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

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..."

is there a general thread for horror movies we have seen recently or can i put something on here that i saw but is not new

alternately, real question: does the word "shunting" mean anything to you?

weird movie, huh?

and i think there's a gp horror thread, but i can't remember what it's called.

yeah I would support creation or reanimation of pre-2005 horror movie thread. been watching a lot of old stuff lately, almost nothing new. started but didn't finish amer, the tall man, and absentia (tho it's not that they were so bad I had to turn them off, I just didn't find them compelling enough to keep watching or stay awake).

sauna is awesome, can't understand someone judging it "no good" even if it wasn't their cup of tea. acting, dialogue, period set & costume design, cinematography, all top notch. it's a mood piece with a frustrating diabolus ex machina conclusion, the 'black metal horror' sobriquet is appropriate, yadda yadda. if you're not in the market for a movie that wallows in its own well-constructed miasma that's cool but it was one of my favorites of the last 5 years.

can't wait to see the films produced from s1ocki + contenderizer's scripts, both of which I assume will be savage torture porn outings

srsly digging that Pontypool 2 poster design

I liked pontypool a lot but unsure about the viability of a sequel

i wrote a horror movie too but you don't see me bragging about it

lol

alternately, real question: does the word "shunting" mean anything to you?

― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, December 3, 2012 3:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aaaaaaaaaargh!

hahahaha

it didn't mean anything to me before friday, but now? now it does.

Tucker and Dale would pair really well with Cabin in the Woods. I would recommend watching Pontypool on its own, though, as it's a different sort of movie. Perhaps consider replacing it with Severance, which I thought was very clever and tons of fun.

Is Severance still on nf streaming?

It is.

http://366weirdmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/society.jpg

good dn pairing

Is that from "From Beyond?" Or "From ... Behind"?

the worst part was how much he looked like mitt romney

i have relevant news to this discussion but decided to post it in the 77 update thread.

I thought "Stake Land" was pretty well made, especially for what was surely a low-budget. Basically post-apocalyptic zombie horror only with vampires, so there's a nice daylight break everybpdy gets from the running and stabbing, Brief hints of "Blade" don't work well, but that stuff is ancillary, and I liked the conception of vampires here as sort of feral foes, but still fightable.

everyone is a vampire?

oic

so i watched "The Tall Man" last night and i liked it, def didnt love it - a very odd film to follow up Martyrs. its horror, kinda? a few too many twists jammed in there for my liking, and a very odd, somewhat unamerican tone to the whole thing (in that the central idea would never be something an american filmmaker would dare to do imo). hard to elucidate that w/o spoilers

(in that the central idea would never be something an american filmmaker would dare to do imo)

agreed

liberal daydream becomes nightmare

the ending is def pretty enh, although i think i was somewhat taken out of it by being preoccupied with "whoa, really, thats where hes going with this?"

not in a martyrs way, fyi

society is so great

really don't get the love for pontypool

amen brother

unusually for me and recent horror movies, I actually liked the ending

xxpost

its not a bad ending or anything, its just kinda subdued for the last 15 minutes or so

one of my favorite things was looking it up on imdb and seeing the legions of butthurt reviews from people that are outraged because it isnt about the slender man

couldn't remember if I was the only pontypool hater around here or not... I mean I wanted to like it and there are things about it that are good, but it devolves into something that's much more irritating/eye-rolly than engaging

Eye-rolly? What made you roll your eyes, seeing as it avoids many of the predictable cliches you'd get from any other movie with the same (initial) premise?

well the part where they just start making up/accepting explanations for what's going on for one thing

or the end where the two characters are spouting gibberish to each other

basically I think it's all downhill when the doctor shows up

It's been a while since I saw it, but I was very satisfied with several of my takes upthread. The movie is at least partly about the dissolution of language/meaning, so if you made it to the insane post-credits scene - you did, right? - you see how the characters survive by creating their own reality.

I'm surprised at how many people (not nec. you) get caught up with exactly what is happening and why, when that's literal sort of read is a MacGuffin.

well, the dissolution of language/meaning is portrayed really literally. in a ridiculous fashion, imho.

when you have a character just show up arbitrarily show up and provide an otherwise unsupported and ridiculously convoluted explanation for what has been happening on-screen, that just strikes me as lazy filmmaking.

up to that point the viewer has been shown enough to piece together something is going on that involves language turning people into zombies, but then the doc shows up and the expository hypothesizing goes into overdrive

um SPOILERS I guess lol sorry

See, I thought the doctor was hilarious for providing that literal meaning. But I find so much more metaphoric richness to the film, that the literal reading is to me more a comment on literal readings/our desire for explanation. I plant the film firmly in the absurdist tradition (and have noted the many parallels Ionesco).

Like, this total goofball comes hurtling through the window for the sake of (unreliable) explanation, then makes his exit back out through the window, iirc.