Kristy / Random is a fairly solid entry in the bunch-of-people-terrorise-another-bunch-of-people-for-no-obvious-reason canon.
It's a Weinstein film made in 2012 that nobody ever felt the need to release, but it has just surfaced on Netflix.
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Saturday, 31 October 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Thought I burned my bridges by making my wife watch "The Descent," which was so intense it unnerved her (fair enough), but I think "It Follows" won her back!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 31 October 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
I was into The Descent when it was about being lost and trapped underground, glimpses of weird things lurking nearby, not knowing whether you're hallucinating. When the threat was made clear and it became about fighting morlocks, it was kinda over for me.
― jmm, Saturday, 31 October 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
Just finished watching It Follows. A solid premise, with a few good moments. The rental was only 99 cents on Amazon, which seems about right.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 1 November 2015 01:52 (eight years ago) link
It wasn't even remotely scary, but I think I liked "Unfriended," not as a horror movie but as a sort of PSA about how impulsive, self-centered, stupid kids and social media are a bad mix. The window novelty worked pretty well on TV - don't think I would have liked it in theaters - and something about the way the asshole kids were depicted seemed really accurate to me, both in the perennial sense (bullies be bullying, peers be pressuring; even the ghost was a dick) but also the way a lot of people (in my experience) live through social media. Anyway, not especially good but not bad.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 03:54 (eight years ago) link
I saw Unfriended in theaters and quite liked it. I was even more impressed with it after learning that it was mostly made of of rehearsed near-feature-length single takes.
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 04:11 (eight years ago) link
*up of
Last Shift, which is just up on Netflix, is quite good. It's by the guy who did Cassadaga, which I don't remember being much cop, but very well executed.
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Friday, 6 November 2015 23:07 (eight years ago) link
Recently got around to watching "Calvaire." I'm not even sure it counts as horror, it's so surreal and fitfully (darkly) comic. It's more like some strange parody of torture porn/backwoods redneck horror, paced like molasses, shot neo-verite, devoid of scares/suspense, yet not because it's inept, just because. Not even sure what to make of it, to be honest. Probably more akin to Harmony Korine, maybe?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 November 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
It's pretty bizarre and nasty. Not sure how people would react if it was better known.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 9 November 2015 20:58 (eight years ago) link
i loved it, i'll never forget the pub scene
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 9 November 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
Pub scene reminded me of the asylum dance party set to the Pet Shop Boys in "Bronson."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
I should say, by the way, that the reason I checked it out was first and foremost a few recommendations on the thread, but also some conspicuously positive reviews from mainstream critics.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
The Guest is so much fun. I had no idea why anything was happening but it didn't seem to matter. Really excellent soundtrack too.
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 11:20 (eight years ago) link
I thought it got a little silly when it went all b-movie action tropes, but I still liked it a lot.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Finally got round to watching 'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night' and was hm, maybe slightly underwhelmed by this Tarr-lite vampire-in-breton-stripes movie.Some quite striking and memorable moments (the bit where she threatens the little boy was chilling), but it could have done with a bit more something or other...Some very long hymnic-jerk inducing shots. Lots of incongruous arty bits where people just stand around ignoring each other. Great use of epileptic black-and-white.An oddity, but not quite the masterpiece its creator and many reviewers have made it out to be.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 30 November 2015 10:21 (eight years ago) link
ups from a few weeks back. I adored Calvaire and yeah that pub scene. I wish I could find a clean copy of the music they used in that.
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Monday, 30 November 2015 10:23 (eight years ago) link
So yeah, "It Follows" is clearly the best horror film of 2015.
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Sunday, 13 December 2015 06:19 (eight years ago) link
Yep. I was geared up for disappointment after all the hype but it's really great.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Sunday, 13 December 2015 06:26 (eight years ago) link
Universal are planning to use their classic monsters but taking them out of horror and putting them in connected modern action adventure films to compete with Marvel.
