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

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.

Not totally qualified for this thread as it's a docu but damn I will see the f outta this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/movies/30cropsey.html?adxnnl=1&ref=movies&adxnnlx=1275145359-pAjU1jD6ODSppgC1jayJ6g

saw "house of the devil" the other night and it was totes shite. old-style horror movie which is ""authentically made"" at the sacrifice of having anything particularly ""scary or cool"" happen at any point - all the horror is packed into the last ten minutes and none of it is any cop so what's the point?

shame as the general premise was good. and then i watched "drag me to hell" and it was just aas much of a joy as the first time.

not so much horror, but check out machine girl if you havent already

that doc sounds AWESOME

I rate horror films by making my nephew and niece watch them and monitoring their reactions.
Paranormal activity, was particularly effective.

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)

i really enjoyed Pick Me Up (Fairuza Balk fending off a muttering Michael Moriarty!) and thought Cigarette Burns was fun, though none of the other cast-director-plot combos have inspired me to explore further.

though i just noticed The Screwfly Solution is on my queue, probably because it's joe dante directing elliott gould as a scientist trying to figure out why horny men have become homicidal killers. grand series title aside, i just want these to be decent Tales From The Crypt episodes.

miike's is worth seeing if you like miike i guess
zombie soldiers from dante was terrible but still kind of worth seeing

miike's imprint is awesome if you can get past billy drago's terrible overacting... it's an hour jampacked with jawdropping images, and there's something beautiful and sad about the last 20 minutes when the truth finally, uh, emerges

I've seen 3 or 4 other master of horror episodes and none of them comes close to imprint

Enjoyed "The Woods" so much that I watched the other Lucky Mckee movie on NF Watch Instantly, "Red". I guess this is the one Mckee got fired off of. Stone cold quality, would totally recommend. Not horror really, more a grim-ass honor & revenge tale, but based on a novel by horror author Jack Ketchum. Brian Cox is onscreen almost 100% of the movie, being awesome (he co-produced it-- maybe he loved the book?). Could totally imagine this as a late-period Clint vehicle.

Probs gonna go ahead and watch the other Jack Ketchum-derived flick, "The Girl Next Door". Any comments on that?

Also the narrative driver of the film is GODDAMN PUNK KIDS HURT MY DOG!!! which brings me on board 100% from the get-go.

I would not recommend The Girl Next Door, but I don't remember it well enough to really say anything about it other than it is bad.

been meaning to watch "the girl next door", reactions I've heard range from glorified TV movie to harrowing bleakfest.

got interested in seeing it after I read that ketchum's book was, in part, a response to mendal johnson's 70s cult novel let's go play at the adams. supposedly ketchum was so freaked out by the end of LGPATA he felt compelled to write his own version where justice is served.

Jon, check out May if you get a chance (though it's not on instant watch).