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

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.

I loved Day of Reckoning for pretty much the same reasons. There's also a decent chunk of Cronenberg in there- not in the usual obvious body-horror way but in the way everyday reality feels just horribly *wrong*, like everything from eXistenZ onward

Forgot to finish that thought: ...which is why I'm so excited about John Hyams' upcoming Maniac Cop remake. It's produced by Nicolas Winding Refn (I enjoy his films, but I cannot defend them), but it also has the blessing of Bill Lustig and Hyams seems like a much smarter director in a lot of ways than Refn- I get the impression that his days making documentaries and DTV work have served him well there

I was curious what he'd do next. I've never seen the original Maniac Cop but will definitely check out a Hyams version.

The only Refn movie I like is Valhalla Rising.

Damn, how u guys get me interested in Universal Soldier sequels in 2016

I can safely not recommend Blair Witch. It had some moments/elements but ultimately did not capture much of what I liked about the first one. Some of the imagery was enjoyable but not nearly enough to save it.

I just can't get over the weirdness of taking an about to be released movie that's unconnected to Blair witch and retitling it Blair witch at the last moment

Well, it turned out it was Blair Witch all along, they just kept it secret for about two years and ultimately decided to just keep going with the secret until Comic Con.

And in those years they could have made at least three movies better than this one :(

I joked afterward that it should've been called Peter! Ashley! Lisa! James! (Heather) and it might have been slightly more interesting, like a throwaway catchy song with a goof title rather than something that required the highest possible security clearance.

will no one stay awake with me?
Peter...
Lisa...
James...

will none of you wait with me?
Peter...
Lisa....
James

These are friends of mine, these are friends of mine
And they've got something that's so hard to find
James and petey
Lisa and Ashley

Thought there were glimmers of good ideas in the movie, but didn't push them far enough at all. Ultimately just OK. Disappointed in Wingard, considering how much I enjoyed his last two films.

Lane and Talia too

all these friends are in the woods
and they've got nothin' to do

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bummed to hear that about Blair Witch but I just realized I haven't seen the OG Blair Witch since I saw it in the theatre in 1999 so at least this film is inspiring me to do that congrats nu-Blair Witch.

Saw some indication that shifting perception of time or some such thing is a major component, but that was one of the coolest things about "Grave Encounters," which of course is directly derivative of Blair Witch, because of course it is because these things are all related.

Wonder if Wingard et al. were approached to make this as a sequel, or if it was their idea.

i had fun at blair witch, and you can detect wingard/barrett pushing at the edges of the idea throughout, but i get why people are disappointing. my expectations were really relaxed after the dive it took on rotten tomatoes the day before i saw it lol

last 20 minutes are terrifying though