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

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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.

I enjoyed Ma. Some of the flashbacks reminded me of Happy Birthday to Me

i had fun during the set-up but it fizzled pretty badly in the second half

Wounds by the guy who did Under The Shadow is on Netflix now. It’s not bad but a wasted opportunity with a decent cast and a promising central idea.

the story it’s based on is not great but pretty good... seems faithfully adapted?

Little Monsters is mostly nice enough garbage but mostly worth it for Lupita in full on badass mode

xp, aha, that explains it.

I have never actually read any Ballingrud. It’s great that writers like him, Barron, etc are having their work adapted, but I wonder if the dominance of short / novella length fiction means that stuff like Wounds and They Remain are up against it when it comes to faithful adaptations also coming out as satisfying films.

I’ve been wary about They Remain just bc the story it’s based on is such a hothouse piece, like The Thing but with only two characters... just feels like it could go badly. Should I go for it?

It's a very faithful adaptation - so any fears you may have are likely to be justified. It's done well enough but adds little / nothing to the story.

Little Monsters (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond) was great! The kids were very good and very cute. Breezy and wry.

Luz = more like Lame

High concept horror w great score but not a lot of ideas

Also overly cryptic snd repetitive

Glad to see some of the Hagazussa love here.

It might be about a syphilis outbreak, but I kind of took it more as a story about anti-Semitism? i mean, there are some pretty notable lines about "evil Jews," directed at Abrun? i feel like anyone not mentioning that when writing about the film is kind of missing one of its huge 'moral' points.

Caught up with some 2019 stuff in the last couple weeks and never would've thought I'd arrive at this ranking...

Child's Play > Ready or Not > Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

None of them are really very good, but the Chucky remake was at least bad-faith fun.