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

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

np

hmm says you can buy a DVD of it here?

boot.

Scream Factory or Code Red may eventually get around to releasing it. i hope. wicked film.

oh yeah, had no illusions about that being official/legal

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

Same director as the Friday the 13th remake iirc

from mr hal jam's lips to god's ears

xps

Bah. Bill doesn't listen to me. I keep requesting The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie and Savage Intruder. Nuthin. but he does claim to have Curse of the Blue Lights and a new, apparently much-improved print of Evilspeak on the way. wd make up for his uninspiring recent slate of dumb sex comedies and Crown Royal repackagings.

New contender for 2013 honors: Jug Face. Wow. Appalachian "The Lottery" riff with excellent performances and a thoughtful script.

The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh is now Streaming on the Netflix. So no more excuses for not checking out this truly impressive and affecting movie.

a new, apparently much-improved print of Evilspeak

!!!

And i wish i had Cliff's ear. He's doing fine without me, but he favors the heavy-hitters and the crowd-pleasers. BD/DVDs of Prince of Darkness, The Beast Within and ITMOM coming soon. I think i'm most excited for the All Night Horror Marathon multipacks. The Outing! Catacombs! Cellar Dweller!!!!

You're Next isn't quite as great as the reviews would have it, but it's an effectively nasty turn on the "last girl" archetype.

really enjoyed You're Next but part of it may have been that I saw the shitty new Woody Allen movie a few hours earlier and it just looked stellar by comparison

Watching "killer joe" tonight which is nominally horror I think and maybe "drive angry" which should be suitably awful

Not really Horror but I just watched "My Amityville Horror," a documentary that catches up with young Danny Lutz, now in his 40s and still disturbed... it was really interesting. I'm sure he believes everything he says happened to him but its hard to shake the idea that viewing at least a dozen fictionalized and sensationalized accounts of events that occurred when he were a very frightened child didn't warp his memories to some degree. I was surprised how much hate he still carries around for his step-dad.

Killer joe - def not horror, but deeply deeply fucked up and worth seeing

I love My Amityville Horror. Did you not get the sense that Dan Lutz clung to the idea that the supernatural shit in the house was real to avoid, still, the p obv truth (to me, as an observer) that George Lutz was an abusive tyrant? Poor kid got gaslit so hard by his family, the media, Hollywood, the public... Phew. Also he totally shreds on the guitar.

I'm with you guys. "My Amityville Horror" is really good. It shows the psychological devastation of unwanted public attention (and, of course, a clearly abusive parent!) as good as anything else out there. Dan Lutz both wants attention and hates attention, and as a viewer you both love him and want to shake him by the shoulders. It's an uncomfortable knot of a film.

you both love him and want to shake him by the shoulders

Yes!

Also the part with Lorraine Warren and the chicken and the one true cross relic.

I had no idea she was still alive when that scene came on.

Up tonight - totally divisive film "no one lives" by the dude that did versus (awesome) and midnight meat train (which I loved but is not for everyone), ryuhei kitamura

Wait waht this is produced by pathe (ok cool) and uh wwe studios

Well, trying not to liveblog this but holy fuck this is some bad bad dialog, bad bad bad bad bad