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

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!!

LoS is the only Rob Zombie joint I like lol

I love movies like LoS, where what is happening is exactly what you think is happening, and the twist (as such) is that there is no twist. I suppose The Witch is like this, too.

I didn’t need a twist, I needed a reason to care about the main character, who is underwritten and poorly portrayed

I love movies like LoS, where what is happening is exactly what you think is happening, and the twist (as such) is that there is no twist. I suppose The Witch is like this, too.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 14, 2018 10:05 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I refer to this kind of story as a 'processional' and I too love this kind of thing

Lords of Salem was imo a classic of the increasingly-populated 'horror films which you should probably shut off 5-30 minutes early in order to consider them classics' subgenre.

Pretty much just the very end of LoS, at the point where Rob abruptly decided he'd rather be filming a new video for 'Thunder Kiss '65'.

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Heh, in a late essay Raymond Durgnat called Jancsó's Red Psalm 'processional cinema' and after reading it, the phrase has stuck in my mind - and yes, totally appropriate to horror cinema too (Argento immediately springs to mind).

Watched "From Within" (2008) during a free horror movie search on Comcast and was pleasantly surprised. Somewhat in the "It Follows" range, though more straightforward. A mix of tropes (religious zealot teen villain, Adam Goldberg as a one-note follower) and surprises (subverted sympathies as the movie plays out, the finale). Worth a distracted watch.

I thought the lead character is LoS was at least moderately compelling. Iirc she was a recovering addict, and the whole thing could be read (were it not literally Satanic witches on the loose - spoilers?) as a metaphor for her going off the wagon.

being-in-recovery was definitely her lone defining characteristic, but it was really only referenced twice, and I just didn't think she brought anything to the character, I felt like she was just a one-dimensional victim, without any depth.

the phantasmagoric-imagery sequences were definitely the best thing about the movie but it didn't feel like enough to me.

Tbf, I only saw it once! Like most of his movies (at least the ones that I've seen).

Mega-challops: his Halloweens, while mostly just decent, were still better than the originals.

His second one is one of his I never bothered with. His first one is mostly just significantly more brutal than Carpenter's, but otherwise, come on, inferior to the original 1 and even 2.

non-challops, both of his Halloween movies were garbage and all of his movies are bad

seriously i've given him several tries based on general ilxor praise and i feel like i've been tricked every time

I'm inclined to agree

The Devil's Rejects is good, for what it is (ugly). Lords of Salem is good (at least visually). 1000 Corpses is garbage, Halloweens are worthless, his music sucks, no idea if 31 even came out. I think I liked his fake Nazi werewolf trailer.

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

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, September 14, 2018 2:53 PM

I thought it seemed very amateurish and a bit cringey.

Kramer produced one of his albums so I've considered giving it a listen.

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.

I agree. I didn't love it, not normally my kind of thing but it was a pretty solid b-movie with quite tight storytelling. Well constructed.

I'd have liked it more with a funnier lead

Quite liked Endless (although end was perhaps a little hokey) although I'm not sure it would make as much sense without having first seen Resolution (which I also liked).

Mandy is batshit, not sure what else to make of it

hoping to see that tomorrow. happy to see Cosmatos doing so well, Beyond the Black Rainbow was good fun

Mandy was.. interesting. The good - a movie crazy enough to live up to the Cage at his craziest. The bad - it was really slow and kinda boring for a lot of it, to be honest

P much agree with that. Also nuts that that's Ken Barlow's son