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

the french stuff is just brutal, but its been some of my favorite stuff as well, im sure a bunch of the usual whiners are going to lump it into the totally dumb invented "torture porn" genre but it just has such a deep sense of misanthropic malice and self-loathing xpost

i have a ton of friends who are in the horror film community and they're all pretty cynical about it these days, everyone wants to turn shit pg-13.

― access flap (omar little), Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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^^^ omar's friends

considering using my mod cheat powers to edit the title to include 2008 because so much great unheralded stuff came out last year

'inside' was just as rough thematically as it was in terms of gore imo, i.e. it's one of my favorite films of the past few years.

id make it the whole decade but i think that the hostel/saw/ring/rob zombie non remake stuff would just take over and we've talked about that a billion times already (i love all three of the originals, and will go to bat for hostel 2 as well)

me too hostel 2 is so underrated

really felt roth didn't want to cheap out with an easy sequel on that one

the saw series has turned into a joke imo

oh yeah saw 3 was particularly awful

never seen a saw movie (i am okay w this)

I didn't really feel Hostel when I watched it - though that might've been because I'd watched Wolf Creek the night before which ten times more brutal and believable. Still haven't seen any of the Saws.

martyrs was the best horror movie I've seen in years. it's french torture porn, and then again, it's not... which is what makes it so great. it totally transcends the genre and I can guarantee you won't guess where it's going.

eden park was pretty good. not the greatest film ever made but a nice patch on the "hunted by locals in the woods" genre.

Eden Lake you mean? I liked that a lot, some bits haunted me for a few days. Such a dark ending!

duh, yeah eden lake

there are a lot of recent horror films I wanted to see that I haven't gotten around to. off the top of my head: teeth, the uninvited, embodiment of evil, dead snow... and I guess the haunting in ct now...

anybody repping for inside in this thread needs to see martyrs stat

paranormal is not that great. download it and see it at home. more of a living room thing than a theatre experience.

I wanna see nightmare, too. it's an older film that just got released on DVD, kind of low budget but looks promising.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455983/

oh hey btw for the french horror heads, if you haven't seen frontier(s), thats pretty essential

Eden Lake is british, right? some great horror coming out of britain in the past few years, esp if you like a bit of comedy mixed with your gore (top recs would be Severance and Shrooms)

paranormal is not that great. download it and see it at home. more of a living room thing than a theatre experience.

― let them eat cankles (jeff), Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

really? how so? i would think it would be a quintessential movie theater movie!!

I liked Drag me to Hell. Also liked Jennifer's Body actually. I think a lot of good recent US horror has been genre pastiche/comedy (I'd include Hostel ii).
The French/Asian stuff is nice because it still does well playing the eeriness/bone-gristle straight. I've only seen the first 2 Saws but had to stop because why bother when there's stuff like Martyrs out there.

dead snow is pretty half-assed tbh

theres a foreign language film that is a great companion piece to Eden Lake that i can't remember the name of right now and it is killing me.

Eden Lake is british, right? some great horror coming out of britain in the past few years, esp if you like a bit of comedy mixed with your gore

Yep, it's British. Not many laughs though.

Just grabbed some new 80s movies to watch. Can anyone vouch for these?

Combat Shock
Demented
Don't Go In The House
Night of the Demon

oh yeah wait, Ils (or Them) is the Eden Lake parallel. creeeeepy

haha yeah Eden Lake is def not chock full o' laughs

really? how so? i would think it would be a quintessential movie theater movie!!

Because...

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SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS
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...it is pretty much just a Blair Witch clone and more fun than scary. For me, the experience was ruining by a theatre of 500 groaning teens.
SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS
SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS SPOILERSSSSSSS
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*ruined

combat shock is fucked up. also pretty interesting and pretty good.

thread title edit for the purposes of why not

In light of the new title I will mention Wolf Creek again.

dead snow is pretty half-assed tbh

yeah it looks totally cheeseball but I'm a huge shock waves fan so...

speaking of which, the aussies have def had a horror boom this decade as well xpost

for aussie film fans i def recommend this hilarious doc:

http://www.smartartists.com.au/not-quite-hollywood/nqh-poster.jpg

"The Descent" is still the scariest film of that time span. "Drag Me to Hell" was tons of fun, though essentially just a remake of "Night of the Demon." "Zombieland" was entertaining, but totally sloppy and lazy.

Aussie-wise, "Rogue" is an undervalued and very well made gem in the giant croc genre.

Just came across some Korean POV torture porn flick called "The Butcher," which from the look of it may be the most unpleasant movie ever made.

WC is the only Aussie horror I've seen that I can recall. Recommendations?

xxpost

xp to jeff
I saw 'Don't Go In The House' last October. It has a nice gritty grindhouse vibe along w/ a Norman Bates type guy who uses a flamethrower instead of a knife.

Any good Japanese stuff from this period?

