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

Wow. I watched 'Gutterballs' (a much, much nastier film than 'Inside') with a bunch of ladies. They surprised me by being totally into it. They were even cheering as the rapist slimeballs met their ugly ends. I guess the semicomic tone made the extreme violence go down easier, though there's nothing funny about that rape scene. Rough, rough, rough.

yeah i opened my "oh shit i saw a great movie last night" conversation w/gf with the clear statement that she should never under any circumstances watch it. Really amazing tho, liked it more than martyrs i think.

okay yeah, "Inside" is the movie I thought it was

absolutely no fucking way

kind of lolling at this actress's joker teeth, tho:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/B%C3%A9atrice_Dalle_1999.jpg/220px-B%C3%A9atrice_Dalle_1999.jpg

That was the problem, I love it. And she's of the opinion that there is something inherently wrong with enjoying a movie like Inside. I like how the action occurred in a small house with that lighting. The color of these new french horror films are so much better than in most american horror films.

http://static.boxrec.com/wiki/thumb/2/29/Spinks.leon.jpg/180px-Spinks.leon.jpg

I've been trying to watch all the 'classic' video nasties and started with I Spit On Your Grave when it was showing but fell asleep during the first ten minutes. Is it worth buying?
Inside sounds worth a look but judging by what you guys are saying maybe might watch in the daytime...

Based on plot summary, new Season Of The Witch sounds up my alley... NEbody know anything about it?

Hey, horror people: what's that horror movie where they make a human worm by sewing the mouths of people to the anuses of people?

centipede (first sequence)

lol human centipede &c

i mean wtf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_%28First_Sequence%29

haha that movie was my #1 example on the "why do you like horror movies?" thread as to why civilization was doomed iirc

"Tom Six has stated that the inspiration for the film came from a joke he always made to friends about punishing people who were "nasty or annoying or a child molester" by stitching their mouths to "the ass of a fat truck driver". From here came what he saw as the concept for "a great horror movie" and he began to develop the idea."

you realize that when this dude wakes up in the middle of his own real-life centipede, it will be the sign that our time on this Earth should come to an end

The star of this film is named Dieter Laser.

his album is pretty good, the Santigold track is kinda weak tho

I was really disappointed by Inside, I thought it was complete crap. It seemed good until any time something actually gory or terrifying was supposed to happen and then it was totally unconvincing, making the entire movie fall flat. Martyrs is so much better its not even worth comparing the two. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone with you guys bein all omgz Inside so sick. Maybe my expectations were too high having seen Martyrs first? With Martyrs I was like desperately reminding myself that it was just special fx so as to not puke all over myself, whereas with Inside whenever something gory happened I was kind of squinting to try to make it look better.

naw bro inside is garbage & not scary at all

i think the scope of inside (despite the alarmingly high death toll) just works better for me, no subterranean lair, just a house - 4 rooms some stairs and a hallway which really ramps up the tension whenever someone new enters and yer waiting for the "oh shit is that a mangled body" moment to break the suspense. also i was happy to see a (kinda) straight motivational story arc, i had some issues w/the grand scope of the idea behind martyrs. dont get me wrong, i loved both movies, but inside just worked even better for me.

also the living dead homage moment was A+++++ for creepout fun.

my bloody valentine remake arriving tonight which i am not really looking forward to and mainly feeling i should bother with out of some weird genre obligation

was given a two day reprieve thanks to netflix sending me a copy that looked like it had been belt-sanded

nu-MBV is a fun genre exercise, but make sure to do it up proper w/ the 3D glasses. The 3D elements were applied in a vintage 80s camp/slasher style (ie lots of pick-axes poking out at u) & are easily the best thing about the movie.

nu-MBV has, like nu-Friday the 13th, a sort of intriguing triple-start structure. Other than that, pretty by the books.

Intrigued by the mentions of "Inside" and "Martyrs" I did some googling. Yeesh. Too many flicks confuse "horror" with "horrible," and these seem like no exception, unfortunately. Gore overkill is usually funny, intentional or not, but paired with such extreme unpleasantness I'm not sure of the point. Just to be unpleasant? That'd be like recommending "Irreversible" for its cool fire extinguisher scene ("so real!") and awesome protracted rape ("totally intense!").

