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

(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.

it's a poor attempt at an art movie with tons of meta and lots of stop motion tire rolling and it put me to sleep

half liked rubber, half hated it, certainly didn't love it. was awfully dull for a comic horror film (even an arty one), and the "meta" jokes were forced and unfunny, especially the opening scene/monologue.

So, wait - how many upthread have actually seen "A Serbian Film?"

I watched Bunnyman at the weekend, in which six apparently healthy men and woman fail to outrun a dude in a rabbit suit - which is evidently harder than the London Marathon makes it look. It's one to add, along with Sweatshop and The Rite, to the 'safely avoid' pile. Didn't think much of Wake Wood either.

Husk was reasonably diverting. I quite enjoyed Zombies Of Mass Destruction too - it's as blunt as satire gets but has a kind of dorky charm.

Gonna be a dissenting voice here and say I loved "rubber". But it's a million miles away from being a horror film.

[rec] 2 out today on DVD

It's very much like [rec]. Doesn't do anything particularly interesting but doesn't tarnish the memory of the original either.

Was there a film about possession being hyped as 'from the makers of [rec]' a while ago? I vaguely remember seeing something about it but can't find anything online now.

Speaking of Evil Dead: http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/07/12/evil-dead-4-on-the-way-confirms-bruce-campbell/

Watched Insidious last night and thought it was a great. I started getting nervous they would ruin it with the ghostbusters team, but it worked.

haven't seen let me in but most of the reviews I've read begrudgingly admit it's good

Let Me In wasn't bad at all, it's just that it was an exact remake of the Let The Right One In. I was expecting the director to add something else to the film. I think if I hadn't seen the first movie I would of really love Let Me In.

couldn't sleep last night, got up in the middle of the night and watched ils, what was I thinking

ils?

Never mind, I thought it was an abreviation... I looked it up.

French film, often retitled "them" in English. Not the one about the giant ants

But you already knew that.

yeah, thinking about that one still kinda freaks me out a year later! I guess the thin veneer of plausibility is what gets me.

great exercise in menace + tension

ending was eh but still more satisfactory than the strangers, very similar films tho

love how the restraint employed makes it that much scarier. esp for modern horror.

ending is a bit weak, yeah. still, it's tough for it to live up to what your imagination has likely conjured up by that point...

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

:-o

The tension was handled ok but i remember having reservations about the whole feral children / feral Romanians aspect. They're not identified as Roma but the idea of roving bands of evil 'gypsy' kids is played up constantly in the central European media. I doubt it was made with that in mind but it was a unfortunate coincidence.

Western European, rather.

I had similar reservations about the class stuff in eden lake

ils spends of lot of time bagging on romania doesn't it? bad cops! bad tv! bad kids!

Yep. Not sure whether it was written with Romania in mind or just shot there because it's cheap and adapted. Either way, it colours the tone of the film.