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

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.

Hmm.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/haunting-of-hill-house-series-netflix-1202027332/

Netflix is in the early stages of developing a series based on the Shirley Jackson horror novel “The Haunting of Hill House,” Variety has learned.

The series is described as a modern re-imagining of Jackson’s novel. The novel, which has been praised as one of the best horror stories of the 20th century, follows four people as they spend a summer in a rented mansion. They soon begin to experience a wide range of supernatural phenomena. It was previously adapted into a feature film in both 1963 and 1999.

The planned 10-episode series come from writer-director Mike Flanagan, who is no stranger to the horror genre. His previous credits include horror films “Hush,” “Oculus,” and the sequel “Ouija: Origin of Evil.” Flanagan will executive produce along with Trevor Macy, Justin Falvey, and Darryl Frank. Amblin TV and Paramount TV will produce.

Tentatively excited. Even odds.

Raw was interesting. Not amazing, but worthwhile, and very well shot/produced/acted. I tend to find female-created horror inherently intriguing (like Blood Diner, Ginger Snaps or last year's The Love Witch) so I'm probably the target audience for this kind of thing. Some of the... juicier... bits really made me squirm, I gotta say.

Heads up on the Slumber Party Massacre series, which I only recently learned was entirely written and directed by women.

Saw Raw at the local indie last night. MY. GOD. An absolute blinder of a film. The final line got a huge clap from the audience. So well done as far as I was concerned. Lots of skincrawling, claustrophobic moments. The horse being winched up; the nightlife scenes... It helped that I'd been to the gym, then got caught in the rain, had liver and onions for dinner, then didn't have time to get changed before leaving, so I was literally sitting in damp, sweaty, livery clothes while watching this grubby, entrail-strewn film. It was like a 4D experience

Smell-o-vision.

There's a lot of gore, but it never feels like gore for gore's sake. The shock moments feel nuanced, earned.

Also, the decor/scenery - it reminded me of Ben Wheatley's High Rise, but somehow grittier and more believable. Basically this is the perfect horror movie. Great soundtrack too. I need that necrophiliac French EDM-hop track in my life.