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

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

Doppelganger reminded me of one of the earlier films that was better

@jjj nah, i was lacking in clarity. i arr tired.

The girlfriend is massive horror buff, i wonder if i could pull off buying a bunch of kiyoshi and thirst and have it come off as romantic.

Also i seen a spanish horror v. drunk at the cinema and all i remember is that it involved kids with potato sacks and me liking it very much. does anyone have any idea what it could be?

The girlfriend is massive horror buff, i wonder if i could pull off buying a bunch of kiyoshi and thirst and have it come off as romantic.

do we need to change the thread title to "post 2005 horror film and related relationship advice thread?"

there's not enough of that going round.

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?

― PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! (some dude), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 8:11 PM (55 minutes ago)

haha prob after since my ballot was basically horror/horrorrelated/documentaries

looking forward to mostly getting shut out on that thread tbh

audition ftw

haha i didn't vote for audition because i took it to be 1999. u_u

also how the fuck had i never seen "cutting moments" before? UGH. ARGH. :)

i was actually surprised at how many horror-qua-horror films made my top 20. (and i've been kicking myself in the ass for two weeks now for not including martyrs.) nearly everything has an incredibly high body count, so i guess that partially makes up for it.

whoops, should be "how FEW horror-qua-horror films made my top 20."

yeah there was some debate about whether audition was 99 or 00 on the thread but omar ruled it fair game for the 00s

xp

re: Kurosawa. once it gets rolling, Doppelgänger is ridiculously fun. the lightest thing he's done since The Guard from the Underground. a bit less bone-crunching than in that one. Bright Future isn't exactly horror, but it is a very good film. i haven't kept up with the guy's work since Pulse. do want to see Loft and Tokyo Sonata, though (being out of work) i fear that one will cut a little too close to the bone. i didn't like Charisma. what was the point?

@toastmodernist - Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child, maybe?

I don't think that had potato sacks in it, but that movie is classic!

the kid in The Orphanage had a crude sackcloth mask. but he did say "kids."

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?

i had pulse and martyrs p high up on my ballot and i think audition, jeepers creepers and session 9 as well. so a 1/4 (?) of my ballot - if id listed a full 40 i might have placed frailty, thirst, hostel 2 and home movie. probably not all of those tho

You liked Session 9 that much? I liked it a bit, but by the end I was disappointed.

I vote session 9 pretty high too

yah idk sarahel i liked it quite a bit - really well made, paced, shot iirc - great 'atmosphere'

also realized i voted for the devil's backbone

It definitely was well shot and had great atmosphere, and the pacing was good too - I think I remember feeling like the ending was a cop out or something.

ok so now that the results are rolling out, not expecting anything horror to place in that list outside of prob audition

what about 28 days later?

REC, Let the Right One In, The Descent, and Drag Me To Hell might all be in with a shout? Do we count Pan's Labyrinth?

ok either i was distracted or blind but i didnt see let the right one in or the descent on the nom lists so i didnt vote for them NERD RAGE

i could see 28 days later, but wondering if there will be votesplitting between that and 28 weeks later

28 weeks later wasn't even nominated, i don't think

no, it was, because i voted for it

i voted for 28 days later - even though 28 weeks later had Idris Elba and featured the, I'd like to think, Dead Alive-inspired rotary blade method of killing zombies

I voted for 28 Days Later, Pan's Labyrinth, Shadow of the Vampire, May, Wolf Creek, & Let the Right One In

I voted for Let the Right One In and Shadow of the Vampire - though not sure how much they are "horror" movies

god im pissed that i didnt see let the right one in on the noms list, would have voted unreservedly

: /

I voted Audition, Martyrs (will be pissed if this doesn't rank, but it prolly won't), Let the Right One In, The Host, A Tale of Two Sisters, May, Trouble Every Day

horror-ish shit in my top twenty: the host, american psycho (it counts, i think), visitor q, hostel ii, planet terror (yeah, yeah...but i think it was really dulled by its in-theater proximity to death proof and it was one of the most purely entertaining films i saw this decade).

still kicking myself as per upthread for not including audition and martyrs. wolf creek, pulse, and drag me to hell would have made a top forty if i'd bothered to do a list that long. still do not get the extreme love for let the right one in.

planet terror (yeah, yeah...but i think it was really dulled by its in-theater proximity to death proof and it was one of the most purely entertaining films i saw this decade).

otm

i voted for JUST planet terror, too, but i'm afraid my votes will just wind up going to grindhouse as a whole. :/ (and neither will probably place anyway.)

okay, can't remember who rec'd it, and it has little to do with new horror, but there is NO WAY 'The Whip and the Body' is better than 'Bay of Blood.' got the former from Netflix today, and i don't think i've ever been more bored while watching a Bava film.

ahem. continue.

I voted for: Audition, 28 Days Later, Drag Me to Hell, Martyrs & The Descent.

& Pan's Labyrinth, if that counts

ok well now that this is done, my horror votes and their points - placing ones with asterisks (kinda horror ones in italics):

Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) - 40pts*
Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney, 2002) - 39pts
Marebito (Takashi Shimizu, 2004, Japan) - 36pts
Wolf Creek - 35pts
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001, USA - 32pts*
Ring, The (Gore Verbinski, 2002, USA) - 31pts
Them aka Ils - 30pts
Hard Candy (David Slade, 2006) - 29pts
28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007) - 26pts
Grindhouse (Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Edgar
Wright, and Rob Zombie, 2007) - 23pts
Severance (James Moran, 2006, UK) - 21pts
28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002) - 20pts*
Slither (James Gunn, 2006, USA) - 19pts
Woods, The - 17pts
Session 9 (Brad Anderson, 2001, USA) - 16pts
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004, UK) - 14pts*
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001, Japan) - 12pts
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000) - 11pts
13 Tzameti (Géla Babluani, 2005) - 10pts
Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008, France) - 9pts
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon, 2003) - 8pts

By the time Cremaster 3 becomes anything resembling a horror movie, it's been almost two hours, so when they start cutting each other's legs off, it isn't horrific, it's a joyous relief that something interesting is actually happening.