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

It didn't help that he preceded it with Insidious, which was more or less the same with one of the same stars, and then followed it with Insidious 2. Maybe no shock that the guy behind the Saw movies is all about doing the same thing over and over again.

I liked Insidious, but never wound up finishing it (used to fall asleep if I watched any movie after 10). I thought the setup was neat. but yeah - he's run out of demonic ideas at this point.

got Lake Mungo waiting for me when i get in. hoping for some of that uncanny atmosphere that the Aussies seem to do so well.

Lake Mungo was strangely moving.

You guys are going to make fun of me but we watched "House at the End of the Street" last night. Pretty solid acting from Jennifer Lawrence and the main creepy dude but otherwise not notable except for *SPOILER SPOILER* a lame attempt at a PG-13 version of the Sleepaway Camp twist at the very end.

Lol just read the Wikipedia plot cuz I didn't get that far when I tried to watch it. Gotta admit I didn't see that coming

I'm glad they had it bc without it there were some pretty massive plot holes.

Who did the score for Maniac that you guys are flippin on?

― play on, El Chugadero, play on (Jon Lewis), Friday, October 18, 2013 12:36 PM (4 hours ago)

totally unhelpfully the only credit is to "Rob". Some rumors that it's one of the guys from Air, which seems odd and unsubstantiated.

JUG FACE

This is a 2013 release but available streaming through Amazon prime. Costars Johnny from Deadwood. I liked the main character (and the actress who played her). I like movies with backwoods hillbilly religious zealotry. Everybody was a little too reasonable, though, and I didn't like the ending. There's also one element of the movie that is suuuuuuuper cheesy that ruins it a little. I would say that it is overall okay. I wouldn't avoid it, but probably wouldn't get too excited about it, either.

They really missed the chance to have a horror movie called "Jughead." :(

Huh, lead actress (Lauren Ashley Carter) and Johnny from Deadwood were both in The Woman.

Yeah I was pretty underwhelmed by Jugface. It was pretty light on scares and heavy on interpersonal drama -- not that in itself is a bad thing its just when there's a supernatural hole in the ground that demands human sacrifice I felt like the movie should have focused on that a little more and maybe a little less about a dysfunctional family... but I'm a big nerd who loves tons of exposition. Also those people would totally be growing weed instead of making moonshine.

OTM re: weed.

Yeah, I would have liked a little more exposition on the pit as well. Or maybe seen it do something other than bubble muddily.

Alright u fuckers, I'm going to give this American Mary thing a try.

Haha ok so horror movies need to stop using ave Maria so much. Twice in maniac, opening credits in American Mary. Weird

Ok wait. 3 times in American Mary. Eaht

Lake Mungo weirdly felt less like a horror than many films with far less creepy moments in them.

seems like there's something worthwhile at play here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J39iyK_aqDE

Oh yeah, that remind me that I watched Grave Encounters the other day and I really liked it! It's probably the pinnacle of the whole found footage "real haunting" sub-genre imo. Is the sequel really as silly as it looks?

Has anyone seen We Are What We Are or the new remake?

saw the original, pretty decent imo.

We watched Lovely Molly last night and it was...alright. Not bad. Better then the cover would suggest. I was distracted by the casting and it really should have been filed under "personal demons" rather than straight horror. But there were some memorable scenes involving some pretty severe biting and a deer (different scenes). The score, apparently by Tortoise, wasn't really noticeable except for the moments when you noticed oh yeah, there's Tortoise.

Catching up...

MANIAC -- Yes, I've had the soundtrack on heavy rotation for nearly a year! So great.
GRAVE ENCOUNTERS 2 -- Definitely check it out. Really solid sequel, takes the idea in an interesting new direction.

New business...

TROUBLE EVERY DAY -- Claire Denis flick starring Vincent Gallo. It is, of course, weird, but has possibly *the* best cannibalism scene I've ever seen.
LOVELY MOLLY -- Speaking of cannibalism, indeed this has a highly effective biting scene. Solid flick but nothing to write home about.

It's interesting how LORDS OF SALEM is emerging as this thread's overall October favorite. Who would've thunk it?

