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

I did, too. It just (imo) fumbles the ball in a similar way.

Like, I get that you really dig the end of Rosemary's Baby, guys, but that type of ending has limited efficacy.

february is a remarkable first feature for oz perkins - eager to see the upcoming i am the pretty thing that lives in the house. altough nothing quite matches the invitation imho, it's been a very decent year for these sort of slow build/paranoid/tense creepers, with stuff like the whitch, observance and even the polanski rehash of darling all worthy of mention.

or the yuppie horror stylings of the ones below - pacific heights meets hand that rocks the cradle? - aiming for that grey area. the gift was better on that front tho. and a part of me expected knock knock to go down that path.

Just saw ALL HALLOWS' EVE and liked it. Really reminded me of CREEPSHOW in tone, how it could be ridiculous and scary all at once. Appreciated its abandonment of logic in favor of terror.

Googling a quick description, scans like Rob Zombie doing "V/H/S." Yuck.

Well, that sounds yuck to me too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU0oW2UtiOs
Rob Zombie gone a bit weird.

i think my fav modern horror movie right now is the conversation, which i saw last week. it just leveled me

i'd also like to rep for they're watching which is the silliest found footage horror i've ever seen, last twenty minutes are sooooooooooooo awesome, but ymmv re: found footage directed and written by former spongebob writers

i think my fav modern horror movie right now is the conversation, which i saw last week. it just leveled me

uh... i meant the invitation, i am very tired

to be fair the scenes in the adjoining hotel rooms are pretty horror

lol agreed

Loved the Invitation. v tense

excited everybody is repping the invitation since iirc it is on NF streaming and I've had little luck finding more horror to watch in their portfolio

Also really liked THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE but I'm guessing this was discussed upthread somewhere.

i wish someone would do a killer-dog horror about Marmaduke and title it HE THINKS HE'S PEOPLE

haha!

so I saw The Greasy Strangler the other day, which was touted as this John Waters-ish gross-out horror comedy.

it was really more like John Waters by way of Napoleon Dynamite, and the 'horror' was not even remotely presented as 'horror', and I was p bored with 20 minutes left to go, despite most of it being hilarious.

there were only so many non-sequiturs I could stomach.

Anyone know anything about "Train to Busan?" Korean zombie thriller? Have we talked about it? Been hearing good things.

had a limited run at my local theatre but happened during Hurricane Week so I missed it :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyWuHv2-Abk

Heard someone say it was fun but too melodramatic.

need more zombie flicks like Return of the Living Dead these days, not these dire things

"Send ... less ... dire things."

So many zombie movies. I don't investigate any of them and just trust that one of you guys will tell me if there are standouts

The Wailing is really good - not really a zombie movie - it reminds me more of Salem's Lot tbh.

Greasy Strangler was really impressive to me in being super funny and super disgusting in equal measure, but yeah, it's can only barely be counted as horror.

I haven't been able to get "hooty tooty Disco cutie" out of my head for days.

I am not normally a horror person but I think this looks like it will be amazing:

https://youtu.be/sRfnevzM9kQ

yeah it looks great

OK, I'll give it more time if someone will vouch for it, but I started "Train to Busan" and it sucks like "World War Z." Equal parts boring and stupid, and badly acted.

Never been interested in seeing anything by Gore Verbinski but A Cure For Wellness looks like it could be genuinely distinctive. Looks like slightly eerie science fiction or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mcVodJmBlU

Whoa. The Ouija prequel was actually really good. Was not even remotely like the over the top, boilerplate trailer.

trailer makes it look like your typical jump-scare possession tale that is overly reliant on computer effects and jarring visuals, but this is more of an atmospheric horror flick with self-contained dramatic moments. not overstuffed with high-decibel setpieces like the Conjuring flicks (of which I really only liked the 2nd one).

thinking ILX might eyeroll a little at the aesthetic choices, ie the retro feel which felt somewhat like an Outer Limits episode, w/ the use of the fades to black after each scene, and the old-fashioned score. and that's fair. but the trailer looked like the worst crap imaginable and I only went to see it cos I liked Mike Flanagan's "Hush" and this got early favorable press and it turned out to be an enjoyable night out so....hey, I'll take it.

I forgot Flanagan did this. I think he's great. I guess no surprise that a thoughtful horror filmmaker should do better than expected with a boilerplate sequel.

yeah. his wife has a cameo too in the first ten minutes. I liked her in "Hush"

The VVitch Playmobil playset

Been reading or hearing a lot of pieces about feminist horror films the last couple of days, but so far none of them have mentioned "Ginger Snaps." And some of them (like the NPR one) were just poorly researched.

A poorly researched NPR piece? You don't say!

My interest in the Slumber Party Massacre series has recently been piqued by my realization that they were all directed by women. Don't know how that translates until I've seen them but I'll report back.

Not just that, the first one was written by Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle! I've only seen about 1/4-1/3 of it thanks to the decision to start watching it pretty much *immediately* before it was removed from Netflix a few years ago, but it certainly holds up to its reputation (namely, that it was written as a parody and filmed by a gun-for-hire director as totally straightforward genre trash).

Watched season 1 of Ash Vs Evil Dead yesterday. I always knew I probably wouldn't get the sequel I wanted but as soon as I saw the trailer for this I knew it wasn't going to be anything like the Evil Dead that I loved. They kept the humour, fun and gore but taken away the atmosphere and cool desgins, then added hard rock (a bad choice I think).
It feels too fannish in places (repeats of things they did in the films), lots of weak special effects (cgi blood and a burned skeleton in particular) and Ash's schtick gets overplayed. The kickass fun they were going for just isn't fun or funny enough to be a success but later on in the series it actually gets quite entertaining and even though I wouldn't recommend it, I might watch the second series.

I am the pretty thing that lives under the stairs did not add up to much of anything for me

Whatever the title is. The Netflix original with bob balaban in it.

I just rewatched the Evil Dead trilogy and want to check out the show now. Is it worse than Army of Darkness? I see that as a much lesser film than the first two but still pretty entertaining.

I'm very fond of Army Of Darkness, the tv series is definitely worse but just good enough for me to be interested in the second series.

THE FALLING (directed by Carol Morley)

Stars Maisie Williams and Maxine Peake. A girl school in the late 60s where girls mysteriously keep fainting. It's got kind of a soft indie-ish soundtrack, autumnal atmosphere, it's quite pretty. I'd give it a non-urgent recommendation.

Disc version includes a short film of Maxine Peake giving a short history of mass hysteria.

Ok, this is another one of those "is it really horror?" cases, but I say there's just enough in Park Chan-Wook's fucked up hot lesbian thriller The Handmaiden to barely qualify. Definitely recommended for fans of psychological twists, beautiful period production and great sex scenes.

Watched Spring the other night. Too much cgi (tired of saying it but I won't stop) and the nature of the woman isn't completely convincing. But I enjoyed it overall, it's quite refreshing in some ways, the setting is quite nice.

the invitation, february, the witch, scherzo diabolico, they look like people, under the shadow, observance...

^^ 2016, year of the creeper/slow burner?

(some of these might be 2015 oficially tho)

also the year mike flanagan def assumes his position as the 'go to guy' when it comes to pg 13 horror