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

yeah, i get you, i don't feel i've spoiled anything, tbh. talking about issues relating to the movie doesn't equal SPOILER ALERT

that said, i'm also sorry if i was a dick to you. i just find that within this genre, there's a lot of divisiveness within the fan base. it's cool that you liked it, i just found it sophomoric and rather boring.

hmm, well, yes. there are snuff films and stalker films that are real and do exist. you can find some of them pretty easily, tbh.

― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Sunday, 28 November 2010 01:58 (5 hours ago)

No real snuff films have ever been found. If you DO know of snuff films that exist and are being sold, you should contact law enforcement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_films

eh, i prefer not to interfere. or intercept such vile material. i'm just saying that if you go to Russia and former Soviet countries, it's there. i saw some things i don't wish i'd seen.

enough, tho. back to horror.

ok, not really horror at all but mentioned on this thread more than any other - "Timecrimes" is pretty fucking amazing. not mucking up a time travel movie deserves some sort of special award imo.

yeah Timecrimes is great.

yup

just watched calvaire, belgian survival horror flick from a few years back. holy shit, that was great. easily and instantly one of my favorite horror films of the past decade. from some shit i wrote on imdb:

kept thinking of humanism while watching this film, the enlightenment idea that human feeling and human intellect are equally rational and that they both intrinsically strive toward human betterment. like a lot of fashionable late 20th century/early 21st century pop philosophy, this film feels like an attempt to annihilate the humanist project, to entirely crush the idea that human beings, human thoughts and emotions have any purpose, that they strive towards anything but their own satisfaction.

marc represents humanist idealism in this scheme, an apollonian vision of human beauty and worth. he is an artist first and foremost. he is industrious and sensible. he sings sentimental, heart-wrenching songs about a love that conquers and thus defines human experience. he lives in a world that makes sense, is cooperative and rewards fundamental decency. but he is alone in this world. he is not only alone but deluded. in the film's scheme, marc's faith in the world's reciprocation of his rational decency is tragically misplaced. in the real world, the world around marc, brutality and obsession rule the day, and no communication can cross the distance between individuals. marc's failure to understand this dooms him.

therefore, when he, in the end, says, "i loved you," he is merely fulfilling his role. he is that which loves, or pretends to try to love, in a loveless world. he is the fool that sees beyond himself, truly believes in the petty, lying bauble, the love song, the christmas morning. in believing, he becomes the object of the world, its plaything. those around him, unable to see beyond themselves, simply use him to satisfy their own hermetic desires. i'm reminded here of lars von trier's dogville, another splendid assault on humanist self-delusion. and i say this as a committed humanist, the obvious object of this film's scorn. c'est la guerre.

I second the Calvaire praise. The Belgians are more fun than the French. (See also: Ex-Drummer.)

dance sequence in the bar tops the one that kicks off werckmeister harmonies, love that scene to death

I think the most original horror flick I've seen this year was The Revenant, though Tuck and Dale Vs Evil was more fun.

er. *Tucker*

two movies from 2009 called "the revenant", neither much seen. which do you mean, and what's the appeal?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1336006/combined

This one. Basically, a stoner-y riff on zombie comedy that progresses in unexpected directions, including a pretty ambitious ending. Not perfect by any means, but definitely refreshing.

both of the films you mention sound pretty great, though oddly similar

Tonally completely different. Also, avoid the Tucker and Dale trailer, it's too spoilery. (I've been told the movie should get a release of some kind early next year.)

ok not sure if ex-drummer mentioned up there is horror per se but holy shit that is a movie that hates humanity pretty much - i liked it but it is a dark dark hearted experience.

millionaire band that does the music for the fake band is pretty awesome as well.

these guys would do well in providence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4eWU-pg3uI

pile of new stuff on instant watch

Ok, just watched murder loves killers too (mentioned upthread by haljam) and I can't say enough good things about it. There are def flaws, but its one of the most exciting over the top things I've seen this year. Not a gore fest, but completely committed to what it sets out to do, great great scares, some dark wacky stuff going on. I want to talk about it more, but some of yall need to see it first.

