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

anybody want to rep for the von trier antichrist? it keeps getting suggested to me as a horror film but something tells me thats bullshit and its just going to be long and make me angry

probably no help re: antichrist, but dancer in the dark feels very much like a horror movie.

horrible movie

that is

anti-christ was - by a very wide margin - the worst film i saw last year in theaters. i know sum of the ilx art film crowd liked it and von trier is an accomplished crafter of images but its so craven & thoughtless in how it deploys violence & in the rhetorical tack it takes that i cant really recommend it.

i think it purposefully attempts to frustrate the viewer with an absence of meaning but there really is a void at the heart of this movie that sikkened me its like taking the "lets freak out the squares" impulse & ramping up the self-loathing & misogyny

human centipede looks horrible and repugnant. i do not get the appeal of these films.

i guess i'm old and out-of-touch. free-country to make or watch them, obv.

"human centipede looks horrible and repugnant. i do not get the appeal of these films."

i think you've already identified two sources of appeal.

I feel the same way, though at the same time I can imagine 15-year-old me getting persuaded into watching it just for the shock value. Still, this shit's pretty far from Troma territory...

i'm actually curious about what the appeal of "torture porn" is. i searched for the term on the thread and only saw passing reference to it, tho i know it's been a big genre in the recent past.

if the answer is embedded in the 625 posts above, no need to belabor it. i'll search it out when i have time (whenever that is!).

actually i started a thread that ended up talking a lot about that here: Enjoying horror films - why do we (or don't we)?

thanks, jjj. i'll check it out.

lol I was going to link that thread but started reading it again

fuckin hate von trier

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/20356

Someone's writing a US remake of Martyrs?

anyone seen "mum & dad"?

fuck that xpost

to expand:

A) the dude rewriting Martyrs is the dude who did "Vacancy" which means he aint exactly subtle
B) the bowlderizing required to make that plot play in the american market is going to be extensive and laughable.

mum and dad sounds intriguing tho.

Mum & Dad was one of the few Brit horror movies of the past few years (since The Descent anyway) that didn't make me feel completely ho-hum about. It's no masterpiece, but it has a few nice blackly comic touches.

god, as if the original isn't laughable enough already

I watch La Horde last night. A really fun zombie movie. I'd recommend it. There an awesome parking garage scene, and for most of the movies, everyone is closed in a hallway, staircase, room, basement. Really terrifying at times. But there are one liners thrown in for humor, which takes away from the horror. I've never understood why people want to laugh while watching a horror film. I want to be scared, laughing lightens what I want to shock and thrill me. Anyway Watch La Horde.

kinda bummed that my girl will never be able to watch horror films with me.
She keeps trying and keeps freaking out. She couldn't make it through the original night of the living dead for crissakes!

I have the same problem with my girlfriend. After A L"interieur I don't think she'll ever watch another horror film with me. I wish I had know who brutal that movie was going to be and we could've watch The Crazies instead.

Ever try easing her into stuff that's less overtly horror, like Buffy or Army of Darkness?

it's a good suggestion, but a l'interieur is like crossing the event horizon. there's no easy way back.

it's the boo factor; she can't deal with being startled and waiting for it to happen drives her nuts. She was fine with A Certain Kind of Death and digs Miike; just can't cope if something grabs you from behind the door.

have u tried easing her in w/the human centipede or martyrs

don't u tell me to ease my gf into a human centipede

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/537029

feel like human centipede isnt one of those things you can ease someone into, you just gotta go for it

STEP ONE: GET REALLY CLINGY
STEP TWO: BUMP INTO HER A LOT
STEP THREE: FOLLOW HER CLOSELY
STEP FOUR: PROFIT!

My wife is out of town til Thursday so I'm gonna binge on horror flix this wkend. Any netflix watch-instantly suggestions appreciated.

(LOL jjj posted the exact same thing upthread several weeks ago)

the only 2 things i can think of off the top of my head that i know are on netflix on demand are "Shrooms" and "The Signal"

OH SHIT and Deadgirl, if you haven't seen it.

Wow shrooms is good??? I didn't dare hope! Awesome.

Might do some of those shortish lovecraft thingies as well...

The Woods is up there as well, and is pretty great (guy who did MAY, but better imo)

and digs Miike

um, what

Already 2/3 through the Woods and will be finishing today. Right up my alley.

as is Severance, if you want a tiny bit of british humor in yer slasher flick. also "the new guy" if you want a tiny bit of stalker horror in your low-budget quirky office space style comedy.

you can pretty much skip 100% of the "masters of horror" series, every one of them ranges from slight letdown to fucking awful imo (if you fell compelled to try one, fair haired child is the best of them)

xposts.

oh no! Thx for the warning.

idk, i havent seen all of them so im probably a bit too harsh, but for the most part it seems to be a repository for half-assed ideas that the directors aren't all that committed to. i might be missing some gems tho i suppose.