Saw The Devil's Business over the weekend. Synopsis makes it look like a Kill List dupe (two hitmen, one from the South East, one from Northern Ireland, get sent on a job and wind up accidentally involved in the occult) but it's sufficiently different. It's low key and low budget with a TV look but diverting enough until the hokey ending.

the wife says she wants to watch a bunch of horror flicks between now and Halloween. not sure what the local shop has that we haven't seen, but putting American Mary on the list thx to this thread

world war z - lol

excision - really liked this tho I could've done without some of the indie wrinkles (wink wink cameo by john waters, wistful n twee folk singer soundtrack), but the brutally weird dream sequences were ace, and annalynne mccord holds down the film singlehandedly - pretty much a requirement for this kind of off-center character study to be successful. may's an appropriate touchstone, perhaps a more grand guignol secretary or welcome to the dollhouse?

also I love trouble every day but it's from 2001 plus every time I bring it up me and mr hal jam get in a big fight so forget I said anything

We do? I like (not love) TED and do dust it off every few years to see if my appreciation has deepened.

Has anyone seen We Are What We Are or the new remake?

Watched it the other night, I liked it. Haven't seen the original though so can't compare.

is the audio on netflix' maniac in mono for anyone else? annoying

VHS2 last night. It's a lot less cRaZy than the first one. The tales were disparate, the wraparound story simple, and it was usually pretty clear what was going on. I haven't read reviews of it but I'm sure the consensus is that the first two stories are throwaways, the third story really great, and the fourth decent. Majorly worth it for the third story alone--batshit in the best of ways.

things I learned from maniac: it's really easy to scalp someone

Ed III, I think I'm the TED hater around here

100 Bloody Acres is good fun, similar puerile gore humour to Tucker & Dale but with a good/bad redneck Aussie duo who collect human road-kill for their fertiliser business.

I was engaged by the filthy depravity of the original Maniac, not surprised to hear the remake is balls. original Maniac felt very much of its era.

We do? I like (not love) TED and do dust it off every few years to see if my appreciation has deepened.

― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8:32 AM (8 hours ago)

I'm thinking our dispute stemmed less from yr opinion of trouble every day as a film and more from me positing it as a primary influence on the 00s extreme french horror scene. in my mind it's an early entry which set a style precedent (exquisitely shot blood drenched bodies), as important as ringu was for j-ghost horror, but less trumpeted as an influence. the imagery was pretty startling in '01 and I can still feel its faint echoes in arty atrocity fare like the human centipede, or in the stuff that was subsequently influenced by haute tension, frontiere(s), inside, etc. TED was a marketing fail since it was too arty for the horror crowd and vice versa, don't think it was ever commercially available in the US on DVD aside from a cheap HK import. but it contained a gnarly kernel of an idea that others built upon imo and, regardless of my personal fondness for it, I can't help but think it doesn't get the props it deserves. ah well better luck next time claire denis!

Anybody here seen "hidden in the woods" (Spanish I think)? Found it today at my local library and it looks
suitably fucked up and creepy.

Actually, scratch that, it appears to be Chilean. Dumb library.

HITW is truly fucked up, but more incompetent than creepy.

still unconvinced, EIII. TED is not as primary an influence on the French Extreme Horror scene as, say, Seul Contre Tous. i will agree that it's a film that misses its mark as either art-house fare or as horror, though it is reasonably successful as an transitional Denis film. maybe comparable to Weerasethakul's flirtations with genre (i.e. ghost) tropes en route to pure auteurism.

Artsploitation is an interesting imprint. Anyone following their output? HITW and Wither being most relevant to this thread; Vanishing Waves and Gandu being better movies, etc.

you see! but anything that lures you back into our midst is worth it...

LOL

Trouble Every Day is the best movie. Most people are wrong about this.

ed3 excepted

maniac remake hit the sweet spot between bad and unpleasant. maybe not such a sweet spot after all. sad area, maybe. did like a few sequences and the ho-ho visual nods to the original. great soundtrack, yeah.

excision - really liked this tho I could've done without some of the indie wrinkles (wink wink cameo by john waters, wistful n twee folk singer soundtrack), but the brutally weird dream sequences were ace, and annalynne mccord holds down the film singlehandedly - pretty much a requirement for this kind of off-center character study to be successful. may's an appropriate touchstone, perhaps a more grand guignol secretary or welcome to the dollhouse?

― a hard dom is good to find (Edward III), Monday, October 21, 2013 8:25 PM (Yesterday)

otm x1000. love that movie, was raving about it upthread. agree that the star (analynne mccord) and dream sequences are head and shoulders above the rest of the film, but i even dug its may-like indie vibe.

Early impression of hidden in the woods is that this director can't decide between his love for overwrought melodrama and incest and his hatred for people keeping their appendages.

This is just stunningly terrible

Ok having said that and then hitting a sudden total fucking turn, I don't even know what to think any more. I rescind judgement until I have a little more time with this one.

is the title sequence of TED terrible on purpose or something? i loled
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