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

but yeah joe swanbergs was definitely a highlight

Seems like I mostly agree with jjjusten on things, so I'm surprised by how slowly (even Ti-West-style slowly!) I'm becoming a Ti West die-hard. I can't even put my finger on why. I guess you either groove to his tempo or you don't. Psyched for V/H/S.

i like his tempo but when he finally gets to the climax it's usually pretty disappointing. i liked HOTD and Innkeepers until the last 10 minutes of each.

Since it was mentioned upthread, I watched The Caller on Netflix streaming and ugh what a risible piece of crap. The whole stalker/abusive ex-husband plot was twice-warmed-over crap, the film was set in Puerto Rico for no discernable reason whatsoever and was oddly devoid of Hispanics not named Luis Guzman, it actually had a scene of the heroine falling to her knees in front of a grave . . . it started strong but just completely went to crap very, very quickly.

Maybe it's that West's movies are so much about tempo that the sorta-bad endings don't bother me as they would in other, plottier films. It's like ambient music or something. That said, I bet if his endings suddenly got kick-ass, I wouldn't complain.

not that any of you were probably going to bother, but avoid "Chain Letter" like the plague. dumb as dumb gets, painfully acted, stupid in every way.

watched Entrance yesterday and its kind of a hot mess. very slow in establishing a something is wrong here vibe, but then pays off? kind of? tbh i wanted to like it, but im pretty sure i didnt. did make me doublecheck all the locks in my house when i went to sleep though, which is something i guess? idk. netflix streaming for the interested.

followed that up with Silent House (the one from portugal), and man, impressive feat and pretty spooky throughout until the ending which was both totally vague and unrewarding and fairly nonsensical. really thought this would be a winner, but pretty much totally failed for me.

Silent House is Uruguay, i think - unless we're thinking of different films.

I quite enjoyed it but the ending isn't great.

oh shit uruguay is right, mixing up my countries with u's in them today i guess

Silent House ...

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb57525/simpsons/images/6/60/Uruguay.jpg

open letter to Lucky Mckee:

THE INDIE ROCK, IT HAS TO STOP

Keep hearing good things about "Kill List." Just heard that "VHS," which I also want to see, may be the most egregious use of shaky cam ever. A friend of mine had to turn it off before he barfed. "Turn it off before you barf" sounds like it'd be the perfect tag-warning to stick on a horror film, but in this case apparently for all the wrong reasons.

Kill List is one of the most bafflingly overrated films of recent times

Most of the recommendations I've gotten don't say it's a great film, just different and surprising. And very hard to (literally) understand.

watched some of 'kill list' but didn't make it to the end - the juxtaposition of kitchen-sink domestic strife with the uncanny elements seemed a bit ham-handed and i kinda lost interest. didn't help that the characters were all horrible bastards, either. the wikipedia summary makes it seem like it goes in pretty much the direction i expected it to go from what i saw, ie shitty wicker man. be interested to hear what others thought of it, though.

it has its own (pretty short) thread. I guess its supporters call it ambiguous, i just thought it was nonsensical

Ha, that sums up 95% of horror!

I wish I could discuss my feelings abt why The Woman does not succeed despite some staggering aspects. But there's no way to do so without major spoiling...

ha i think i had the same problem actually

Once more into the breach, dear ghosts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Xn2JqH5ng

Kids.

If that was NOT every scary scene in the movie, the movie will be 42 hours long.

man im sorry but i am so so done with that series, i dropped out after #2

#3 actually wasn't bad for the most part, but they've ridden this pony way farther than they should have.

oh i never remembered to get on here and talk about this - Dream Home (which is on netflix streaming fyi) is a pretty interesting weird thing, it has one foot in the sorta half-comedic slightly overblown melodrama get out of HK cinema a lot, and the other foot in totally gonzo splatter brutality. its pretty jarring, but its also pretty amazing and i really dug it.

on a less optimistic note, the innkeepers is sitting at my house right now, so you can prob all look forward to me getting cranky abt people continuing to give a shit abt ti west.

Oh, that movie is really not bad at all.

Was curious about "Dream Home," but I guess I'm pretty tired of ironic OTT gore.

oh i might have misled you, theres nothing ironic at all about this movie, its not another meatball machine or machine girl, its deadly serious for the most part, and weirdly sad.

But it's a social satire, right?

maybe in the vaguest of terms? i mean there is a message for the times aspect there i guess, but its not overblown.

the first 5-10 minutes will either hook you or its not a movie for you tbh, it basically reveals itself right out of the gate.

Just started "the innkeepers" countdown to ironic Walkman placement begins now.

Gotta say, as much as I am not sold on the dude, his soundtracks are fucking badass

And there it is, a huge "intel inside" sticker on a clunky laptop. First 10 minutes.

Oh wait, worse, it's an "evil inside" sticker.

Alright, time to eat some crow here, I thought the innkeepers was great. Sorry for beating you up all the time Ti (house of the devil is still a total piece of shit tho).

Told you!

I liked the Innkeepers, tried to watch The Letter the other night and I fell asleep, Tera stayed awake for the movie and said it was very creepy.

Which "Letter?"

With winona ryder and james franco

Is "Stoker" a horror film or a thriller? Just don't know if it's worth discussing here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXaanQkzrXU

Looks more like future gay cult fave.

Well it's park chan-wook...

(Morbs excepted, gays are some of the biggest horror fans.)

stoker POSSIBLE SPOILERS DO NOT READ FURTHER is rumored to be a quasi-vampire tale so it's prolly appropriate here (quasi in that it's like near dark, where the word vampire is never used)

Although influenced by Bram Stoker's Dracula, Miller clarified that Stoker was "not about vampires. It was never meant to be about vampires but it is a horror story. A stoker is one who stokes, which also ties in nicely with the narrative."

What the hell, there was a 2010 Joe Dante movie? "The Hole?" Who saw this? Where did it go?

Kids.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:38 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not a horror movie iirc

I'm at about the point where: fuck fount-footage ghost movies, fuck vampires & fuck zombies - for a good decade at least.

* 'found footage' - I'd def watch a movie abt a fountain of ghosts.

Check out Boo d'Artifice

Boo d'Artifice should be the title of the ilx horror movie.