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

yeah that opening in the snow is great - the movie's like a demonstration of how to be scary without showing anything at all

I'm watching american horror story. yeah the first episode was a mess. I get the feeling they were trying to condense about 5 episodes into one on the pilot. It's improved since then, but we'll see where it goes. Overall it's a pretty silly show, but I'm a silly person with low expectations when it comes to television horror.

Coincidentally (or not, given the time of year and all), my paper this week asked our local horror maven (she's an editor for Rue Morgue) for a guide to recent stuff that most people might be unaware of. So, here 'tis. I've seen very few of them. (Yes, it does have House of the Devil.)

Cool - I need to track down Stake Land and I Sell the Dead.

Man, the vast majority of those are not streaming on Netflix. If Netflix really wants its streaming service to supplant its DVDs, it needs to offer, like, every genre movie available to stream.

Thats a pretty cool list, although I am not a fan of I sell the dead. A++++ choice on dog soldiers which everyone should see.

I'll let my mom know

Does she like dogs and/or soldiers?

she likes gentle period movies and romantic comedies and despises violence

Anyone see Lake Mungo? Any thoughts?

I thought Dog Soldiers was OK, but all I remember was people running around the woods willy-nilly being chased by werewolves.

i didnt like lake mungo at all, but lots of people did so ?

Lake Mungo is great.

yeah, i liked both lake mungo and dog soldiers

also curious about what enbb thought of Them

― ride the dronosaur (jjjusten), Thursday, October

Just watched it. I LOVED it.

It was 70 some odd minutes of me peeking through my hands and actually screaming out loud - twice. I never ever do either of those. I thought it was excellently done and was completely freaked out and engaged throughout the whole thing. When they got to the big reveal I was genuinely surprised and it upped the creepy factor by 10. Also - the noisemaker at the end - brilliant. It was so good.

Also, I liked that it was short. In general I think most movies should be 90 mins or less so I really appreciated that part.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

What should I watch on instantview next! Nothing foreign this time because I'm gonna be making stuff while I watch so I need to be able to look away from the screen now and then.

The French dude was really hot too. That was also nice.

A few decent non-foreign, newer horror movies currently streaming (or at least were recently):

Let Me In
Black Death
The House of the Devil
Stuck
Triangle

Yeah "House of the Devil" is the perfect choice to have play in the background, actually.

I love Stuck!

I also love stuck.

However, if "the signal" is still available, give that a shot maybe.

enbb, you ever tried lake placid?

Yeah The Signal is quite good - I could really go for a film-length exploration of the dark splatstick vibe of the middle segment.

Nope, never seen lake placid.

The signal isn't available. Gonna go with Stuck - will report back.

Oh hey another option would be "session 9" which is a great straight up spook out horror masterpiece.

yep.
you would like placid. giant crocodile and betty white. Plus oliver platt!

Just finished "stake land", and it was pretty damn good actually.

Hey, what do you know: "Trick R Treat" is pretty good fun!

(It does feature an unusual degree of cruel and serious child endangerment stuff, but hey, it's a horror movie)

Stuck was good!

Will try another tonight. Maybe even TWO. O_O

Stuck was good!

ugh jesus no.

sometimes i worry about you people. </morbius>

Pontypool came up on Netflix Instant today. OT

Watched Dragged Me to Hell last night - it was allright, a little one note. definitely some good scares tho

Pontypool came up on Netflix Instant today.

sweet! been waiting for this!

Tellin' you, it's Halloween, so watch "Trick r Treat." Dunno why the studio dumped this one.

probably because ppl generally don't like movies that feature wholesale kid slaughter, esp. mentally handicapped kids

Hmm, that could be it.

Lake Mungo was on Netflix instant, found it to be quite a good ghost movie and actually pretty moving, but man, what a stinker of a title. I expected it to be about killer amphibians with a title like that. Also I finally watched Session 9--more creepy than scary, but artfully done. I don't think I liked it as much as some others here.

Pontypool is awesome so far ...

Still don't like trick r treat. Also watched Antichrist last night and a) Lara Von trier can fuck off and b) people getting all O_O about the "staggeringly brutal violence" obv dont watch the stuff that I do

OK, Pontypool is getting really silly about an hour in. Like, surreal-silly.

Not to go back to Trick r Treat, which seems to have its detractors, but I do find it interesting that a film (especially a relatively lighthearted one like this) should make one so uncomfortable (as it did me) simply by doing harm to kids, which, given the genre, is really modest in the shock scheme of things. I did like the en media rex vibe of the thing, and the near complete lack of explanations.

from what I know/remember, most horror movies bend over backwards to not harm the kids

I was going to give that a shot tonight but now you're worrying me.

it's nothing to get worried about, it's a pretty goofy movie. i'm with jjusten on this one though, didn't think it was that great. my issues with it had more to do with it being an omnibus of shorter stories loosely tied together, just didn't cohere for me. go for session 9 instead, one of the few genuinely scary movies i've seen recently.

and with hardly any gore!

OK Session 9 sounds pretty great and it'll be the 4th mental institution themed movie I've watched this week.

Hopefully not The Ward. I'm a huge Carpenter fan, but even I knew better than the expect anything from this stinker. And still, it let me down!

Oh yes, that was one of them. lol.

so what were the other ones?