It's another Korean flick, but if you count "The Host" as horror, "The Host" is a blast. The director's "Memories of Murder," while slightly pre-2005, is worth seeing, too, though not really a horror film. More a serial killer procedural along the same lines as "Zodiac."

Just grabbed some new 80s movies to watch. Can anyone vouch for these?

Combat Shock
Demented
Don't Go In The House
Night of the Demon

if you are in the mood to see one of the worst films ever made, you can't go wrong with the 1980 night of the demon

http://www.youtube.com/v/CryBPpYTWfk

so weird i was just going to mention memories of murder with that same caveat

memories of murder is almost on par with zodiac i think

At some point J-horror switched from ghost girls to low budget OTT 80's style gore. I'm not really keen on it.
One I liked was 'Exte' by the guy who did Suicide Circle about cursed hair extensions. Tonally a lot like Uzumaki & pretty fun.

the horror film 'the booth' is a very good japanese flick about a haunted DJ booth. not gory but i thought it was pretty spooky especially considering the setting.

I really really really liked the strangers until the end

another one of the many horror movies with a great setup and no idea how to exit in a satisfactory manner

part of why I loved martyrs so much was that it found a graceful way out of its narrative challenges

Pontypool is another recent one that takes place in a DJ booth & another one which really doesn't exit in a satisfactory manner. It's worth a look though.

Has anyone seen Grace or Giallo?

I AM A GHOST. THIS IS A TAKEOVER.

I enjoyed turistas. then again, I went into it with really low expectations. I've never seen anybody say anything good about it, but it's got great cinematography, some creative set scenes, and realistic acting. the xenophobia aspect of the premise is sorta o_O but the same could be said about eden lake.

Would've been great if Giallo was a 'Grindhouse'-style homage to all those 70s films. Instead it's:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ne5Lb2SiFHg/SpvbzxSGD8I/AAAAAAAAkb8/COv33HMJVmo/s400/giallo_poster.jpg
"i am a dud!"

Remember when Eli Roth was the future of horror?

― wipes chooser (unperson), Wednesday, June 3, 2026 9:34 PM

Did you feel this way?

Remember when Eli Roth was the future of horror?

Honestly, no. But Cabin Fever and the two Hostel movies did have something real going for them. He's been adrift ever since, though.

the Hostel movies had a fairly solid, hard to fuck up concept. While I didn’t love them, they were definitely very ok. he’s been completely lapped by the next generation of horror filmmakers in the last decade plus though, obviously.

Supposedly the full Thanksgiving film was good enough but I wasn't inclined to investigate. Though the best actual thing I've seen Roth do lately was a role in one of Glenn Danzig's attempts to make a 'film,' Death Rider in the House of Vampires from 2021, which a few of us watched one October as part of former ILXor Jeff Treppel's annual party-and-three-terrible-movies Halloween get-togethers. Said film was a clusterfuck in several ways -- one of Julian Sands's last roles before he died too, poor bastard -- but when Roth's character first appeared he had an annoying but still immediate energy that came across as the 'Gina Gershon in Showgirls' spot, ie the only person being filmed who actually knew what kind of movie it was. He went away for a bit, we all kept watching, I literally said out loud at one point that to my sheer surprise I actually missed Roth in the movie because things were just so incredibly stupid and terrible, everyone agreed, and when he came in again towards the end I think we all literally applauded. Still, when THAT'S all you have going for you...

the particular flavor of slasher/torture porn he's mostly known for seems a little dated at this point (like 'Saw'), or I guess more 'meat & potatoes' than all the folk/concept horror being produced today, but I'm a snooty jaundiced gen-xer so what do I know

thanksgiving was great. but let’s just say eli roth’s opinions about genocide will keep me from seeing another one of his movies for the rest of my life

he seems like he’s personally repugnant in a way that’s perpendicular to the way Tarantino is

I thought Thanksgiving suuuuuuuucked.

The only thing of his I think I've liked at all was the second Hostel, but I can't recall why. The only thing I liked about Cabin Fever, an otherwise pretty lazy, crap movie, is that iirc the only guy that survives is the guy that goes "fuck this" and hides in a cave with a bunch of beer. No idea how this ugly asshat keeps getting his movies made.

Re-screened Green Room, never noticed the 'they're far right - but actually ultra ultra left' line when the punk kid sends the Ain't Rights off to Lincoln City. The first horror movie about horseshoe theory!

I'll have to watch again, but every time I've seen that movie it's been great.

It makes me miss Anton Yelchin all the more. Would have loved to see what else he’d do.

I liked Thanksgiving when watching it in the theater, but I tried to rewatch it last year at home and wandered away halfway through.

I mostly remember it being rote to the point of boredom, so that sounds about right. Around the same time I saw "Clown in a Cornfield" and felt similarly, though even more disappointed, because I had actual expectations.

watching thanksgiving was a real "why do I do this to myself?" moment. but tbh I have one of those moments pretty frequently.

green room rules. modern classic imo.

