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

good description. not a great movie but interesting.

whoops i am a huge liar, pontypool is on comcast/xfinity/whatever the fuck instant viewing in HD, not netflix. sorry dudes

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

― Simon H. Shit (Simon H.), Saturday, June 4, 2011 4:01 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark

^^ otm this was so much fun

25 Best Horror Films of the Aughts

i've seen surprisingly few of those

Seen all but five or six of those, and would also argue that five or six of those have no place on a list like that. Also lame that they include "Let Me In" and "Let the Right One In," both.

i think i'm gonna be okay living my whole life not seeing either human centipede or antichrist

didnt realise halloween 2 was rated v highly?

I don't think it is in most circles

xxxxpost Pontypool is so fkin great. Do whatever it takes to see it.

Was sick over the weekend, so:

THE LAST EXORCISM - was really psyched to see this based on Ebert's description of it as an unironic, earnest, smart exorcism movie. It's on instawatch now. I loved the shit out of it til the last 10 minutes no no no why they do that?!?! Pretty cool minimal solo acoustic score by Nathan Barr who does the True Blood music.

THE FORGOTTEN - McNulty and the cop who masterminded Hamsterdam costarring in a dark sci-fi thing with Julianne Moore who remembers her babby but everyone else says there never was a babby? Basically an above-average episode of X-Files with one treasurable moment where a truly freaky special effect happens to Alfre Woodard.

Halloween 2 is terrible in conception and execution. Ever wonder why Michael Myers is the way he is? Me neither. "Human Centipede" is neither scary nor particularly gross, concept aside. It's less a horror movie than it is a horrible comedy; a least, its humorous bits are its best bits, not least because the not humorous bits are sort of darkly funny, too. "Antichrist" does not sit with my Von Trier antipathy. Misogyny couched as misanthropy is more banal than scary.

Hold on though, Brad Dourif has a pivotal role in Halloween 2? That's a major selling point for me...

That Top 25 list contains a lot of films for which I've never any praise before...

I am down with 95% of that list i think!

curious which films you havent seen praised, pretty much everything on there other than halloween 2 seems to be pretty solidly well regarded.

ok maybe not war of the worlds, but i thought that was surprisingly good, if not very rooted in horror imo

I thought e.g. Strangers and Bug were p much disregarded?

(there's a lot on that list I haven't seen which is the only reason I'm askin')

I am huge fan of the strangers, and bug has its moments, mostly thx to the weirdo dude thats in it being pretty captivatingly fucked up every moment throughout.

but oh man, the strangers is great, a must see

its really the first american film thats really tried to tackle that whole ILS(them)/eden lake/funny games territory and gotten it almost 100% right. its fucking fantastic.

a lot of stuff on that list I haven't seen (mostly the foreign entries - I'm rather apprehensive about Miike based on what I've read for ex) but that Halloween movie is fucking garbage.

Happy to see The Strangers, Bug, Inland Empire, and Inside. I find Pulse weirdly overrated. Don't get the HII love, at all.

Also, the two big Belgian shockers of the aughts (Calvaire, Ex-Drummer) are both better than any of the New French Horror flicks.

is Drag Me To Hell actually good? I gave up on Raimi a long time ago... been curious about Bug for awhile tho

It's loads of fun IMO. Also, least fortunate protag of the 00s.

I was glad to see both Let The Right One In and Let Me In on there. I watched them back to back on successive nights and thought the US version more than justified itself. The contrasts were super interesting to me.

I found the American one better than it could have been but still totally unnecessary, since the best bits were lifted directly from the other one.

Was Paranormal Activity on that list? Should have been.

watched insidious over the weekend- don't deny that it's pretty crap, but there were some v. effective scares and the score was hilariously (and also effectively) waaaay over the top. All in all a fun ghost movie w/ very little blood for those of us that can't swim in the same waters as the Mr. Hal Jams of the world.

Yeah I've been hearing good things about Insidious' music from film score freaks. Should check out.

There are a couple movies I wish hadn't made the list, but I'm pleased with it overall.

wolf creek & the descent are def my fav two horror movies of the 00s

which ones dont you like eric (or is that a professional secret or whatever)?

To me, "The Descent" and "Wolf Creek" epitomize a trend divide between horror and the horrible (the latter not in the qualitative stuff, just that "Wolf Creek" isn't scary so much as unpleasant, though the build-up is strong). "The Descent" is one of those movies I'm glad I saw in the theater, in the dark, when I couldn't pause it.

my list would def be different, but the only ones that really jump out at me from that one that are bad calls are history of violence as a not horror film (although an ok film otherwise) and house of the devil which is the most overrated wink wink style exercise ever. i know some of you dudes like it but that movie is a PIECE OF SHIT.

Mostly the ones I wish weren't on the list are the ones that stretch the definition of "horror" a little too far for my taste (this coming from someone who wanted Irreversible included). Mostly that means A History of Violence.

xpost yep, tho I think AHoV isn't really a very good film apart from not being horror

Yeah, if something like History of Violence makes it, then Irreversible should be on there, too.

Loved "House of the Devil."

I also would've put Let the Right One In and Let Me In in a single slot, even tho they're both valid entries on their own.

i would include irreversible way before i'd include hov.

this is still a pretty good list, even if a large chunk of it makes me 0_o.

far less than even a dedicated horror site's list would make me 0_o though tbf.

man do i really have to get halloween II from netflix then? i was not expecting to have to bother with that one

stuff that would probably make my list, if i was making one

drag me to hell
visitor q (love that this is here)
wolf creek
martyrs
inland empire (love that this is here too)
pulse

not that all the rest are crap by any means (though maybe 1/5th actually ARE crap).

xpost: JOHN, NO YOU DON'T.

I'll just say trust your instincts about Halloween 2 and leave it at that.

i rubbernecked through the remake of the first one because i'm a masochist. two made me actively angry, rather than passively in a "well at least they haven't shit all over robocop in the 21st century yet" sort of way.

ok well then I am leaving Stake Land at the top of my queue because i am way more interested in that one

somehow managed to end up with symbiopsychotaxiplasm/exporting raymond sitting here at the house despite wanting to just be loaded up w/horror this week. dumb me.

i did send back the STUNNINGLY BAD sucker punch this morning tho after watching like 15 minutes of it

lol u watched 15 minutes of sucker punch

truth in advertising there

It was better than uh sky captain and the world of color correction I guess

lol i liked sucker punch. u gotta take it on its terms i think & have a strong tolerance 4 indie dance fuxxors jams from 2007

that's no way to talk about lords of acid

o wait im thinking of donkey punch nvr mind

Halloween II is dull and ugly.

house of the devil which is the most overrated wink wink style exercise ever

eh? yeah, it's a style exercise, but it mostly refrains from any sort of LOL/winking-at-audience bullshit from what i remember.

Working title - House of the Devil: look at my Walkman for the 40th time.