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

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

did you like his other films

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 thought REC was great. I wasn't looking forward to the sequal but the one report I've heard about it was positive, so...

I didn't much care for the Brit horror movies mentioned above - Eden Lake, Severance, whathaveyou - though none are as bad as The Cottage. srsly do not watch the Cottage.

(oh wait, Brit horror The Descent was excellent).

But the reason he looks past it is the same incel logic, they view relationships as euphoria, like it will fix their misery.

It's like being on ecstasy. These are the types of people who love the first few months of a relationship, the excitement, the passion, the feeling of infatuation.

And often when the real work starts, the digging deeper, working through disagreements, seeing it grow into something deeper and less intense, they lose interest.

He's trying to get that crazy, unhinged passion back, and on the other hand, he's also scared of her. He feels like maybe if she can just stop doing things like cooking his dead cat, they can resume their ultra exciting passion again. That's what people like him think a relationship is.

But also he's afraid of what she'll do if he leaves!

The obvious analogy is AI and especially AI girlfriends. I did like the twist at the end where it looks like they're both just going to be forever zombied together, like two chatbots in a loop

Found Leviticus to be equal parts heartbreaking and moving with exactly the right amount of righteous anger

lol I just saw the trailer for Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man. That’s a big nope from me.

This looks pretty good; the story of the 1931 Dracula movie sharing its sets with a Spanish-language version has always been kind of fascinating. (Some people say the Spanish one is better; I've never seen it.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yuiM6QPXH0

There's a strain of lazy "good enough" running through "Ready or Not 2," but in the end the results are ... good enough, I guess. I was going to say I like Samara Weaving in everything, but I've barely seen any of the stuff she's been cranking out (2 or 3 movies a year for the last few years). I am, however, looking forward to her in (not horror) "Carolina Caroline," which ... was apparently released a couple of days ago? Co-starring Kyle Gallner, fave of the RLM crew (and from my hometown/high school!), who does indeed seem like he could breakout any movie now.

re: the cruelty of the ending, all i could think of was how women are abandoned to deal with the aftermath of relationships like this, all the hurt and collateral damage

― ivy., Wednesday, May 27, 2026 7:56 AM

I had a problem with the ending.

Anyway, just watched it. The way Barker holds scenes five, ten, even fifteen seconds longer than it should, usually with Navarrette in medium shot, is damn effective. Most of the jump scares work. That post-high school milieu was realistic; it felt good to watch a movie with young adults post-COVID hanging out at bars and into casual hookups after work.

A trans woman friend/film critic disliked it: she said Obsession hates woman. Given how a certain female character is dispatched versus how a certain male character is killed, not to mention the ending, I can see the validity of her argument.

I just learned Michael Johnston, the actor who played Bear (and played him well imo), is gay.

Undertone - it’s kind of goofy as a story love recording a two hour weekly podcast 10 minutes at a time at 3am but very effective at being atmospherically scary.

I am surprised by the argument that the film hated women...

The certain female character was the only likable character in the movie. The only morally untainted character (except maybe Nikki before the curse). If anything I felt like the movie was extremely pessimistic and set out to destroy anything good in order to make its point about how shitty the two guys were. The death of Ian on the other hand was such an afterthought - almost comedic - that I didn't think his death was in any way "better" than hers.

I'm interested in understanding the argument, though. There's probably no point in a devoted thread now, since most of the discussion has been had here, but I'd be interested in further discussion here or wherever.

very effective at being atmospherically scary.

― Lady Sovereign (Citizen) (milo z), Thursday, July 2, 2026 4:49 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

no it isn’t! what’s scary about backmasked voices.

I killed my cousin when he played Kansas - Point of Know Return backwards

Mostly because he ruined ny record

ruining a Kansas record is not a crime

The nursery rhymes weren’t even the main part of the sound design.

Where is backrooms discussed on this board (if it is I mean)?

Definitely quite a bit of Backrooms discussion on this thread but it's probably all under the cut so you'll have to load ~8k messages to see it. If you start a dedicated thread for it I'll prob post there at least once b/c I'm going to see it on Monday.

Also, does anyone maybe fancy starting a new New Horror Films thread? Not only are there too many messages lost under the cut but 2005 was over twenty years ago so I'm not sure "post 2005" is the best cut-off point for "new" films anymore.