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

Dogs are fucking scary.

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hope you & your pups are ok, LL

All I know, is that if I were a non-believer, and I saw a vampire, and I saw that the vampire did not react well to crosses, then watch me become a believer pretty quickly. Like, if that won't solidify your faith, nothing will.

The novel of The Keep dealt with the issue of a Christian monster and a Jewish protagonist. I can't remember if Mann's film carried any of that over...

― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Monday, July 29, 2013 7:57 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think it was very explicit that the monster was Christian, but it's such a weird weird movie that I may be misremembering.

Yvette Mimieux!

Yeah dogs are seriously scary. My poor baby, I wouldn't blame him if he never wanted to go into the alley again. He let me touch his head and chin. I think he's ok?

All I know, is that if I were a non-believer, and I saw a vampire, and I saw that the vampire did not react well to crosses, then watch me become a believer pretty quickly. Like, if that won't solidify your faith, nothing will.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, July 29, 2013 3:28 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but maybe all this would prove is that vampires hate cliches

yeah i mean real demons aren't scared of the vatican
that much i know

The novel of The Keep dealt with the issue of a Christian monster and a Jewish protagonist. I can't remember if Mann's film carried any of that over...

― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Monday, July 29, 2013 7:57 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't think it was very explicit that the monster was Christian, but it's such a weird weird movie that I may be misremembering.

― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Monday, July 29, 2013 4:31 PM (9 minutes ago)

iirc the nazis mistakenly thought the symbols embedded in the walls of the keep were crosses, so they started wearing crosses to ward off the evil, but it turned out the symbols represented the hilt of the sword the protagonist carried w/ him. pretty sure there's a scene in the movie where the SS commandant tries to pull a cross on the evil spirit and he just crushes it and the hand in which it is held.

weren't the two powers battling supposed to be older than christianity? read the book 20 years ago so I'm a little foggy.

I was thinking of the scene where the bad monster (who's really nice to Ian McKellan in the movie, plus I think he stops Ian McKellan's daughter from getting raped by a Nazi, so how bad can he be) was unimpressed by the cross-wielding Nazi.

But yes, I do recall that it was an ancient battle between the Keep monster and the dude on the motorcycle.

I read the book when I was a kid (part of the "steal age inappropriate horror novels from my aunt" years) but I did rewatch the movie in the last couple of years, although the weirdness of the movie has obscured my memory.

Xpost I meant to say 'Christianity-derived'. Obv the vamp in the keep does not accept jc as his personal l & s etc.

I hope Carl (dog version) is ok!!! We used to get attacked all the time in this neighb before the trend changed from pits to chihuahuas and yorkies.

The Keep (novel) is quite good. I just read it a couple of years ago.

Legend of hell house is fucking obligatory!!!!

― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Monday, July 29, 2013 12:55 PM (2 hours ago)

Ah, the De-Ghostulator machine. Who could forget that?

― The Thnig, Monday, July 29, 2013 12:56 PM (2 hours ago)

just cuz yeah

read the keep as a kid. thought it was great, though i hardly remember it now. my clearest memory of the book is my sense of of disappointment at the demon in the film. iirc, he was supposed to be made of congealed but never quite solid smoke, so the seemingly solid skeleton monster was a bit of letdown. film is interesting on its own merits, if awfully slow.

Hell House is the book with the sauna scene? That was really scary. We're at the 911 vet now btw, just to be sure.

mann was pressured by the studio to make severe cuts to the keep, can't remember the details but more than 1 hour was removed and mann essentially disowned the film. I would love to see a director's cut, there are some great stately sequences but the pacing is awful. clearly a broken film.

now that I think abt it, I'd love to see del toro take a run at the keep. mann definitely didn't get the monster thing.

good luck LL!

The opening sequence with the trucks rolling into the town is herzogian dreamy but yeah broken film.

