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

Watched some of "The Falling" but had to cut it. The original music was so terrible and the movie felt exploitive. I'd rather watch "Picnic at Hanging Rock" to which it seems to want to be.

― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, January 3, 2017 11:44 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why did it feel exploitative to you? I loved it! I thought the themes were sensitively handled and that whole woodsy occult vibe was executed perfectly. Even the soundtrack (which I imagine as kind of a continuation of songs by their 'alternative orchestra') felt charming enough in its simplicity.

Incidentally, does anyone have any recommendations for other occult-inflected films of recent years? Besides The Falling and Ben Wheatley I haven't really seen it done that well in contemporary cinema. (I did not like The VVitch, despite high hopes)

I liked Rob Zombies Satan/witch movie

Yeah, second vote for Lords of Salem.

Hi dance band, I'm not sure I can articulate here why I felt it was exploitive. Perhaps I should finish it, it had most of the elements that I usually like..I normally love occult oriented films!

As far as occult oriented movies - Duke of Burgundy has that feel. It's very sublime.

I appreciate it's not for everyone - it definitely plays up to its coming-of-age tropes. Just looking at her list of influences she cited for The Falling - you called it with Picnic at Hanging Rock! Actually, the whole list is pretty amazing: http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/carol-morley-films-inspired-falling

xps I'll check out Lords of Salem soon, thanks.

^ That's a good list :)

Gonna check out Lords of Salem too

+1 Lords of Salem

Lords Of Salem is certainly good in comparison to the rest of Rob Zombie's films.

I got Shudder a few days ago and have just finished the French mini-series Beyond The Walls. It's wonderful.

It seems quite heavily influenced by the kind of survival horror games where you are trapped in a big house and have to try to find your way out without bumping into something horrible but it's also a rather sweet ghost/love story.

i found Picnic At Hanging Rock a bit anticlimactic. Really liked The Falling.

Lords Of Salem definitely looked better than his other films from the trailer but I'm very sceptical.

Can't find the trailer for Shudder except some short films and a bad looking film from a decade ago.

Beyond The Walls looks good.

Picnic At Hanging Rock is definitely better than The Falling but I like both. Don't know why I'm surprised Paul Morley's sister directed The Falling.

i'm gonna have to get shudder soon... as if I don't watch enough stuff already,

Lords of Salem is really pretty spooky/moody, with some striking Kubrick stuff at the end. It drops his white trash obsession/crutch and aspires to something ambitious and, for lack of a better word, classy. Totally/tonally unlike his other films. Which I think partly fueled the negative response to his most recent, which most dismissed as a terrible tumble backwards to House of 1000 Corpses crap.

The main criticisms I've heard of Lords Of Salem is that Sheri Moon is surrounded by superior actors and the script is weak.

She's fine, and the script isn't weak so much as pretty simple/straight-forward. But not objectionably so, imo. There's no real narrative arc, just a slow march toward the inevitable.

Anyone seen The Wailing, Korean film? Caught it the other day. It's very long (nearly 3 hours) and teeters on the brink of being sublime, surprisingly hilarious in parts but maybe a bit frustrating/inconclusive considering the extended runtime.

^^ yeah. really liked it. kinda strange at first with all the tonal changes between humour and eerieness, but in the end those shifts worked to perfection. it never drags through its long runtime.

speaking of (dark) humour and in spite of such a dark subject matter - and i guess it's technically from 2015 - 'scherzo diabolico' is really worthy of attention. a great return to the roots from bogliano after the decent and brief stint with the states.

someone upthread mentioned 'they look like people' and i loved it. top 3 horror from this year for me.

Baskin was on the tv tonight. Wasn't into it.

They look like people was good

so Shudder... I subscribed yesterday. Looks quite good so far - a lot of variety and plenty to wade through, although I must say I'm a bit underwhelmed in some places. Articles about the service from just a couple of months ago names films like Kill List, Room 237 but they don't appear to be on there. Lots of schlocky gore and 80s-style slashers, Cronenberg, Giallo etc which is good but not what I came to it for. Not a huge amount of new films to be honest. They could do with a section dedicated to folk horror. The search function is pretty random too. But it is a new service and I reckon it's worth having all the same.

They have not region-locked their accounts which means you can watch the US selection (which is around twice as large, has more categories and has guest curators) via VPN without any problems. Kill List and Room 237 are both there iirc.

oh... how the heck do i do that then?

