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

Rogue isn't bad. looks great - both the movie and the croc. but it's too stingy with its onscreen mayhem, and falls short of the other Aussie killer-croc flick, 1987's Dark Age.

IIRC cutting moments made the festival circuit in the late 90s, then it was on a comp of shorts that went OOP and became highly sought after by horror fans... I think family portraits was the first widely available version (i.e. my local hollywood video had a copy).

This thread is like torture in that you guys are making me interested in seeing movies I know I can't actually watch.

you def don't want to watch family portraits dan

I just read about "Cutting Moments" and you are 100% correct

though in our post-audition/oldboy/martyrs world, cutting moments does seem a little quaint

at the time it was :O

or should I say :()

This thread is like torture in that you guys are making me interested in seeing movies I know I can't actually watch.

― struck through in my prime (HI DERE), Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:05 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'd like to option this premise for a high tech thriller that absolutely nobody will watch btw

'cutting moments' is totally o_O and 8< (scissors)

also: 'aftermath'

ok so i am selecting out of the on demand section of my cable - any votes for whether i should watch "the burrowers" or "skinwalkers"?

Sorry if it's already been discussed but has anyone seen "Amer"? It is recommended to me so so strongly. Also, we all loved "Martyrs" right?

oh man after thinking about it FOR MONTHS i finally remembered the name of the horror movie i always wanted to get made (or released) in full:

CHUNK BLOWER: A MOVIE WITH GUTS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9t2YjcbPzg

there's something so awesome and funny about it, and pretty much everything else Jim Van Bebber had a hand in. like 'My Sweet Satan.'

i watched 'Amer' the other night! it was okay.

Imdb shows amer as not coming out until march 2010 unless I am missing something

Ha ok then nevermind

Burrowers looks great but has a VERY slow build. decent payoff. and a very interesting cast. Skinwalkers was that PG-13 pseudo-werewolf thing? don't remember much about it.

Van Bebber box has been blowing my mind lately. never imagined I'd get to see Roadkill in full. and The Manson Family is definitive.

xxxp I'm totally obsessed with giallo/Argento though so...

Stevie, have you seen Bava's "Bay of Blood/Twitch of the Death Nerve"? it isn't Bava's best, but it is by far the most beautiful.

check out Eyes of Crystal (2005), Stevie. surprisingly good latter-day Italian giallo that borrows heavily from SE7VEN and delivers a compelling, linear(!) story in addition to dizzying visuals. never released here, but there's an excellent, fairly cheap R2 PAL edition.

you might also enjoy Five Dead on the Crimson Canvas, an endearingly inept recent(ish) Upstate giallo homage with its heart in the right place. god love them, they did try.

i've been exploring proto-gialli, like Tinto Brass' Deadly Sweet and Bava Sr.'s pre-Blood and Black Lace titles. interesting to chart the evolution of the form. and will we ever get see a DVD of A Quiet Place in the Country?!

you really think Bay of Blood is Bava's most beautiful film, Tabes? it's fun, sure, but candy-colored hackwork compared to The Whip and the Body and (esp) Lisa and the Devil. Bava always seemed best when he was playing up the kink for all its worth.

checked out k*ll*an's "Argento" poems on your rec, BTW. very cool! what else would you recommend? wrong thread, but IDGAFF.

seems like the place and time to gush with admiration for Fulci's criminally overlooked Lizard with a Woman's Skin, Freda's nearly as good Iguana with the Tongue of Fire, Pastore's cheerfully crude The Crimes of the Black Cat and, perhaps my favorite of all, Avati's untouchable The House with Laughing Windows. is there a dedicated giallo thread? there oughta be.

huh, never actually seen 'The Whip & The Body." on the queue now!

i think i really like "Bay of Blood" because it is so...candy-colored, so rich in class dynamics. plus the ending actually did make me go, "WOAH. FUCKING GREAT." but maybe that's just me.

if you liked that book of K3vin's, i'd also check out his latest, 'Impossible Princess.' it's stories, but they're all violent, sadomasiochistic, and slyly smart in a way that only dawns on the reader after a daty or so after finishing it. his latest project is apparently a book of poems based off of James Bidgood's classic "Pink Narcissus," which I AM ANTICIPLATING HIGHLY.

nah, not just you. love the ending of BoB. a real o_O moment! i blurt out something like, "remake that, Hollywood!" each time I see it. but the film, while important as an archetype of the '80s slasher/body-count cycle, is just one of Bava's lesser films, maybe on a par with the decorative but shallow A Hatchet for the Honeymoon and Baron Blood. certainly there's little of the psychosexual depth of his late masterpieces - the funereally transcendent Lisa and the incest-steeped Shock, which their subtle, almost subliminally nerve-rattling horrors. and, as a tale of terror, it's not much more than a haphazard assemblage of audacious, gory slaughter setpieces that fails to match the fine-tuned fear mechanics of Black Sabbath's "A Drop of Water" segment or the Gothicized fairytale lyricism of Black Sunday and Kill, Baby... Kill.

tnx! 'Princess' added to the list. since Pink Narcissus is already sheer poetry, this should be heady as hell. i'll stay tuned.

back on topic, have you seen Bruce LaBruce's zombie opus, Otto, Or: Up with Dead People?

