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

OK...oh is that the time? I gotta go, sorry.

ok, I'm stuck at home while a dude installs central air, so im cruising through another netflix disc - Seventh Moon. And it is just fucking awful. iirc its one of the dudes who did blair witch and part of that ghost house underground collection, which thanks to this is dropping to a 1 out of 3 success ratio (The Children was great, this is awful and Lake Mungo was boring as hell.)

Yeah, gonna finish this out of obligation but man I know its not getting any better.

yeah, trailer for seventh moon looked kinda promising but then I heard nothing but bad things about it

"I'm a wuss; hate broken bones protruding from skin"

this is the one gore-ish thing that still gets a "ughhhhh" outta me. that post-seagal moment in the '90s when it migrated from horror and seemed to show up in every mainstream action movie was a living hell for me.

this was talked about way upthread but i watched the last house on the left remake last night. it was kinda bizarre for me. like it was a good movie but that rape scene left me so unnerved i couldn't enjoy anything after that point. and capping it with the dumb microwave scene didn't really redeem the experience for me.

should i bother with the original? or would it mess with me just as much?

God the last scene of last house '09 is so awful.

The original is a much stranger beast. Worth seeing.

yeah im still pissed about the stupid ass microwave scene fucking up what i thought was otherwise a pretty well done movie. stupid as hell.

original is very different, totally worth seeing

and the drawn out brutal rapey bit...?

still quite drawn out and rapey iirc

Has anyone seen House of the Devil?

Its a 2009 film shot in that 70's/80's horror style. I mean every detail from the filming technique to the waxy Coca Cola cups they once served drinks in at fast food restaurants is a throwback to that decade. Its also a pretty solid haunted house/slasher film. Not heavy on the gore but very creepy with a great pay off at the end.

http://imgur.com/f1orP.jpg

some talk about that one upthread; reactions were mixed

Um I just saw A Serbian Film and I want to sob and vomit and tear out my eyes and all of that. P much sets the standard for viewing discomfort.

yeah, curiosity got the best of me and I just watched it as well. mega shocking scenes aside, I thought it was basically garbage. I mean, all that "this is art! this is film!" stuff - hated that shit.

felt like the only things of value it had to offer were also completely unpleasant. the rest was all paper thin characters and dialogue with an idiotic soundtrack blaring over a couple scenes. big chunks of it felt like watching some sleazy cinemax junk to me.

one memorable line tho. you probably know the one. immediately made me think, "I really hope this doesn't become a meme."

I thought the sountrack/score was extremely effective and generally wonderful.

uh "soundtrack"

yeah, not a dubstep fan in general, but different strokes for different folks

where exactly are peeps managing to see this? is it still in some sort of theatrical release, or torrents, or dvd or what

p1r@teb@y is where I found it

I hear there's a torrent of DVD rip of a screener copy floating around that has the words SCREENER COPY in the top-right corner that you don't even notice after a few minutes.

yeah, that's the one I watched. the studio's name appears in GIANT transparent letters every 15 minutes or so as well.

ok thx, was wondering if i was just totally outside the netflix loop or something for a bit there.

this seems like a prime candidate for me to further explore the thing i was trying to figure out here: Enjoying horror films - why do we (or don't we)?

I really should post my ASF rant there - hated it and everything for which it stands - but I'm busy watching 'The Gateway Meat' right now...

the new puppet master was shit. and this is coming from a fan of the the early movies.
so disappointed

I mean how hard is it to have more death scenes and make them more creative

repping for Piranha 3-D here.

that upcoming Exorcism movie is getting good press too...

half enjoyed piranha 3D, definitely a step up from mirrors for aja, but still a disappointment. well, a disappointment on every level other than the gore-delivery level. gore-delivery was top notch.

otoh, watched skinned deep the other night and although it is from 2004, it is close enough and wonderful besides. ultimately no more than a "tribute to" (rip-off of) hooper's lunatic texas chainsaw massacre 2, but blazed and crazy and fun from beginning to end. good cheap gore, horrible acting, excellent gags and characters, and a billion stupid/brilliant ideas. more an absurd stoner comedy than a horror flick of any sort, but endlessly entertaining on that level. a new & instant favorite. recommended to all people.

Skinned Deep directed by Gabe Bartalos, Henenlotter's (and Matthew Barney's) main makeup and FX man. been years since i've watched it, but i do remember it being a good time, if a bit batshit.

ok, I'm stuck at home while a dude installs central air, so im cruising through another netflix disc - Seventh Moon. And it is just fucking awful. iirc its one of the dudes who did blair witch and part of that ghost house underground collection, which thanks to this is dropping to a 1 out of 3 success ratio (The Children was great, this is awful and Lake Mungo was boring as hell.)

Yeah, gonna finish this out of obligation but man I know its not getting any better.

