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

I don't wven

Bahaha cat what the shit

Ok somewhere around 45 minutes this turned from laughably terrible to totally amazing

I mean in many ways it is still terrible but it's just odd enough that I am totally sold

And now it is just terrible again?

Aaaaarrerrgggh, just finished. Infuriating movie. When it finds its step, it's great, but it spends most of its time being fucking inexcusably bad.

Yeah it's not great but as I mentioned, there is a lot of natural-seeming nudity (as opposed to contrived nudity) and that has to count for something?

388 arletta ave really didnt do it for me either. ive got the hammer horror doc coming, so that should tide me over for a bit i suppose. also watched the corridor, and mostly liked it but was not blown away. good actors, looked great, kinda eh on the plot.

aw well I'm glad you watched it. It really struck a chord with me.

(corridor, not 388 arletta)

Ok why didn't anyone tell me that The Oregonian
* was (yet another) tumblr photo shoot (at least this one had interesting sound design?)
* was super boring
* had no plot

Was this some kind of student film?? I swore while we were watching it that the person who made it could not have possibly been over 30. After about 25 min we switched (wisely, I think) to Slumber Party Massacre.

If it got better after that point, I apologize. I did lol at the smiling old woman in the red cape.

ive got the hammer horror doc coming

jjj, what's this?

someone tried, La Lechera.

Signs along the road I should have followed, I guess. I just want to know if there was a reason the blood on her face kept changing patterns. Was that just a bunch of continuity errors or was it on purpose? It was the only variable to pay attention to because everything else was same same same same stumble stumble swig swig smoke smoke scream scream zzzzzzzzzzzz

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199528/?mode=desktop

Re: wards question

Ahh ok jjj, thanks, thought it was a new doc. Have seen the one you linked to - it was originally shown on BBC TV - and I have to warn you that it's p poor, just at a technical level, ie v v amateurishly shot on video footage. Poor old Peter Cushing looks extremely ill and frail throughout, and he died hot long afterwards, tho' it is of course p touching to see him and Christopher Lee together for the last time.

Personally I'm really excited abt the forthcoming Blu-Ray release of the first Hammer Dracula which contains the mythical 'strong' Japanese cut of the movie - long considered THE holy grail for Hammeristas.

Sorry to step back into the past on a post 2005 thread, tho.

You forgot piss piss

I have a book abt Hammer called A History of Horrors which I haven't read yet. But the book I REALLY want to find is the one about the music of Hammer Horror films. It exists, I am assured.

The two Wayne Kinsey books - The Bray Years and The Elstree Years - are my go-to books about Hammer - lotsa juicy production detail etc and not much in the way of 'critical analysis' (which the films don't really need, imho.) Have never seen a book on Hammer music, tho.

They had some landmark scores - the James Bernard shriek-fests of course, but also the amazing Mummy scores by Reizenstein, Tristram Cary and Carlo Rustichelli...

http://books.google.com/books/about/Hammer_Film_Scores_and_the_Musical_Avant.html?id=NSQQx-D2EO0C

Much as I love James Bernard, I wld hesitate to claim that he was ever at the cutting edge of European modernism. I guess Richard Rodney Bennett is a closer call, but even then...

Really like Christopher Gunning's score for Hands of the Ripper

Bernard would probably be the least likely example, yes. While at the same time being the closest thing to a house composer they had. I'm sure that book is fannish and booster-y but I still wanna read the hell out of it.

Bernard's partner Paul Dehn was a really interesting character, too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dehn

oh neat! Wow he died so much earlier than Bernard. That's sad. I should make it clear that I like Bernard's music but it is so hyperventilating that about a 10 minute dose is usually enough.

We saw Mama on opening night in a packed theater and I screamed at the top of my lungs twice. It's not perfect, but I liked it.

My wife showed our 8-year-old the trailer to that this morning and apparently it was too much for him (despite being PG-13).

