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

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."

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

I just search for "shit our pants", works fine.

Yeah, you probably get this one and the other 30 threads about shitting your pants.

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 (2 months ago)

I guess you're going to get another chance, trouble every day is (finally) getting an official US release this year...

wau cool. love that movie. why now tho?

watched the bay yesterday. good, especially in the area of pants, but ultimately a bit anticlimactic. perhaps a strength? some iffy acting, but not to enough to wreck it for me. much heebie jeebs.

i dunno, what else ... oh, i liked insidious 2, which is weird cuz the first was a drag. still haven't seen the conjuring, which is s'posed to be good. dunno what else to watch. maybe you're next

the Horror Europa documentary with Mark Gatiss was good I thought.

PA5 was pretty good, I thought. Kinda surprised I liked it so much but the characters were really well done.

man i havent seen a horror movie i liked in months

hated The Bay

some of yall should come to my town later this month

I'll be taking tickets on the Saturday I think! this festival slays and is fun and our theater kicks so much ass

omg i would fucking kill to go to that

Kind of a lame trailer (the voiceover and the bad CG bloody mirror thing are NOT part of the movie) but I'll be v surprised if Oculus won't end up as the best mainstream horror movie of 2014. James Wan-style supernatural horror done way better than he's managed so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTcD1TVupzs

And I have no idea why WWE films is involved.

That certainly looks up my alley.

Did anybody else read about the alleged demonic possession in Gary, IN? The whole time I was reading about it I was turning it into a James Wan-esque movie in my head.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/01/25/the-disposession-of-latoya-ammons/4892553/

very excited for Flanagan's Oculus. unless it's a possession movie. blerg.

Not really. But to explain further would be to spoil the fun.

Right now, nobody can touch Flanagan for fleshing out characters you actually give a shit about.

Ok, whew.