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

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.

I love how all the time wasting/filler in that movie is just like those VHS-designed horror flicks you rent when you're young and basing your decision on the box/title only to find little in the way of payoff. Except this movie was in on the joke, and the joke is that it takes itself totally seriously.

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

XD

just watched it last weekend and thought it was pretty bad. everything up to the last 15mins was super-tedious and then the climax was ineptly executed and fell flat.

so annoying how pretty much every review of house of the devil talk abt what a SLOW BURN it is and how its so great at BUILDING TENSION and really its just super boring

Man, now I'm afraid to say I mostly liked Halloween II. Mostly. Could've cut way back on the Sherri Moon Zombie stuff, but the whole opening sequence was terrific and there was some almost-real pathos from Dourif.

I liked House of the Devil. Mary Woronov!!! I love her.

just watched it last weekend and thought it was pretty bad. everything up to the last 15mins was super-tedious and then the climax was ineptly executed and fell flat.

― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Monday, October 24, 2011 11:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so annoying how pretty much every review of house of the devil talk abt what a SLOW BURN it is and how its so great at BUILDING TENSION and really its just super boring

― just sayin, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 6:32 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I watched it just last week too. I didn't know anything about it but found it on instant view. I thought the tension was pretty good but I agree with this entirely "the climax was ineptly executed and fell flat". I was sort of enjoying it up until the end and then I was like ._. that's it?! Thumbs down.

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

― Threat Level: Panda (jjjusten), Monday, October 24, 2011 4:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I loved The Strangers.

After I watched it I read all about the real murders it was based on. Some creepy-ass shit right there.

I watched it just last week too. I didn't know anything about it but found it on instant view. I thought the tension was pretty good but I agree with this entirely "the climax was ineptly executed and fell flat". I was sort of enjoying it up until the end and then I was like ._. that's it?!

That's what I love about it! It's all slooooowwww build, and then the payoff is both more or less exactly as promised by the title yet somehow much, much less. It's like a low-budget equivalent of "Suspiria" or something.

I mean, the looooooooong time spent with her just killing time in the living room? Awesome.

I thought the tension was pretty good but I agree with this entirely "the climax was ineptly executed and fell flat". I was sort of enjoying it up until the end and then I was like ._. that's it?! Thumbs down.

Did anyone have this exact same response to The Last Exorcism? I did. Still hoping to find out the last 10 minutes were added by a distibutor or something...

Don't think it's been mentioned on this thread, but has anyone else seen "Severance?" Not bad, funny but also effective.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Severance_poster.jpg

Also, count me among the "Tucker and Dale" fans. It's a little padded out, but pretty smartly aware of its own silliness.

I haven't seen either of the last two. I think I'm going to watch "Them" tonight.

"Them" is another good one to watch sans distractions, in the dark. No pausing.

Good to know.

i thought i mentioned severance on here somewhere - i like it, if i was ever going to do my horror comedy rundown it would be the late in the night kinda nasty one to keep people awake at night. lots of fun.

so pontypool was ok? i enjoyed some of it quite a bit. barely barely horror tho, which isnt a bad thing.

also curious about what enbb thought of Them

pontypool is way horror! it's a zombie movie fer chrissakes! yeah it's thoughtful and it generates a lot of its horror off-screen, but it's tense, claustrophobic, nightmarish. the scene where the guy on the phone is succumbing to the plague is one of my favorite horror moments of the last few years.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/713_fi_x491_pontypool.jpg

x-post - I totally fell asleep and didn't watch it. Plan to tonight. I will let you know!

its a light hearted romp!

ok not really at all

Started S&Man last night. Got interrupted about 20 minutes in but wow. Can't wait to finish it.

I liked Pontypool in a lot of ways, steven mchattie was fantastic, but its (to me) def a different kind of film draped in a lot of horror tropes. i didnt really ever feel any menace or scares at any point, but not because of any failing in the movie, i just dont think thats what the guy was really trying to do - and maybe because the concept itself was so intellectual and unreal? in other words, it felt like the makers knew that there was no believability to the scenario, so they presented it more as a thought experiment than anything with any real weight.

its hard for me to explain. and i definitely mostly liked it, although the ending was kinda the last nail in the wink wink nudge nudge coffin for me.