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

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.

Simmer down, buddy.

paranormal activity 4 really wasnt that bad imo, huge drop in quality from 3, but i would rank them pretty much 3>1>4>2

really does seem to be a totally dead end road now tho, theyve exhausted just about all the tricks at this point

three had some good BOOs but the ending ticks me off so much. How could it logically lead to the first movie?

Watched most of Lords of Salem. So far ... it seems sort of like had Rob Zombie made a really good contemporary witch movie, then had it take away from him by a different Rob Zombie who demanded a third Rob Zombie cut some 25 minutes out of it. As much as I appreciate his literal-mindedness as a director, I wish there was more suspense/mystery to it. Bits reminded me (so far) of "The Fog" and, of all things, "Halloween 3."

yeah, it's way more reminiscent of carpenter than his halloween films (i dunno, i only saw the first)

kind of psyched for this escape from tomorrow movie. hadn't heard a thing about it until this morning, but maybe just cuz i haven't been paying attention.

xp Curb your skepticism and SEE THE SECOND!

You mean Zombie's Halloween 2? I want to say I never made it past all the backstory at the beginning.

Some decent convo about Halloween 2 upthread. I'm mixed on it but love that it has its defenders.

yeah one of the more interesting things abt LoS was the way that all the exterior shots are super dread infused, has a very carpentery vibe in those spots in particular

One of the other more interesting things was that it's called Lords of Salem, and I barely recall so much as an establishing shot of Salem, MA.

I didn't get any dread, though, since there is no mystery. When you start your film with writhing, cackling naked witches, it sort of plays your hand a little early.

I liked the main Satanic theme in LoS. I wish there were more to the song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZKg6NZoVXk&list=RD02zPmyFWDo8so

Zombie's Halloween 2 recommended if you always thought Michael Myers dreamed of the director's wife and ponies

I'm no zombie fan, never really enjoyed one of his films tbh, tho I've got some grudging respect for what he's accomplished (cut to teenage me jamming pre-metal scumrock-era white zombie in '87... successful hollywood director didn't seem like it was in the cards for this guy).

but I realllly liked lords of salem, and would've been nudged into total love if the coda was more satisfying. it reached for some phantasmagorical jodorowsky wtf extended climax, but without a real commitment to per/subversion it devolved into 90s metal music video hijinks. for 3/4 of the runtime I enjoyed the lazy drift of its horror-movie-as-tone-poem style, before it decided to become a nu-metal inland empire. yr moves gotta be real sharp if yer gonna drive off the edge of the page like that, and all the promise of that stately lushness ended up delivering more rick rubin than rubens.

all that neg aside, anybody who gives me a beautifully shot & designed well-acted goth-out with that eerie surreal/quotidian vibe is pushing my buttons bigtime. was pretty impressed w/ ms zombie's perf too. her take on a single middle-aged tatted-up ex-junkie (er, spoiler?) who just really wants to get thru the day and hang with her dog, well, there weren't a lot of false notes there. and, as somebody noted above, refreshing to see that person as a central character. I mean we all know someone kinda like this, right? she nailed it.

I can see some of the carpenter ref's others noted above, but lynch is who I kept thinking of during all the interior creepy apartment / foreboding hallway sequences, also in the charmingly-polite/foulmouth-psycho binaries of the landlady and her coven (shit more spoilers). I guess a bit of polanski apartment trilogy in there too. and I dug the comedy intertitles obv swiped from kubrick - horrific sting cue / jump cut / MONDAY - that shit never gets old.

so, lots to like in there, would recommend.

The Conjuring is worth a watch, good couple of jumps in there, had me kinda creeped out in a few parts. Little bit predictable, but still enjoyable.

Watched REC 3 last night. What a total waste of time! The first two are so good, and this one seems to be heading in a good direction until about ten minutes in when the filmmaker abandons the effective found-footage angle and just goes for a regular movie -- a boring zombie movie, as it turns out, with a (sigh) blood-spattered bride with a (sigh) chainsaw. A day later, I'm still pissed off about it.

Right there with you, that movie made me furious.

I am planning on watching 'You're Next' tonight :D

Rec 3 was silly. One of those situations where the first two movies did everything so right I guess they felt they had to go a totally different direction.

Lords of Salem has stuck with me, despite its shortcomings. I sort of wish, again, that there was more mystery to it, that it would be more like the Salem witch "2001" or something. Though I guess it comes close at times.

You're Next more like bore next :(

I had 0.0 interest in seeing you're next until I found out the lead from upstream color was in it, guess she couldn't save it singlehandedly huh

I hated RZ\s Halloween flicks but pretty much unabashedly loved Lords of Salem.

That lead from "Upstream Color" & "You're Next" (dug that one) is also in Ti West's new movie "The Sacrament" (along with the rest of the cast of "You're Next," actually) which I saw last night at the London Film Festival. The movie starts off with real promise and has some really tense bits until - for me, and several people in the audience, it seemed like - the penny drops about 20/25 minutes in and you realize you've figured out exactly what's going on and all interest disappears. I feel like I shouldn't say more than that, but it's enormously disappointing.

Also saw Lucky McKee & Chris Sivertson's "All Cheerleader's Die," which is a lot of fun.

it's enormously disappointing.

Spoiler alert!

Watched MANIAC last night, the remake with Elijah Wood. He's solid in it, the staging is great (90% of the movie is from the first-person perspective of Wood, an interesting technical feat), and the score is awesome. It's impressively made but keeps to its grindhouse roots via lots of nudity and gore. And yet... I found myself wondering how many women I need to see scalped and killed. The answer, as it turns out, is not very many. So I guess I'm left cold by it. Would love to hear your thoughts (it's streaming on Netflix, FYI).

# of women I need to see scalped/killed = 0
i did not watch this movie

I liked "You're Next" but will do the annoying horror film thread thing of saying it's "not really a horror movie." I mean it's set up as a horror movie but ultimately it's more like a low-budget action/revenge movie. It's never scary and it's not really trying to be. The lead actress is great and I enjoyed Joe Swanberg as the douchey brother.

It's a little more horrory than Straw Dogs (which often gets lumped into the wider nets of horror).

NA otm

If that's the case, Last House on the Left and I Spit On Your Grave aren't horror, either.

They're not horror, just horrible or horrific, a lineage that extends from those start points through the torture porn boom. Just because it makes you close your eyes or turn away or turn it off does not make it scary.

when I was 9 I was taken to a drive-in triple feature of the amityville horror/dawn of the dead/last house on the left. the ghosts and zombies didn't scare me but last house sure as hell did.

also where is the horrible/horrific section located and do we need a thread for it

Where do they file "Irreversible?" Next to "Hostel?"

arty eurotrash prolly

Sorry, guys.

I don't really have a dog in the fight about whether revenge movies are horror. I've never even seen I Spit on Your Grave and don't particularly want to (although I have seen and actually own Last House on the Left - I won it in a trivia contest at the first Music Box 24-hour horror movie marathon event). I mostly bring them up because they're generally considered horror cannon.

Plus if they aren't horror, then American Mary isn't horror, and that puts me behind on my 31 horror films in 31 days endeavor.

i am strongly opposed to the idea that horror movies have to scare people to be horror movies, esp as a strident proponent of the dread/creepy based horror film. im down with a well-executed jump scare every so often, but its hardly the be all end all of horror.

Has nobody watched The Conjuring yet?