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

i remember when the american trailer called John Woo's "The Killer" a "thriller/comedy that will leave you breathless!"

*its american trailer

I feel like everyone agreed that You're Next was a horror movie, so is the line whether people are wearing masks then?

i don't think you're next is a horror movie, but i was more willing to indulge the consensus in that case. perhaps because it acts a bit more like a horror movie? in terms of music, suspense & scare setups, etc. also yeah, the mysterious masked "them" out there trying to get into our house and kills us.

See, I barely thought of "You're Next" as horror (and certainly not "The Guest," which I've seen even more inexplicably categorized as horror). "You're Next" is sort of a clever twist on horror that takes horror tropes and turns them around.

Horror is just a marketing term, everybody on the scene calls them "blood pictures"

Or 'blood sausages' in the UK

"The Guest," which I've seen even more inexplicably categorized as horror

SPOILER WARNING

for most of its running time, the guest is nearly as far from horror as green room, but the third act turns into an extended love letter to carpenter's halloween. this is set up early with the holiday setting, but kept on the back burner for most of the film's running time. the climax, with the chase through the haunted house, however, is clearly supposed to push 80s horror nostalgia buttons. and the villain clearly turns into something like "the boogeyman" in the film's final moments.

Yeah, but this came after a long turn into the Terminator.

speaking of, apparently the woods is now called....blair witch??????!??????

WTF? Why would they do that? I've even seen posters in theaters for the The Woods. So people looking forward to The Woods will ... never see it? Because it will be released as a Blair Witch reboot? Anyway, nice stunt, I guess, and I'm sure the film will be scary, but given that just about every found footage movie is to some degree a Blair Witch sequel, I don't see the point. Like Avatar, it's a movie I've never heard anyone truly want more of.

Yeah, that's crazy.

Moving on, I saw Deathgasm. Was OK, just OK, as a vehicle for bad taste gross-out FX, but there are one or two good gags (in every sense).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girSv9UH_V8

ugh

idk as much as i'm shocked i'm kinda totally psyched

I am so all in on this one.

I AM SO ALL IN ON THIS ONE!!!

and i didn't even really like the blair witch project

deathgasm was not great, but cute and fun, way better than most of the recent splatter-comedy glut

but given that just about every found footage movie is to some degree a Blair Witch sequel, I don't see the point. Like Avatar, it's a movie I've never heard anyone truly want more of.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, July 23, 2016 5:36 AM (2 hours ago)

it's seriously loved by a lot of younger horror fans

Did they change it cause there's already a pretty fine The Woods by lucky mckee?

xpost I liked Blair Witch a lot and have no problem with the first movie. I just mean that nobody wanted *more* Blair Witch, in the form of a reboot/sequel.

i watched book of shadows recently and it is almost unbelievably horrible

not even really enjoyably so, though there are parts

McKee's The Woods was terrific. The best kind of moody, and with one of my favorite performances from Patricia Clarkson. It wasn't as showy as May, so it never seemed to gain much traction, even among horror fans.

I'm game for the new Blair Witch. Book Of Shadows was damn near unwatchable, so this will at least have a very, very low bar to clear.

There was once a great feature in a film magazine with quotes from film people before and after their film was out. For Book Of Shadows it was the director saying
Before: I think people will be satisfied.
After: People were not satisfied.

watched the blackcoat's daughter last night, had a good vibe, i was into it

not super happy about The Woods turning into Blair Witch redux but eh i'm in anyway

really not looking forward to another nauseating found footage FPS theatrical experience tho

I met McKee once, super nice guy who I made laugh w a very corny joke

The Woman is my fave of his

blair witch (the new one) does not actually seem like it's found footage/fps

parts of the trailer seemed like it... but yeah, it's probably not gonna be the whole thing like the original Blair Witch (or Paranormal Activity, The Visit, etc.)

Mainly, the film is shown though ear cameras (basically Bluetooth headsets with cameras on them), drone footage, and a super HD SLR.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/movie-review-blair-witch-is-the-amazing-sequel-you-nev-1784170295

You guys. "The Boy" is really, really good. I'm as baffled as you are.

saw "green room" -- it was engaging, well-made, but didn't really add up to much IMO.

although i watched it at 3 AM after having read a bunch of articles about rabid anti-immigrant groups in idaho and the combo made me really paranoid about some future dystopia where we are all on the run from neo-nazi punk rockers.

i def. think green room is only marginally a horror movie -- by noel carroll's widely-embraced theory of horror it isn't a horror film at all. but even by a less rigid definition, the reliance on horror syntax is mostly limited to the second-to-last reel.

the boy was not very good at all imo, but it was entertaining

What does that even mean?

uh that it was fun to watch even though it's super flimsy and the whole final act is real rough?

So flimsy because?

Also maybe I'm just getting jaded here, but the vibe of "I enjoyed this but it's not actually good" that keeps showing up in this thread is kind of a bummer. Not trying to single you out Brad.

Combined of course with my complete rejection of bizarre gate keeping of what gets to be horror, which is the other recent topic.

what is it not possible to have fun with something while acknowledging its limitations? I get that it's sometimes frustrating when ppl do that (I felt a similar frustration with people going out of their way to call all that jazz "not great" in its thread, but idk this movie was kinda not great! also to get into why I'd have to prob talk about the tension-destroying twist

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

assuming this January comment meant "Rob Zombie's 31", I just saw an hour of it and am convinced the guy has brain damage and isn't telling anybody.

it was on some Fathom Events thing. every gore sequence has shaky cam so you can barely see whose intestines are getting cut out, and for all of his hate of teenyboppers, this is basically Hunger Games with smelly ugly clowns and dwarf Nazis.

fortunately I got in free with a gift card.

enjoyed Lights Out a lot.

thought Conjuring 2 was way more enjoyable than the first Conjuring

didn't think Don't Breathe was as good as it should have been - once it turned into "blind guy is omniscient megawarrior" type ridiculousness at the 2/3rds point it started to lose me

http://www.vulture.com/2016/08/2016-upcoming-new-horror-movies.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=7zOoexfSyqk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rMTHBSwuI

i like it!

Don't Breathe got some of the most entertaining general-audience reactions I've ever witnessed.