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

Apparently it's called Plus Pute Que Toutes Les Putes by Orties

the soundtrack is by Jim Williams who did A Field in England -- some of the tracks were almost identical!
also i continue to be otm about the gore
I found it striking that there was SO much blood/physical gore and so little overt intentional cruelty (with one notable exception).

Both Raw and High Rise are kinda crap, but yeah, it's the same kind of architecture.

I think it's grittier in Raw because it has aged for 40 years or so...

?

It's the same seventies kinda brutalist architecture. High Rise recreates it as new, while Raw takes place in a real worn down version. So of course Raw seems grittier and more believable...

The Void is pretty decent. It is a bit like watching several John Carpenter films at the same time and doesn't quite hang together as well as it needs to but it is a couple of notches better than anything I have seen recently.

Don't know if it's necessarily horror, but I thought "The Survivalist" was quietly devastating, a really frank accounting of post-apoclyptic desperation, where every character, at every moment, you can see in their eyes this constant calculation of what it will take to make it through to the next day.

Finally saw The Invitation. Peters out a bit but a great sustained mood.

Basically my verdict too. I thought the ending (the shot where you see the rest of the canyon) was really good and yet didn't land quite right.

the ending shot was good but I think they fumbled w the buildup and reveal, which both took way too long and was not a surprise in any way.

'accidental exorcist' has the worst cover art and name, but it's really, really worthy of attention. might be my fav from last year. slimmy, disturbing and with shades of some really dark humour. not far from potrykus if he went further into horror tbh.

speaking of which, 'the alchemist cookbook' didn't left a deep impression when i first saw it a few months back, but i've been thinking about quite often, so it's up for a rewatch.

anyone here seen 'XX' ?

The Invitation is a film I still think about regularly. As is The Visit.

i was let down by the void. it's got some nice monster makeup & designs (to the extent we could see them), but the characters & story didn't interest me at all. felt more "inspired by" than inspired.

despite some flaws & obstacles, the autopsy of jane doe is pretty great. father & son pathologists investigate a mystery body's mysterious mysteries on a dark and stormy night. features a clever script elevated by moody cinematography, impressively grisly practical effects, slowly escalating tension & shocks, and a great central performance from brian cox. like the void, it owes something to early carpenter, but not too much. was also reminded of gary sherman's excellent dead & buried. directed by andre ovredal, who gave us trollhunter a while back. not perfect, but highly recommended.

Brian cox = will watch

I have a dvd of XX waiting at home. I want it to be good.

XX is the anthology one right? Yeah...it's not great.

Agree on "Autopsy of Jane Doe." Reminded me a bit of "Occulus," plus a few other things swimming around in there. Definitely sustains itself pretty well, at least to the end, but it's a great midnight movie. Interesting that it's the Trollhunter guy, I was wondering what became of him. I just assumed he went to Hollywood and got lost in the shuffle.

OK XX was not good.

Noroi: The Curse is on Shudder now - and is pretty good.

So I finally got around to the Love Witch. Really dug it in general, still turning it over in my head, such an oddly constructed movie. It treads a fine line between campy satire and meta-commentary about gender roles and sexuality in a pretty unique way, I can't really think of anything else like it. mid-period John Waters maybe? Minus his more overt comedy. (I would be really curious to hear what he thinks of this film tbh). It nails the period details/vibe so precisely I was genuinely taken aback at the handful of shots that include modern cars plus the one with a cellphone. Seemed like they could have avoided those, they were p jarring.

The politics/POV of it is a little inscrutable - does it reinforce the narrative that new age/hippie mysticism cloaking itself in sex-positive feminism was actually just as regressive/misogynist as traditional middle American patriarchy? Def a lot about how restrictive/destructive gender roles are for both men and women.

i loved it! first off just evoking that late '60s/early '70s technicolor sexploitation look so perfectly, but yeah - the politics and feel are just so weird. the lead performance is pretty amazing IMO, not sure how you can actually direct someone to act like that who doesn't already have the bizarre essence Biller had

the modern shots were hilarious! seemed to me like she was definitely sort of signalling early to not take the retro aesthetic TOO seriously - the ideas in it are still applicable today re feminism, and like you said, no easy answers

I appreciated that it went beyond tongue-in-cheek homage/genre exercise. As lovingly as all the art direction was done, the subtler and more ambiguous twists in the acting, dialogue, and plot twists really take it to another level.

right down to the ending, which is very wtf. Shot and framed like a conventional "happy ending", except the protagonist is delusional/insane and her "ideal man" has actually just been ritually murdered

spoilidad I guess lol

on the one hand the ending is a classic pro-feminist smash the patriarchy sorta thing, except that the woman isn't actually "liberated" in any meaningful way

Hi there! Remember me? Turns out it's a lot harder to watch films with a new baby than I remembered.

Saw some stuff that was somewhere between "eh" and dreck mostly, but have we talked about "The Wailing" yet?

Also, Train to Busan must have come up at some point right?

