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

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.

man this thread is an absolute goldmine, although i only posted on it at the time to hate on The Mist (and saved taunting J0rdan about liking P2 for AIM). i just went nuts and added about 20 movies mentioned here to my queue, since the wife and i have a tradition of watching horror flicks on Valentine's Day.

― Dr. Algernod Goon (some dude), Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:46 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

that time of year again, i need to comb this thread more. any particular flicks there's kind of a consensus on being worth seeing?

did anyone ever see The Descent Part 2? it being straight-to-DVD after the first one made a decent amount of money seems like a red flag so i'm apprehensive.

I wrote something about descent 2 somewhere on ilx, it's not terrible but it's a huge huge letdown compared to the original.

Speaking if which, I'm about to watch the "I spit on your grave" remake so I am obviously not to be trusted in matters of taste or decision making hoping for the best.

Just watched the children, wasn't impressed at all.
So many things bad about it i don't know where to start.

Can't believe how much love it's getting on this thread!?!

You're not alone. We saw it last weekend and hated it.

didn't hate the children but def didn't love it as much as others here.

some good atmosphere, decent acting, I liked that they didn't try to explain the causes and the ending was well played (think I preferred the version in the deleted scenes tho).

but the kill gags were clumsily executed (ha) and the plot didn't hold any surprises. children go crazy, children kill, the end. not enough imagination and/or sheer terror to sustain the enterprise.

if you want a good kids-who-kill flick, check out home movie. that one is seriously haunting.

wha?! Home Movie is TURRRRRRRIBLE. Stupidest. Parents. Ever.

eh, I liked it

I actually think part of the psychology of home movie is that you really want bad things to happen to those parents

also appreciate the black humor in it

maybe one day i'll retrieve my copy of HM from the bottom of the closet and rewatch it. prolly not during this lifetime.

hope you enjoy it more in your next life

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/reincar1.jpg

on craft alone, The Children is just streets ahead of anything else comparable. there are so many shots and setups in it that are pure Kubrick. i love the vagueness, the formulaic trappings, the banality of the threat, the unsparing viciousness of the mayhem. proof that an oft-told tale can still surprise in the right hands.

Not much of a life going on in that picture!

The children for me had it all,

bad acting, sound, editing, make-up, it was perfectly bad!

I mean, a range rover that has crashed into a tree with enough force to throw the drive through the window but not dint it at all and only have the bonnet slightly open with a little steam coming out of it is just lazy film making.