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

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?

Ok so in the sometimes metacritic is wrong category, just watched "House at the End of the Street" last night and thought it was actually really quite good. Ending is crap (thats a theme here obv) but yeah, nice sense of menace, way better than usual performances, and pretty adept ratcheting of tension. savaged on metacritic (score of 32 iirc) but way better than you would think.

Didn't really take to Entrance, unfortunately and i like mumblecore more often than not. I didn't think there was enough in the first hour to sustain much tension and the ending wasn't particularly worth the wait. I'm not sure it worked as indie drama either. I appreciate what they were going for, though.

Is "House" the one with J. Law in it? I could have sworn one of the main objections to the movie is some either crazy twist or logical paradox that completely shoots the film in the foot, but I might be thinking of something else.

xp idk i love the lack of tension, theres no tension in real life, rite? i really id'd w/ the lead character. also, i dont think i knew it was 'horror' going into it, which prob really helped how scary i found the last 20 mins

if you mean jennifer lawrence and not jude law, yes, that is the movie. guessing the thing people hate is the ending, which is pretty tacked on and cliched to say the least

I am basically getting the impression that Jennifer Lawrence is going to one day own Hollywood

Just saw Chernobyl Diaries: You know, I rather liked the set-up here. Unique location, nice feel, solid opening half with the bear and the dogs and whatnot. Then, you know, the rest of the movie happened after that.

haha that is a very apt description i think

finally got around to Cabin in the Woods. very enjoyable! I have never liked a Joss Whedon anything before afaik

firefly and serenity are worth your time imo

OTM, if only to lol at Nathan Filion and Alan Tudyk attempting to curse in Mandarin

I tried Buffy a long time ago but something about the jabberiness and shitty production values really turned me off.

was not especially surprised by anything in CITW but loved all its details. "System Purge" button did not disappoint, was fun just trying to catch all the references

i never clicked with buffy post-facto but i think that was kind of a "you had to be there" moment

Buffy is enjoyable enough while watching it but I never was engaged enough to actively follow it

meanwhile Firefly/Serenity had a much more interesting premise to me and is actually helped by only being one season and a movie

Made it ~30 minutes into Martyrs, gf says I tapped just before shit got real. Even reading the wiki plot summary afterward gave me chills.