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

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

Howlingly, maybe hilariously bad?

Ok on the plus side (?) this is OTP gore that would never ever be attempted by a mainline American horror director, makes rob zombie look like a sap

Well that was crap

I come bearing glad tidings. I saw a 2012 horror flick last night called "Would You Rather" that was really good and pretty tense. Despite a weird cast that includes Sasha Grey, John Heard, D'Angelo from The Wire, and Jeffrey Combs (who is great!), it's a serious movie and well worth a look. And though Grey is the weak spot, the acting is overall great, and I would've actually liked the movie to be longer in order to spend more time with the large cast, which isn't something I feel a whole lot.

That is an unusual cast, truly

Good recommendation. I will watch absolute garbage if Jeffrey Combs is involved (seriously considered shelling out $40 to have my picture taken with him at a Star Trek convention earlier this summer), so I might as well watch an actual good movie with him in it.

combs' old co-star barbara crampton is in you're next!

Joel bought V/H/S on DVD today. i wished i'd known how fucking weak it was before i let him.

Liked You're Next quite a bit, especially the second half. The score was perfect.

still wish it'd been titled "your next"

Yer Next.

I thought it was pretty good too, but I preferred the scarier first half. Glad I didn't leave the theater fearing windows though.

I know I will watch The Possession (recent dybbuk thing) on Netflix and I know it will suck.

Maybe watch some of Apparitions instead if you haven't seen it.

Normally I don't like horror movies that go goofy, but "You're Next" pulled off that switch from serious, grueling horror to over-the-top almost-comedy without making me roll my eyes, which is an accomplishment. I don't think the movie will stick in my head for long, but I have nearly no complaints.

hey just in case you get bored and see that "the final" is streaming on netflix and think what the hell, don't bother it's super terrible

oooh Apparitions is so good. Sometimes it's a little lol with the rogue priest thing tho.

"McCalahan, this time you've gone TOO FAR! Ya gotta stop exorcising people, its giving the Church a bad name!"
"Oh yeah? The only name I care about, is the name of THE LORD!"
"I'm gonna bust you down to alter boy if you don't watch it!"

(nb none of that happens but sometimes has that vibe)

one thing i enjoyed about "you're next": in a movie all about people killing other people in a variety of gruesome ways, there were (almost) no guns

The Final is the worst film I've ever seen.

I'm guessing you directed it

No, the director was apparently quite happy to put his name on this badly-acted, badly-scripted pro-school massacre propaganda.

I loved "John Dies in the End." It's like "Buckaroo Banzai" meets, I dunno, "Donnie Darko" meets ... Christ, I dunno. Lots of stuff.

thinking about watching "Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan," or at least the first 10 minutes of it.

I hope that Pontypool sequel comes out this year and saves 2013 from being one of the worst ever years for horror movies in recent history.

I tried to see "you're next" yesterday, but I got stuck for 10 minutes waiting for a train to pass and chalked the loss up to fate.

I hope that Pontypool sequel comes out this year and saves 2013 from being one of the worst ever years for horror movies in recent history.

Lets be fair, it won't be bad enough to clinch making 2013 the actual worst year for horror movies in recent history.

Thanks to mr Hal Jam for recommending the last will and testament of Rosalind Leigh. Just finished it on Netflix and really enjoyed it.

More coming up from Mike Flanagan (Absentia).

http://www.deadline.com/2013/09/toronto-oculus-helmer-mike-flanagan-in-focus-features-international-deal-for-somnia/

watched VHS and The Bay this week. both had enough moments that I had no desire to stop them, but they were underwhelming all the same

ive had "magic magic" sitting at my house all week and i just keep sort of never wanting to watch it

The Bay is a curious one. Doesn't even feel like a movie. It's more of a document -- like, it feels like a DVD bonus feature. That said, it held my interest.

so DePalma and Levinson have given the found footage genre a go, have any other old-school dudes given it a shot?

Romero's Diary Of The Dead?

DePalma's had a better conceit (iirc no pretense of anyone but himself putting the footage together, where Levinson pretends some wikileaks types decided to cut together classified footage with Boo!s and a horror score), but Redacted turned into really insufferable, lazy auteurist agitprop by the end, where Levinson did a better job of mixing message and genre. but man, I like to think I don't sweat "why are you filming this?" when watching these types of films (I liked Chronicle!), but VHS and The Bay were real lazy on that front.

xpost oh right! I enjoyed that ok, but i can't remember much

i could swear i already complained abt the bay on here, but i guess not. i hated it

Think I missed my chance to see You're Next today. Oh well.

maybe next time

I really loved "Magic Magic", but it is def not going to appeal to everybody. or much of anybody. and thats not some snooty cork-sniffer back patting there, it's a difficult movie to love, but i think it knocked it out of the park honestly. moody, bleak, scare free, ultra subtle, but capable of the deep under the skin creeps. its kind of like refn directing lets scare jessica to death around the valhalla rising period, or a non-psychedelic oregonian or pop skull. idk i dont want to pimp it too hard because i think it needs a very specific weird sensibility + the right time to view it, and on a different day i might have thought it was a snoozefest.

its also a movie that sort of assembles itself as you go - the pieces are weird and disjointed but they all fit somehow. cera is great, temple is great, and the trailer is weirdly and maybe intentionally misleading, probably best seen without reading anything first, and def stay the fuck away from the imdb user reviews until afterwards.

Magic Magic? Pretty good entry to the long line of women-are-crazy psychological horrors, I thought. Really good, actually. I like how it takes out-of-your-comfort-zone anxiety and just slowly slowly heats it up in a pressure cooker until it boils over into complete hysteria. The scene on the rock is a terrific centre piece: a jittery Juno Temple trying to summon the courage to jump down into the sea, her friends yelling at her, and her attention keeps going back to an ominous rock that's just below the water's surface. Tension tension tension.
Strange film. The audio/visual atmosphere of it is weirdly unnerving and uncomfortable, like the use of "Minnie the Moocher" being played on repeat on the car stereo and somehow sounding really sinister.

Juno's fab, and Michael Cera is actually really good. He isn't playing 'Michael Cera', which helps.