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

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

apollo 18 and dont be afraid of the dark, respectively, once i actually thought for a second

I am trying to figure out if you meant "The Orphanage" or "Don't Be Afraid Of Katie Holmes's 'Acting'"

xp: lol

I initially thought you were talking about a movie and its remake, and was all "I don't think the moon has anything to do with DBAOTD or 'The Orphanage'"

does anyone have any interest in doing a ballot style poll culled from this thread plus nominations now that we're at the end of 2010? i had this idea a few nights ago, but it was late and i was drunk so
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Did this never happen?

Also, Rubber not bad, but not very good either. Mostly just loved Jack Plotnick in it because I have a small crush on him.

Stake Land is also worth checking out.

"The Reef" is a good old fashioned shark film on netflix WI.

still trying to decide if i think Insidious was ok or crap

its kinda interesting in that it is a gore free horror flick which is super rare these days, and there were some pretty great "woman in the trapdoor in the haunting" style super creepout moments, but oof that last half hour and the general incomprehensible plot were rough. been a while since someone made a proper old school haunted house (yeah yeah i know) movie.

you can always hang your hopes on DREAM HOUSE

oh yeah that will suck

Thought Insidious was pretty weak overall.

dude who directed DREAM HOUSE has the weirdest filmog

2011 Dream House

2009 Brothers

2005 Get Rich or Die Tryin'

2002 In America

1997 The Boxer

1993 In the Name of the Father

1990 The Field

1989 My Left Foot

I think it came out in 2004, but I really enjoyed A Tale of Two Sisters over the weekend.

yeah i am a huge huge fan of tale of two sisters, its one of my favorites

that list does not inspire confidence in dream house

insidious was pretty shitty but i have to give it a couple of points for good use of "tiptoe through the tulips"

Wow, has anyone seen "S&Man?" It's on Netflix streaming right now. Sort of fucked up, but also sort of inspired, and worth seeing with no prior knowledge.

oooh! i want to talk about JT Petty's S&Man - but only with people who have already seen it. anyone?

― babytown frolics (Mr. Hal Jam), Monday, November 8, 2010 3:21 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark

There we go! Anyway, worth seeing! If everyone else wants to leave the room, I'm here to talk.

paranormal activity 2 seemed really good until it was over and i realized i didnt really like it at all - like scanning the images to try and see if anything is changing seems involving at the time but then you realize that the movie sucks

pontypool is now on instant watch netflix fyi. as is dreaded and surely terrible Red State

a kevin smith social commentary torture porn movie, how bad can that be

also <3 pontypool

I just read the plot of Red State

please don't watch it

ooh! I saw Slither over the weekend (is that post-2005)? That was amazing. Easily one of my most favorite relatively recent horror films. I laughed all the way through it.