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

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.

The weird ending of Paranormal Activity 3 keeps popping in my head, and every time I do I confuse it with the weird ending to "Insidious," and then I think, wow, no, that was "Paranormal Activity 3."

The oscillating fan stuff was a masterstroke, even if the movies themselves are the feature equivalent of those screen pranks where someone stares at a rocking chair until Regan from "the Exorcist" suddenly pops up.

Just watched The Possession. I get that The Exorcist casts a long shadow, but there are ways to make a possession movie stand out a little and other than having the demon be a dybbuk, this one didn't. It wasn't bad, per se, just not very exciting.

There's something to be said about supernatural events excusing/erasing bad fathering in this movie, but I'm struggling to make coherent thoughts. It's most out there when the father is accused of abusing his daughter and cut off from seeing them, when it's really that the daughter is possessed (so he's just misunderstood all along) but also in the way that the father is the only one who can fix the possessed daughter/broken family even though his absence/disengagement was presented as the (invalid, apparently) reason that the family was broken up in the first place.

Another thing about SCREAM 4. The amount of white girls viciously stabbed in this thing was out of control. Just one after another, pretty bad stabbings too, without camp, and with very few interruptions of males or minorities. It was kind of overwhelming.

Also saw Rob Zombie's THE LORDS OF SALEM, which I highly recommend. It's not scary in the slightest, but there is still much to recommend. The lead character is very different than your typical female lead and the whole mood of the thing is fantastic. The final 20 minutes are really wonderful--just a satantic freakout that makes little sense and is all the better for it. And it doesn't wimp out at the end either.

The only thing that keeps the movie from being a minor classic is the cliche of the filthy, writhing witches. Very little in this movie feels cliche, so that was a significant fly in the ointment.

i liked it too, but think it could have used a stronger lead. smz was fine (surprisingly decent, really), but never all that interesting or compelling. and the final shots were kind of horrid, casting a slight pall on what came before.

agree that the mood & atmosphere are wonderful, and i loved the more offhand moments of interaction between smz & her strikingly rob-like costar, esp the bit where he puts on "venus in furs" and isn't sure that it's the right choice.

great third act and lots of memorable incidents along the way. easily my favorite r-zom film this side of house of 1,000 corpses, but still just a solid 'B'.

is 'dark skies' any good? it got mailed to us by mistake, not sure whether to bother with it or not

American Mary!!!

Slight spoiler: if you make rape a part of your plot, this is how to do it. Also rape revenge is sooooooo not my genre but I loved just about everything about this movie.

Something about the sensibility reminded me of May in a really good way.

sold

! yeah I'm in

We finally watched Snowtown Murders and it was waaay better than I anticipated. I say that because we tried to watch Beyond the Black Rainbow the night before and I was so severely bored/irritated at the plot-artsy shit ratio that I refused to watch more than an hour of it. Snowtown was really well done for a movie about such gruesome stuff. I mean y'all already know that but I had to chime in since that's the sort of irritating person I am.

Love black rainbow but yeah it is all vibe no plot

Hilarious ending too

i still think about snowtown - def straddled the line really well between artistic movie & a true crime movie

Totally. Also I thought the casting/acting in Snowtown was top notch. The roo scenes were a bit tough to stomach, but nowhere near what I expected.

the killer & the main kid were ridiculously convincing

cannot get over how the rest of the cast/extras were locals

skipped snowtown cuz i guessed it'd be pointlessly nasty & depressing. maybe i'll give it a shot after all...

it's really not
it's depressing, but not pointlessly

otm

Yeah, it's definitely worth watching.

Wait, did the Rob Zombie movie even come out yet?

Lords of Salem? I forgot to mention that I enjoyed the male friend role in that one quite a bit. He was a quality male friend to the female lead.

lords of salem came, went, and is on home video

I started a thread dedicated to snowtown cuz I thought folks outside this haunted house should get on it, not sure how successful that ploy was

just watched snowtown as well. god, the ringleader guy was incredible in this. perfect horrible manipulative psycho bully. he made me so uncomfortable every second he was on screen.

i think it is worthwhile to mention that he LOOKS like he could possibly be a warm cuddly caring person, which is why it's so alarming that he is not that at all. When everyone was describing what a psycho he was, I was imagining him looking way way more gnarly than he does in the movie. Hence, effective.

Yes! I was documenting my viewing of this movie somewhere on ILX (here? Maybe Ed's thread?) and I noted how handsome I found that actor, which made the movie all the more jarring.

I think we decided to focus on this picture of him to help me get past the dissonance:

http://www.boudist.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Daniel-Henshall-Snowtown-209-590x885.jpg

awww

I know! He would never make a boy wear a dress and hold bricks. :(

ha!! he's all smiles until you see the earring and remember that he is a TOTAL FUCKING PSYCHO

(j/k that actor is v cute)

SNOWTOWN is amazing. Deserves a wider, mainstream audience.

What I really want to talk about is THE ATTIC (1980), an absolutely fantastic movie we watched last night with the strangest female horror lead since CARNIVAL OF SOULS. Also it co-stars a chimp in a sailor suit. But it's great! I guess it falls outside of our post-2005 thread parameters, though.

For real, that woman was a masterpiece! I'd call it hag horror except it wasn't all that splashy, well, except for when she would sneak out her flask and drink from a little paper cup behind her librarian's counter.

Also I guess the monkey was kind of splashy.

here's that other thread

have you seen SNOWTOWN aka the snowtown murders aka the grim indie bleakathon that's so worth it

Why do the Paranormal Activity movies scare me so much??? It's 1 in the afternoon on a beautiful sunny fall day and I'm watching this PA3 while I'm working and I cringe in fear every time that stupid fan camera pans into the empty side of the room and the Bloody Mary scene just about sent me over the edge.

Seriously I think I need to explore this in therapy. Maybe I was haunted by a demon as a child and these movies are bringing up repressed memories.

Ask Scalia.

I curse too much for him to want to talk to me. Thank fucking god.

They scare me too!! Also I have discovered that "male friend" from Lords of Salem is the Geico caveman.

I have lords of Salem and paranormal activity 4 at the house tonight. Just picked lords of Salem, let's see how this goes.

Looks like there's going to be a lot of Sherri moon zombie in this, which is a bad sign because she has never not been terrible ever

sherri boobs zombie

Paranormal Activity 4 is abysmal, and i say this as a fan of the series.