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

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.

sorry to hear that. veggie, you'll want to check it out imo.

Big Bad Wolves is absolutely fantastic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUsJXwE73QU

xxpost al leong: I can't pull that link atm, but is it the babby omar movie? :D :D

otm

hooray!

i really liked rabies. hence, high expectations for big bad wolves

big bad wolves looks p good

grand piano - absolutely top shelf directing, some really good performances and a weird but maybe great one from the lead (he acts with his face like he was something out of the silent era), totally is Speed On A Piano, and goes almost completely to shit in the last five or ten minutes. whoever wrote the script has maybe never been to the orchestra? the conductor is, like, from somebody's imagined version of how a conductor might behave.

really fun watch but seriously the song-reveal in the last ten or so minutes is just fucking excruciating, like throw-shit-at-the-screen wretched

so, I was gonna skip this one, because the copy made it sound like it was Saw In A Pit of Bodies and I'm sick to death of that shit. But I worked taking tickets in the afternoon and when you do that you're free to check out a movie between shifts so I missed the first ten minutes but caught the rest of this and fucking A. best of the festival so far, just great storytelling and great acting, super-clever but not cloyingly so...A+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ZX7jw3CFY

then tonight because somebody told me it was amazing I saw The Human Race. It was Saw As A Footrace and had one of the most absurd endings ever. The ending was kinda awesome in that if you're gonna deus-ex-machina why the fuck not go big but the movie itself was basically mindless torture-porn-plus-aren't-we-all-really-monsters stuff of the sort that just isn't that interesting imo.

Holy crap open grave + your endorsement looks like movie of the year shit for me

Cool. I was looking up Big Bad Wolves the other day, thanks to this thread, and at the bottom they had the poster for this, so I clicked on it and yeah, like you said, it did not read promising, but now I'm curious!

Both The Human Race + Open Grave have great endings and are fucking great b-movies.

Didn't expect much from Open Grave as I loathed Apollo 13, but it is excellent and has a decent cast.

absolutely top shelf directing

aero you really must see this guy's corey feldman movie. It's kind of stunning.

ok Open Grave kicks fuckin ass make no mistake but I Saw The Devil is basically a perfect movie imo

holy fucking shit that movie holy shit holy shit see it now

nb its pace is very slow and the scares are spaced out and the character development and building of dread is pretty distinct, like there's a blandness to the buildup that's very much in its own zone but holy shit holy fucking shit this movie

best fucking movie.

I love I Saw The Devil as well, I don't think it has been mentioned on this thread thus far but it is great. Best revenge movie I have ever seen.

It is pretty much the apex of a genre I am completely uninterested in. As far as pure aesthetic indulgence goes, though, the taxi sequence is tops.

was a fair bit of i saw the devil discussion itt a couple years back (including talk of a dedicated thread). reposted from jan 2012:

Appreciated I Saw the Devil, but didn't love it. It's slick in a good way, like good Spielberg, and suspenseful as hell, no complaints on a technical level. I very much enjoyed the unexpected comic touches but thought it got lost in the obvious relish with which it presents its antagonist's misdeeds. The hero's story became a background detail for much of the film, and the sleazy presentation of rape and abuse eventually turned me off. A good film, overall, but it can't hold a candle to Memories of Murder (since jjjusten made the comparison).

I wonder if this is a new edit or something - the antagonist is barely even onscreen? like, there's an assault in the opening bits but the other antagonist is always offscreen. there's no actual "abuse" - there's a guy who's thought to have abused the children, but that turns out to be a red herring: they were not abused, and the presentation of how the family deals with the possibility that something happened to them up in the mountains seemed really realistic: the husband and wife fight, the mood in the house darkens, the children aren't themselves -- like, there's a case to be made for the supernatural elements as the red herring and the human story within the movie as the real story

idk I think it's a fuckin A+ movie

wait! hold the fuck up! the movie I saw was Here Comes the Devil! the other one's one of those ultra-sadistic Korean horror deals, right? This is from Mexico.

http://www.magnetreleasing.com/herecomesthedevil/

I haven't seen that one, but apparently it is a very faithful remake of an earlier film.

Phew, thanks for correcting, I hate ultra-sadistic Korean films.

Poster is A+

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/91/Here_Comes_the_Devil.jpg

^^ true. another good entry to the respectful roster of adrian garcia bogliano. don't feel he always manages to deal with the sexual subtext throughout the whole movie, but as a sort of homage to 70's possession movies - with echoes of 'picnic at hanging rock' - it's a very noble effort. his heart is in the right place. 'habiaciones para turistas' and '36 pasos' are still my favourites. haven't seen 'cold sweat' yet.

and 'open grave' was great - probably the best horror movie i saw from 2013, on par with 'the last will and testament of rosalind leigh'. haven't seen that many tho. going to see 'big bad wolves' today.