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

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

yes, Inside is shitty and Martyrs is good. (xpost)

LotL remake is surprisingly effective, too, though I agree about the ending.

'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.'

Drag Me to Hell is pretty explicit with the old lady gum-fellating the heroine and whatnot! Not implied at all. I think the only time it really pulled back was for animal cruelty.

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I thought I knew all of the phrases that would make me decided to never ever see a movie but "the old lady gum-fellating the heroine" wasn't on that list until now.

To be fair, that scene is played for laughs, not scares.

oh thank god for that, I don't know what I would do if the movie took the scene featuring a dentureless old woman gnawing on the heroine's penis seriously

michael haneke's drag me to hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efok5ilZDZQ

The trailer for Human Centipede mentioned earlier in the thread. There does seem to be a level of quality to it, like something Cronenberg might be attempting now if he had stuck with body horror instead of making boring Viggo Mortensan movies.

"100% medically accurate"!

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.

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OTM. I was really disappointed by this movie. The first half was actually really good and suspenseful but once the first big scare moment happens it just goes downhill from there.

and the ending was just lame.

tru

trick r treat features an adolescent thurman merman

so i watched 2 movies last night, one of which is home movie which lamp rates pretty highly upthread, and i totally agree - yes it is HH shakycam, and there are some slightly implausible things due to that, but the acting is absolutely dead on, and the tension ratcheting is pretty fucking fierce, which is all the more impressive for a mostly bloodless movie. it is also really (intentionally) funny much of the time. its super solid, and avail on netflix for the peeps that couldnt get it before.

also saw house of the devil, and im going to have to join the chorus of "not really sure what people see in this movie" - sloooooooow, and with pretty much none of the menace or payoff to make it worthwhile. and yeah, theres a bunch of 80's nods (thanks for the 50 shots of the cassette walkman I GET IT ALREADY) but its really more of a 70's vibe, and neither is pulled off effectively. did not dig at all, felt mostly like a waste of time.

Anyone excited about the remaking? of Piranha by the director of Haute Tension? I don't like to watch trailers so I have no idea what it will be like. I wish it wasn't going to be in 3D.

Also I just saw the someone has/is remaking Scanners???

a bunch of new stuff to stream on netflix; any of this worth recommending?
http://instantwatcher.com/titles/new_infinite

Really liked Moon. That's a nice coup for a relatively new film.

I remember thinking Tape was pretty good, if you like those "three people in a room, obviously adapted from a play" kind of movies, and I usually don't like Linklater movies.

Breakdown is a must if you are a fan of 80's/early 90s Kurt Russell, really cheesy and fun.

No idea if it's any good, but I remember Kevin Corrigan hyping Beeswax in an interview last year. Other goodies: Star Treks II though IV and First Contact.

re: horror movies - Retribution (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) is up there, and although it isnt nearly as good as pulse its def worth watching. Moon didnt do it for me at all

Cube 2 is worth watching if you've watched the first, as well as 3 if you like seeing how things play out. They are great, but not bad either.

oops. I totally though this was the ILG Netflix thread, my bad.

I liked the first Cube, so maybe I'll try Cube 2.

hahaha I was going to ask how the Star Trek movies were in any way "horror" but decided to leave it alone

LOL but when he places that bug inside the guys helmet and you watch crawl inside his ear?? That terrified me as a kid.

ha, i could've been a bit more specific.

Khan's chest = cronenbergian body horror

Saw The Box last night. Man, it's sad, because there were definitely a great movie in there somewhere, but it was too long, the leads were miscast, the great sense of mystery was really undercut with all these ridiculous expositional scenes in the last act, spouting stuff I'd pretty much figured out 20 minutes ago. Some cool "what the hell IS this?" conspiracy horror stuff but there was probably too much of it. And oh man, the last scene, which was still affecting, way too long.

So much of the film undercutting itself, going back and forth between beautifully composed shots and bland generic scenery - the '70s theme especially seemed like it could have been better used. Langella was great (small role of Britta from Community was pretty entertaining too). There was so much potential here. Kelly's got a lot of talent but I hate to say it, this was a failure of direction above all.

Mulberry Street last night, was ok in spots but jesus, rat people? really? also more gritty DV stuck in an apartment building nonsense, which is a pretty beaten trope at this point. overall uh it was ok, but not really worth much effort to find. also, ending suuuuuuckks.

man, it's sad, because there were definitely a great movie in there somewhere

^^^^I love richard kelly board description

watched session 9, pretty dece

ok decidedly not really horror, but silly gorefest (well really just bloodfountainfest) "Blood Car" needs to get brought up somewhere and this will prob be the best fit. def some debut filmmaker flaws evident (ie HOLY CRAP I CAN GET LADIES TO SHOW THEIR TITS NOW THAT I MAKE FILMS) here, but also really fucking funny in a lot of spots and decently written. so yeah if yer not looking for hardcore and are down with silly not-quite-horror films (that are not spoofs thank god), its totally worth a shot.

wait how did you escape the Viking thread

fortitude and commitment to an ideal

oh

see, that's why I'm still there

just noticing this now but im really glad u liked home movie jj!

my bf had never even heard of the dude so were working our way through his 80s films: the fog is really p classic imo altho i may be influenced by it getting sample for the heartbreak disco mix.

also: although its incredibly corny supernatural (tv series) is really, really good and delivers some legit scares. the early seasons in partic manage to tip their hat to older serials w/o ripping them off too egregiously.

oh lol: 1st post is in ref to john carpenter obv

the fog is really p classic imo altho i may be influenced by it getting sample for the heartbreak disco mix.

ok, I have to hear this mix now.

"silly not-quite-horror films (that are not spoofs thank god)"
Is this the one where the vegan kills for his car that runs on blood? It felt like a spoof of something. Wasn't there a movie about catfood made from humans?

maybe I'm thinking of little shop of horrors

yeah thats the one - idk, i dont think it was really spoofing anything i know about? its def pretty broad in its humor, not a dark comedy (although the last 5 minutes are kind of AMAZING imo).

also lamp - yeah home movies was a fantastic surprise, still really into it, thx very much for the recommendation, because i am pretty sure that i would never have stumbled across it otherwise.

gf (uh fiance now i guess im supposed to say? weird) is out of town this weekend so if anybody wants to give me a line up of netflix streamable horror stuff i would be much obliged. she is not a fan, so it might be one of the few times i can dig in during normal human watching hours.