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

[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.

Hey you guys I don't watch many horror films at all and haven't looked in on this thread but I thought you might be interested in this Korean webcomic.

http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=350217&no=20&weekday=tue

Have your computer volume turned up. Scroll down. Keep scrolling.

anyone see "I saw the devil"?

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/i-saw-the-devil-mondo-kevin-tong-poster-400x600.jpg

I really liked it - i think we talked about it a little in the human centipede thread. Its def more in tune with that moody oldboy vibe than horror per se. Its kind of what i wish Memories of Murder had been in a lot of ways.

nice poster

I finally saw "A Serbian Film." Wasn't terrible, wasn't terribly good, once again had more to say about what we watch and why we watch it than any sort of trenchant political commentary, hard as it may have tried. So out to shock it comes off more than a little ridiculous, but I suppose it's worthwhile and its commitment to its not exactly depraved but certainly horrific vision impressive.

theatrical or dvd or "wink wink" or?

Wink wink. So I presume uncut. But given this movie's clear artistic distance from the average exploitation, I'm really surprised it's getting banned left and right. Yes, it's gonzo with its gore and sexual violence, but it would take a real freak to read it as titillating. And indeed, its very protagonist takes issue with its content, basically.

webcomic delivered!!!

Cruising my way through the last few years of extreme, I was pretty let down by "Martyrs." It felt like it was adapted from a (very) short story and then padded out to feature length, glimmers of ambition countered by its bucket of bullshit. A lot of these French extreme directors (was this movement sent in motion by the goofy "High Tension?") just want attention to get to the US, though I admire the fact that the folks behind "Inside" (up next in my queue) opted not to go the American studio horror route, yet, though I did find it amusing that both they and the "Martyrs" guy were at one point attached to a remake of "Hellraiser."

I've debated this here a couple times, but for me claire denis' trouble every day was the initial french film to feature loving arthouse cinematography of blood drenched tableaux. tho it's missing the exploitation vibe of the fancy grindhouse fare that came later, it was a style marker pointing the way. I guess high tension was the first one to present the whole dubious package.

Not surprisingly, there is a wiki associated with this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_French_Extremity

Though reading this, I'd put Gasper Noe's "I Stand Alone" and maybe even something like "Baise-Moi" at the fore of this Euro "extreme" movement.

there is also an ilx thread iirc

OK, Inside was just garbage. Makes Martyrs seem all the more ambitious.

should I saw the devil get its own thread y/n

anybody see the scary moon movie or the del toro related remake yet? optimistic about the first one, reaaaaaal worried about the second one being awful