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

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.

http://www.fright.com/edge/2015YearInHorror.htm

It's sad how much I look forward to this site's January roundup of the previous year. Always unpredictable.

THE WITCH was really good, worth seeing in a theater imo
Black Philip for president

yeah my gf and i both both liked it.

really wanna seeit

So Unfriended is full on garbage just fyi

not even entertaining garbage huh

not even close

paid money to see that shit at the the8er >:[

oh look, it's my favorite thread!

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

This was quite entertaining fwiw, but i'm not a devotee of the original.

The Witch is good. I saw it a couple weeks ago. Takes patience, is generally more creepy than outright scary, but pays off in a big way.

Black Philip says, "live deliciously!"

i thought Unfriended was entertaining
i mean it wasn't good and i don't remember anything about it but i also didn't hate it enough for it to leave a bruise

I liked Unfriended, thought it was pretty cleverly arranged. I mean, it has no ending, but join the horror club, you know?

I didn't like Unfriended, but didn't hate it either. At least it's short.

Great trailer, no idea how this can be a movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GJClahr_u0

What's unusual about it? I didn't really get much sense of what might happen.

Looks like 'The Raft' from Creepshow 2. But with a shark instead of a blob and hopefully done well.

That Creepshow bit was just a few minutes long. If anything, this is a bit like the premise of The Reef, which takes forever to get there. But stranded wounded swimmer stuck on a rock with a giant shark between her and the shore? I am honestly not sure what to do with that. For more than 20 minutes. I guess that is part of what makes it a great trailer. How in the world can she possibly survive?

Maybe it's one of those "takes place in real time" movies.

So The Shallows is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, which immediately increases my interest in it about 1000%, since I now expect Lively to be saved by Liam Neeson showing up and punching the shark to death (Collet-Serra directed Neeson in Unknown, Non-Stop and Run All Night, all three of which I liked).

Yeah, I have no idea. Not sure how compelling this can be, unless the water is rising or something. I'm intrigued, anyway. Especially if Neeson fights a shark.

Since I've been away a while...

Post-2010 Horror(ish) Favorites:

Attack the Block (2011) -  9/10 
The Awakening (2011) -  8/10 
The Babadook (2014) -  8/10 
Berberian Sound Studio (2012) -  9/10 
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) -  8/10 
Black Swan (2010) -  9/10 
Borgman (2013) -  8/10 
Byzantium (2012) -  8/10 
The Cabin in the Woods (2012) -  9/10 
Crimson Peak (2015) -  8/10 

Dark Touch (2013) -  8/10 
Deathgasm (2015) -  8/10 
Dream Home (2010) -  8/10 
Enemy (2013) -  8/10 
Excision (2012) -  9/10 
Father's Day (2011) -  8/10 
A Field in England (2013) -  10/10
Found (2012) -  8/10 
Frankenstein's Army (2013) -  9/10 
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) -  9/10 

Greatful Dead (2013) -  8/10 
Guilty of Romance (2011) -  9/10 
Here Comes the Devil (2012) -  9/10 
Housebound (2014) -  8/10 
It Follows (2014) -  8/10 
Krampus (2015) -  8/10 
Livid (2011) -  9/10 
Lost River (2014) -  8/10 
Machete (2010) -  8/10 
Miss Zombie (2013) -  8/10 

Piranha 3D (2010) -  8/10 
Rigor Mortis (2013) -  9/10 
Rubber (2010) -  8/10 
Shutter Island (2010) -  8/10 
Sinister (2012) -  8/10 
The Skin I Live In (2011) -  9/10 
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (2013) -  10/10 
The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) -  8/10 
Tale of Tales (2015) -  8/10 
Trollhunter (2010) -  8/10 

The Voices (2014) -  8/10 
We Are What We Are (2013) -  8/10 
What We Do in the Shadows (2014) -  9/10 
The Witch (2015) -  9/10 

I really loved Amer but couldn't get as absorbed in the Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears. It felt somehow more sexploitative than "sensual" (a term which got bandied about a lot w/ both films), possibly because it is from a male perspective (male gaze male gaze male gaze) rather than a female one? And yes, I realise that as a fan of giallo I should expect exploitation tropes in a homage, but it seems different when being made today rather than ~in the past~. I also know that one half of the writing/directing team is female, but honestly that doesn't really make all that much of a difference (it definitely makes some, though). Both films are visually stunning and worth watching, but I would be much more cautious in my recommendation of tSCoYBT.

I've heard Cattet talk quite a bit about addressing sexism in giallo and trying to subvert it a bit. It's been a while but I don't remember a huge amount of sexy stuff in Strange Color. I mainly remember my dad shouting in horror at the guy getting torn apart from inside and out.

Contenderizer- your ratings seem a tad generous.

I suppose the are. They're a measure of my affection more than an attempt to assess quality. Probably 5 or 10 of the 8s ought to go down to 7 though.

xp

Yeah, Amer's implicitly female subjectivity helped give its fetishized deconstruction of sexy giallo tropes a fresh, subversive spin. TSCoYBT's masculine POV does change things, especially where eroticism is concerned. Cattet & Forzani seem to employ familiar representations of the elusive, mysterious and sexually alluring/threatening woman in a relatively straightforward manner. I agree with you there.

I love TSC because I got lost in it. It's a fantastically complex tapestry of tiny, polished details. I watched it over and over for days, taking endless shot-by-shot notes in an attempt to unravel its structure. The more time I spent, the more densely interwoven it all came to seem (of course). Its fetishistic obsessions make an ideal vessel for obsessive fascination.

Yeah, I just thought it was kind of boring. Don't know if I made it all the way through, so maybe it is worth another try.

watched 'goodnight mommy' tonight. good gravy, what a film! not for the squeamish but good if you thought the Babadook was a bit silly

made me cross

well, my partner worked out the first 'twist' fairly early on although the other half-way twist was more unexpected. I really liked it.