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

no, 2011

i also hate troma, but father's day does a good job of being like a troma movie on the surface while avoiding the crushing generic dumbness of most of their product. the style is troma, but the sensibility is much smarter and stranger. it's got problems: a lot of dumb or just plain unfunny jokes, "grindhouse" stylization, overstated tastelessness, but like i said, it's easily the best troma flick i've ever seen (faint praise, sure).

oh right, hence the thread in which i'm posting xp

I have solid memories of the '87 Hidden, tho it's been a very long time since I watched it. It def gets points for starring a young, Blue Velvet-era Kyle MacLachlan!

I like Troma's The Children and Combat Shock a lot and for some odd reason I have a memory of quite enjoying Terror Firmer. There has to be a few more gems that I'm forgetting.

The Children was great!!

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yeah, there are bright moments here and there. i remember liking tromeo and juliet, but it's been a while.

Ok the American version of silent house might actually be the worst horror remake ever. Avoid like the fucking plague, so infuriatingly wrongheaded and terrible.

never saw the original, had to stop the remake about a quarter of the way in

oh wait i'm thinking of dream house. i actually did watch silent house (though it was weak).

i wasn't over the moon about the original, but it was a solid horror romp, this remake is really stunningly awful though, and misses the point of the original film in every way. seems to exist only as a vehicle for down blouse shots of the third olsen spawn.

Speaking of which, I think I want to do an eoy horror poll. Leaning towards a quick nomination round, spanning oct 2011 to oct 2012 (with the caveat that post oct stuff from this year will be allowed, but prob will have limited support.) followed by a top ten limited ballot poll.

I will be fairly down & dirty with the rollout unless someone wants to volunteer graphics or w/e. blurbs accepted, but not required.

Before I bother, are other people down with this?

I am!

i doubt i could name 10 good horror movies i saw since october that were actually released since october

Joe Dante's "The Hole" is now streaming on Netflix. I'm not sure it was good, but it's ... not bad? Lit bright like a cheap TV movie, with some questionable pacing, effects, acting. Not really scary at all until, maybe, the end. And yet, there's something to it. It's like a dark, kids version of "House." Not sure who its audience is meant to be. Apparently ... no one!

I noticed last night that it was up. Kind of excited. Your description oddly enough sounds like what I would want a new (-ish) Joe Dante movie to be.

Also noticed among the new streams-- there's a documentary about that famous olde tyme lunatic in Chicago who built a house especially designed to murder people in.

H h Holmes? I saw a doc about him tht was pretty terrible, wonder if its the same one.

Yeah him. Let me know if this is the one that's shit, in which case I won't bother.

http://instantwatcher.com/titles/77464

yup, that's the not-very-good doc i remember on the topic

and seriously some days i think frontline docs are the most terrifying movies i have ever seen, so it's not because it's a documentary

yeah, frontline is the shit

i doubt i could name 10 good horror movies i saw since october that were actually released since october

Yeah, if someone could come up with a generous list of eligible films (based on VOD release or whatever) I imagine there's lots I could vote for, but based on local theatrical / fest viewing, nearly nada on my end.

Yeah that's the crappy doc I was thinking of. Basically if you've read devil in the white city, you know more than the documentarian seems to.

ouch

did anyone see the innkeepers

no, no one saw it, kind of sad for ti west

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if only there was a way to show all messages

IF THERE WAS ONLY A WAY FOR YOU SMART ALECKS TO ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION YES OR NO

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Saw it, and despite really hating house of the devil, I thought it was fantastic.

THANK YOU JUSTEN.

i liked it—good star performance, great setting, genuinely spooky at points. however, i thought it simmered along more than came to a full boil, know what i mean? and the climax/ending left me a bit *shrug*

What an interesting thread and it deviates wildly from just shitting oneself to horror.I am going to check out Sauna and have several others queued up. Going back a couple of years I really rate Refn's Valhalla Rising, especially higher than that awful Tony Scott tribute with ultraviolence that was Drive. VH isn't perfect but Mikkelsen's prescence and its unrelenting bleakness elevate it above movies like Black Death. I am hoping Sauna has a similar ambience to VH. Gonna rewatch Pontypool as well as I was drunk when I first watched it and The Children sounds essential. Stunning thread guys and keep up the good work. Has anyone mentioned Wake Wood on here? Not noticed it.

VH I mean't VR.

Sauna was no good

I liked Wake Wood for its first hour quite a bit and then it shit itself unforgivably.

Innkeepers - Liked it a lot. The screwball tone could have gone so very wrong, but the two leads made it wonderful. It seems like it was meant to be kind of underachieving and baggy in the scares department. I dunno. A weird, interesting target to aim for and I think West and his actors hit it square on.

i do agree, but found the ending pretty unsatisfying

IOW, if it had maintained its simmering tone throughout i would have been fine with it, but when it tried to go out with a bang, i dont think it worked

Yeah... I think you're right, actually. I'm so used to disregarding the last 90 seconds of all horror films, LOL...

Apartment 227 or whatever does the same thing. Perfectly fine ending, then tries to fit in one last zing.

Pontypool?

A sequel is coming out.

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Pontypolo

Huh. What is it with Bruce MacDonald and sequels lately?

I love Pontypool so much that even though I know there are a couple of books in the series (right?) I'm not so sure on a sequel.

i gotta watch that (p1)

lol i cant wait for jjjusten to see this news.

yesssss pontypool is so awesome

Noooooooooooooooo