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

yeah rly you can't blow thru here all coy mccoy like "I watched a bunch of awesome stuff, betcha wish u knew what it was"

lol

I've seen a bunch of fun stuff lately, but none of it adheres to the post-2005 edict: Town That Dreaded Sundown, Bloody Birthday, Deadly Blessing, Onibaba, and Sleepaway Camp--all, shockingly, for the first time.

Anyone seen Rouge River or Knock Knock 2? Caught a fast forwarded glimpse of trailers for both.

ok im in the middle of teaching a customer how not to blow up his shit, but to make that less of a driveby i watched apartment 148, undocumented, pop skull, and cold fish. more thoughts on all of them when i get a chance

director of pop skull had a big hand in VHS and did one of the segments.

ok im reasonably sure that dude is not going to manage to set his bass amp on fire now, so leem take a crack at these.

apartment 148 - yep. its found footage, so if thats going to ruin it for you, just go ahead and get out of the pool right now. where it differs radically from that oversaturated mush is that 1) the actors are good. like really really good. 2) the script is also way above the expectations ff stuff usually brings to the table, and written for a smart audience. this is what i wish paranormal activity had been like - effects are super solid, pacing is far far better then PA, im sure that it will get lost in the netflix streaming shuffle for 99% of the people that ought to see it.

Oh man, is he trying to play a guitar through a bass amp? That's instant explosion if I've read my IMM correctly.

undocumented - strangely well funded (peter stormare is in it! one of the leads from deadgirl. also that short dude from alias) suspense gore (call it kinda torture porn if you have to) twist on the illegal immigration issue, not without its faults but much much better than expected - again, some decent acting that exceeds what you figure you are going to get, about as subtle as i dont know something really unsubtle, only one ungainly overwrought setpiece that is kind of a shame in an otherwise fairly tughtly drawn movie. not one for the ages, but better than many.

xpost hahaha

V/H/S is bad bad baaaaaad.

pop skull - one for the avant weirdos, starts with a warning about strobe effects that may be dangerous for epileptics and HOLY SHIT ARE THEY NOT KIDDING. Tscherkassky's Outer Space drawn out to 90 minutes? ok not all the way through, theres quite a bunch of moody lonerism going on, and some less than dead on acting, but it is a serious art-damaged visual overload mindfuck. script isnt great, but who cares, my eyeballs are bleeding.

sorry to hear that abt v/h/s, i was looking forward to that quite a bit

OK, just watched "Apartment 143" (for that is its name) and enjoyed the performances, the timing of the scares, and the film's refusal to mock the scientist characters, was let down by the final climax and completely annoyed by the sound design -- which made itself known when a really effective completely silent scene happened early on, and that lead to all the dumb sound effects, reverb, and electronic bass grumbles being completely at the front of my attention more than they ever should have been. A weekday evening's scary entertainment, could have been more.

yeah those are all fair criticisms - might have been more critical of the sound design but having watched yellowbrickroad where the main antagonist at some points is sound (its hard to explain, but really! not a metaphor!) recently i was prob more open to being abused by a soundtrack

recently enjoyed Friedkin's "Bug", which goes here I guess (also watched Craven's "The Hills Have Eyes", which does not go here, and didn't like it at all). anticipate my horror-watching to ramp up soon, it being the season and all

yeah i was thinking of soliciting "top ten watched it this year" lists from thread regulars for halloween, either here or on their own thread. i would say top ten horror from 2012 but its been pretty much a wasteland for me so far this year.

I respect "The Hills Have Eyes" but it's a rare case where I think the remake is, if not a better movie, a little more competently executed, at least. Although nothing beats having Michael Berryman in your movie.

i rate the remake higher than the original i think

they are two very different versions of abject nihilistic world hate tho, so im not sure if its fair for me to compare them

based on its rep, yes I was expecting something a little more "competently executed" as Phil says. a lot of it struck me as lazy and sloppy. and I actually lol'd at the ridiculously abrupt ending.

the sloppiness of early Craven kind of works for me. been a while since i've seen Hills, but Last House on the Left is a fractured, half-competent mess that still manages to be great.

hm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0j7K6-0Ak4#!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0j7K6-0Ak4

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0j7K6-0Ak4

Apartment 143 was pretty great. Thanks for the tip, jjj. OTM that it's the strength of the performances that really carries this thing. The same is true of The Innkeepers which I watched the night before. That screwball tone between the two leads could have been excruciating; instead it was a joy. These were both a nice reminder that even in this genre if you've got really good acting you need almost nothing else.

Anyone seen The Outcast, which is part of the same logo-series as Yellowbrickroad, The Woman, and Cold Fish?

i thought v/h/s was not bad but i think i value it for just the vouyerisem & the conceits of not internally 'explaining' the vignettes or trying 2 tie them together

Made it through most of Apartment 143, which is pretty good so far. It really underscores that as much as haters want to, um, hate, "Paranormal Activity" is ingeniously effective, in that it invented an endlessly mutable low-budget horror model. That is, this movie is a clear imitator, and yet none the worse for it, unlike, say, all the "Jaws" imitators or "Halloween" imitators.

I don't recommend Rogue River unless you are wanting a poorly thought out contender to A Serbian Movie.

Watched the Innkeepers, thought it was really disappointing but I kept thinking about it, suddenly (spoilerette) figured out that Kelly McGillis's character is a psychic and not a clairvoyant, and decided it was a cool little movie.

I watched The Innkeepers on Saturday, and maybe I was just tired or couldn't get into the rhythms, but the whole thing struck me as a real shaggy-dog-story waste of time.

re: Kelly McGillis, all I could think was, "Well, there'll be no 'Top Gun' reunion anytime soon, will there?"

Maybe "Return to Witness," though!

Personally, I really like the shaggy dog quality of Ti West. They always feel mildly subversive to me, waiting for a payoff that's rarely there.

Yeah, I don't know, maybe it was me. I really liked House of the Devil!

No, I think the pay-off was there -- the hotel was haunted, warnings from beyond were real, but the timeline was screwed up and the jump moment was supposed to take place in your head, not on screen.

Well, I saw VHS. Was neither won over nor totally repulsed. I guess it made me feel kinda gross afterwards for having watched it, but not severely.

Would watch a movie about Kelly McGillis' life. It would be more upsetting than a lot of the movies in this thread.

sinister anyone? thinking of heading out to watch it tomorrow night.

great commercial, 90% chance of sucking

needs a more generic name

"scary"

"boo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YrDQ18P9x4

so nobody's seen it then cos i got all that.

Poster from my friend's first movie:
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s480x480/156554_439169819451760_805380985_n.jpg

That is a badass poster and makes me want to see that movie.

anyone heard anything about any of these? friend of mine wants to go to a night, but i don't know what's what.

http://www.afi.com/silver/films/2012/v9i4/spookyfest.aspx

Huh, a few of those movies look great. A few more, not so much.

Watched "Tall Man" on netflix last night. Certainly defied my expectations, I'll say that much!

Is it a phantasm spin off?

I wish!