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

! 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.

There was a fourth one? Oh, wait, was this the one with the haunted Facebook page or whatever?

There was a fourth and will be a fifth next year, though they keep pushing back the release date (a sure sign of quality).

I'm pretty content with the story arc of the first three and will probably quit while I'm ahead.

I'm a big fan of PA 1-3, but 4 is sadly a big notch downward. Still basically does well what the others do but the "narrative" (as it were) is much weaker. I had kind of hoped that each film would continue being a prequel of the previous, and by now we'd be watching 8mm footage or slide shows of daguerreotypes or something.

In other news, SPLINTER is a decent newish flick. It's basically the monster from THE THING terrorizing a group of people caught inside of a gas station (a la THE MIST). Plus there's running body parts like EVIL DEAD 2. A nice mix.

Yeah, I saw Splinter a few years ago, I want to say. Pretty novel take on the usual trapped in a cabin scenario.

dug splinter. fun, fast paced, definitely worth a watch, if nothing great.

I think the Paranomal Activitys were always on a downward slope but 4 was where it flipped into two-star "man i wish i had the strength not to watch the next one" territory. but the basic BOO format is so durable.

watched the evil dead remake last night. even with all the bad buzz on here, that was pretty disappointing. i wondered how they could make me not like a film where Jane Levy is Ash, and the answer is (SPOILER) "don't make her Ash until the last ten minutes."

could totally imagine the sequel being better though. i mean, they did it the first time.

yeah, was ass movie.

started watching american mary last night, during a power outage. made it about 2/3 of the way through before my laptop conked, but really enjoyed what i saw. fun central character/performance (rowr), good balance of suspense and black humor, offhand amorality, mod fetishists, and a novel point of view. some iffy decisions, but nothing egregious. looking forward to the rest, so thanks for the rec, carl agatha. doesn't remind me strongly of may, but i can see why you'd draw the connection.

on the same tip: excision (i'm repeating myself, i know). don't think it got much support here, but i LOVED that movie. similar enough to may to be accused of ripping it off, but so good i don't care. annalynne mccord is great in it, and the surgical horror angle ties it back in to american mary. more like this, please.

tbf it's been a long time since I've seen May and some of the connection I'm drawing may just be "weird brunette does bad things."

Central character is super pretty, isn't she???? I definitely came away with a crush on Katharine Isabelle.

The real question, though, is what should I watch on Netflix streaming today?

Poultrygeist

Wait. Save that for me.

Any strong recommendations for recent horror movies that aren't heavy on the blood/gore?

The most recent one from me would be "magic magic" but like I said upthread a bit, I imagine it's going to be a bit divisive. Also arguably not horror per se.

Btw dug lords of Salem a lot, weirdo hallucinatory strangeness, minimal scares, whiffs of cremaster style strangeness but filtered through rob zombie bong water junk aesthetic. Def less brutal and more paced than all his other stuff, with way way less schtick. Except for the parts where it is all schtick. Sort of. That will make sense if you see it, honestly.

finished and liked american mary, but it does lose some steam and begin to wander in the second half. business with the club owner seemed underdeveloped, and the conclusion came out of nowhere. still, i liked it a lot better than most horror films i've seen recently (though it's tangential to the genre).

started snowtown murders. style and characters are great, but i'm dreading the drop.

NA, you could do a lot worse than The Lords of Salem -- low blood/gore, pretty strong movie.

We watched COME OUT AND PLAY last night, which is an almost shot-for-shot remake of WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? It was totally solid, though I don't know why you wouldn't just watch WHO CAN KILL A CHILD. By the way, if you like CHILDREN OF THE CORN and haven't seen WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? you're really missing out, it's great, provided you can get past the bizarre concentration camp opening credits.

Sorry for all the capital letters.