I think Martyrs had a point but it's tough for me to say, not being fluent in French. But in general, if you're tackling certain themes, not going full-on "horrible" is the cop-out. Like ordering a steak well-done, then drenching it in A1-sauce. If a cow died for your food, make sure you taste its cowness!

house of the devil still the raddest movie on this thread

actually it's probably drag me to hell. alison lohmann <3

x-post I think "full-on horrible" sort of *is* the cop-out. Which is one reason I loved "House of the Devil" so much. And "Drag Me to Hell," for that matter. Any dude can bust a squib, it takes a real filmmaker to rely on implied menace.

house of the devil didn't really leave anything to the imagination though! it kept showing us exactly what was going on way before the main character finds out (okay, the pizza driver is definitely the killer, okay, these people definitely killed the prior occupants for some kind of ritual), so you end up just waiting for the inevitable. could have been way more tense.

just read the wikipedia summary for 'inside', jesus fucking christ

"Any dude can bust a squib, it takes a real filmmaker to rely on implied menace."

The particularly gory parts of Martyrs have the quality of a painting, and it is definitely a cop-out if the painting isn't actually on the canvas. Also, I suspect it's actually logistically easier to get a jump from the audience by not showing them much, especially if you don't have much money.

Inside is a great, unpretentious flick w/ a slightly dodgy twist. Martrys is pseudointellectual bullshit.

ok "great" is a bit strong but you get the gist

"Martrys is pseudointellectual bullshit."

Because it's French?

it is definitely a cop-out if the painting isn't actually on the canvas.

Nah. Because off screen your imagination takes effect, but on screen your brain is constantly telling you what you are watching is fake.

For that matter, in the commentary track to Carpenter's "The Thing," he notes the biggest audience squirm and jump reaction to this All Time Great FX-as-art flick came when a character cut his thumb a little (on purpose) and not with all the crazy gore monsters run amuck.

The scare from the blood test in The Thing was easily the biggest jump-out-of-your-seat moment for me.

I didn't get the sense that the gore in martyrs was meant to be realistic so much as aesthetic. for what it's worth, the non-gore 'scarey' parts operated like standard "don't reveal too much of the scary thing horror" or at least that's how I remember it, because I don't actually remember what the scary thing looks like.

ok my bloody valentine was ok in spots, not so good overall. it did follow the genre convention of absolutely terrible acting tho.

watched saw V the same night and i think i liked that better, which is not intended as a ringing endorsement of either movie.

last house on the left remake is on its way from netflix as we speak, which i am a bit more optimistic about. after which i think i will have caught up on my remake quota for the early part of the year.

The human centipede looks soooo nasty. I can't even read the description without feeling nauseous. DNW.

haha thanx 2 my illiteracy i thought u had watched "V" the tv show 4 a minute...

i liked the remake of lotl okay - probably posted abt itt or elsewhere - way less brutal than the o.g.

what was that thread we did the other week about scary films?

aha: Enjoying horror films - why do we (or don't we)?

Jennifer's Body was way better than I expected, I really dug it. Totally mismarketed - the sleazy push they gave it probably turned off most of the Buffy/Juno/Ginger Snaps fans who would've really been into this. The Diablo Cody backlash and oversold media personality of Megan Fox probably hurt this a lot too, but Fox and Seyfried were both perfect IMO, and I found the script and dialogue amusing. Really a shame that this got buried.

yeah, that's a great one. not quite everything works but the aesthetic really stands out and it's a lot of fun. plus, satanic emo band!

Ok to my total surprise, I fully endorse the last house on the left remake (except for the final 2 minutes) but srsly, don't let that dissuade you. Honestly one of the only us serious horror films that measures up to the foreign competition from the last few years.

Really? I may watch that last house remake then.
I totally agree with the posts above about Jennifer's Body, I really, really enjoyed that film especially the relationship between Fox and Seyfried's characters, Adam Brody looked smoking, the dialogue wasn't as bad as I thought it would be considering the source and I thought the horror was well done too. The film showed that Fox has real potential as an actress when she stops being so self conscious.

thought jennifer's body, hills have eyes and last house on the left were all pretty good

Because it's French?

Both movies I mentioned are from France. One is shitty and one is good.

riki lindhome is like a badass vn of aubrey plaza in lhotl