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

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.

Birdemic on netflix instant!

so 'insidious' is p lolbad

Yep - and it's still one of the best new horror films i've seen this year.

oh man birdemic is a rough trial, just fyi

REC 2 on the way for me. also about halfway through make out with violence and so far it seems like a goofier more boring version of deadgirl

like kinda mumblecore deadgirl which is nagl

even the title sounds like a bad emo band

still havent finished it

watched Perkins 14 and got so uninterested partway through that i just let it play in the background while i looked for other streaming netflix on my iphone

insidious story was kinda blah, but man o man did some of the ghosty scares in the first half hit that sweet spot!

So none of this is new stuff, but they just added a bunch of Giallo to Netflix streaming - I saw deep red and never kill a duckling or whatever for sure, but there were a ton more

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.

Hmm I didn't really feel like they were supposed to be gypsies, I read it as more like the kids were morally symptomatic of all the political horrors that went down in that region. Like they were moral idiots born from that environment...?

Let Me In wasn't bad at all, it's just that it was an exact remake of the Let The Right One In.

Really? I found the differences totally fascinating. Granted, they are subtle differences...

I don't know. The film didn't really have an obvious sense of history or domestic political context attached to it, as far as i can remember. Would presenting them as being so shaped by the trauma of Romania's recent history that they are incapable of interacting in a civilised way be any less problematic a position for a Western European film to take?

Probably not!

I thought the kids in "Ils/Them" were meant to be not Roma/"gypsies" but further remnants of Romania's infamous orphanage horrors. Ceauşescu famously outlawed abortion and contraception, so the orphanages (and later streets) were teeming with untended and uncared for kids. I think Romania still has the highest number of orphans in Europe.

finished "make out with violence" and while it wasnt completely terrible i def wouldnt bother with it ever again. Cigarette Burns (the carpenter thing from masters of horror) was undeniably batshit, but not in a good way, more in a making this up as i go along way. also not worth watching.

OTOH i finally got around to rec 2 and was pleasantly surprised! I mean yeah plausibility is stretched and there are plotty nonsense moments (ie uh where did those other kids go?), but the first one worked in spite of that and this one does too. also the night vision trick (not gonna spoil here, if youve seen it you know) is brilliantly executed and boosts the creepiness up a notch. noticed that the dudes that did this kept this story for themselves and gave quarantine 2 the terrible looking scary airplane script, which is hilarious to me.