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

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

As we were driving home after the movie, I couldn't help but point out the similarities I saw to a book that is one of our family's favorites, "The Monster at the End of this Book" with furry, loveable, old Grover.

LOL!!!

http://accordingtomags.blogspot.com/2013/04/evil-dead-for-scaredy-cats.html

Wait so you are saying a character in a horror movie made some ill- advised decisions that is a damning criticism

The next thing you'll tell me is that those decisions were based on a dogged, possibly even stubborn refusal to believe in the seemingly impossible, like the supernatural/serial killer in your midst/demonic possession/cannibal family in the woods

saw 2 at nevermore last night: Almost Human, which was ok - had its moments - but had some super-clumsy reveals, and Last Days, from Spain, which was 1/2 interesting post-plague survival flick and 1/2 cornball in the extreme. both fun though. Might see 2 more tonight - Big Bad Wolves and Grand Piano - not sure, life getting in the way of my horror movie attendance

The Bay and Europa Report both complete wastes of time.

Hey, I watched Body Melt the other day. Just the thing if you love over-the-top gross-outs like Dead Alive and Street Trash. (I do not.)

http://facemeltingfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/vlcsnap-2011-09-07-15h43m52s247.png

The next thing you'll tell me is that those decisions were based on a dogged, possibly even stubborn refusal to believe in the seemingly impossible, like the supernatural/serial killer in your midst/demonic possession/cannibal family in the woods

yeah i know but a) in a post-Scream world i think you owe the audience at least a nod to how stupid this is and b) in The HD Dead the character wasn't established well enough to be read as stubbornly disbelieving, it was just "dum de dum dum, oh look here's a barb-wire wrapped book with STAY OUT written all over it, dum de dum dum, think i'll read this shit out loud for no obvious reason, dum de dum dum, cue the special effects"

i am ALL ABOUT no-brain rollercoasters but to do one of those you've got to wink just a little at your audience. getting Campbell into repeat his catchphrase after the credits finish really doesn't count as that imo

i mean yeah you could read the whole thing as being knowingly dumb but only if you read every dumb movie ever made as knowingly dumb

Haven't watched it but presumably dude was under the influence of the mind-altering mist drugs used by the Cabin In The Woods guys.

That's some gooooooood shit.

Wait so you are saying a character in a horror movie made some ill- advised decisions that is a damning criticism

Oh, come on, we're talking beyond "don't go in the spooky woods" or "they say her ghost still haunts this house." This is a character who goes down into a basement (which moments before was discovered as the site of dozens of rotting slaughtered animals), finds a weird booked wrapped in barbed wire, written in a weird language, with writing on it (in English) saying "do not read this! danger! turn back!" then taking the time to painstakingly translate the text, word by word - I mean, come on! - from ancient whatever. If this was meant to be funny it would have been funny. In the original, they just turn on the damned tape recorder.

See also: the woman, drooling, snarling, dragging a gun, approaching the group. "Cindy (or whatever the fuck your name is), are you OK?" Again, would have been funny if it was meant to be funny.

seeing this one later tonight - had hoped to make the 7:00 of Big Bad Wolves but hopefully I can get to it later this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTetpEr74xc

That looks kind of awful, but it's from the director of The Birthday which means I absolutely must see it.

i saw that trailer a week or so back - it's like Speed with a piano, lol

this film i've mentioned before (once or twice??? <<<??) is on-demand starting tomorrow, i mean it's not exactly horror but...

http://www.rentmoviesondemand.com/movie/432408

I was really not impressed with that, esp given the hype.