Ok, finished the burrowers. Liked it quite a bit, weird somber mood to it, and yeah nicely filmed and cast was pretty great!

So apparently the writer/director of this did the screenplay for batman begins?!

also would like to see this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800361/ but it appears to be unavailable on dvd

more importantly, Petty made the disturbing and original Soft for Digging.

from the filmed evidence, the western-horror hybrid is very hard to get right. it shouldn't be. what's naturally spookier than the lonesome plains at night, or a deeper, more mysterious vein than Native American legend and superstition? but, not counting Near Dark, how many solid horror westerns have there been? VHS-era anthology Grim Prairie Tales was pretty decent, with a handful of genuine standout moments. so was Empire Pictures obscurity Ghost Town, a low-key chiller that has stayed with me like few others. can't think of more recent examples. i seem to be one of the few who hate DeadBirds, finding it an insufferably portentous misfire,

... should The Proposition count?

someone really needs to take an overdue whack at filming Richard Brautigan's hysterical PoMo farce, The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western. or, really, any of Robert E. Howard's mercilessly violent Western short fiction.

i recall Stephen King saying that, if he and Louis L'Amour were to stare out at the same picturesque mountain lake for long enough, L'Amour would surely come up with a sprawling saga about the settling of a frontier town, while he himself would end up writing a story about a monstrous being emerging from the depths nightly to drag cattle and cowboys to their watery doom. now, that's a horror western i'd love to see! wish he'd get on it already. and, please, let anyone but Mick Garris helm the inevitable screen adaptation.

have you seen Bruce LaBruce's zombie opus, Otto, Or: Up with Dead People?

I unfortunately only saw the first 30 minutes of this, and wasn't quite sure what to make of it, but it looked promising.

is 'let the right one in' not mentioned because it's not really scary? It has vampires. Also, it's incredible.

my take on it upthread:

This is prob a good place for me to fly my challop flag and say that as great as Let the Right One In is, it isn't really a horror film IMO.

― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:47 PM (3 months ago)

ok so i am selecting out of the on demand section of my cable - any votes for whether i should watch "the burrowers" or "skinwalkers"?

― srsly? im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (jjjusten), Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:09 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i fear i'm too late to save this poor soul but Skinwalkers is garbage

no i dodged that bullet! somebody upthread reminded me that it was some pg-13 teenthrob thing and i escaped the danger

let the right one in is a horror film imo, but it's almost universally loved so maybe there's not much to say about it?

the proposition isn't a horror film, but it does have some horrific gory violence in it. also it's v v good. I started a thread on it a long time ago and ppl were like "eh, nick cave".

I would like to see a horror western film also, seems like a lot of potential there, as long as it mined the terror implied by the primitive lawlessness of the wild wild west (something the proposition did very well btw)

as opposed to some stupid gunslinger cliche bullshit e.g. it's pale rider but w/ werewolves!

although on second thought that might be cool, too

filmmakers get to it

completely missed you saying that jjj. I think yr right re: it not being a proper horror but i think it's worth repping for at any possible opportunity.

Are any of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's movies post pulse any good? Never had a chance to see any and imdb gives them pretty low ratings but, well, it's imdb.

oh yeah, pulse is pretty great, also (altho v different) Charisma. i wasnt knocked out by "cure" but lots of horror geeks love it

the few I've seen post-Pulse seem to be retreads of his earlier stuff, which is far better.

Charisma was pretty awesome. Was Cure the mesmerism one?

it was the one with the murder victims w/x's carved in their necks, ill admit i sort of drifted off and didnt end up paying a lot of attention to it so maybe?

Pulse blew me away. I am all about glacially paced post apocalpytica, and with ghosts.

ha shit i didnt see that you said "post-pulse" up there. my responses are useless lol at me

ok actually "bright future" is kind of a great mindfuck!

not really at all like pulse, at moments kind of a comedy, but i really liked it

should we share what horror movies we put on our ballots for the 00s film poll or maybe save that til after the polll results?

oh wait shit not bright future, doppelganger. what the hell is wrong with me today

oh shit i havent voted in that yet