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

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

i was sad to see lili taylor appearing in shit like this, too, esp playing a woman who is almost solely defined by her motherhoodness - valerie solanas seems a long way off...

New Yorker review called James Wan "virtuoso moviemaking ... worthy of applause." Ha.

(the one non-white character is introduced so that we can laugh at his afro)

uh... no?

Yeah, there's nothing funny about that guy's afro.

Continuing saga of remake fest 2013, about to watch the Friday the 12th remake. Yes. I know it is going to almost certainly suck.

Friday the 12th? grfo

xpost to elmo

at the screening i went to, there was def a big laugh when the black dude w/ the afro turned up - but maybe it was a racist audience rather than a racist text

It is the 12th one! Also plz note my jokes are totally hilarious

cf: dad jokes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NmRGR45azo

It really wasn't that bad! Better imo than either the nightmare or Halloween reboots, honestly

Maybe because I feel like the peeps who made it get the original in a way that neither of the others did?

thought the first texas chainsaw reboot - the one w/ r lee ermey - was the best of these reboots

okay just gonna ask this here since I can't find the relevant 1970s horror thread... but once upon a time someone on here linked to a blurb/youtube about a 1970s horror film involving a bunch of senior citizens in a tenement housing committing a bunch of murders. Does this ring a bell with anyone? hard thing to google

homebodies

one of my fave 70s flicks, given up on seeing this on DVD or blu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQd52fsX0pQ

^ appears to be 1998 real player quality

YES

thank you