i have a field in england on my shortlist for netflix now
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
Field in England is incredible. idk how much of it is horror really but it's something.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Field in England is topsWas Rosalind Leigh 2014?! Jesus that year went by slowly. Rosalind L > Deborah L, though the latter is well worth watching esp for the acting
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
It Follows is great. One of my favourite horrors for a long time. It didn't have a flawed ending either, which I think is really notable for an exciting scary film in the last few years. I saw it in the cinema in 2014 but it's not getting a general release till later this year.
― kraudive, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:45 (nine years ago) link
awesome, been looking forward to that one for months.
― no Mmmmbob (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
Other horror(ish) titles I'm anticipating in the one five:
Crimson Peak - Guillermo Del Toro directs a bunch of famous people in a spooky gothic period pieceHigh Rise - Ben Wheatley (A Field in England, Kill List) adapting J.G. Ballard, sign me the fuck upThe Duke of Burgundy - oddball relationship drama from Peter Strickland, who I'll follow anywhere after Berberian Sound StudioAmong the Living - latest from Bustillo & Maury (Inside, Livide)Harbinger Down - long delayed, practical-effects driven tribute to Carpenter's The ThingThe Editor - tongue-in-cheek giallo homage from the Astron-6 crew (Father's Day)Green Inferno - Eli Roth's 70s-style cannibal flick, almost certainly awful, but pushed back so long I'm now dying to see itA Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - still haven't caught this >:[It Follows - like kraudive saysFinal Girl - not much to go on, the but premise (hit girl vs murder boys) and word of mouth are promisingCooties - horror comedy about schoolteachers battling a pack of monsterized kids, can't miss!
― no Mmmmbob (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
my favs from 2014. roughly in this order :
starry eyeshoneymoonhouseboundlate phasescoherenceabc's of death 2the babadook
'oculus' and 'among the living' were ok, and i didn't hate 'the sacrament' as much as most people here, i guess - same goes for 'mockingbird' until that absolutely dreadful ending. 'the purge: anarchy' was way better than the first one, but that doesn't really count for much, does it?
still need to see : it follows, man in the orange jacket, a girls walks home alone at night, der samurai, under the skin. is 'the canal' any good? story doesn't seem that appealing, but i've seen some people rate it highly
― rusty_allen, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
i didn't hate 'the sacrament' as much as most people here, i guess - same goes for 'mockingbird' until that absolutely dreadful ending
^^ considering they're both ff, that is. something i find truly off putting these days.
― rusty_allen, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
i thought Babadook was brilliant in its depiction of the mother's mental state, feeling alone and completely overwhelmed. it was very hard to watch! the horror elements, though, were pretty standard fare.
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
What We Do in the Shadows is being released in Japan: http://t.co/GzTiH5NJZ2
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
put a bunch of these on netflix instant, thx
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 January 2015 06:07 (nine years ago) link
People shitting themselves over The Witch at Sundance.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
There's two films with that title this year. This sundance one is set in 1600s?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I think? New England. People are saying it's like a Kubrick "Crucible" or something along those lines.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
Actually the titles are slightly different
The Witchhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt4263482/?ref_=rvi_tt
Witchhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt2936638/?ref_=rvi_tt
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Which Witch is which?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
The first is the sundance one I'm sure
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
http://www.midnighteye.com/reviews/over-your-dead-body/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
I guess this isn't horror but this is pretty much the only film thread I follow - anyone heard anything about this? The trailer looks amazing: http://www.okayafrica.com/news/ethiopian-post-apocalyptic-sci-fi-film-crumbs-trailer/
(Or point me to a good thread to discuss it on.)
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
that looks amazing and plenty horror enough for this thread. unfortunately, i have little to add to the discussion beyond "yes, please". and thank you.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
will watch
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
This is really, really good, and fits on this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK-gwgaR0QI
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
cast of that is great, nonetheless, couldn't make it past more than a couple minutes. Adult Swim is the worst.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
^^ came across that trailer on fb yesterday. it looks amazing indeed.
― rusty_allen, Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
Saw As Above So Below finally and. Well, I'm not really sure where I fall on it. So much almost good, nothing per se terrible. Still sorting it out.
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 February 2015 06:33 (nine years ago) link
Since I'm on zing I can't bump the lets shit something old thread, so happy Friday the 13th y'all.
Chi chi chi chi chi ma am ma ma
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Friday, 13 February 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
did anyone see 'the pact 2'?
im not invested in the pact franchise as it were, but the ppl involved in 'entrance' wrote & directed I believe so my interest was def piqued
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 February 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
Crimson Peak trailer looks okay. Not much to say I suppose.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 14 February 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBlG8Lv01k
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 14 February 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Finally saw Pontypool a few nights ago. My god what a dreadful, implausible film.
