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

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.

― She Got the Shakes, Monday, November 8, 2010 6:31 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

― just sayin, Friday, October 22, 2010 7:29 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

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

He swears the dude isn't a plant, and seemed kind of shaken up about the whole thing at the screening, apparently. (The angry guy *is* an actor, if he's to believed in the video - he says something like "I've been in over 40 movies myself!").

"There are limits that ought to be taken . . . our 'civilization' quote-unquote . . . "

"Sir, can I finish my sentence?" "I doubt it."

Fuck this dude. Like because he watched this movie and was upset by him he gets to be a dick to everyone. Shoulda jabbed him with a needle full of thorazine and tossed him out in the snow.

"I don't want this crap in my mind anymore!" HERE'S A HANDGUN, GIT 'ER DONE.

apparently the dude was on OZ

it's simple and accurate enough just to say that the guys's a fucking asshole

(He = Lucky McKee / self-xxx-post)

oh shit, that guy WAS on Oz wasn't he?

First person account of the events preceding that video above.

Finally, the film ended, and the credits began to roll, and before anyone could even start to move toward the stage for the Q&A, Captain Indignant stood up directly in front of me.

And he began to scream.

"THIS MOVIE DEGRADES WOMEN! THIS MOVIE DEGRADES MEN! YOU ARE SICK! THIS IS NOT ART! YOU ARE SICK! THIS IS A DISGUSTING MOVIE! SUNDANCE SHOULD BE ASHAMED! HOW DARE YOU SHOW THIS!"

I've tried playing back the incident and breaking down how long actually elapsed. I can't, though. It's one of those moments that is distorted by that adrenaline that was already coursing through me, already so strong that I could feel the vein in the side of my neck pulsing, and having this guy stand above me, showering me in his spit of self-righteousness, and it felt like ten minutes went by of no one reacting to this lambasting of the filmmakers.

"WHO WOULD MAKE THIS? WHY WOULD ANYONE EVER SHOW THIS? I WOULD LIKE EVERY PERSON IN THIS AUDIENCE TO GET UP AND COME WITH ME SO WE DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS SICK MIND!"

I heard someone suddenly yell back, even louder than him, "WHY DON'T YOU SIT DOWN AND SHUT THE F**K UP AND LET THE FILMMAKER HAVE HIS SAY?"

And when the guy looked down at me, shocked, I realized it was me who yelled it.

"ARE YOU SAYING YOU LIKED THAT MOVIE?"

"Yeah. Yeah, I did."

From a few rows behind me, I heard someone loudly and clearly say, "Then you're sick, too." That seemed to be all the fuel Captain Indignant needed, and he sneered at me.

"THEN YOU HAVE NO MORAL COMPASS, AND I FEAR FOR ANYONE IN YOUR LIFE."

is that guy really lee tergesen? if so, it's rich coming from a guy who bit somebody's dick off and crapped in a nazi's mouth on national television....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU8kwKVir7Y

The description of that movie makes it sound like a cross between "Last House on the Left" and "Dead Girl."

'black death' looks dope imo

want to see 'the children', and also: http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/23084

birdemic is finally releasing on dvd some time in february!

it is supposed to be utter shit, but in a highly watchable made by a crazy person way

most of my friends have seen birdemic multiple times, i've never pulled the trigger. it may be time.

Loved "The Children." Some really creepy scenes. "Black Death" was slow but ultimately worth it (Andy Nyman, in it in a small role, also rules - his horror play Ghost Stories, that he stars in and wrote with Jeremy Dyson from the League of Gentlemen, and which just jumped from the Hammersmith Lyric to the West End, is an awesome, awesome night out). Apologies for the heinous "structure" of that sentence, but I'm trying to learn to type on this tiny keyboard and my goddamned fingers are cramped from this one post :(

yeah ive already said it a bunch of times but the children is just about perfect, an absolute must see

^ yup, no two ways about it

"it is supposed to be utter shit, but in a highly watchable made by a crazy person way"

this movie is unwatchable in its original linear order, but fantastic when randomized in increments of five to ten seconds.

have had the children blu-ray sitting on my shelf for the past month

which "the children" -- the one from 2008?

yeah, this one

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_(2008_film)

thanks

ok that link was funky, let's try again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_%282008_film%29

I was enjoying Frailty quite a lot until the utter bullshit of the last ten minutes, they seemed to have been transplanted from a far dumber film. The kid who played the older brother was very good I thought.

yeah i liked frailty a lot when i first saw it but watched it again p recently on netflix and it was less good than i had remembered. its still solid & v effective for the most part but there some bad-cheesy moments throughout

ha I actually love the ending of Frailty

so watched belgian whatever sl8n8 (now americanized into slaughter night for stupid people) and uh wow it just kinda blew. like sub masters of horror level crap.