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

"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!

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

― costly pussy riot (jjjusten), Tuesday, October 9, 2012 8:29 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

slated for weekend viewing: Tall Man, Silent House, Pulse

Earlier, I'd briefly confused Silent House w/ Silent Hill, and read the wiki for the latter (2006 film adaptation, not game). I'm always wary of game-to-film adaptations, but this Ebert pan actually has me slightly intrigued:

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film one and a half stars (out of four), calling it "an incredibly good-looking film", but said that he "did not understand the story" and criticized how "all through the movie, characters are pausing in order to offer arcane back-stories and historical perspectives and metaphysical insights and occult orientations."

Silent House is very attractive to look at, but falls apart if you look at it too closely; therefore best to not look at it too closely and enjoy it on a purely aesthetic (Olsen) level.

Has anyone seen Lovely Molly? We watched it last night and I loved it, but I think Tera has reach a threshold with horror films. It's time for a break. After Rogue River, Chernobyl Diaries, Tall Man, basically every horror film mentioned here in the last few months, I think she feels worn down with these movies, with nightmares and being spooked. Anyway Lovely Molly really succeeded for me, had me confused, creeped out and scared. I didn't realize the director was involved with the Blair witch movies.

Sinister sucked. Only virtue: James Ransone.

please please people, watch the original silent house, not the remake

duly noted. will do.

saw the uruguayan silent house at the pictures. it was ok, wasn't crazy about the ending iirc. didn't get round to seeing sinister the other night, pencilled in tomorrow. hearing very mixed reviews.

Beyond the black rainbow arrives at my house on Monday, will report back

just finished Yellowbrickroad. Kicked my ass.

Watching In My Skin and feeling quite nauseous indeed

dans ma peau? yeah that'll set yr teeth on edge

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

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Friday, October 12, 2012 9:33 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is it a phantasm spin off?

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, October 12, 2012 3:08 PM (2 days ago)

martyrs' director follow up

I started watching, it's shot really well, but it wasn't grabbing me. haven't gotten around to finishing it. avoid reading the spoileriffic wiki entry btw.

Wow, never heard of "Yelowbrickroad," but a quick check to make sure it was on Netflix and some intriguing reviews (I avoided spoilers) has jumped this to the top of my must-sees.

Couldn't be doing with Yellowbrickroad. Just seemed like an hour and a quarter of increasingly hysterical shouting at nothing in particular with a dreadful ending tacked on. I may have been in the wrong frame of mind for it, though.

Totally agree with whoever upthread said that Ti West movies make you feel excited for the truly good movies he's going to direct in the near future. The Innkeepers has a bunch of good stuff in it, but its message -- that interest in the occult pretty much emerges from boredom -- seems so transparently self-defeating.

Watched "The Woman" yesterday. Haven't seen "Offspring," I think the only other McKee I've seen is his installment of "Masters of Horror" with Angela Bettis as the entomologist. Anyway, it ultimately seemed a lot less than the sum of its parts. The parts were often considerably good, but at the end I was left very "meh." The musical cues were preposterous.

Saw Sinister, I didn't think it was terrible, Ransone's puppy eyes were a highlight. English wife was not. WTF is up with casting that lady?! There's nothing wrong with her, but there was no reason for her to be there either. I appreciated the ending's swift pace.

watched Let the Right One In last night - quality stuff

guys, i'm looking for a copy of a film called Necrocam for a friend
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297307/
any idea where i can find a t0rr3nt!!!111!!! or just buy/stream the damn thing?

Shakey, you should watch the US remake as well. Not quite as solid but has some merits of its own.

I like the POV rollover crash shot in the remake better than everything in the original excepting maybe the pool shot (that the remake sort of wisely chooses not to try and top).

I liked a lot of the little things about it - that it was set in the 80s for no particular reason, the way various "action" shots kept things in the background or out of frame (her going up the side of the wall, the pool shot), the avoidance of exposition/monologues

I must admit the 12-yo vag shot was a little, uh, shocking

xp

Yellowbrickroad works much much better on headphones (except that it will damage your eardrums at one point).

The Woman is def less than the sum of its parts.

I liked Let Me In just as much as Let The Right One In. The differences are v fascinating.

I must admit the 12-yo vag shot was a little, uh, shocking

yeah thats not what it was

^and i didn't get that either til I read the ile thread.

ah!! I thought I saw a scar but the shot was so quick I wasn't sure what I was supposed to take away from it.

that must be one of the most commonly misinterpreted shots ever

tbh I suppose I could have rewound it to get a better look but that just felt creepy o_0

the actual backstory for it is in the book but we're not told anything in the film so basically no one picks up on it. I certainly didn't

Yeah, the only real clue in the film is the line "What if I wasn't a girl?"

I think she definitively says "I'm not a girl" at some point but the meaning of that is ambiguous

anybody even HEARD of necrocam?

Potential kinda Sinister SPOILER....

I have a soft spot for movies, especially in the horror genre, that are the opposite of twisty. Movies that say, "Something is going to happen. Now it's happening. Look, it happened just like we said." I appreciate grim inevitability. Sinister sort of falls into this category. I suppose the king of this kind of thing is Night of the Living Dead.

ok which brave soul among us will google "necrocam" for forks

i have googled.

xpost The Thnig YES exactly re: grim inevitability! I call these kinds of films/stories 'processionals' and it's a quality I love. Black Death, I felt, excelled at this. Now I want to see Sinister.

I call these kinds of films/stories 'processionals'

ha, I like that

rosemary's baby comes to mind

Hmm, "Yellowbrickroad" gets points for non-stop unease, but loses them for rampant batshittery and thread unraveling, plus an ending that seems sort of drawn from myriad Low Budget Tales of Horror.