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

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.

watched John Dies at the End last night. Deeply invested in its own silliness, throws out a million ideas a second, like Buckaroo Banzai (the rasta mystic seemed like an obvious nod) but with more cartoonish gore and more dick jokes. It had this garish, harshly lit feeling to it that I've noticed in other similar splatter-comedy fests of recent vintage like Hobo With a Shotgun, not sure what to attribute that to... Not really scary on any level, but fun.

by Don Coscarelli btw

It had this garish, harshly lit feeling to it that I've noticed in other similar splatter-comedy fests of recent vintage like Hobo With a Shotgun, not sure what to attribute that to

troma nostalgia, maybe.

watched The Chaos Experiment (originally titled "The Steam Experiment"), where Val Kilmer locks 5 people (including patrick muldoon and eric roberts) in a death trap stream room because he's worried about global warming (armand assante plays the cop who'd rather be at a bar). One of at least two movies on instant where Val Kilmer acts annoying in a police interrogation room while people die one by one. Slightly more enjoyable than The Traveler, as Kilmer does some actual "i'm a wacko" acting rather than just whistling, but the ending was even dumber. apparently it only played in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as they filmed it there for tax credits.

highly recommended if you want to see eric roberts walk around half-naked as women randomly scream the same word over and over in a steam room filmed in a gauzy orange

Sold!

Wait, what is the opposite of sold?

Not sold!

Donated!

Thanks! OK, what rhymes with hug me?

Ibra scores after five minutes. PSG looking good vs Monaco.

Wrong thread, obviously.

Alright, fine, like the glutton for punishment I am, just started Apollo 18 after fleeing the first terrible 5 minutes of Silent Hill: Revelations

It's definitely not an improvement on Silent Hill.

I loved Apollo 18. I am literally the only person on the planet who did. I can't explain it. I am sorry.

I thought it was alright! People who like to nitpick logic jumps and anachronisms are going to find it a little challenging however.

The fact that silent hill STARTS with a dream within a dream jump scare = no thanks no way

Really?!? You though it was all right!? You are my new friend!!!

INSIDIOUS 2: It's like INSIDIOUS 1, plus a little POLTERGEIST 2, plus a little NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3. Not bad, but I'm really okay if there's not an INSIDIOUS 3.