Mama has one of the better CGI monsters I've ever seen. Low bar, I realize.

it's a pretty creepy commercial, it freaked my 11yo son out

avoid rec 3 like the plague, it's not just the worst of the rec franchise, it actually manages to be worse than the absolutely terrible quarantine 2. totally rudderless disconnected uninvolving garbage with attempt to play to laughs like a half assed zombie rom-com.

really stunningly disappointing, and it wasnt a hand off project, its at least one of the original dudes. jerk.

Too bad, first two rec films are great.

I'm going to assume this has been talked to death already, but I finally saw The Strangers last night and was really let down. Was nowhere near as intense and/or unrelenting as I'd been led to believe. The similar Them from a few years prior was so much more effective. But Strangers has a lot of fans here, right?

I loved the first 2/3rds of it. the ending is stupid.

^ yup

*SPOILERS*

I wasn't really expecting (or wanting) a big reveal about the attackers' motivations, but when it just came down to a banal "now we stab you!" anti-climax it felt like all the tension and buildup were wasted. and then the coda, totally dumb and unnecessary.

iirc the original script had more interaction between the strangers + the victims, but when they tried to film it nobody was particularly happy with the way it was turning out and they cobbled something together? after the carefully controlled beginning it def feels like somebody threw their hands in the air like w/e

I loled when I heard the Joanna Newsom song. The whole thing was kinda blah and I didn't really care who died or why at the end. Better than The Oregonian though!

plot point cut from the script: they were killed for listening to joanna newsom

The first twenty or thirty minutes of The Strangers is excellent. The last ten, as mentioned, severely let the side down.

Ever since reading this solid list, I've had Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 in my queue. Finally watched it. Some thoughts. (Potential SPOILERS, I guess.)

It's a mile better than the first one, that's for sure. In fact, it's even better if you haven't seen the first one, because it just drops you into some serious shit with zero explanation (I wish more horror movies did this!) and for the first 20 minutes it's a thing of bewildering beauty. And then the first 20 minutes are revealed to be a dream. Are. You. Shitting. Me? After that, well, I guess it's okay, but all that business with the white horse? I don't know. I can identify moments of good orchestration (the finale in the shack with the helicopters overhead) but it seems a far cry from a great horror film.

Is there enthusiasm for this movie around these parts?

yeah I wanna catch up on some marquee flicks, once I'm done w/ paranormal activity 3 I'll take a run @ halloween 2. isn't there a director & theatrical cut?

xp there was talk abt that list somewhere (maybe upthread?) and i rememember we were all a bit bewildered by the halloween 2 inclusion

SPOILERS

Watched Martyrs last night, after reading that Slant top ten list (which is missing Kill List, imho.) Thought it was really terrific, and that rarest of all things - an original horror movie. Noticed that it was financed by Wild Bunch, who had a hand in Noe's Enter the Void, and thought the ending - cosmic close-up of eye as we pass into and back through the infinite - was actually v. Noe-like. If anything, the film was a little two crowded w/ ideas and plot devices - could've lost the Switchblade Romance-esque 'imaginary monster' angle, maybe. Loved the utter bleakness of the ending.

Martyrs has the old man from Just For Laughs in it, couldn't believe my eyes.

So, Chernobyl Diaries - promising first half, destroyed by incredibly awful second half. Let me say that again, INCREDIBLY AWFUL second half. Avoid avoid

Yes. Offensive and stupid as well as inept.

So, Chernobyl Diaries - promising first half, destroyed by incredibly awful second half. Let me say that again, INCREDIBLY AWFUL second half. Avoid avoid

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2:16 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

might say that about... chernobyl itself

i watched The ABCs of Death, i really enjoyed it! obviously any anthology movie is gonna be hit-and-miss, but there was a nice variety and the whole conceit worked pretty well. the first segment is one of my favorite horror flick things i've seen in recent years, just awesome.

Good to hear, since "VHS" totally turned me off contemporary horror anthologies that feature three letters for a title.

HATED ABC's. might have been more forgiving had this sophomoric embarrassment been sold to us as a Spike & Mike fest rather than as a cutting-edge genre anthology.