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

Get Out is v good but it doesn't register as a horror film to me I guess? More of a satire with horror flourishes

lol NA

nothing against you Simon, but why do people always bring up the "it's not really a horror movie" argument. even for HEREDITARY! horror can be a lot of things

The Witch and The Invitation are both movies I loved that I want to see again with my wife just to watch her reactions.

The VVitch isn't really horror it's historical fiction with some horror elements

thanking u for screen name

the VVitch is definitely horror I'd say.

I wasn't trying to classify it, just explain why it didn't occur to me to throw it in that ranking. It feels too tonally different to compare to those other movies.

I'm not at all into genre purism either

we've probably discussed A Quiet Place but I can't load up the whole thread to see. did ILX enjoy it? despite a few VERY OBVIOUS bits of exposition I did like it

planning on renting it but didn't get to see it in the theater

i didn't enjoy it much. it was too heavily reliant on traditional family values and monsters. i'm sure it was well made but the ideas themselves seemed pretty obvious (must protect my family!) and not interesting to me personally.
comparatively, as far as family-themed horror, Hereditary is deeper/more interesting than A Quiet Place. they did both have weird looking girl characters though! i won a bet with my husband that they were not the same girl (before we saw Hereditary)

it was entertaining enough in the theater but it's not great - way more one-dimensional and not as well thought-out as the other movies we're discussing rn

i dug A Quiet Place a lot. very simple, low budget, b-movie type premise, super well executed imo. not much more than that, but for traditional jump scare/apocalypse land it got an A from me

I'm probably missing a bunch of stuff, but I think I'd have Kill List as my benchmark for horror this decade.

Get Out felt like a bit of a Robert Aickmann love letter to me, so definitely horror.

Yes Kill List is how more horrors / creepy films should be

Loved The Witch, agree that Kill List is by far Wheatley's best film, and also thought Babadook was massively overrated and bad.

Avoided Quiet Place at the cinema because I was worried it was the kind of film that could easily be ruined by a chatty audience.

i think A Quiet Place kind of has to be seen at the cinema (unless you've got a great home system). Unfortunately, yes there was a couple right at the back having a full-on loud voice chat during one of the most intense scenes which is not only annoying but kind of unheard of in a UK cinema

Said it before, but The Quiet Place, despite its name, is the movie equivalent of having someone sneak up behind you and yell in your ear, again and again. That's not scary, that's annoying. The movie's not incompetent at least.

The Witch is so not historical fiction, it's totally horror, at least as much as Rosemary's Baby and, ultimately, more so. It's just got a novel historical-esque setting.

i usually hate jump scares. didn't feel like this about Quiet Place. it was the scene with the steps that irked me the most out of the whole thing

yeah, fix that nail, you dopes! still think it would have been funny if every character stepped on it at least once, ending with a monster, who died of tetanus.

i liked Kill List but to me A Field in England crushes it utterly

Kill List vs Field in England = Wicker Man vs Blood on Satan's Claw

fix the nail indeed! I'd couldn't bear it.

just thought Field in England was a bit of a mess (and I get that that's the idea) whereas Kill List had everything in it I like about the 'Folk Horror' genre

IDK if I have seen Kill List yet? I love all of these movies and it's the only one of the 4 I don't remember.

Kill List = mercenaries get caught up in weird cult bizness

The scene w/ the hammer in Kill List is p unforgettable imho, whatever you think of the movie itself.

Kill List is the one I'd watch again tomorrow but aye, A Field in England has something otherworldly about it. I remember like a trip. nb Michael Smiley frightens the shit out of me. nnbb I hope Wheatley doesn't fuck off to Hollywood forever.

Yeah, The VVitch is great. I want to see Hereditary and Upgrade but will have to wait for Amazon Prime in both cases.

moviepass is cheaper than amazon btw

Kill List has so much replay value. Lots of little clues and symbolism innocuously buried in it that you simply don't notice first time round

love Wheatley & Jump, Kill List and A Field in England are definitely their best but idk if I could pick one over the other. They do very different things.

xp if you are writing in an internet message board about movies you should have Moviepass. really, everyone should have Moviepass before the company dies a horrible death

not available in Canada, alas

I fucking loved hereditary

Hereditary was great. Touched on so many of my childhood fears (& adult too I guess?), if I saw it as a kid I'd never sleep again

was gabriel byrne meant to be american in it?

I couldn’t figure that either. By the end of the film I’d decided no

I don't know, but I appreciated him as the most clueless/ineffectual/checked-out horror-movie dad since Peter Sarsgaard in Orphan

Lol yeah. I really liked his performance in this, & even tho he was deliberately sidelined as someone outside of the hereditary mess looking in they gave him the breakdown moment in the car which I found really moving

Someone really should make a thread

the familial trauma chiller HEREDITARY

it was too heavily reliant on traditional family values and monsters. i'm sure it was well made but the ideas themselves seemed pretty obvious (must protect my family!) and not interesting to me personally.

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, June 12, 2018 10:13

As soon as I see a trailer to one of these things I think "fuck your family, I'll kill them myself".

A Field In England>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Kill List

Still haven't seen a lot of these films but I'm mostly not bothered.

saw hereditary. a straight 7/10.

was gabriel byrne meant to be american in it?

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, June 14, 2018 6:22 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was very confused by this too because there was a scene where Toni's chatting to some Irish guy on the phone and it took me a while to work out it was her up-til-then American husband

The First Purge is really an action film with some horror beats and aesthetic tics, but worth seeing just for the weight of some of its imagery. Too bad about the stiff acting, likely a result of a rushed production. Timeliness can have a price.

Upgrade was quite entertaining. Reviewers that seemed to focus on movie being “dumb” giving most of its influences much more credit for intelligence than I would. Definitely kind of movie I could stand more of being made.

A Quiet Place OTOH was well made but straight to fist pumping ending kind of left me cold. Also the kind of movie where stupid things happen (or people make stupid choices) to accelerate the plot and you are just supposed to accept them as occurring.

Nu (new nu?) Halloween reviews pretty solid.

Who recommended Lords of Salem here? That was some silly ass shit, a few cool images/setpieces aside

i remember enjoying it more or less. is that the one with the "freebird" scene? that scene was good.

i dug it. it had a good vibe imo

It's been a while since I've seen it, but I liked it at the time. Freebird was in Devil's Rejects though.

ah, i get them confused. i loved that freebird scene!!