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

Let's Scare Jessica!! So good.

hal jam, it was infinitely better to me because i completely hated all of the first one, and thought the segments in this one ranged from serviceable to actually really good - which is a huge improvement. also the wrap around was eh this time instead of being actively terrible.

i would prob watch all of that NYC thing, but yes lets scare jessica is moody and decent, and i would def check out the bobcat thing thx to loving "world's greatest dad" but with a little worry thx to hating "god bless america"

I'll always remember the '83 curtains as the film I saw because the box office wouldn't sell me a ticket to the evil dead (it was rated X!)

curtains was terrible aside from this surreal slo-mo sequence...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz3BOMrsV5g

I would watch the Bobcat one just out of curiosity - his track record is erratic, but enough to be interesting. Jessica is like the only film I know on that list lol

oh and Cemetary Man

Synapse Films is restoring Curtains from the original camera interpositives. i was never a fan. creepy but dull. the clip above is all you really need. it may even be better out of context, since it's such a slog to get there.

Patrick should be fun, since it's done by the Not Quite Hollywood guy. i expect it to have more spunk than the stodgy original, and to be less rote than the perfunctory Long Weekend rehash.
Death Weekend is a stunningly nasty post-LHOTL grindhouse R/R'r. would play great with the right crowd.

i have high hopes for the McKee and Cheap Thrills; less so for Roth. López-Gallego's King of the Mountain was a tense stunner. but Apollo 18.

Zack Parker isn't as clever or talented as he thinks he is.

Nothing turns me off quicker than the words "found footage."

let's scare jessica is fantastic but kind of moody and slow, cemetery man is a hoot, and I'd be curious about all cheerleaders must die since lucky mckee co-directed. I'm a fan of rituals but it's kind of a poor man's deliverance, good if you have a hankering for some 70s 4:30 movie style action on the big screen I guess...

i'd recommend Jessica to a Kurosawa K. fan. it traffics in dread in a very American way semi-analogous to the way something like Kairo or Loft subverts genre tropes.

Across the River has potential. Bianchini caught my attention with Custodes Bestiae. if he's gotten better...

man, a late-late Rituals/Death Weekend double-feature is the stuff of grindhouse-revival dreams.

can't recommend 'cheap thrills' enough. beyond my personal connection to the film documented on 77 previously, it's twisted and demented and hilarious.

Nothing turns me off quicker than the words "found footage."

^^^

Could it have been just last week I mentioned my boredom with Let's Scare Jessica to Death?

It may be years, or decades, or centuries, but APOLLO 18 shall have its day of glory, and on that day I, its prime minister, shall sitteth on its right-hand side.

how many viewings did that take, Eric?

Thnig i would like a cabinet spot, nothing fancy, just a honorarium for my service

Just finished The Bleeding House. That seemed to get pretty middling to negative reviews, but I liked it. I guess I could see how some might find it slow, but I liked the pacing. Gore levels were right about where I like them, too (blood blood everywhere but easy on the loving close ups of pain infliction) and I definitely liked the slow reveal of all the dark secrets and the ending. Also - cool movie poster:

http://dlylovell.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/bleedinghouseposter.jpg

Watched Grave Encounters 2 earlier today. That one was a little too goofy, I thought, plus the dudes were such jackasses, plus the undercurrent (and eventual overcurrent) of misogynistic meanness they exuded had me smdh. I didn't hate it, but I didn't think it was as fun as the first.

xp One and a half.

I thought The Bleeding House was something special.

For real or are you being sarcastic?

For real!

Well movie store was out of the more recent ones I was looking for. Went with fuller's White Dog and Office Killer. White Dog is basically Ol' Racist Yeller.

Has there been discussion here about Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh?! (it's on netflix streaming)

Because it was soooooooooo goooooooood (and scary!!!) I still don't even know if I understand what happened, but I know that 1) the camera work and set dressing were beautiful 2) the one actor in it was really good and there was lots of ambiguity 3) angel cult!! 4) i screamed 3 times (at least). Good movie!

Yep. See upthread. One of the year's finest.

Oh ok. Well I finally watched it and it was really good!!

Yeah I watched that abt a month ago on Hal jams say so and I was v v into it. Will totally rewatch at some point.

Awesome. Looking forward to checking this out.

LAST WILL is also notable for having nearly no blood or violence. It could almost be rated G if not for the constant mind-numbing terror.

Has there been discussion here about Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh?! (it's on netflix streaming)

Because it was soooooooooo goooooooood (and scary!!!) I still don't even know if I understand what happened, but I know that 1) the camera work and set dressing were beautiful 2) the one actor in it was really good and there was lots of ambiguity 3) angel cult!! 4) i screamed 3 times (at least). Good movie!

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We watched this last night and yeah it was good. I wish they had a little bit more explicit plotting - I'm ok with open-ended but it was pretty unclear what exactly had happened. Also kept getting distracted by the lead looking a lot like Aaron Paul. But yeah, solid non-gory horror.

christ rosalind leigh was terrifying

happy for their success but kill me now @ mumblegore

http://www.laweekly.com/2013-10-24/film-tv/mumblegore-horror-movies/

We watched this last night and yeah it was good. I wish they had a little bit more explicit plotting - I'm ok with open-ended but it was pretty unclear what exactly had happened. Also kept getting distracted by the lead looking a lot like Aaron Paul. But yeah, solid non-gory horror.

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also the lead actor's name is aaron poole!

ha! that is too weird. he didn't remind me of aaron paul but looking back, i can see how he would. what's next, they're both in a movie directed by Paul Poole?

Ok fine, I'm giving this last will and testament thing a shot

Fucking amazing

Like seriously my best discovery of the year. Total magic.

Point one: if you can make a horror movie that hits all the dread buttons and is still somehow emotionally devastating, well holy fuck, good on you

Point two: we might not be in 100% agreement all the time, but when mr Hal jam tells you to watch something, you probably should.

You should watch all my dumb shit too, but still

awwww, you guys! i wish there were a lot more Rosalind Leigh's to recommend. special movie.

Point one: if you can make a horror movie that hits all the dread buttons and is still somehow emotionally devastating, well holy fuck, good on you

One reason I love "The Orphanage" so much. Gut wrenching rather than gut churning.

Just watched "Last Will...": quality low budget tale of horror, like a good short story. Didn't think it was terribly scary or tense, but it was made with love, and did a great job with the cheap steadicam/crane work and single location. Not sure what was going on, though, not exactly.

I generally prefer horror films where I don't know what's going on.

i think last will is a pretty clear narrative, actually! figuring out what is really happening is just held back until the final moments, and its what makes the movie really profoundly touching and sad. in its own weird way.

Wait, so what is happening? I couldn't figure out why he was so chipper at the end.

well im trying how to give you my take on it without going monster spoiler on everyone, but im kind of drawing a blank on how to do that.

there's a monster?!

Assuming, for the same of argument, that there is a monster - no spoliers, just talking hypothetically here - then what the hell was up with the totally for the sake of argument monster?

There's just so much ambiguity, but I'm totally lost as to what it's supposed to add up to.

It's a 2001 movie, so forgive me, but you've got to check out SUSPENDED ANIMATION. Starts out like MISERY, then becomes a DePalma-esque obsession thriller, except it's directed and lit and scored like a Lifetime movie. It takes the strangest plot turns I've seen in a while and has perhaps my favorite teen delinquent of all time. Words fail me. It's streaming on Netflix.

from the director of Let's Scare Jessica to Death. i didn't care for it, but it's definitely different.

I made a sort-of related listed thread:

Can you name 10 "great" horror-comedies?