Green Room always seemed more Peckinpah than 'horror' to me, but it was a fun film

finally caught obsession and...

the main character was a complete drip which is part of the horror

he was actually driving me nuts in a way similar to the way protagonists in, um, 'harem anime' (lol) often do (people just throwing themselves at him for some reason, constantly nervous, no actual personality really, hesitates to make a move for eternity, and ultimately, extremely annoying and you just want them to die)

i don't watch anything anymore, let alone horror, but i'm enjoying seeing the director of 'backrooms' stick it to the man in interviews.

there is a scene in Backrooms where there is an electrician talking about a mystery breaker on a mains board with Chiwetel Ejiofor and wondering wtf it is. Dreamlike scene yadda yadda fuck off. He doesn't actually open the motherfucking mains board to see what it is. I'm sorry but I'm a 17th edition qualified electrician, and perhaps was never the best test electrician and more of an installation monkey. But still I would have took the front off the motherfucking mains board to see as a fucking minimum.

although tbf the o.g. PS1 Silent Hill design aesthetic is absolutely scary as fuck!

finally caught obsession and...

the main character was a complete drip which is part of the horror

he was actually driving me nuts in a way similar to the way protagonists in, um, 'harem anime' (lol) often do (people just throwing themselves at him for some reason, constantly nervous, no actual personality really, hesitates to make a move for eternity, and ultimately, extremely annoying and you just want them to die)

― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Friday, June 5, 2026 1:33 PM

Same. In addition to that, Obsession was a big let down to me in the same way that Weapons was, that is, IT'S NOT FUCKING SCARY, which is my main criterion for a horror film, sorry.

That's a tall order because after seeing so many, they're almost never scary. I doubt I'll see 10 more scary films before I'm dead.

I'm sorry but I'm a 17th edition qualified electrician,... I would have took the front off the motherfucking mains board to see as a fucking minimum.

Reminds me of the early Letterman show bit "Limited Perspective," where they would bring on, say, a dentist and have him review movies entirely based on the casts' teeth.

Xpost I'm with Robert. I've seen so many of these movies that only once every like 2 years does a horror movie scare me. It's just overfamiliarity with the beats and tropes

Like in high school, I Know What You Did Last Summer terrified me because I'd seen 5 horror films ever, saw it again a few years ago and laughed my ass off. I prefer a solid, unsettling atmosphere than an expectation that I'll be terrified because in the latter scenario, I'll always be disappointed.

The horror that does tend to scare me most is usually shit grounded in semi-realism i.e. Poughkeepsie Tapes, anything that reminds me how depraved the human race is. Supernatural ghouls/demons/zombies/vampires i find more fun than scary.

Also i know several friends with lived experience with the obsessive behavior displayed in Obsession who were very much terrified by it.

The lead being a vanilla chump was kind of the point. You're meant to buy him as a soft-spoken sweetheart who wouldn't hurt a fly, but you see he's the villain ultimately because he acts purely out of self-interest over and over, despite having multiple opportunities to at least *try* and do something out of concern for Nikki.

I.E., like they say in Into the Woods, "nice is different than good".

i thought obsession was terrifying and upsetting and i am unmoved in these aspects by almost 100 percent of horror movies

it’s like people’s taste in what’s funny, it’s INCREDIBLY subjective

yea most horror movies aren’t scary, super true. and it’s _totally_ subjective! eg home invasion stuff still sometimes gets under my skin for whatever reason. also long, disorienting descents into madness with sick sound design like inland empire. (the scariest lamps in the scariest rooms)

but even if it isn’t usually scary, i do enjoy spooky atmosphere/vibes and wish modern horror busted out the fog machine little more. at the end of the day, that kinda thing is prob why i liked obsession but _loved_ mandy. ultimately a matter of taste.

Self-aware horror is the least scary shit imaginable, nothing terrifying about a bunch of film fanboys nodding at each other knowingly. The scariest film I (re)watched in the last year or so was Threads, can't beat grim reality for inducing an authentic sense of dread.

Is Obsession really horror or more of a thriller? I'm seeing it next week, I hope, but I can't the sense it's more the latte.

Nope it’s horror

Converse to a few others here i found Obsession several levels scarier and more disturbing than Backrooms, which I just thought was kind of cool but was missing a little something from the screenplay

I found Obsession genuinely disturbing. That might be to Neanderthal's point of having lived experience of that sort of thing (well not literally, but there were some "yup I've seen this and I'm not feeling great about having it played back to me" moments

I'm interested in how Obsession and Backrooms (and their directors) relate to AI.

Obsession, especially, feels like it could be an allegory for the type of instant gratification AI promises to afford. Especially that final scene where for a brief moment both leads are fully Willow-pilled and for a minute you think they're just going to live like two automatons forever.

Interesting also that both films start with a role-playing scenario. Shades of Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal