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

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

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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.

would've enjoyed it more if it were pure kubrick, except the director kept inserting those non-sequitur shake-the-camera/loud-sound/disjointed-scene-of-mayhem, wish shankland didn't fall back on faddish editing tricks to ramp up tension and stuck to his more effective atmospherics

plus the elaborate setups of the sled / greenhouse / playground scenes lacked the simplicity and elegance I look for when I'm waiting for someone's grievous bodily injury

i'd waste my breath defending Shankland and his movie against your cavils, but... you endorsed Home Movie. what would be the point?

I dunno... kill time until yr next rebirth?

I'll still watch dark corners tho, wanna see where shankland's gonna go cause he does have chops

looking forward to we are what we are, coming out next week I think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7igAdSavJU

Somebody do the 1974 horror film poll do I can start canvassing for the totally totally awesome "Black Christmas" which I just saw for the first time.

shame on you for being so late

Wait, how did I see "Black Christmas" before you?

your overpowering olivia hussey fixation?

TCM will destroy a '74 horror poll btw

your overpowering olivia hussey fixation?

lol, this just reminds me of the time when our 9th grade English teacher accidentally showed us Olivia Hussey's breasts

Somebody do the 1974 horror film poll do I can start canvassing for the totally totally awesome "Black Christmas" which I just saw for the first time.

here you go:

Best Horror Film of 1974 (part 19 of a series)

I avoided this movie for so long because I assumed it was a stupid Santa killer movie. Man was I ever wrong.

Haha I mean killer Santa movie. Although I think there actually was a movie where serial killer tracked do

wn department store santas, but I can't remember for sure.

Don't Open 'Til Christmas (1984).

Thx dude! You just saved me a bunch of clumsy imdbing.

Iirc that movie was not so good.

no wai

ok so in the low budget available on netflix streaming category - watched something called "Hampshire: A Ghost Story" and thoroughly enjoyed it! it is in no way a great film, and you can def tell the actors are unpaid for the most part, but theres some scares in there that make it totally worthwhile. a couple stupid bits, but lots of well done actual creepy spots as well.

Got free passes to see Insidious tomorrow night. Hoping for some good old-fashioned boogeyman scares, we'll see.

rereading my post there i feel like im being overcautious and underselling this hampshire movie - it was late and i was a few beers in so i dont wanna go all BEST MOIVE EVAR but it was prob one of the best things ive seen so far this year

Highly recommend Black Death, which has been out in the UK for awhile but only recently began screening in the US. It's by the guy who made Triangle, Christopher Smith, and is basically a grim medieval plague trudge structured like a realistic horror flick. It's all very Doom. A processional to an inevitable result. Name Of The Rose + Aguirre influences strong.

Also, finally saw The Children based on this thread. Put me in the pro column. I don't know that there's enough there to warrant a second viewing but it did kick my ass. Will refrain from spoiler-y discussion.

oh man i really really want to see black death

Soundtrack album is also awesome, semi-ambient acoustic evilness.

LOL I guess Sean Bean will never get to act without a sword in his hand again.

black death sounds sweet, can't wait to see it

Black Death is enjoyable (not something anyone in the 14th century ever said I'm guessing), but nothing amazing. Better than Centurion and Valhalla Rising or any other gritty hack'n'slash movie that came out last year.

I don't know that I would call it amazing but it is v v good at what it does and it's def a breed apart from the two you just mentioned and Solomon Kane etc etc.

im a pretty big fan of valhalla rising tho too so if this is better all the more awesome imo

tbh it's a different beast altogether than VR.

oh hey in case you wondering about the state of the icelandic horror industry i just watched "Harpoon: Whale Watching Massacre" and wow its even worse than the title sounds. avoid avoid avoid.

two from netflix instant watch: High Road which attempts to make the descent but set in mountain climbing and FAILS and Shadow which apart from a kinda awful ending was pretty good imo.

oh hey in case you wondering about the state of the icelandic horror industry i just watched "Harpoon: Whale Watching Massacre" and wow its even worse than the title sounds

please tell me this movie was about a whale watching a dude with a harpoon kill shittons of people

in that case it would be a finnish movie though

Was wondering about a Ghost House film that's on instawatch-- Dark Floors, the one featuring the Finnish false metal band Lordi playing their stage personas.

haha yeah i keep looking at that one and then saying naaaah

curse you! We need a guinea pig.

man if i havent already earned my hazardous duty pay on this thread i just dont know what to tell you

Yeah, how else would I know to avoid Harpoon!!

by looking at the title...?

Session 9, y/n?