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

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.

Don't Breathe was less terrible and had fewer plot holes than most other modern horror films I've seen but it was still pretty un-scary and un-interesting.

Like the nicest thing I can say about it is that it wasn't abysmal?

I didn't really get the hype either. it had decent atmosphere but as I said upthread, once it went from semi-grounded home invasion horror to SUPERBLIND HULK it lost me fairly quickly.

the dialogue about God towards the end reminded me of one of teh Joker speeches in TDK

I've heard there's a horror film that's a big success recently, is it Don't Breathe?

I think so, yeah. Also **SPOILER ALERT*** how bizarre that this blind dude (who one would assume would have keen hearing) would a) sleep through a break-in b) not notice someone like walking in the same fucking hallway he's walking through but then c) like hear someone across the damn house by the end of the film

I kept waiting for it to get so twisted or so scary and it didn't

They definitely seemed to handicap the burglars a bit too much to bring the thrills which kind of robbed it of intensity.

Moments where characters unnecessarily stay stationary or do very unbelievable things
I mean lol "horror" but it felt like one of those "zombies are slow, just outrun them" films

it was a solid B-movie imo. problem for was that they gave away over half the scares/twists in the damn trailer

I love that the wannabe gangsta guy went by "Money"

Just rewatched "Triangle" again. Not really horror, I suppose, but what a really effective thinky thriller. Lots of horror movies about parents and the unique stresses of special needs kids these days. "Triangle," "Babadook," "Finding Dory" ...

It's definitely a good fear to mine

Yeah, I liked Triangle. Would quite like to watch it again soon, which is unusual for me b/c I tend to have a low tolerance for rewatches. Though actually I guess horror does tend to be the exception to that rule so maybe not that unusual... Hm.

Shallows spoilers (not much to spoil, but ...)

I thought "The Shallows" started out fine. Not scary but serious enough to make up for its silliness. Then it's like at the end they realized they needed to end it, and happened to have some extra money lying around, and figured, fuck it, we'll light a just shy of good enough CGI shark on fire then have it vindictively race our protagonist to the bottom of the sea where it impales itself.

I loved Triangle and Coherence and Primer. What other films are like those?

Timecrimes.

Recently watched Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning and talked about it in the "last movies you saw" thread. It's definitely more of a horror movie than an action movie, and extremely gory and violent. It borrows a lot from Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now, and even more from David Lynch (Lost Highway) and Gaspar Noé. Very bleak and disturbing, and repeatedly wrong-foots the viewer; highly recommended.

Timecrimes is p good, way better than Primer that's for sure

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Wait I thought you guys have been talking about a more recent Triangle itt lately but are you talking about the one from several years back by the Black Death director?

No, the Aussie co-production one with Thor's brother.