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

^^ 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/

Apparently "Get Out" just topped $100 million, which is great news for all sorts of reasons.

seeing raw tomorrow, will report back. everyone i trust is losing their minds over it

my friend made me watch Rampage which he insisted was great. I pointed out it was a Uwe Boll film and he was like NAH MAN EVERYBODY SAID THIS WAS THE ONE HE GOT RIGHT.

Man it was bad. so so bad.

apparently he rampaged in a town with the worst law enforcement alive

raw is AWESOME. it is also not really a horror movie at all

There seem to have been a number of arty neo-cannibal movies in recent months. "Eyes of my Mother," "We Are What We Are," "We Are the Flesh" ...

I kept hearing/reading enough about We Are The Flesh for it to finally register in my mind as something to keep an eye on, but then I started actually reading stuff about it and it sounds like a horrifying endurance test a la A Serbian Film except also pointless and vapid? So I'm thinking no thanks?

It's nothing like A Serbian Film, which is cartoonish and standard horror, more or less. As I noted somewhere way above, it's more surreal and winky and strange and funny and subversive, and also sometimes cool to look at. But it is graphic and sometimes gross, just not in a cynical, horrific, horror-movie way, a la Serbian Film, which I can defend but which is on its face not unlike a Saw movie or something. We Are the Flesh is like a ... playful Gaspar Noe, if that jibes at all?

Adding that I am not sure if "We Are the Flesh" is ultimately any *good*, but it's not just another gormless gross-out.

omg Raw. that was fuuuuucked up.

almsot feel like it should get its own thread.

I saw Raw too
Don't want a new thread necessarily but I'm interested in how other people saw it. I found it striking that there was SO much blood/physical gore and so little overt intentional cruelty (with one notable exception). Also their parties are totally bonkers even without the sisters there.

i was saying to myself that the first part of the initiation would have given me a full blown panic attack

i also wonder how the older sister kept her secret for so long

i think the thing about the gore is I don't actually think when you catalog it there was as many individual instances as in other movies, but that the context of the gore plus the realism of it made it more jarring than yr typical gore (there were definitely a few moments I squirmed uncomfortably).

also "you taste like curry" = lol

spoiler alert:

The sister could keep a secret for sure but the real honor goes to mom (and dad).

oh totally.