Universal can suck my hemorrhoids.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 December 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link
lol, marvel already did that in the 70's.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link
They were partially redeemed by Gene Colan and Mike Ploog.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 December 2015 15:36 (eight years ago) link
wasn't that frankenstein movie with aaron eckhart from last year that no one liked supposed to be part of it? https://www.lionsgate.com/uploads/cache/ef/8b/ef8beb63d3c9713c311259d2737c2db3.jpg
― slam dunk, Friday, 18 December 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
that's him as frankenstein's monster btw
― slam dunk, Friday, 18 December 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
you can tell because he has scars on his face and is wearing denim.
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
I'm not sure. But I don't think it's part of this latest attempt. Tom Cruise is supposed to be in one of them.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 December 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
a+ costume work
― circa1916, Friday, 18 December 2015 20:32 (eight years ago) link
Saw the Joel Edgerton The Gift last night maybe not really horror, but good suspense and super creepy ending.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 18 December 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
Finally got round to watching 'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night' and was hm, maybe slightly underwhelmed by this Tarr-lite vampire-in-breton-stripes movie.
we watched this a few weeks ago and yeah I thought it was okay but not great. Honestly felt like a rip of Jarmusch's vampire movie to me, just in tone and spirit. Also idg why it was in Persian. It was financed and produced in America and shot in California and set in an unnamed, anonymous place (that bears no resemblance to modern-day Iran afaict). There was a bunch of good stuff in it but it felt a little slight.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 December 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
I had no such qualms about It Follows, which is def horror film of the year
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 December 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
It was much better the second time around for me.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 December 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Saw The Gift from last year with Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall. Quite solid, great acting by all the leads. Recommended!
― Nhex, Friday, 8 January 2016 02:45 (eight years ago) link
Ahhhhh, I know I'm late to the party but It Follows is *great*. Taking the "you have sex, you get killed" trope of horror to its logical extreme. Obviously I don't think it was actually moralising about sex in any way, just a great idea born out of the trope itself.
― emil.y, Sunday, 24 January 2016 23:54 (eight years ago) link
Totally, it is like an organism rather than a thesis
I can't wait to watch it again
― major tom's cabin (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 January 2016 02:24 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, it was much better for me the second time.
Wow, reviews of the new Rob Zombie have been haaaaaaaarsh.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 14:16 (eight years ago) link
Based on the Zombie films I've seen, I think he might need a co-director. Or at least someone to tell him when he's making poor decisions. Because he's mostly good until he suddenly isn't. And it seems like he suddenly isn't at least once per film. The transition is jarring.
― she pnuched me in my weinre when I was asleep (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
The ending of Lords Of Salem was so bad that, if it wasn't clearly Zombie's style, I'd have thought the studio shoehorned it in against his wishes.
― she pnuched me in my weinre when I was asleep (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 14:27 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, but at least it looked OK and had some vision to it. From what I've read about the new one, it basically sounds like lazy House of 1000 Corpses territory again.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
Is the 2015 Poltergeist remake worth watching now it's on UK Netflix?
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:38 (eight years ago) link
Question: what is the best it could possibly be?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
Never heard a good word about it. Watch Son Of The White Mare on youtube instead, not horror but it does have monsters, it's gorgeous and highly imaginative.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
http://www.fright.com/edge/2015YearInHorror.htm
It's sad how much I look forward to this site's January roundup of the previous year. Always unpredictable.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
THE WITCH was really good, worth seeing in a theater imoBlack Philip for president
― La Lechuza (La Lechera), Monday, 22 February 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link
yeah my gf and i both both liked it.
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 22 February 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
really wanna seeit
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Monday, 22 February 2016 16:37 (eight years ago) link
So Unfriended is full on garbage just fyi
― Here, let me Danesplain that for you (jjjusten), Friday, 18 March 2016 05:50 (eight years ago) link
not even entertaining garbage huh
― Nhex, Friday, 18 March 2016 07:08 (eight years ago) link
not even close
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 18 March 2016 12:12 (eight years ago) link
paid money to see that shit at the the8er >:[
― Keks + Nuss (contenderizer), Friday, 18 March 2016 12:13 (eight years ago) link
oh look, it's my favorite thread!