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

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.

just watched them because it was expiring from my instant watch queue. very effective little film.

I just watched "Frozen" and it's probably the most tense 90 minutes I've spent watching a movie. Unbearable at times but really well done.

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I watched this last night. The dialogue and acting were terrible at times but it was pretty tense and I did like it overall until about half-way through when I started questioning whether wolves would actually just eat people like that, did some "research" and found out that it's highly highly unlikely. Ruined the whole thing for me. :(

Just saw The Last Exorcism last week. Had some problems with it, one character in particular was not well written w/r/t who he was at the beginning of the movie vs. the end, and/but it used the "this is a documentary" thing well until the very very end.

Curious about Kevin Smith's movie, though early reviews from yesterday's premiere is that it's awful (I realize this is a "no shit" thing for most people).

Tweets from Creative Screenwriting editor Jeff Goldsmith (@yogoldsmith) from the Sundance premiere of Lucky McKee's new movie "The Woman," also last night:

> The Woman by Lucky McKee tells of a feral forest woman captured by a sadistic family man wanting to civilize her. Blood, rape & torture....

> Audience member yelling @ Lucky McKee - angry @ torture porn aspect. Security being called - the film did upset some people.

> 6 walkouts in Lucky McKee's bloody film The Woman. Sadly the last was a gal who was running to get out & fell & hit her head.

ha, I was gonna mention mckee. he's filming a new horror film in the state adjacent to mine with angela bettis, so maybe there's hope for him yet.

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still have hope for mckee

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good to hear this project came to fruition, sounds like he might lose contenderizer w/ this one tho

apparently the woman is a sequel to offspring

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262413/combined

McKee’s failure to secure Bettis a role seems to have played a part in his rescinding directorship of the adaptation of Jack Ketchum's Red during production.

Those of us waiting for the beautiful alchemy of McKee, Bettis and Jack Ketchum to make its way to the big screen in an unadulterated form have just received some great news as they’re all lined up to collaborate on Offspring: The Woman, a sequel to last year’s Offspring. That film was written by Ketchum from his own book and part two has been penned by McKee and Ketchum together as both a screenplay and novel.

sounds like he might lose contenderizer w/ this one tho

i still have faith, and loved may and the woods enough to trust him on whatever comes next.

in unrelated news, i watched both sexykiller (w macarena gomez) and bad biology this past weekend. they were the two genre films i came away from 2010 most wanting to see. both very enjoyable, though i can't call either an all-time favorite. bad biology is by far the strangest of the two, and easily the most uncomfortably sleazy horror film i've seen recently. that might not be such a dramatic claim, given that i actively avoid stuff like a serbian film and haven't yet worked up the nerve to see lars voin trier's antichrist, but it's definitely henenlotter's most direct attempt to bottle the comprehensively grubby allure of 42nd street cinema in its 70s heyday. it's funny, outrageous, clever, stupid, appalling and generally very enjoyable. have to admit that i was a bit disappointed by some of the horrorcore trappings and by henenlotter's perhaps merciful failure to take his absurd premise all the way, but i suppose he came as close as possible without succumbing to straight-up hardcore pornography. maybe next time...

sexykiller is great and similarly silly, if much less willfully grotesque. it's basically a kitchen-sink comedy horror film in the vein of michele soavi's cemetery man, where the rules of the game keep changing and the flashy ridiculousness of the cinematic style is the film's primary reward, but so long as you accept it on those terms, it's a wonderful ride. macarena (princess uxía) gomez stars as the titular murderess in a couture dress, and she's great. it's a ridiculous performance, more wild drag than legitimate characterization, but she fully commits to the part and clearly has a great time hamming it up. the rest of the cast is similarly cartoonish, and the movie rarely pauses for breath between hilariously gruesome murder set pieces. i suppose it's both quasi-feminist and fundamentally misogynist, but it's trivial, joyful and fluffy enough that political complaints seem churlish. looking forward to seeing it again.

It's pre-2005, but my brain suddenly spat up the fact that I really liked Bill Paxton's pretty under seen "Frailty," which came out in 2001. Close enough to horror, that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3lUAZLB4JY

(context: Guy freaked out and started shouting towards the end of the movie; he was escorted out by security)

guys like this can fuck right off

conversations where everyone is in the "sir, you've had your moment to speak and I'm trying to be respectful here" mode are THE WORST

dude in that video just sold this movie to 90% of horror fans, lucky mckee should pay him royalties

now that I think about it, he probably is