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

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!

DUMPLINGS! was more gross in concept than execution, I thought.

But everybody has different tolerances. jjjusten and Hal Jam and EIII are probably like "WTF wouldn't you watch Martyrs?"

This is one of my favorite threads though I know I'm too much of a wimp to watch like 80% of the films on here. I'm one who reads the wikipedia entries as well, but I was so taken aback by the one for Martyrs I decided to stop that as well.

I feel some discomfort/shame about having sat through the whole thing, but tbh the first part was pretty well done. The two girls had a charming unconventional (yet totally familiar) friendship and were convincingly early teenlike. I have to give the actors props for that. The rest of the movie was sick in the worst way and I wish I hadn't seen it. I'd be ok never talking about it again!

Human Centipede 2 is basically everything people were afraid the first would be but wasn't.

In many ways, reading the Wiki description of "A Serbian Film" - a movie I am torn about, but largely supportive of, in the abstract - is an experience in and of itself, because as you read it you think no fucking way, but then you see it and it turns out to be both beat by beat accurate but also nowhere near as horrifying as you imagined it to be. Which introduces its own conflicting feelings. Would I prefer it was harder to take? Why? Is there anything that would be truly too hard to take? Why? Etc.

I have so many things to say right now

Human Centipede 2 was boring me so I turned it off.

About to start "Twixt", expecting a show down between modern Roman Polanski and modern Val Kilmer to see who can fuck this up more.

God damn it, I mean Francis ford coppola

Hold on, could this actually be...awesome?

Nope, never mind, the brief what the shit greatness that happened in the first half hour has sunk into a mire of dumb as dick garbage.

Even Bruce Dern mowing down on the scenery and a totally awesome cameo from Don Novello (!) can't save this from itself.

I too have read Wikipedia summaries for movies that sounded too torturey -- for example, I've read about Martyrs and A Serbian Film and have not sought either of them out. But I had no idea going into Megan is Missing what I was getting myself into. So while I would have avoided it had I known better, I didn't know better, and I'm ultimately glad that I saw it. It brings up the old dilemma of how to react to a piece of art that is deplorable in a number of ways but also really well made and effective and emotionally genuine in others. One of the things that often signifies true "horror" to me in either movies or books is that sense you get, at some point during it, that the filmmaker or writer is not to be trusted, that his or her moral compass may be off and you're being led to a seriously bad place. (Classic old-school example: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.) Usually, though, by the end of the movie or book, you are either returned to a point of relative safety or are given enough evidence of sensitivity and intelligence throughout that you let the artist off the hook, or even admire them for what they've done.

Megan is Missing does have those moments of sensitivity and intelligence to differentiate it from truly redeemless crap like Captivity -- but the last 22 minutes of the movie let go of all that good work, abandoning us without warning into apparently pointless terror. This could be seen as brave or inexcusable and I don't know which one it is. But here I am still thinking about it, and I like that, even if I can't like the film.

That's really interesting. I think there's something positive to be said for a movie (any creative product) that does not take you back to that safe space at the end, although I think brave overstates it a little.

As with so many things, it's subjective and what it boils down to for me is that I don't want to go to a seriously bad place. Coming from someone who styles herself a fan of horror movies (and books and comics and whatever else) that makes me sound like a big phony, maybe, but it's the truth. From what I've read, I wouldn't want to see Megan is Missing even if it did have a (relatively) happy ending (a la Texas Chainsaw Massacre, for example, which only ends happily by the most miserly definition of happy).

That doesn't mean I think it shouldn't have been made (or even if I think so that I would seriously espouse that argument), or that people are bad for watching it or wanting to watch it. Just that I think with movies that go off the rails and fail to return, it is very valid to say, "Nope. Not for me."

well see now i have to watch it

Ditto.

Ha! This would have been the moment where I pointedly avoided it!