Housebound, which we watched last night, was pretty fun, although I wasn't sure about the big reveal in the last third which seemed a little bit overdone for my tastes *SPOILER* how to explain the teddy bear?
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Monday, 16 February 2015 10:41 (nine years ago) link
Honeymoon, with Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway, was decent enough. Breaks no new ground whatsoever but nicely executed and well acted.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Monday, 16 February 2015 11:58 (nine years ago) link
Didn't the guy in the attic reprogram the bear? Thought Housebound was maybe an hour too long.
Wait, did you just call Pontypool implausible? that's pretty much the least controversial thing you can say about it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 February 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
ah, that would make sense.
Pontypool, and the whole 'speaking disease' premise and how they dealt with it, just didn't make any sense, not even for a horror/zombie movie. Nice idea to try an make a single-room, no monsters, zombie movie but the whole thing got so hammy by the end I just couldn't deal with it.
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Monday, 16 February 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
I almost feel as though Housebound could have made for a more streamlined film if they'd either dispensed with the whole Eugene plot or introduced his presence a little earlier on.
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Monday, 16 February 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
Pontypool, and the whole 'speaking disease' premise and how they dealt with it, just didn't make any sense, not even for a horror/zombie movie.
it makes perfect sense. it's not in the least plausible, but i don't see how that's a problem.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 07:00 (nine years ago) link
Wait wait how would this even work? I don't want to spoiler Housebound, but that's a little like saying psycho would have been more streamlined if they'd thrown a shot of Normans mother in after the shower scene.
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 23 February 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
The problem with Pontypool on the other hand is that it's terrible but we've been over that
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 23 February 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
I got so bored with Housebound I forgot what any of the characters had to do with anything.
Anyone seen "What We Do in the Shadows?"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 February 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
Just watched Babadook. It's pretty much what I expected: very well made but too many overfamiliar elements from the past 15 or more years. Both the mother and Katherine Heigl as the little boy really put themselves through it so it's a shame it wasn't better. I think it needed a better story but they really did make it as well as could have been expected. Apart from the quibble of those also overfamiliar stock alien/dinosaur sound effects. Why do people use that stuff?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 February 2015 00:08 (nine years ago) link
looking forward to Katherine Heigl playing a little boy, seems like a stretch but
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 28 February 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link
taking of debra logan is pretty horrible but i like the opening idea of alzheimers transforming grandma into a monsterthen snake people for no fucking reason
― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 February 2015 02:44 (nine years ago) link
big monster reveal at the end of debra logan is all time, and the mother-daughter performances are great, but yeah, i've lodged my objections upthread.
have seen what we do in the shadows. it's pretty great. much more comedy than horror, but funny and smart, with strong writing and winning performances.
a couple nights ago, i watched one of the long list of horror movies that i'm anticipating in 2015: wyrmwood, an aussie hybrid of high-octane action and tongue-in-cheek zombie mayhem. was not worth the wait. it's an obvious labor of love with some nice ideas, but way too enamored of"badass", cgi-enhanced butt kicking and no-homo bro comedy. picks up toward the end, but leon burchill's benny really should have been the main character all along.
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Saturday, 28 February 2015 03:06 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I'm allergic to anything that sees itself as "badass" at this point.
― a date with density (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 28 February 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
so after massive hype around it follows, its actually not THAT scary, and more of an indie horror, i.e. teen character study with a few scary moments/horror premise arching over it. its basically another film like the guest, a semi-80s b-movie semi-homage, right down to the score. i liked it, theres some interesting ideas about sex/adolescence/flipping of genre tropes in there somewhere, but i didnt get as much as hoped out of it, though i think maika monroe might be my new favourite american actress. i can see why so many people have gone crazy for it follows though - its a bit sinister, but its not really a Horror movie. its more a horror for people that dont usually watch the genre.
― StillAdvance, Saturday, 28 February 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
When does that movie open? Does it open wide, or as wide as something like The Guest opened? Been waiting a while and don't want to miss it.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 28 February 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
not sure but its out in the uk this weekend
― StillAdvance, Saturday, 28 February 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Have we talked about 100 bloody acres at some point? Because those peeps have something new going on, and I'm stoked.
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 2 March 2015 04:50 (nine years ago) link
maybe, but it's news to me (100 bloody acres). intrigued.
watched 2014's town that dreaded sundown remake last night. owes a lot to the meta-cinematic likes of wes craven's new nightmare and the last couple installments in the scream series, but slick, tense and inventive enough to stand on its own. ending's ridiculously contrived, but it didn't ruin the film for me (as it seems to have for others). probably helps to have seen the original.
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Monday, 2 March 2015 05:34 (nine years ago) link
Anyone seen Italian film from last year called Across The River?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 2 March 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
Yes, it's not very good. Initially promising but really dull and disappointing.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Monday, 2 March 2015 14:26 (nine years ago) link