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

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
http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2013-10-23at20936AM_zps5213dc82.png

Think of it as a warning about what to expect

yeah, hidden in the woods is a total mess, nonsensical but not in the likeable grindhousy exploitation way, just incoherent and mediocre and frankly super gross while being mind-numbingly stupid. the turn i was talking abt up there had some momentary "huh is this about to get interesting" and then is followed by another 45 minutes of drudgery, terrible terrible acting, and a very bizarre semi-telenovelo soundtrack that is just so so wrong.

one to avoid.

huge warning: megan is missing is extremely disturbing. i'd go into it, but maybe this will clarify -- unless you need to watch dea+hdr0ne: the movie, i would strongly recommend not watching it on account of several memorably horrific scenes. truly horrifying. bravo, i guess? i wish i had never seen it. yet, i did.

maniac remake soundtrack is on spotify btw

not too interested in watching it tbh but cool soundtrack dude

I had no idea Maniac had been remade. I'm gonna pass, but I needed a new dn so

Sorry to pipe in, but can I suggest the next rolling ILS fashion thread be titled "ok lets all shirt and pants to something new"

Yes, Megan really sticks with you.

huge warning: megan is missing is extremely disturbing. i'd go into it, but maybe this will clarify -- unless you need to watch dea+hdr0ne: the movie, i would strongly recommend not watching it on account of several memorably horrific scenes. truly horrifying. bravo, i guess? i wish i had never seen it. yet, i did.

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Wednesday, October 23, 2013 11:48 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heavens! *downloads furiously*

maniac was terrible. great soundtrack tho

grave encounters was alright

the devil was lol

The one about the elevator? I'm watching that now.

Ha, the internet went out and when it came back on, I tried to return to the movie but it was NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. Clearly the work of... THE DEVIL.

Also I read the wikipedia summary for Megan is Missing and I wish I had not done that.

I didn't read anything about it, I only knew "internet predator" which sounded...not that scary but turned out to be horrrrrrrrific.

can't see myself getting less enjoyment out of a premise than that, like that kind of horror in the first place isn't my favorite type (though if it's good i'll give it props) but when it's horror of that type being visited upon 14 yr old characters it's a bridge too far.

OTM

Also I read the wikipedia summary for Megan is Missing and I wish I had not done that.

yeah, no thanks

I only posted about it to tell you NOT to watch it!! I feel bad enough already. Don't need shame on top of the intrusive thoughts.

Nobody's trying to shame you!

Sorry, that sounded accusatory. Any criticism I have is about the movie, not about people who watch it. Also I pretty much always read the Wikipedia summaries of the movies mentioned on this thread that I am pretty sure I won't watch.

likewise read the synopsis and just .... yeah what is the point of that

I pretty much always read the Wikipedia summaries of the movies mentioned on this thread that I am pretty sure I won't watch.

lol me too (cf Martyrs tetc.)

DUMPLINGS!, Human Centipede etc

Ha, yes, all of the French "new wave of horror," A Serbian Film, the Woman...

They are not my scene but I am usually too curious to leave it alone entirely.

xp!

I've seen both DUMPLINGS! and Human Centipede! Human Centipede is surprisingly tame, actually. I liked it!