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

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.

I can barely remember anything about Insidious the first, except the bit where they're all "and some ghosts come for... ... ... INSIDIOUS reasons". Dun dun duuuuuhhhhhhh.

I saw the first Insidious the other week. As soon as they started going on about astral traveling I was having doubts, then Darth Maul turned up

That's pretty much when it went off the rails, IMO. But I have said before, perhaps in this thread, that the movie prior to that point seriously scared the hell out of me so I was actually glad that it got dumb so I could mentally regroup and not spend the next three days jumping at shadows.

I have decided to participate in this little Twitter project of watching 31 horror movies in 31 days so there's a decent chance I will see Insidious II before the month's end.

Insidious 2 was way better than The Conjuring even though it had all of the same elements. Angry woman ghosts, goofy ghost hunters, ghost sniffing clairvoyants, big old houses. I2 had one of my favorite male stock characters too, the Donald Sutherland-style sensitive man. I liked it!

even secret rooms!

Favorable comparisons to The Conjuring almost guarantee that I will see this movie!

agree that it was at points unnerving, but i really disliked insidious. couldn't hack the cornball, almost aggressively cliched obviousness of everything, wan's debt to formulaic storytelling and conventional depiction pushed almost into surrealism (a quality i liked, for whatever reason, in dead silence). didn't care for paranormal activity, either, so maybe i'm just hostile to new school haunted house movies.

haven't seen a really (really) good recent horror movie in months, maybe since berberian sound studio, nor have i been following this thread. halloween season suggestions appreciated, hint hint..

We also learn that Rose Byrne's character's name is spelled Renai, which is kind of weird imo but hey -- at least we know. I think her sad eyed blank-facedness works for her in this role really well.

I have to give Insidious credit for its effective use of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips."

Paranormal Activity I finally saw recently. Thought it was boring as hell, you could tell what the ending would be from a mile off and nothing in the build-up to that was compelling or interesting.

I think I say this every year, but Paranormal Activities films only work in theaters. This seems counter-intuitive--they're handicam movies, shouldn't they be ideal for home viewing? But no! 90% of the scare of those films is in the humming, almost Lynchian soundtrack, which totally envelopes you in suffocating white noise in a theater, but virtually vanishes at home. That is the result of my scientific experiment, anyway.

Huh. I've only seen the the first two, and both at home. I found them enjoyable and sufficiently creepy (the bit where the wife stands stock still at bedside for six hours or whatever is extremely effective IMO) but not as frightening as advertised. Maybe that's why.

How was the score for Insidious 2? Pt 1 was mostly memorable because of it.

Hmmm...not overwhelming? I don't remember much about it aside from the fact that I didn't find it distractingly melodramatic.

rats....distractingly melodramatic is what I was hoping for. the last one was deliriously OTT.

It was basically a replay iirc.

Tho I wasn't a major fan of the score the first time around.

based on someone's advice (itt?) I watched paranormal activity 3 first and found it pretty enjoyable, it reminded me of a 70s TV horror movie, no stunning masterpiece of craft but creepy in a low-budget quotidian way

haven't gone back and watched the first two tho

I did watch the evil dead remake unfortunately, that was some terrible shit

wasn't even measuring it against the original, went in w/ an open mind and blecch

some of the attack scenes were creepy but every other part of the movie was a terrible slog, super serious + stupid is a terrible combination, the bar is pretty f'kn low if this is what passes for quality horror in 2013

That thought did go through my mind during You're Next once or twice.

It might have been me who suggest Paranormal Activity 3 -- it's my favorite of the series, and I like all of them.

Saw "Scream 4" last night. (Yeah, I'd forgotten that it existed, too.) It, y'know, felt like a Scream movie.