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

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!

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Is it a phantasm spin off?

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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

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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.

Ending does not live up to the rest of the film, i do agree.

I guess I'm just SO used to sweeping the final 2 minutes of otherwise-admirable horror films under the carpet that it barely registers anymore...

glad people are seeing yellowbrickroad, which i have championed a bit on this thread - the 2 big flaws are the ending and the absolutely terrible early scene with the ticket taker which made me turn it off the first time around. but yeah the use of sound doesn't get much better wrt horror imo. anybody else seen the oregonian yet? thats likely to be another devisive one. also in the same sorta art damaged vein, pop skull has some great moments, although perhaps surrounded with too much mopey lonerism for many.

shit i still haven't done my top ten netflix streaming recently viewed list for halloween. maybe later tonight.

i promise not to put deadgirl in there for the 10th time, although i did watch it again recently.

i think the best parts of 'pop skull' involve the gloomy atmospherics of that industrialized small town suburb landscape, it's definitely just a compelling setting imo. fantastic scares, better for the uncertainty of their origin.

ok beyond the black rainbow has some great minutes and some pretty O_O shots and cinematography but omg it is so sloooooooooooooooooooooooooow. and the ending is weak as fuck. made that "entrance" movie i watched a few weeks ago feel like a non-stop adrenalin thrill ride.

BtBR is really not horror at all.

deadgirl sounds interesting but I dunno how much zombie-rape I can handle

deadgirl is i think amazing but yeah its deeply upsetting throughout

So Dead Sushi sounds dumb, but maybe fun?

re: deadgirl, a difficult film to watch but worth it, it's def not some grindhouse atrocity flick, more like a downbeat indie film that turns on a horror plot point

hmm well how graphic would you say it is

xpost: after an intriguing X-Files intro, I thought that Yellowbrickroad degenerated into an utterly charmless and dull piece of survival horror by the numbers. Given the title, I do wonder if the original script didn't have to be amended after the production team received a stern legal warning not to step on those ruby slippers.

technically there's nothing more graphic than what you'd find in an R rated film, but the context is everything, the movie's never on the side of the abusers, it's not prurient, and the title character's performance is incrediblly brave, as central to the movie's success as polyanna macintosh's was in the woman

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the movie's never on the side of the abusers, it's not prurient

okay yeah this is kinda the key thing for me, didn't know how to phrase it