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

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.

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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.

hated The Bay

― grape is the flavor of my true love's hair (Jon Lewis)

:(

thought it was a better piranha remake than aja's (or, well, piranha/humanoids hybrid)

amazing dn though

I didn't HATE it tbh, I dug the creature threat, but it underachieved so fuckin hard though. And I couldn't see any reason it needed to be a found footage film. Felt like that was not exploited in any fruitful way.

Did no one else see PA5 yet? In addition to being a perfectly ok horror movie, the footage angle made (enough) sense, the characters were so charming and pretty well written for a mainstream horror movie tbh. It's not perfect, but I liked it and would recommend it once it winds up on netflix.

FYI - word from an buddy of mine that Synapse films (http://synapse-films.com/ "> http://synapse-films.com/ ) has rights to a healthy portion of Argento films - they'll get a nice package worthy of re-discovery fo sho...

I can't remember whether I've seen up to pa 3 or 4 but amazingly I have liked them all

4 was kinda weak iirc but 5 is really enjoyable! I don't know why I like them so much, but at least part of it is the dull suburban vibe. This one has that same dull/unremarkable set decoration only this time you're in an apartment building that's full of latinos -- and the setting itself is totally different but the feel is the same. Just kinda normal goofy kids doing normal goofy kid stuff. There's a part in the beginning where one of the kids is dancing with a dog that kinda sets the playful/fun/friendly/everything's normal tone in the beginning really well, and it's just a kid dancing with a dog.

Synapse has Suspiria and Tenebre. Expect their release/restoration of the former to be definitive, but priced as exorbitantly as their Demons 1 & 2 steelbooks. Because now they know that crazy fans are willing to (over)pay. I don't see any need to double dip on the latter. Arrow Films' second stab at it (using Wild Side FR's gorgeous print) is absolutely fine.

Synapse also has Curtains and Prom Night. The teaser stills that Don has dropped are exciting indeed. And I don't really care for either film.

Oh! And Popcorn!

itunes store should break movies out into tracks so I could just buy the skating scene from Curtains.

That's an amazingly good idea!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TvHCgH1XoYE

Curtains is on iTunes?

right? there are not that many movies I need to own but plenty of scenes/sequences I'd love to own.

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no it's not on itunes of course, I was just thinkin'.

Evil Dead remake. fucken gash.

Does "fucken gash" mean "total shit?" Because if so I could not agree more. It's as if someone saw the original and the only thing they got out of it was sadism and ugliness and decided that's what both needed to be kept but also amplified.

yes that's exactly what i meant. my son really likes it, kept playing up Raimi's involvement. alls i can say is that Raimi mustn't think much of his own legacy.

still, i guess every 80s movie needs a vacuous, humorless remake in HD before we're done

Did they run out of the '70s already?

I really loved the moment the clueless nerd character kept reading from the book after all the warnings not to. They really needed a lot more of that tone.

They were, like, literal warnings, too! "Do not read this book." And it was wrapped in barbed wire! And he had to figure out how to translate it from ancient whatever! I honestly couldn't tell if that was supposed to be funny, because the tone was soooooo off. Tone-deaf.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QX9IXylEm4A/UWxF2Ai4XBI/AAAAAAAACz8/THNv_FKfzu4/s400/Evil-Dead-wallpaper-13.jpg