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

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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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.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g128/NOISENIK/PontyPoolChanges_Poster_560.jpg

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

To be fair, maybe this time he will make an actual movie

Plus I know that I have been desperately awaiting a full low rent sin city explanation of that that fantastic credits teaser

did i tell u guys i took 3 weeks off all my work a few months ago to bang out a horror movie script and that it is my dream to make it in the next couple of years?

sweet, please make us shit our pants, man, we know you can do it

It is my dream

hey, me too! wrote a horror movie, i mean. not quite done, but mostly. it involves stuff.

also i love pontypool and am psyched for changes. never thought it'd actually get made. woot.

watched dante's the hole on netflix the other day. eh. starts great, very much in retro-80s style, nice lady with nice but squabbly kids moving into a generic (but nice) suburb with nice neighbors, only to encounter spookiness. goes down the shitter pretty fast though. more of the movie should have been like the dreamscape-y bit at the end.

also watched V/H/S. half okay, half terrible. confirmed my distaste for ti west. worst segment in the bunch, and i knew it was his within a minute.

i'm gonna try pontypool as a double feature with cabin in the woods tonight.
any suggestions for a third that's available on netflix streaming?

Tucker and dale vs evil

cabin in the woods so good y'all

I wonder if the Pontypool sequel will be more of an Ozzy or Bowie "Changes"...

BTW, am I the only person who gives a shit/fux wit the whole ChromeSkull saga? I personally thought Laid To Rest was a very good film for being made with, like, $20 dollars.

guy has a camera attached? i tried to watch the first one, but wound up doing something else instead, so i couldn't really tell if it was any good.

there were coffins in a barn and he had a car with booby traps, that's what I remember. maybe my memories are better than the film.

i just remember this fuzzy shot shot of a chrome skull head guy w a big knife (haw) & a camera stuck on his shoulder, and when it was shooting, you could see the little red light (maybe it's from the box art, i dunno). a pretty spooky concept, i admit, but the movie didn't do much for me. or maybe i was drunk so i forgot it. 50/50 odds.

no doubt I was drunk when I watched it. The hillbilly nerd character with dial-up charmed me though, I think that's what did it for me.

"I don't have a phone line... per se..."