I wouldn't necessarily endorse any particular tool but there are free VPNs or plug-ins that trick websites into thinking you are based in the US. Netflix got wise to this and blocked them but Shudder hasn't. If the site thinks you are in the US, you can just log in to your account as normal and will be able to watch anything.

I am not an expert on VPNs and which ones are good / reliable / trustworthy but any should work.

cheers SV - I'll take a look

i know everyone hates lists and it's already 2017 etc...but anyone willing to share a few favs?

We Are the Flesh is coming out on DVD in the US in a couple of months.

the bye bye man has a hilarious trailer

i've mostly been watching the ID show Evil Lives Here lately for tr00-life horror kicks, though the show is only worthwhile for the people recalling the details, the show itself and its production values and framing is horrible as fuck.

Beyond The Walls is definitely recommended. I quite enjoyed Coherence and They Look Like People.

Of the other stuff I've seen on Shudder in the last fortnight, Lake Mungo is a decent, low-key grief /ghost story, S&man is kind of dull and The Horseman is basically a bunch of Ockers knocking lumps out of each other.

And Frontiers is grisly and stupid but quite entertaining if you like grisly, stupid films. It is like Green Room meets Hostel meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

S&man

I thought this was really chilling, actually. Its dullness - its mundanity - is party what makes it so effective.

This would possibly be true for me if two thirds of it wasn't interviews with Bill Zeebub, Fred Vogel, et al. The set up, with the fiction embedded in fact, is fine but the fact is a huge drag.

Anyone have any horror podcasts to recommend? Seems like there should be some really good ones at this point.

The Black Tapes is pretty entertaining.

beyond the walls is fantastic!

Anyone seen Creepy? I'm not that fussed by the trailer, a lot of people love Kiyoshi Kurosawa more than me and I couldn't finish Journey To The Shore. Still wanna see Loft and Seance.

Can't believe there's a Sadako Vs Kayako film. Or maybe that shouldn't be a surprise after the 3d film. Tina Tamashiro's little face is close to selling me though.

Every festival near me has dropped Creepy for some weird reason. I'm hoping to see his Daguerrotype soon, though.

I saw Creepy last summer, thought it had a promising beginning but it kinda lost me in the second half.

still need to see 'creepy'. i hold kurosawa in a special place and seem to be one of the few people that liked 'loft'.

'beyond the walls' the series?

Split sucked

Yeah, Creepy was just OK (although Teruyuki Kagawa is indeed fabulously creepy in it)

xxp yeah beyond the walls the series. reminiscent of stuff like Silent Hill but plenty nightmarish in its own right. a haunted house scenario done properly, without too many jump scares. my only issue was with the potentially problematic monsters but i don't want to give too much away

Hold up, the new "Halloween" sequel is being written and directed by David Gordon Green, with a co-write from Danny McBride? Wasn't DGG chomping at the bit to remake "Suspiria" for a while, which seems like an equally poor pairing of director and material?

haha good god

Anyone seen The Profane Exhibit from a few years ago? It's an anthology film. Can't find a trailer.

Just seen Prevenge. Awful title but it's quite funny. Especially the boxing scene.

I like Alice Lowe, so I'll try to check that out if I can find a copy somewhere

sounds like this will be popular amongst youse

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/raw

seen the trailer, definitely kinda disgusted and not sure if i want to see it

yeah, sounds great, have been looking forward to it for months.

don't have much else to add as i haven't watched many movies lately. will say that i saw the okay-ish don't breathe in the theater last august. it reminded me of the big green room debate upthread, but i'm happy calling this one a "proper horror movie", despite the lack of supernatural trappings. the tight focus on setting up & dragging out white-knuckle suspense scenes helps. also the reliance on familiar genre tropes: jump scares, entrapment in a dark & scary place, ye olde body horror.

the blair witch sequel/reboot thing was awful, maybe the worst movie i've ever paid full ticket price to see.

dug shyamalan's split. it's definitely got flaws -- dopey exposition, insensitive handling of a tricky premise, leering camerawork (complete with winking authorial endorsement), the inevitable rug-pull -- but even on a relatively limited budget, he's obviously a master craftsman. great performance from macavoy, too.

get out is fun but more admirable than actually great. not complaining, cuz i'd love to see it inspire others.

Can't say this sounds good, but interesting that it's only being shown once, and that it was filmed in a single take.

http://bloody-disgusting.com/indie/3427453/adam-masons-pig-playing-sxsw-never-exclusive/