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

Has anyone seen "The Transfiguration"? I really liked it. It featured at Cannes which is unusual for a horror movie. It's quite a low key slowburn horror, all filmed in Rockaway, Queens which lends it a gritty feel too. Reminiscent of movies like Martin and Let The Right One In

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I watched this film Creep the other night. Only two characters, all done with handheld camera. I don't really know horror that well but it certainly creeped me out.

That's the one with the wolf mask right? I like that and I'll say no more

xps Yeah, I thought The Transfiguration was pretty cool and interesting. The kids were excellent.

I thought Creep was really, well, creepy.

'the transfiguration' to the wishlist.

quite liked 'the void' even w/ all the explicit reference cartography - barker, lovecraft, anderson, fulci at the end - and extreme carpenter worship.

you were all right about 'XX' - kusama's was the only one that left some mark. and clark's was basically 'weekend at bernie's' turning into a videoclip imho.

Not strictly horror (although horrifying) but I wanted to note with pride that my great friend's debut feature KILLING GROUND opens in the US soon. Bias aside, it's absolutely brilliant.
https://youtu.be/d3ePiwb0NxQ

I wanted to like the recent Irish rural horror Without Name a bit more than I did as thematically it's catnip for me. It's still pretty solid tho and really well shot

Ooh!

Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani have a new film! It's called Laissez bronzer les cadavres! (Let the Corpses Tan!) Here's the gorgeous poster pic.twitter.com/0cMVFtDbKy

— James Gracey (@jamesgracey) July 18, 2017

New Cattet / Forzani.

https://vimeo.com/202034757

NOVEMBER by Rainer Sarnet. Might not be totally horrory but looks like a must see to me.

It stains the sand red was pretty good. Horror/comedy involving a woman trekking across the desert to avoid a zombie. Don't want to spoil much, but the main character's ability to positively approach the situation was refreshing and brought some levity. One scene in particular was hard to watch and brutal though.

Huh, intriguing, this is the "Grave Encounters" guys. Reviews I just read make it seem like a miss, unfortunately. Variety review brings up this, though, which I've never heard of: Richard Gale’s cult-favorite $600 wonder “The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon."

http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2017/07/28/when-authors-talk-on-twitter-slasher-movie-edition/

haha that was good

hah yeah

Annabelle: Creation = more mediocrity from the overrated Conjuring universe. I think I'm just done w/ the resurgence of Catholic-guilt devil horror cos these films are just fucking interchangeable at this point.

Split was just a hot mess - m. Night simply can not deliver dialogue or performances that don't number among the most wooden and embarrassing on screen. Unfortunately unlike the happening, where his ineptitude is magical and hilarious, this one is just dull and awful.

November is showing 22 October 2017 at Chicago International Film Festival. Hope it comes to UK in some form soon. I'll probably have to wait for the disc release.

did that last Rob Zombie movie even get released?

Yea Split sucked. No idea why people were gaga over it, it was only slightly less clumsy than the rest of his ouevre

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It was alright, nothing particularly special. People are over-/underrating it because of who made it.

Y'all know there's a sequel in production, right? And yes, it is also officially and explicitly a sequel to the other movie.

the only M Night film I've seen that I liked was The Visit

Split was fine, but the surprise connection to *spoiler* and the upcoming sequel automatically bumped it up in my estimation

It Stains the Sand Red was ... I don't know. Better than I expected? Worse? I know at some point I looked at the time and thought, jeez, there's an hour left? How will they pad that out? And then they ... pad it out. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Ultimately felt like a slightly above average midnight movie, both more ambitious than it had to be but also still sort of disappointingly slight/lazy, especially the way it kept relying on stupid behavior to stretch out the solid premise. Also, for not committing one way or another to comedy or drama, with one foot in each but neither terribly convincing. I dunno, worth 90 minutes, I guess.

Happy Death Day wasn't much, had good humor and was more a drama than horror really. seemed to think it could get away with its shameless Groundhog Day pillaging simply cos it acknowledged it later in the film.

aw. gonna see it tomorrow

I mean it's not bad or anything....

heh i figured it couldn't possibly be as good as that premise was

It Comes At Night was really well made. Not necessarily horror, though close enough, and definitely pretty grim. I think I might prefer The Survivalist, which almost works as a sequel, or at least a companion.

I did eventually go see Happy Death Day, really liked it. Low expectations, but it did what I hoped it would do

WE ARE THE FLESH

Haven't seen anything gross and nasty in a while because I've drifted away from that a bit, but this looked very very pretty so I gave in. It helps that Arrow gave it a kind of modern classic packaging (which the very good Villainess also got).

I was bracing myself a little bit, but actually it wasn't hard to watch at all, much sexier than I thought it would be too.

You might feel it doesn't really go anywhere but the two great performances, the sheer gorgeousness of the visuals and the hotness made it very much worth my time.

In the credits, all of Minter's influences for the film are named and it's a lot of the people you'd expect for an arty taboo lover. This is like a modern revival of the panic movement.
I was surprised Cuaron and Inarritu were big supporters of this film.

Looking forward to anything else Minter does.

Watched Split - the Shyamalan movie - last night. It was surprisingly good; a tense thriller with a very early-Cronenberg (Brood, Scanners) vibe (lots of wood paneling and therapists with wild theories that prove to be horrifyingly correct).

I watched “Them” last week - first half great, second half same as the first half zzzz
there’s only so much running away i can stand

that opening though was legit scary

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/9/9e/Top10_1950s_them.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20141129103318

First 10 minutes are good but the rest were not, for me.

Was "The Strangers" a flat-out remake? One of the reasons I liked "You're Next" so much is that it felt like a satire of both of those films.

watched hell house recently. pretty good. doesn't quite stick its landing, but those are often tricky with horrors so...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_House_LLC

re Them ... also I rolled my eyes @ the ending/“reveal”

Watched Split - the Shyamalan movie - last night. It was surprisingly good; a tense thriller with a very early-Cronenberg (Brood, Scanners) vibe (lots of wood paneling and therapists with wild theories that prove to be horrifyingly correct).

― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, November 4, 2017

ahahahaha no

yeah Split was fucking terrible.

I'm with unperson, thought it was decent

Antibirth - colourful stoner comedy with really gross horror bits. Feels so much like a Gregg Araki film. Nice to see Meg Tilly again.

i liked that one. Natasha Lyonne greatly used her naturally charming/gross ways

She's gross in other films?

But I'm not sure she was gross in this either, more her condition.

this seems to be getting attention

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/mom-and-dad