Oh and holy shit, haljam otm re: the title special feature lololololol

does anyone have any interest in doing a ballot style poll culled from this thread plus nominations now that we're at the end of 2010? i had this idea a few nights ago, but it was late and i was drunk so

I'd vote in that for sure.

y not.

add The Loved Ones.

ok cool, ill start thinking out the details and prob launch the nom list in early/mid january. if anybody has any ideas on how many votes to allow or whatever let me know.

great idea, if only cuz it'll get me off my ass about tracking down some of the more obscure stuff recommended here

For real, tho, The Loved Ones. This 2010 Aussie gem is not out Stateside yet, but it really delivers the shock'n awesome "Oh, Shit!" moments. sort of a role-reversed Otis, only a billion times better.

a poll's a good idea but there are probably a couple of films that will crush everything else... drag me to hell, the devil's rejects, the descent, eden lake, martyrs

whereas most of the interesting things I saw on this thread were the offbeat recommendations

I'd almost rather see a POX thread or something like what omar little did here, tho it seems like a bit of commitment/time suck: The (Now-Overrated) ILX Top 100 Films of the 2000s Poll Results

For real, tho, The Loved Ones. This 2010 Aussie gem is not out Stateside yet, but it really delivers the shock'n awesome "Oh, Shit!" moments. sort of a role-reversed Otis, only a billion times better.

Saw it. Oh my god. Oh my christing god. I can't remember the last time I saw a film so suspenseful that I involuntarily climbed up the arm of the sofa. Five and a billion stars.

the unborn is pretty hilarious. my gf and i saw the beginning in a hotel and had to netflix it. gary oldman is a rabbi and stringer bell is a priest, and they walk into a bar!

ok, they don't walk into a bar.

i have a lot of catching up to do wrt movies ive watched for this thread but as a public service announcement i just wanted to say that i have now seen the absolute nadir of zombie comedy horror and that movie is called Doghouse and i dont even have words to describe how shitty and wrongheaded and completely awful that piece of shit was.

"Doghouse" earned my favorite Wikipedia notice: "This article's plot summary may be too long or overly detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise."

Cleansed my palette afterwards with Calvaire which was way better. wow though, bleak as bleak gets, would be a good double feature with Valhalla Rising or Let the Right One In if you wanted to kinda roll with the depressive black horror vibe for 4 hours or so. In the interest of throwing the whole thing for a loop, Meatball Machine is showing up tonight and that should be uh fairly different in tone i expect.

wow i never learn wrt to the lingering trick substitutions of former mod and evil genius DJP.

that gif should be the word "m3t4l" btw.

sauna is my go-to for black m3tal horror, I haven't checked out calvaire yet tho I've got a copy lying around somewhere

in other news I thought the human centipede was a better movie than black swan

I should clarify that it still has a lot of o_O unpleasantness and some moments of intensity so it isnt quite so subtle as i might be making it sound but it just seems kinda steeped in a deep-seated distrust of humanity in general and the resultant hopelessness. very effective

xpost i keep telling people to soldier through the first 20 minutes of human centipede (basically the part where it is painfully obvious that the two female leads cant fucking act at all) because if you do, theres an absolutely brilliant last 60 minutes. dieter lazar or whatever is kick ass creephouse villian, best ive seen in the full-on gonzo aristiocrat class in a long time. which is cool, because i am nearly as sick of the backwoods aw shucks chuckler who turns out to be oh no cannibal/torturer thing as i am of zombie comedies.

also i wanna talk about that documentary "Best Worst Movie" but since Troll 2 isnt even nominally a horror film i dont know whether to do it here or?

reading the description of Meatball Machine really makes me wonder about your sanity, dude

dude just spent a para defending the human centipede, he's beyond all recognition

watched the human centipede with two ppl who were def not into it but just the same it spawned a bunch of comedy catchphrases such as "I don't like human beings" or "FEED HER" that persisted for several days

hey cmon now DJP i just chose not to add "Lucker the Necrophagous" to my netflix queue so obv i have standards

btw u all have until this evening to tell me if Otis sucks because its gotten to the top of my queue and will ship tomorrow along w/Lets Scare Jessica to Death unless I hear otherwise.

calvaire is really good, i thought.

i have not watched much horror lately i have also not really watched any movies lately

thought this was interesting

let's scare jessica to death is A+++++

and meatball machine is more funny/ridiculous than soul crushing

yeah ridiculous is what i was expecting, hopefully a bit more Machine Girl and a bit less Tokyo Gore Police, but we'll see.

totally stoked for lets scare jessica, it got lost in the middle of my queue and got forgotten for a bit

didnt even make it 20 minutes into Meatball Machine, not because it was bad but because i think im kinda done with the goofgore stuff at this point, i just get bored and give up.

Otis was a decided misfire, played for laughs a lot of the time but unfortunately mostly just not at all funny. also the ending was str8 up terrible and embarrassing, like i have honest bafflement about how that ever saw the light of day. what a trainwreck.

on the other hand just watched The Abandoned last night and holy shit, what a great great movie - Nacho Cerda just straight up makes gorgeous looking movies, and the whole thing is just driven by menace more than plot (the plot fortunately was kinda secondary because there was a lot of head-scratching moments). absolutely a new favorite and highly highly recommended.