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

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).

Watched Grave Encounters last night. Way better than the premise (TV show ghost hunters encounter real haunted house, yawn). I appreciated how halfway through it started going in a House of Leaves direction, with the interior of the house defying physical logic. And waking up with the wristbands! And the rat! Not all that scary, of course, but pretty pleasing to this viewer.

there shld def be a fulci thread - love the fact that the dead doggies in Lizard were made by the same guy who did E.T.

Looks like a sequel to Grave Encounters is streaming, too. And a whole bunch of other skip-the-theater horror.

Just watched Absentia. Very effective, atmospheric and mysterious, though, looking back, what was with the pregnant woman's hallucinations/visions of her missing husband in the early part of the film? It could have done without them, anyway.

The Possession was fairly mediocre. Matisyahu in the Fr. Merrin role was an interesting touch but it's pretty pedestrian otherwise. The shadow The Exorcist casts over the whole genre is obvious but with a subject so rich in potential, it's surprising how mundane most films about possession are.

Grabbers was quite weak as well. Comedy horror about Lovecraftian monsters washing up on an Irish island too reliant on cliches and stereotypes to be scary or funny.

would be nice if possession films partook of the innovations seen at the fringes of the millennial zombie resurgence

watched paranormal activity 3, reminded me of a good 70s TV movie, not earth shattering but creepy in a contained way

Grave Encounters surprisingly good! Basically Blair Witch meets Rec, but that's fine enough for me.

been going to horror movies all weekend at the Nevermore film festival. See this movie when you get the chance; it is superb. first feature, shoestring budget but you'd barely know it, good acting/plotting/depth...just one of those rare movies from out of nowhere that excel beyond your best expectations.

Completely baffled by this but grave encounters 2 (which is streaming on Netflix) seemed to be uh really quite good? Let me be clear, I had drank a whole bomber or two of beer and it was late, but yeah. Give it some time in the beginning before you bail.

That came off weird - I really liked the first grave encounters, I am just always surprised when a sequel to a low budget horror film is not completely terrible

Yay for the Grave Encounters love. Will watch the sequel post-haste.

I appreciate the metaness of (at least the start) of Grave Encounters 2. Though I find it hard to watch characters this obnoxious, even if it "works." Basically, so far, if GE was "Blair Witch" redux, this is like "BW2," though I doubt this movie will drop the ball that hard.

OK, "Grave Encounters 2" is like "Blair (Rec) Paranormal Activity Project 2: Book of Shadows, Hypercube."

ha trying to figure out if that is a positive or negative review

Have added Grave Encounters to my rental list.

Wasn't expecting Paranormal Activity 4 to do anything new but didn't think it would do the old stuff so poorly. Cutting it down to ten minutes and tacking it on as a coda to part 2 would probably have improved both films.

Red Lights was enormously disappointing after Apartment 143. Has a professional sheen but devolves into a dull mess after about half an hour.

Not sure how I feel about "GE2." It's basically exactly the same as the first, with extra mythology and a dash of meta. Better than it could have been, I guess.

Watched GE2 and I liked how they extended the story, brought it back around to the TV host, etc. It's only in execution that it doesn't live up to GE1. The middle section of GE2, which, as Josh says, is just a re-do of GE1, just isn't effectively staged. But I liked the meta first third of the movie and, again, appreciated what they tried to do with the latter 2/3. It would've looked good on paper, I suspect.

maybe not 'proper' horror but Stoker is brilliant. every frame is a work of art.

yeah I'm looking forward to that one

looking fwd to anything from PCW really

he is terrible

where is that negativity coming from
i think you have untapped vengeance