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

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

thought stoker was so duummmmmmbbb

Yup. Very pretty, but also pretty fucking stupid.

if you mean that it's pretty hard to believe some of the characters' motivations then yeah it's a bit silly but visually it's so fucking lush that i was prepared to forgive that and go with it.

oh good another thread where me & s1ocki can fight about chan wook park

or s1ocki and I for that matter

thank you.

np

just watched Beyond the Black Rainbow - Hal Jam mostly otm upthread, absolutely gorgeous with an amazing score, some funny references (Benway Pharmaceuticals lol) but severely lacking in the plot/dialogue/characters dept. I found the ending more funny than terrible but it was definitely some kind of cop-out. Will watch whatever this guy makes next though, he just needs a better script/collaborators.

just a casual frequenter of this thread but i loved loved loved 'entrance'

im an unrelenting mumblecore apologist tho so ymmv obv

is 'toward a new cinema' anything? i guess just a prod company they only set up for this movie? cant find much info

Mumblegore!

Hadn't actually realised it was a horror film. Has been on UK Netflix for a while. I'll check it out.

Just watched The Loved Ones, which, despite some over-craziness of the bad guys and some played-out scenarios, still kept me on edge for much of it. Very strange what they chose to do (or not do) with the main protagonist guy. And it was nice to have the guy's girlfriend be a normal, sex-positive girl instead of a chaste heroine or whatever.

I swear that the dinner scene from the original Texas Chain Saw has inspired 100 films, including this one. That has to be one of the key scenes in all of horrordom.

did anyone see pandorum

Is tht the space station one

Yes it is, and yes I did, and I hated it. Like strongly hated it

Not space station but space ship,

Stoker is too arty to ever get actually scary, but it's a total lollipop.

Hang on, back to The Lovely Ones. I just saw this last night but suddenly I'm wondering what the parallel plot (the dopey kid and the goth girl go to the dance) was all about. That plot never interacted with the main plot, did it? It was nice, I liked it, but huh?