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

Fair warning: underneath the camp lies a nasty unpleasant heart, so be prepared for some difficult moments, particularly wrt treatment of women (as discussed earlier itt)

i was dubious about the first one, hated the second, stopped watching. too color-by-numbers for me. the posters for the new season did nothing to convince me otherwise.
some people like it but i am not one of them afaik, which is midway through season 2.

Oh hey, watched Grabbers last night (boozy Irish horror comedy) and it is basically an ok background movie but nothing more.

I'm about 1/4 of the way into the second season of American Horror. I'm trying to settle into the OTTness but I keep having serious 'ok why am I watching this' moments

IMO American Horror Story is ok, but the best part about it is it's theme song. It's definitely cheesy, cliched and OTT, but it is really fun to watch Jessica Lange. I would say start with season two and see what you think... it's pretty lowbrow but it's not terrible (usually).

It's certainly nothing compared to Hannibal, which I think might just be the best horror-genre TV show ever.

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Alright y'all, been flicking through my back log on streaming and decided on The Bleeding House. How will it turn out? Who knows?

Never mind, I have a crying baby to tame. Soon though! Unless someone has a must see netflix streaming suggestion

I really liked the Bleeding House so that is my suggestion.

Uh oh, perennial laughing stock fave "Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead" now on Netflix streaming. Wish me luck!

ok, i manage to make my way through some pretty terrible stuff, but even I couldn't get all the way through zombie ass. not because it was gross (which uh it def is), but because it was just incredibly bad. I think it's time to just accept that I can't stand the Japanese Splatstick stuff at all.

basically it's the stunningly awful "F is for Fart" from abcs of death (same director) drawn out to 90 minutes. so yeah, if you liked that, go for it. also if you liked that, you suck.

watched "Deadgirl" Saturday night (after narrowly avoiding an accidental rental of "The Dead Girl") - pretty good, def interesting, and sustained a good tone throughout. Felt like the weak link was the acting, wasn't really into any of the leads. also did the annoying soundmixing thing of whispered/mumbled dialogue INTERSPERSED WITH INCREDIBLY LOUD BANG SOUNDS, cut that shit out plz. it never felt titillating, instead going for this uber-creepy proto-feminist examination of male desire, which is a tough trick to pull off.

I watched Open Grave the other day, had very low expectations (b-movie from the director of Apollo 13) and ended up thoroughly enjoying it. The story is; a character with amnesia wakes up in an open mass grave near a house with other people with amnesia, character starts suspecting he may have committed atrocities prior to losing his memory and shit starts getting weird.

Not even sure if this will be horror, but just started Sightseers (Ben Wheatley) and I have a good feeling about this.

Good feeling will dissolve pretty quickly in my experience but YMMV.

Not horror, but yow that's a lot of gore. I loved it actually.

I think I saw about half of Sightseers before I got bored. I "got it," I guess, but didn't feel the need to watch more of it.

Idk man it's a pretty good build and pretty great payoff

Do they get murdered by other serial killer tourists?

Just kidding, will watch the rest.

Resolution is on Netflix instant and i thought it was quite good. the ending is maybe a little pat but otherwise a fun ride and maximum bang for a microbudget

About to watch Jug Face, going in blind

Byzantium. wow.

what did you make of Jug Face, jjj?

Pretty lame honestly, seems like there's something there but it never really goes for it at all.

otm

i enjoyed Jug Face. it has the flavor of an Edward Lee or Jack Ketchum story, with the nastiness toned down but not entirely siphoned off. fine acting, good atmosphere. could it have done more to develop its backwoods mythology? well, sure.

my sentiments exactly Hal Jam. The lack of backstory and more attention to the mythos of the hole made it kinda meh. But the acting was pretty great.

but I didn't hate it.

Didn't take much from Byzantium at all tbh.

really? it was ... sumptuous. the story was both sweeping and very intimate - something Neil Jordan handles especially well. I loved the way it was structured around narratives both oral and written, recalling Atonement (no coincidence). If I had one quibble it's that the pace of the storytelling sped up towards the end, wrapping up a potentially sprawling Gothic tragedy just a bit too tidily. another half hour would have helped. but, like no movie since Park Chank-Wook's Thirst, Byzantium salvaged vampirism from the banality of Twilightization. i went in with low expectations, and just found myself enchanted. not a perfect movie, but a riveting, ravishing one.

*Chan-wook

So tired of vampire stories, maybe I didn't pay it full attention because of that. I thought the performances were decent though, Saoirse Ronan is great in p much everything though.

that Jim Jarmusch vamp flick sounds pretty cool

We succumbed to Netflix, have now seen and enjoyed both The Mist and Pontypool. That is all.

Has anyone watched david arquette's horror movie?

the one where he's a murderous tenant of a guest house with a harem of teenage girls? if so, yeah. don't remember much beyond the first lady from Scandal having one of those thankless "best friend of the female lead to be murdered mid-film" roles.

Has anyone watched david arquette's horror movie?

Eight Legged Freaks? Or did he make another one?

Referring to "The Tripper" from 2006. Some slasher film he directed. I think Paul Reubens pops up in it?

The tripper is totally fucking terrible, avoid it at all costs

watched 'you're next' last week. it was ok, and kinda "sadly" might actually be my fav wingard flick - 'home sick' and 'pop skull' were interesting but uneven, and 'a horrible way to die' bored me with such a mopey atmosphere. he's been trying to do something different, but i feel he never quite made a good movie out of those ideas. which wasn't the case with 'you're next' but at least that was fun.

early in this thread there was some very brief talk about thai horror becoming increasingly relevant, but apart from a few posts there wasn't much discussion afterwards. i only saw 'shutter', 'coming soon', 'alone' and '4bia'. any other recommendations?

FYI I was apparently referring to The Cottage, re Arquette, now on Netflix.

Saw Blood Glacier and The Apparition today.

The former is clearly superior but isn't exactly essential. The plot - a bunch of scientists in the German Alps being terrorised by mutant animals - owes a clear debt to The Thing and it doesn't do anything particularly interesting but there are only so many opportunities you get to hear someone say very seriously "I think it's a cross between a fox and a woodlouse" in films.

The Apparition was watchable but lacked any features of note. Not scary, dramatic or clever in any way.

For some reason, despite its colorful title this thread is a bitch to search for.

Anyway, saw "You're Next." While it could have been scarier, funnier, better acted and bothered to feature an actual ending, I thought it was OK. Would have been more fun if it just went the full "Home Alone."

watched it recently and had the same thought. I'm surprised someone hasn't done an adult gorefest version of HA at this stage

"The Collector" is like a horror Home Alone. Not particularly funny, though.

The Aggression Scale = gorefest version of HA.

Or maybe "Panic Room."