― gg eileen (jjjusten), Monday, August 16, 2010 4:37 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That's funny. I watched Seventh Moon on Chiller a couple weeks ago with my wife and we both thought it was decent. I was going to post about it on here, but then I was like, "Naw, someone will probably make fun of this." It makes total sense that it was directed by someone affiliated with blair witch.

what are the good psychological horrors

session 9, inland empire?

well, in addition to those, gotta second (seventh) the children, as recommended upthread by several. holy shit (!!!), instant classic, bar-none best straight horror/thriller i've seen in i don't know how long. great performances and photography, plus a genius central conceit carried out with pitiless logic, but absent overt sadism or pandering. so nice. loved almost everything about this film, the control of tension more than anything else. so otm about $$$ tensions and aspirations, dad/daughter relationships, fundamental grossness of the wee ones, etc. just cannot sufficiently stress the greatness.

i want more recommendations like this. so many indie production companies making movies direct to DVD these days: ghost house, raw feed, films to die for, etc. every once in a while, one must rise above the rest. you know, like the children. please to tell.

of the Ghost House's i've seen, Dance of the Dead (zombie prom. witty and wild) stands out. wouldn't kick Ole Brondal's The Substitute (The Faculty for the Twilight set) or the loopy The Last House in the Woods ('80s Italo gore/colored gels tribute - think Evil Clutch and House by the Cemetery, not Argento - with no brains but one nifty twist) out of bed, either.

there are some good ADHF titles:
The Abandoned (unites enfants terribles Richard Stanley, Nacho Cerda and Karim Hussain for a Russian ghost story. but what a ghost story!)
The Deaths of Ian Stone (inventive genre-bender. script could have used one more draft)
Mulberry St (fumbles the zombie-ratman FX but gets the human stuff right)
Borderland (scarily intense Mexican torture-cult hijinx undermined by lapse into cartoonishness and gratuitous Sean Astin)
The Hamiltons (something different. generally successful. go into this one with minimal foreknowledge)
Perkins' 14 (a great concept and seriously psychedelirious direction outweigh its (many) shortcomings)
Voices (AKA Someone Behind You. superior late K-horror, more visceral than most)
Dread (almost does justice to the bleak, black psychopathology of Clive Barker's BOB tale. meanders too much, but manages to mount a number of stunning moments)

i don't think there has been a good Raw Feed title yet. maybe Alien Raiders, which is virtually a remake of Carpenter's The Thing, in a supermarket, with HandyCam accoutrement. i guess Otis isn't bad. just misses the mark, for me.

will think of others outside of the major franchises, post later.

Dance of the Dead
The Substitute
Mulberry St

These are all good. I hate Dread, though.

after the a-bore-minations that were Book of Blood and MMT, i thought Dread was at least somewhat successful. one of my favorite stories, along with "Pig Blood Blues" (next up, i believe), so i was ready to hate it. felt longer than it was, and obviously padded, but packed a punch in the more directly sourced scenes.

along with "Pig Blood Blues" (next up, i believe)

please don't let this be bad or a little piece of my 7th grade soul will die.

Dread director (Anthony DiBlasi) is doing it. and Barker seems to trust him implicitly. i'll give him the benefit off the doubt.

so this thread deserves a revive since it's that time of year. have to say there's been an explosion of quality indie horror lately, and every recommend from this thread has been worthwhile.

watched the end of the line last night and I fall in with its supporters. a creepy, gory, and unique shocker, it balances the ghost/slasher/apocalypse angles nicely. some unmodulated performances but as noted above, it does a lot with a little and I anticipate most horror fans will be forgiving. between the end of the line, pontypool, and the signal, canada has been bringing the goods these past few years. martyrs was filmed in canada, too, tho I'm unsure on how much local contribution was made.

hey canada, why so apocalyptic?

what's new on netflix instant that's recommendable?

been out of the loop and watching very few movies lately. if anybody's seen anything cool in the last month or two, lemme know.

plus belated thanks to hal jam for the production company rundowns. agree on the abandoned (which i didn't entirely love, but enjoyed up until the too-pat ending) and otis (which was never better than okay). will check out dance of the dead, last house in the woods, perkins 14 and alien raiders. sound like they might be up my alley.

sublime = another raw feed title that almost works then totally, totally doesn't. keep meaning to see rest stop...

the signal, love object, grace, the chair, teeth, aftermath, and genesis all streaming on netflix

anyone seen the living and the dead? more like a thriller but marketed like a horror movie

you'd recommend all of those edward?

I will def second the signal

and i will def second teeth

o yeah if you haven't seen the signal... everyone should see the signal... see the signal.... see the signal...

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.

? Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Monday, 15 March 2010 21:40 (7 months ago)

it's funny, I was gonna respond to this yesterday, but people have been doing some really interesting things with the zombie genre in the past few years, including variations on the theme. I slot the signal into a zombie-related category, it's more along the lines of something like shivers or the crazies, hordes of people possessed by something unspeakable bringing about the downfall of civilization. other innovative zombie flicks of late are deadgirl, pontypool (language is a virus!), sexykiller (absurd, quirky serial killer comedy from spain w/ bonus zombies, it's a treat), and the end of the line.

the only thing you should know about the signal before going in is it's an anthology directed by 3 different directors all dealing with the same plotline and characters. otherwise you will be like wtf with the tone changes.

kinda can't believe this didn't get US distribution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf84vZUb_fM

^ that's macarena gomez from dagon btw