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

stake land looks interesting maybe?

Before the shitty Scream there was a trailer for Apollo 18, which looks like a cross between Alien and Blair Witch. Lots of dubious behind the scenes stuff does not inspire faith in the project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA2pPv4T2YE

Has anyone seen Prowl? It's not getting a cinema release here (although I think it may have been shown at Frightfest) but I enjoyed Manhunt by the same director so I'm tempted to give the DVD a go.

Black Death looks good.

i really liked Insidious. in fact, i'd go see it again.

my favorite thread, kept me alive last fall when i went on a binge and watched 30 or 40 semi-current horror movies in the space of a few months. since then, not much. collapsing into fuddity with william castle, old AIP, amicus, hammer, etc. need new recommendations. is taxidermia a horror movie?

ok this is 2004 so not officially right for this thread but have ppl seen Dead Man's Shoes ?

Yup. Shane Meadows' best film, imo. Paddy C is amazing in it.

So I finally watched The Devil's Rejects and was sort of let down. I mean it was good but I didn't think it was exceptional. The final scene was pretty epic tho.

http://www.thetunnelmovie.net/

New film released this week simultaneously in cinemas and as a free torrent. Anyone seen it? The torrent's taking ages.

It was pretty bad

that trailer didn't look too promising, thanks for taking one for the team

np

Black death was ok, enjoyed insidious more.
Old spooky lady ghost things always work, right?

saw a couple of these last week

splice was a really hard one to wrap my head around, its really a profoundly fucked up movie but you get the feeling that they reined in the full psycho a bit (which is a shame) - still the fact that some of the stuff in this happens despite being a pretty major release is pretty crazy. i would get into it but man its spoilers ahoy, ill just say that it sure felt a lot more like some creepout indie/foreign gutpuncher than multiplex fare. even so, still not entirely sure i liked it overall.

the final destination was the best argument against 3d in movies ive ever seen. also it was a godawful pile of shit in general. way tamer and cuddly than the first 2 in the series, which i like.

also watched "the ugly" but thats from the late 90s so

ha to be clear, im saying that i like the first 2 final destinations, not that i like the tame and cuddly turn. yall probably guessed that i suppose tho

ok this is 2004 so not officially right for this thread but have ppl seen Dead Man's Shoes ?

― just sayin, Friday, April 29, 2011 3:54 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yup. Shane Meadows' best film, imo. Paddy C is amazing in it.

― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Friday, April 29, 2011 8:15 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

^^ this is worth reposting... super creepy

lol @ "way tamer and cuddlier" being a complaint about a movie that features someone's internal organs getting sucked out by a pool filter

original romcom title was disemboweling you always

although reading the description of #2, you might have a point

I love you guys. Just watched Triangle, easily the most fun I've had with a film in ages. Just brilliant. Watched Black Death last night (also for recommendations made here), great in an entirely different way. This director is one to watch.

Rogue. Quite good in so many simple ways but thwarted mainly by its crepey obsession with America. Could have been excellent.

Two must-see titles that are best approached with as little foreknowlege as possible: Simon Rumley's RED, WHITE & BLUE and Eli Craig's TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL.

ok fantastic! i kept almost watching red white and blue but then going eh who knows, its on netflix streaming so thats a no brainer. thx dude

thanks HJ, will keep a look out

think you're maybe mentioned tucker & dale before (?), or someone has, but i forgot about it...

I admired the construction/form of Red White and Blue but didn't find the actual plot/character particulars terribly interesting. Tucker and Dale is great though - I'm shocked there was no attempt to make it a mainstream hit, as it's easily the best horror-comedy since Shaun of the Dead

(saw both of these at a genre fest last July.)

Don't know where to stick this (I gave up disturbing myself with this stuff years ago,) but I stumbled across this Q&A site of people asking vague questions about half-remembered horror films, and found some of the described scenes bizarrely hilarious.

http://www.best-horror-movies.com/horror-movie-question-43.html

Found Red White and Blue to be kind of a depressing bummer, but ymmv.

Also tried watching God of Vampires, but couldn't get past the poor production.

ha i just had the same exact thing happen wtih god of vampires

I know right! I'm beginning to suspect that a large portion of the horror films on Netflix are only being rated by the filmmakers and their families.

Speaking of which, has any sat through Horde yet?

Black Death starts streaming on Thursday!

yeah i watched horde a few weeks ago, it was kinda eh. weirdly enough i thought id written it up on this thread but i guess not, it was def not a knockout and didnt really bring anything new to the table at all imo.

ah, thanks for the heads up. I think I'll skip that one.

Just watched black death and am sad to say I thought it was completely bland and boring. An utter disappointment from a director that I have otherwise really enjoyed.

yeah i wasnt really feeling it either, definitely his worst movie

watched rubber last night: an odd french flick (english language) that riffs on horror movies but is more an absurdist comedy. with gore. concerns a sentient tire gifted with head-exploding powers that awakens from castoff dormancy to wreak vengeance on basically everything it encounters, from water and beer bottles, to insects and other small mammals, and eventually to human beings.

the film was written and directed by quentin dupieux, and at least looks good. it's set somewhere in the american southwest, and makes fine use of the washed out colors and vacant landscape. rubber's only real problem is that the writer/director seems to be so completely in love with his own poker-faced absurdity that the whole thing becomes rather tiresome after a while. we not only get the killer tire itself, but a stand-in audience who observe the film's action at a comfortable remove, an unhinged sheriff, a creepy errand boy, lots of dumb comedy and vague suggestions that some higher power is controlling this whole experiment to god knows what end.

worth a look, but at least as frustrating as it is enjoyable.

directed by mr. oizo!

(want to see it, havent yet, etc.)

wow, i didn't know that QD = mr. ozio! knew that oz did the soundtrack tho. only ozio-like bit comes over the end credits, fwiw.

i have been waiting for rubber w/great anticipation tbh

fuck, didn't even get my own "tiresome" joek. brain just isn't working today.

directed by mr. oizo!

ok, this is v. surprising to me!

rubber is now on netflix streaming btw. let me in as well. plus a bunch of probable crap, but it was a pretty sig horror upload today it seems

OK, I just watched Doghouse which really sucked. BUT (and I realize how lame this is to bring up) it featured a comic book cover/logo design I did for the Dark Horse comic adaptation of Evil Dead at the 4 minute mark of the movie. Kind of neat to see something you made in a film, even if it is really shitty! It's the little things in life...

http://www.horror-movies.ca/AdvHTML_Upload/evildead-3-cover.jpg

Nah that is actually pretty bragworthy and badass imo

Well, too bad the movie wasn't better.

I caved in and watched Let Me In last week. Not bad really.

rubber was REALLY bad imo

yeah i have not heard good things

which sucks because high-concept comedy-horror directed by mr. oizo should not be bad.