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

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

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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.

Even better to hear, because now I can skip it.

Wish i had. But do try to catch Michael Sarmiento's nifty "D is for Dogfight" somewhere.

If only this exercised at lived up to its Gory -er, Gorey-esque pr(e/o)mise. More empty Drafthouse hype.

^^^ "exercise had."

"D is for Dogfight" showed before my screening of V/H/S. This wasn't the case for everybody?

Started watching Dead Snow last night. It seemed promising, for a "bunch of college students in a lol cabin" flick, but my wife got too nervous that I would fall asleep and leave her sitting up all night alone watching a scary movie. I'm a repeat offender there, so I can't hold it against her. After I turned it off, she fell asleep and I stayed up watching Monsters, which ironically was a much more low-key monster flick that she might have enjoyed.

Monsters was a touching, beautiful film, I thought.

Watched A-D of the ABCs just now. "Dogfight" could have made an awesome video for some Warp band, or Nine Inch Nails or something. Don't feel the need to see any more of these, though, considering I have yet to reach any of the real unpleasantness, which I imagine begins at least with "F is for Fart."

a-z is playing at IFC next month, kinda thinking about seeing it on a lark

I'd suggest larking something else. Reminds me of one of those "Spike and Mike" clip movies.

Is there an echo in here?

Ha, that's hilarious. I read what you wrote, but obviously the reference didn't really stick. Or maybe I didn't make it past "I hated the ABCs," which was non-endorsement enough.Though clearly the Spike and Mike reference must have gotten to me, because a few shorts in I started thinking, hey, this is like a Spike and Mike Sick and Twisted thing ...

yeah, just being an ass. (: S&MS&TAF is an unavoidable point of reference. esp. once you get to F, G and especially K.

OK, just finished "ABCs," because it was there. One of the shorts, "Dogfight," may be a masterpiece. Several are so terrible their creators should be embarrassed (looking at you, Ti West). One, "L is for Libido," underscores just what a difference even the modest contextual foundation of "A Serbian Film" provides.

Dogfight was cool but i dunno if it was a favorite personally. obviously there was some shit in there but i liked the whole rhythm of the movie, i never got bored or annoyed for very long.

Bored? Maybe not. Annoyed? Pretty much for the duration. Agree with several reviews that point out how sad it is that horror's supposed best and brightest default lazy shock or puerile potty.

anyone who enjoyed Absentia should try to check out Patrick Rea's The Empty Acre (2007). Heartland Gothic with roots (tentacles?) in Lovecraft, Carver and Yates. how many films can you say that about?

Is it on Netflix? Absentia was uncommonly good, given the budget, etc.

Sitting down w/ "lizard in a woman's skin" tonight, outside of the realm of this thread I guess, but there isn't really a thread for it so

Oh Giallo, so many camera angles

And breasts

Oh shit, this movie is badass. Is there a Giallo thread?

one of my favorite Fulci films or gialli.

Sinister was much better than I expected. Not perfect by any means but one of the most effective Hollywood horror films I have seen in a while.

Just watched Entrance, I liked it alot. I guess I like the slow-to-no-burn style these days, since I liked Black Rainbow a ton, and haven't yet had a problem with Ti West (though I will be skipping V/H/S on account of this thread).