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

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.

Might fuck around and go see Doctor Sleep tomorrow.

Early release? I thought it was coming out November 8th.

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 did not catch any of this and i watched it twice

incredible movie though

Early release? I thought it was coming out November 8th.

Yeah, one-off screening tonight.

Hey y'all, what would you say is like your top 5 from say the past decade? I watch old horror films like a madman but I've been sorely remiss when it comes to the nu-skool classics that everyone raves about. I saw and loved The VVitch, Mandy, Get Out, and Green Room, I have Us and the two Ari Aster joints sitting on my shelf at home, and I thought A Quiet Place was pretty much dumb as hell. What are the other musts?

i would say anyone who loves the vvitch and slow cinema needs to see hagazussa immediately. lemme see if i can put a top five together

I loved The VVitch and Green Room, and will still ride for Lords Of Salem. That's about all I got right now - haven't seen Mandy or either Peele movie yet.

add Under the Skin to your list, OL

Yesss. Ones I know I need to see based on the praise I've heard: Under the Skin, It Follows, and A Field in England

I have seen Lords of Salem (damn fine until the maddeningly ill-advised final 5-10 minutes). Also Get Out (pretty solid).

Hereditary and Midsommar

It Follows and A Field in England, def. The latter is one of my favorite films of the decade, no question.

i know this mainly just shows the stark difference in our priorities ol, but the final 5-10 minutes of lords of salem are the best part

I couldn't make it through Hereditary or A Field In England.

If The Guest counts as horror, add it to your list.

xpost LOL, they might've been the best part of a very different movie. It's like tacking five minutes of Evil Dead onto the end of, I dunno, The Innocents.

I did see The Guest! Loved that nutty thing.

Also need to see The Invitation, I know.

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 did not catch any of this and i watched it twice

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, October 30, 2019 8:33 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Minute 52, when the neighbor woman and Abrun are overlooking the mountains, right before shit starts to go really wrong. I mean, mentioning that they don't have to be afraid of "those who don't carry God's light in their hearts," then immediately mentioning "the Jews," and conflating them with heathens...seems pretty obvious to me.

(i've also watched it a few times. one of my favorite films of the past five years).

i really did not like A Field in England at all. and i don't consider it to be a horror movie. but i also don't want to have a discussion about whether it's a horror movie or not.

oh huh i guess i'm going to have to watch hagazussa again, oh no what a terrible fate xp

maybe i'd have liked it more if i had not gone into it expecting even a vague semblance of a horror movie
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Also need to see The Invitation, I know.

― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Wednesday, October 30, 2019 8:52 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

i was about to recommend the invitation but i know several people who loathe it because they think it's very stupid. it's the same situation with another movie i'm going to recommend: the strangers: prey at night

i don't understand why people think the invitation is stupid except that they guessed (?) the twist (?) (i don't think the invitation really has a twist)

i also don't really buy the syphilis argument because in the film, it seems like people are dying of plague-like symptoms...but there are some reasons behind this that give away major plot points, so i digress. i just don't think it's syphilis, as interesting as that historical interpretation might be.

Has anyone seen the Turkish movie Baskin, or The Oregonian? Trying to come up with a spooky Halloween lineup for friends.

Those are two different movies tbc, lol

I just got bored with the Invitation, it took way too long to build up to the conflict at the end, which was also predictable as hell.

You're Next is a much better recent "awful people trapped in a house" film imo

Lords of Salem sucked.