Movie's got lots going for it, and so much going against it. Score is cool, but the atmosphere is a MTV misstep in a way that Mann doesn't usually manage. Fantasy is not his forte. He's a master of stylized hyper-realism, not make-believe. "The Keep" is like his "Legend," minus the Rob Bottin make-up effects.

Yep about to watch the nightmare on elm street remake. why? Well basically because its here so I might as well.

As you can tell I am super optimistic and really stoked.

I wish that had been done well, because Jackie Earle Haley was a truly inspired bit of casting. It's really, really bad, unfortunately.

Wow this is really really bad

Hands down absolutely the worst of the remakes. I'll probably poll that, but if you vote for anything else you are wrong.

I liked it slightly more than Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, tbf.

Or rather, disliked it slightly less.

Watching "Sinister" right now. LOL at Hawke's Post-It notes. One says "Box of films - where did it come from?" and next to it is another Post-It Note with a scribbled picture of a box. Gotta love his diligence!

This movie is ridiculous, but so far probably better than "The Conjuring." Btw, in "The Conjuring," wow, did that family of 7 get over the mysterious, horrible first-night death of the family dog fast.

OK, Ethan Hawke. Stop watching snuff films and taking pictures of evil stuff - get out of the house! I'm serious, just get out. Don't you love your family? Nothing good will come of your half-assed investigation.

Also, turn some lights on.

Alright, "Sinister" was pretty pointless. "Conjuring" was scarier, relatively speaking.

I haven't seen the movie but I thought one of the main points of Sinister (based on the synopsis I read) was that leaving the house actually triggered the demon to possess one of your kids and make him/her kill the rest of the family? So leaving the house was actually the wrong thing to do?

I swear sometimes it feels like some of you dudes watch this stuff hoping to not enjoy it

this is ILX, that is the default mode for consuming entertainment for 75% of the population

^^^

xpost Yeah, that was the trigger, which I thought was a neat twist.

It was actually ILX that made me watch it, because god knows, it got some vicious reviews, or at least really cynical reviews. I just found it pretty ... rote. "The Conjuring" had more heart to it, this one just kind of zips along and does its thing, like "Mama" did.

Basically, I go into every movie hoping for the best but expecting the worst. Because really.

Rewatching the evil dead remake to see if it holds up on a second viewing.

and imo it totally does. i honestly dont think it does much of anything wrong, and the lead (the one from suburgatory) does a great job. i wonder if it would be held in super high esteem if fanboys weren't so busy being precious abt the original. not leveling that at you peeps, just reading the imdb litany of 1 star user reviews and getting annoyed.

It's definitely better than average among horror remakes of the last decade.

I haven't seen the movie but I thought one of the main points of Sinister (based on the synopsis I read) was that leaving the house actually triggered the demon to possess one of your kids and make him/her kill the rest of the family? So leaving the house was actually the wrong thing to do?

this is a late reveal twist - and only true after you've spent a couple weeks stroking your goatee and watching a collection of snuff films left in your attic, one a night

i can't remember if they showed that the dads from the previous families also spent their nights perusing the box of snuff, despite presumably not being true crime authors desperate for a hit.

What did the demon do before Super 8 films?

and when will he finally be forced to upgrade?

according to his interview in that Keanu doc, Buhguul says that the day he has to go digital is the day he retires, because nothing will ever be as creepy as film stock

What a reactionary. Get with the times, immortal evil one.

Yeah jeez there are filter apps for that!

Ok tonight I finally got the bluray of "Hardware", which I haven't seen in idk 15 years? Super fucking excited.

ugh The Conjuring was horrible on every level - hardcore pro-christian message and relentless determination to enshrine the nuclear family as the locus of goodness/happiness - the 1970s used as a signifier of ludicrous social freedom (the one non-white character is introduced so that we can laugh at his afro)

don't forget the asian assistant ghost blaster guy

ghost blaster guy was so forgettable - uncharacterised - i forgot him, my bad