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

cremaster 2 was the one with the bee/drone deal - it's a Mormon/Utah thing, also the one with Dave Lombardo

All I remember is a lot of boat, fishing baskets, tea ceremony, and Bjork playing with fruit in the bath -- I could very well be forgetting things, it's just my overall impression was one of a long period of tedium.

yeah thats not a cremaster movie. you are thinking of drawing restraint 9. cremaster 3 is all about the masons and the chrysler building and lots of (admittedly slow developing) fucked up shit going on.

a charming still from C3 that might make my horror justification carry a little more weight:

http://www.entreumcigarroeoutro.kit.net/cremaster_3.jpg

oh whoops - you're right - yeah Cremaster 3 was a lot more exciting/interesting - that's the one with Richard Serra, and the Agnostic Front/Murphy's Law "battle" in the Guggenheim and the sheep kickline dancers that one was pretty good.

I think I saw Cremaster 3 not long after seeing From Hell.

xpost ok good because you were making me v v confused - was wondering if the cutting legs off comment was in re: aimee mullins ( who is an irl not having legs person)

No - I was confusing one 3 hour long Matthew Barney film for the other one.

And maybe I'm remembering wrong again, but I was taken with the fact that Richard Serra resembled Ian Holm who played a sorta similar Masonic role in From Hell.

yeah dude is not really into brevity anymore (speaking of which btw, i think C2 is 1:20 or so. and how it flies by! ok not really)

xpost: huh yeah kind of. also C5, for whoever hasnt seen it, is fucking beautiful. no really!

thats the opera one btw. also i realize that saying "oh hey see this asap" makes me kind of a dick considering this stuff never plays anywhere ever. thx walker arts for owning all 5 terrifyingly expensive laserdiscs.

as an added note, while tooling around looking for cremaster info, i discovered that one of my cremaster books is going for $750 on ebay. yay modern art!

not saying there's any intentional resemblance - C5 is the one I haven't seen, though I have seen stills and they are really lush and beautiful, it's the opera house one.

one can come by bootlegs of the Cremaster films - I got 1/2 and 4/5 in that format from Amoeba. The Walker and SFMoMA jointly own their copy of Cremaster 2 and affiliated artifacts, I believe.

zombieland had its moments, but there was something not all there about it. no spoilers here cameo makes it well worth watching tho. so great.

also basically not horror at all. my measure for this is if my gf can make it through the whole movie without being angry at me for making her watch it afterwards, it is not real horror.

got my hands on a screener of Babysitter Wanted. wow. great little fright flick. exact same jumping-off point as House of the Devil, similar slow-burn build, but then tense and intense, by turns, from midway until the end, and definitely its own beast. watch for a wide release in May.

just finished Dead Snow and wow i kind of hated it.

ok new moratorium, no humor allowed in zombie movies for the next 5 years and then we'll give it another try.

Watched Pontypool recently. Pretty good, it goes off into the deep end 2/3 of the way through, but an interesting take on a tired genre.

ok, re that newly revived Japanese House from '77 -- I didn't laugh or jump once.

so the verdict on house of the devil is generally thumbs-up? planning on watching it tonight.

It depends on whether or not you appreciate the aesthetics of early-80s B-movie horror - drive-in-era relics & such. If you are down with that, HOTD is pretty much a straight-up homage, lovingly crafted as such, & u will def love it. Subtracting the nostalgia factor, I imagine it might seem oddly bland to the objective viewer.

Either way, it is worth watching imo, if only for the note-perfect performance of Tom Noonan - he is creeeeepy as hell & needs to be in more horror flicks.

Have any of y'all ilx0rs seen Lo? Thinking about watch-instantlying it tonight.

just ordered a copy. Betz's first film, Joshua, was a great idea let down by poor execution. Unless he has improved tenfold as a director, this one sounds like it could have the same problem.

ok new moratorium, no humor allowed in zombie movies for the next 5 years and then we'll give it another try.

― THEY HAVE CREATED ANOTHER (jjjusten), Friday, February 26, 2010 1:07 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

I actually kinda liked DS, but this is OTM. Zombieland was a good enough note to end on. Let the genre lie for a while & leave it for new blood to pick up & run with sometime down the line when a new series of apocalyptic events scares our culture into zombie-mode all over again.

by that I mean zombie movies in general, not just "humorous" zombie flicks.

Can we also stop doing emo vampire stories while we're at it?

funny zombie movies >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> emo vampire movies

i saw the first part of Lo and it is pretty much not very good, there are some flashes of interesting and then waves of dull/dumb/awful

wisecracking demon is just 1000% annoying and poorly thought out.

may give that a shot

wait, Lo? dont do it!

oh yeah? alright, i'll go with the zombie nazis instead.

didnt love that one, but much much better than LO imo.

also you could just watch impaler instead which is not a horror movie, but has a satanic vampire so

Has there ever been a straight-up humorless zombie movie? The only example I can think of is Solaris.

well 28 days/weeks later arent really played for the funny imo, if yer looking for recentish examples

i think all traces of humor in I, Zombie were unintentional. but I don't know. this was, after all, a movie that gave horrible new meaning to the phrase "jerking off."

not much humor in Pupi Avati's Zeder (Revenge of the Dead, Stateside). just a good, old-fashioned scary story. with zombies.

28 days/weeks are pretty dry, true... I feel like they are the Stephen Wright of zombie movies.

they're derivative enough to be...

i walked with a zombie is totally straightfaced, if multilayered

what about Dead & Buried and Deathdream? if there's any humor shading the horror here, it's of the absolute darkest hue.

The problem I have with horror movies that I've seen in the mid to late '00s and ongoing is that they are too slick, or full of gimmicky cinematography. Which is why I loved Drag Me to Hell so much - in addition to telling a good, if not entirely original story, the style was very workaday which worked well for it.

sorry guys but period detail aside, house of the devil was pretty bad. and even if it was supposed to be bad, it could have been a little less by-the-book.

I liked the acting. Tom Noonan is always a treat to watch, and Greta Gerwig was good, esp. with her face blown off.

secretly the best funny zombie movie of the best few years is Black Sheep, because it's about zombie livestock

Made it through 40 minutes of Lo last night, had to walk the dogs, couldn't convince self to pick it back up. My mileage pretty much matched jjjusten's-- it has redeeming qualities, but no.

Just watched triangle, and it was eh ok

Ok watching "inside" tonight, wish me luck

Holy fucking fuck

lol