I don't know either of those, what's the deal

Both of them have came up months ago, maybe last year.

xp is the ending a classic smash the patriarchy thing? i mean, even discounting that wonderful fever dream ending, seems like she and everyone else paid a huge price for her "power", and the outside, "real" world is just as horrifically misogynist. if anything it's more of a nihilistic film noir ending where nobody wins

sorry to spoil ppl, Love Witch deserves to be seen for sure

symbolically yes I think murdering Prince Charming is a p classic anti-patriarchy move, but yeah it doesn't liberate her, either literally or obviously mentally

Well no reason not to talk about them again - Busan is a (yes I know) yet another zombie apocalypse flick, but stands up in its own right, some pretty amazing image moments, pretty tense throughout but like many Korean horror things oddly maudlin in spots that don't always culturally translate here I think, and long.

The Wailing (also Korean) is a very different thing. Plot rattles around a bit and feels like it might fall apart but sort of masterfully pulls itself together. Heavy themes of cultural identity and hate of outsiders, the typical odd moments played for laughs in a film that is deeply dark and unfunny at its heart. It's a weird one, but the first thing I've seen this year that I can happily throw my weight behind. It's also visually magnificent on pretty much every level.

Busan's definitely on my list, got a lot of attention last year. had a change to see it theatrically but missed the date

Really didn't like Busan. Thought it was pretty cliched and repetitive and larded with unearned sentimentality.

Kind of relieved there's barely anything I'm interested in right now but Oz Perkins seems to be making a name for himself with February/Black Coat's Daughter and I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House. Anyone seen these?

heard mixed opinions on Blackcoat, nothing about the rest

Did not like I Am The Pretty Thing... at all

think i already mentioned him upthread but oz perkins is def someone i'm keeping both my eyes on. really, really loved 'february'. 'i am the prteey...' was also good and absorbing, tho it didn't left such a deep impression.

It Comes at Night aws really good, albeit a depressing way to end an evening

Well no reason not to talk about them again - Busan is a (yes I know) yet another zombie apocalypse flick, but stands up in its own right, some pretty amazing image moments, pretty tense throughout but like many Korean horror things oddly maudlin in spots that don't always culturally translate here I think, and long.

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busan was about thirty min too long, i actually thought the part where they forced the half a dozen people who'd made it through alive into the front car, followed by the zombies being let in, was a good place to leave the story. my biggest issue was that terrible shoehorned in villain character, which is my exact least favorite type of villain: this craven, cowardly guy who thinks only of himself and gets everyone else killed. i mean there were literally three moments in the final act where he grabbed a character and pushed them into a pursuing zombie so he could escape. devoted way, way too much time to him, time i'd rather have spent watching the uneasy alliance between Seok-woo (the fund manager dad) and Sang-hwa (the working class dude.) nothing wrong with the performances whatsoever, the first couple acts are insane in the best way. but that last stretch, idk.

i mean i feel one of the cheapest and least appealing things in movies of any kind is where this kind of lame character gets a bunch of likable characters killed for dumb reasons that don't make much sense even in the context of self-preservation. it's a pretty common trope, one that immediately takes me out of the movie.

That actually is my main point of criticism too. (Both the 30 minutes too long and the villain I guess, so 2 points.)

The crowd scenes where it was actual extras and not cg were enough to make me on the balance happy with it though.

For totally unoriginal, disposable boilerplate, "Life" is surprisingly well made, from cast to direction to FX.

Kuso, the body horror film directed by Flying Lotus, is going to be on Shudder from the 21st of July. Looks completely ridiculous.

Gina Philips just popped into my head. Then I realised I knew her from Ally McBeal. Totally forgot she was the same person as the girl in Jeepers Creepers. She has a cameo in the third film coming out this year (she hasn't been in anything since 2012). Salva is still directing, kind of amazed his career has survived. I was never huge on the first film but it was a little different from what else was going on at the time.

Started The Void, it's pretty shlocky.

Finally saw "The Witch," which I thought was great and which totally helped (further) erase the half-assed stupidity that was "The Void" from memory.

For a change I feel about The Void exactly the consensus: uninteresting story but worth seeing for the visual effects and I hope their next film is more original because they show promise.

Also saw The White God recently. Again, impressive achievement in some ways but not a good script. Impressive achievement being the dog coordination. Highlights are seeing dogs waiting for a guy in his home and the timeless comedy of dogs making angry faces.

I was so bummed about The Void, but yeah, how it looked was the least of its myriad problems. Also some absolutely incredible boneheadery at work in the script. My favorites may be a guy stumbling into an emergency room with a knife wound and the doctor telling the nurse to "put pressure on it!" Well, duh. It's a hospital, she's a nurse! The other was a bad guy with a scalpel, and the doctor says "put the knife down." It's a scalpel, you're a doctor!

Anyway, "The Void" was like first draft of a very poor man's "Event Horizon" crossed with "Hellraiser." Which is just bad. It was so incoherent for a second I thought a missed a few minutes. Maybe I did? Who knows, who cares.

The most clear inspiration is Prince Of Darkness, with other Carpenter bits.