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

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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...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.
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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!"

the unborn was supposedly crap but I wanna see it for some reason

still haven't seen the orphanage

and speaking of korean films, chan-wook park's new one, thirst, is about a vampire priest, it played for 5 days here and I missed it... grrr

btw I owned this record as a kid, can I just

http://tcmmoviemorlocks.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/famous-monsters-speak2.jpg

this one too

http://www.wxyc.org/blog/dwf.jpg

sorry what were we talking about

The Descent is great until the monsters show up

Paranormal Activity is bad, unless you really loved the Blair Witch Project

Last House on the Left remake has an interminable rape scene that kind of ruined the rest of the movie.

The Unborn was okay, kinda creepy when you find out the little girl star is an actual little girl

Halloween remake was terrible

Drag Me To Hell was pretty boring

Devil's Rejects is fantastic, a million times better than anything else Rob Zombie has done.

28 Weeks Later > 28 Days Later, but both are pretty good

Got dragged to see The Collector, which was one of the worst movie experiences of my life. People who enjoy that kind of shit make me do the arched-eyebrow emoticon.

http://io9.com/5387328/see-the-beginning-of-the-descent-2

i rep for 'rec' btw. not sure about the upcoming sequel since the demonic possession/religious stuff in the first one seemed pretty weak & tacked on, but i hope it's good.

I watched the last 20 minutes of the ruins last week, it seemed terrible

Last House on the Left remake has an interminable rape scene that kind of ruined the rest of the movie.

not sure how this differs from the original

Is the original rape scene 10 minutes long?

I didn't bring my stopwatch

did a search on imdb for horror movies released in 2009

PowerSearch Results
Here are the 1514 matching titles:

o_o

that's excluding tv and video stuff

and speaking of korean films, chan-wook park's new one, thirst, is about a vampire priest, it played for 5 days here and I missed it... grrr

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:32 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

terrible, terrible movie

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.