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

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.

Martyrs is lame. First 30 minutes is like 30 minutes from a different movie. Shit gets real after that. Real ridiculous.

Buffy is the very definition of a cumulative show, where the emotional and plot payoffs are only there for those who have followed it. It's not an ideal show to dip in and out of, and it's not helped that the first few episodes are not very good. But it quickly really kicks in as a truly amazing series. A few of the later episodes, like the musical episode and "The Body," are some of the best TV ever produced, but they both require a preexisting investment in the characters.

I haven't rewatched Buffy in years, largely because I don't think I'd be as impressed as I was at 18 and 23ish.

IMO the musical episode suffers greatly from most of the cast being absolutely terrible singers

also, the best parts of the episode are the background musical scenes happening to other people, like the woman singing to the meter maid about trying to get out of a parking ticket; the actual main character story stuff didn't land at all IMO

I felt Buffy as a show worked much much better when it mixed real stakes in, particularly with unexpected deaths of ancillary characters. I also loved the concept of Dawn but sort of hated the way it was done.

I loved the way it was done, and wish the show ended after that season.

Could never get into Buffy, loved Firefly.

hahaha "martyrs sucked, buffy rules" = me and josh have very different opinions on things and the world

Martyrs is terrific but quite a lot of the power hinges on the twist late on.

buffy > firefly, both classic, though.

martyrs is also awesome.

The part I saw was very well made and the tension was ratcheted nicely, I just wussed out.

Buffy is the very definition of a cumulative show, where the emotional and plot payoffs are only there for those who have followed it. It's not an ideal show to dip in and out of, and it's not helped that the first few episodes are not very good. But it quickly really kicks in as a truly amazing series. A few of the later episodes, like the musical episode and "The Body," are some of the best TV ever produced, but they both require a preexisting investment in the characters.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, March 18, 2013 1:37 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is otm

firefly is pretty weak in comparison, the characters/performers were not nearly as charming or compelling. maybe it woulda gotten better.

Amazingly, given the confrontational material, I am in the minority on "Martyrs." I do think it's well made, etc., I just think that what you have to endure is pretty much negated by what I consider a BS ending, a problem that's been a facet of French horror since "High Tension." But hey, some people think "Martyrs" is smart and profound, etc., so more power to them. I will concede I appreciate its thematic ambition, bullshit or no, more than I appreciate the strictly bullshit of something like "Insides."

haha and again, we have v different tastes, i think martyrs is great but inside is near perfect

I think they're both roughly equal, or close enough and so far beyond almost any other contenders that the decimal points don't matter.

i hated 'inside' so much. the acclaim from ostensibly sane martyrs-digging ilxors makes me wanna give it another shot, but i was high as fuck when i saw it and i still didn't like it, so i doubt that i'd come around.

finally saw [rec] last night, tight little flick.

I think (rec] and its sequel are totally great, totally scary and immersive. Third one is silly, even if by design.

Third one is terrible awful garbage.

Watching "sinister" tonight in the hopes that it will be the first good horror movie of 2013. Not optimistic.

Ok that was fucking fantastic. More tomorrow when I don't need to go to sleep

It's great, isn't it? I'm not sure why my expectations were so low going in but it's really effective.

ethan hawke

I'd be skeptical too

Sinister looks like a great movie from the trailers

It honestly barely ever missteps throughout - performances are great, writing is solid, expectations are thwarted in all the right ways, soundtrack is capital C creepy and awesome. Basically gore free, but that isn't to say theres not some pretty terrifying moments. In a lot of ways it felt like the classic era of modern japanese horror stuff.

I am here today to urge you to see Little Deaths, a resolutely unpleasant but very interesting UK anthology film. You'll be a bit disappointed by the conclusion of the first of the three stories, but the storytelling, style, and editing is solid throughout. The second story, "Mutant Tool," is by far the most fascinating--hard to fully grasp but possibly brilliant. But each story has something worthwhile, or at least highly unusual. Get on it.

a couple dudes i'm pals with made this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRq1SmwJnN0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRq1SmwJnN0