasses, shot neo-verite, devoid of scares/suspense, yet not because it's inept, just because. Not even sure what to make of it, to be honest. Probably more akin to Harmony Korine, maybe?

It's pretty bizarre and nasty. Not sure how people would react if it was better known.

i loved it, i'll never forget the pub scene

Pub scene reminded me of the asylum dance party set to the Pet Shop Boys in "Bronson."

I should say, by the way, that the reason I checked it out was first and foremost a few recommendations on the thread, but also some conspicuously positive reviews from mainstream critics.

The Guest is so much fun. I had no idea why anything was happening but it didn't seem to matter. Really excellent soundtrack too.

I thought it got a little silly when it went all b-movie action tropes, but I still liked it a lot.

Finally got round to watching 'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night' and was hm, maybe slightly underwhelmed by this Tarr-lite vampire-in-breton-stripes movie.
Some quite striking and memorable moments (the bit where she threatens the little boy was chilling), but it could have done with a bit more something or other...
Some very long hymnic-jerk inducing shots. Lots of incongruous arty bits where people just stand around ignoring each other. Great use of epileptic black-and-white.
An oddity, but not quite the masterpiece its creator and many reviewers have made it out to be.

ups from a few weeks back. I adored Calvaire and yeah that pub scene. I wish I could find a clean copy of the music they used in that.

So yeah, "It Follows" is clearly the best horror film of 2015.

Yep. I was geared up for disappointment after all the hype but it's really great.

Universal are planning to use their classic monsters but taking them out of horror and putting them in connected modern action adventure films to compete with Marvel.

Universal can suck my hemorrhoids.

lol, marvel already did that in the 70's.

They were partially redeemed by Gene Colan and Mike Ploog.

wasn't that frankenstein movie with aaron eckhart from last year that no one liked supposed to be part of it?
https://www.lionsgate.com/uploads/cache/ef/8b/ef8beb63d3c9713c311259d2737c2db3.jpg

that's him as frankenstein's monster btw

you can tell because he has scars on his face and is wearing denim.

I'm not sure. But I don't think it's part of this latest attempt. Tom Cruise is supposed to be in one of them.

a+ costume work

Saw the Joel Edgerton The Gift last night maybe not really horror, but good suspense and super creepy ending.

Finally got round to watching 'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night' and was hm, maybe slightly underwhelmed by this Tarr-lite vampire-in-breton-stripes movie.

we watched this a few weeks ago and yeah I thought it was okay but not great. Honestly felt like a rip of Jarmusch's vampire movie to me, just in tone and spirit. Also idg why it was in Persian. It was financed and produced in America and shot in California and set in an unnamed, anonymous place (that bears no resemblance to modern-day Iran afaict). There was a bunch of good stuff in it but it felt a little slight.

I had no such qualms about It Follows, which is def horror film of the year

It was much better the second time around for me.

Saw The Gift from last year with Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall. Quite solid, great acting by all the leads. Recommended!

Ahhhhh, I know I'm late to the party but It Follows is *great*. Taking the "you have sex, you get killed" trope of horror to its logical extreme. Obviously I don't think it was actually moralising about sex in any way, just a great idea born out of the trope itself.

Totally, it is like an organism rather than a thesis

I can't wait to watch it again

Yeah, it was much better for me the second time.

Wow, reviews of the new Rob Zombie have been haaaaaaaarsh.

Based on the Zombie films I've seen, I think he might need a co-director. Or at least someone to tell him when he's making poor decisions. Because he's mostly good until he suddenly isn't. And it seems like he suddenly isn't at least once per film. The transition is jarring.

The ending of Lords Of Salem was so bad that, if it wasn't clearly Zombie's style, I'd have thought the studio shoehorned it in against his wishes.

Yeah, but at least it looked OK and had some vision to it. From what I've read about the new one, it basically sounds like lazy House of 1000 Corpses territory again.

Is the 2015 Poltergeist remake worth watching now it's on UK Netflix?

Question: what is the best it could possibly be?

Never heard a good word about it. Watch Son Of The White Mare on youtube instead, not horror but it does have monsters, it's gorgeous and highly imaginative.