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

This probably doesn't fit the thread that well but did anyone see Thoroughbreds? Very quiet black comedy, tiny cast including Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke and Anton Yelchin. It's pretty good.
Just like with Marrowbone, there's more dvd versions of this than blurays, having to resort to a foreign multiregion version ("Nordic version" in this case) to get a bluray. I guess in both cases Universal don't want the expense of so many blurays and expect that people like me will import for a multiregion bluray anyway.

Yeah, I saw that on Amazon. It was pretty good.

Another thumbs-up vote for "Hagazussa"'s imagery and pacing. Interesting comment in the IMDB reviews, thinking it's inspired by a 15th century syphilis outbreak. Explains the mother's death and the daughter's madness pretty well.

Eega: A Bollywood-styled sci-fi/horror film in which the hero is reborn as a fly and fights organized crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cw-n7VsOAc

Wow, that looks awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B6hjhP83ck
full film here, with subtitles even!

Thanks!

Started watching this and a big bluebottle keeps landing on the screen. I’m conflicted about killing it.

is it inspiring a dance number? probably safe to kill if not.

It’s hard to tell when a fly is dancing. Also, the lead in this is a creepy stalker.

135 mins!?

The female lead is very good at doing an ‘I’m hiding my amusement’ thing with her mouth.

https://imgur.com/KZLMtD6

My favourite website. Also, not a horror, unless you consider Incredible Shrinking Man etc. to be horrors. It's fun though.

https://i.imgur.com/KZLMtD6.png

Just watched Hagazussa, so good... loved the guttering candle of a narrative, wish there were more 100-minute movies with 10 minutes of dialog. Sensibility is very appealing, like an inversion of all the tedious aspects of modernity, the evidentiality, identity, cleanliness. Just Albrun's consciousness expanding to fill the world, or the woods and mountains breathing her in and out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBYKY7NwB5Y
https://www.blackgate.com/2019/08/13/fantasia-day-4-part-4-mystery-of-the-night/

Ready or Not fucking ruled!

Margot Robbie Samara Weaving is hilarious. Social commentary wise, it's a bit on the 'obvious' side, but it has the feel of a off-brand 80s horror film. I mean obviously it's slicker and mainstream on the outside but it has a scuzzy heart, like a punk who wears a suit jacket with a t shirt and jeans.

Psyched!

In case folk have 2019 library searches, "Luz" just popped up in my library's catalog, as a 2018 release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNFAMPDqdVA

black christmas is getting remade! again! but this time it's helmed by sophia takal who directed one of my favorite horror films of the last few years, always shine

honestly I don't like the look of that at all, and after getting burned by the Pet Sematary remake on the basis of a promising director attachment + cast I refuse to get my hopes up again

i like the look of it but i like blumhouse garbage

also i loved the last black christmas remake and i'm enjoying that it's turning into a franchise of remakes at this point lol

AGNES

THIS IS BILLY

Oh I recently watched Escape Room, which was...fine. Every single moment not spent in an escape room (incl flashbacks) was unwatchable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZgkHjpUM8w

also: here's the trailer for the new oz perkins thing

which looks amazing

Watched Starfish the other day, and surprised myself by liking it a lot. The trailer sells it as a quirky apocalyptic film with monsters, but it's actually a slow-paced metaphoric meditation on grief and forgiveness. The monsters are an add-on - though there's a big monster that's gorgeous - and the plot doesn't always make sense. The director name-checks Gareth Edwards in the credits, so if you dug "Monsters", you'll appreciate the one scene the big monster shows up in. The film goes heavily meta at one point, but I was already swayed to its "understand the subtext here and appreciate the images" logic, and didn't mind so much. Good soundtrack and visuals, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI8fjr4Va7Q
Bliss (2019). Vampire film with drugs and painting.

I thought Ready or Not was some good, ridiculous and just mean spirited enough fun. Loved the ending.

I watched The Innkeepers last night. Jeez. I like an old-fashioned haunting but this felt like something from tea-time on BBC2, circa 1983. No peril, barely any story and shitty production values. Perhaps I was having an off night.

nah i've seen it, it's rubbish

I thought it was fun

It was boring.

I agree w/ Eric and NV. aside from HotD, Ti West is pretty useless

I thought it was slightly better than HotD, but ultimately just fine.

Hotd is slightly better but they're both rubbish

They both feel a lot older than 10 years - like relics, and not in a positive, aesthetic choice kind of way.

Could've been made for TV tbh, and I mean pre HBO

that mini-wave of ghost movies when stuff like The Others was made was all at least more entertaining than this

posts way upthread otm about One Cut of the Dead, so much better than I expected it to be

Right? I'm glad it's got a US theatrical release.

I just read that it's made $30 million worldwide on a $25,000 budget!

I watched The Ghoul last night, a British psychological horror film from 2017, directed by Gareth Tunney, an associate of Ben Wheatley. The basic premise was interesting enough - an undercover detective investigates a double shooting and becomes embroiled in what appears to be an occult plot, involving two psychotherapists - but the execution was a bit of a mess. The logic was Lynchian dream logic at heart, using a Mobius strip as shorthand for the slow dissolving of reality but the reality was never real enough and the unreality never quite perilous or unsettling enough. I love elisions but this was more hole than substance.

The Dead Center is an effective, moody little thriller w/ the bonus boost of Shane Carruth in the lead role

this looks fun to me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxIsI-EQ9Xs

Well, it looks better than the Jarmusch movie and Zombieland 2, so there's that. But ... I think I'll pass on this one, too.

ma: destined to be hated by most but i loved every second of it. octavia spencer is wonderful and i appreciated what a solid high school movie it was and the dialogue is so often outrageous that i feel like whoever wrote it was having the time of their lives

creep: the mark duplass one, simple and excellent

The sequel is pretty good, too! At least up until the very last shot, but the rest is solid and smart.