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

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.

You're Next also v funny, underscores class conflict - the kind of things that always keep me engaged when it comes to horror

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.

oh yeah that's right people were mad because it's "predictable." imo: who cares

looking back over my personal top 10, this has been a helluva decade for the genre

I liked The Invitation but I'm a pretty easy sell. I would also recommend Veronica, Housebound (horror-comedy), Train to Busan (if it counts), and Creep (haven't seen the sequel).

i love the invitation bc it aesthetically and psychologically nails how trauma trains your brain to both 1) find suspicion and dread in everything and how that's horrible 2) respond usefully to actual new traumatic situations. never seen a movie do that before

imo: who cares

predictability in and of itself isn't a fatal flaw (MIDSOMMAR is very predictable, for ex.) but the film had nothing else going on in the design, the characters, the direction, just... anything. All it had was it's setup/premise, and that was not enough.

xp

... it's also really beautifully shot

never seen a movie do that before

in this case you really should see You're Next!

the invitation is great and has nothing in common with you're next other than people being in a house

in this case you really should see You're Next!

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, October 30, 2019 9:13 AM (twenty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

i've seen you're next, it's not the same thing

for one, the invitation isn't playing it for laughs

I don't consider that a fault

neither do i, i'm just that the approaches are profoundly different

i'm just saying*

the invitation is great and has nothing in common with you're next other than people being in a house

fans of The Invitation and You're Next might also enjoy Monster House

lol

main protagonists of both films are essentially able to survive only because of their past traumas iirc

I think I fell out of step with the current crop because I saw a few too many films with the House of the Devil template (very well-maintained buildup hampered by a fumbling, kinda shitty denouement) and was tired of getting burned by what seemed to be a trend.

there were so many of those in the 00s. Oculus, The Strangers, etc.

You're Next has a little in common with Ready or Not, but not The Invitation. Invitation (which I love) really gets a lot of mileage out of the lack of twist. You suspect something is going on early on, but you are so primed for a twist that you spend the movie wondering if that's what actually going on or if they are going to pull the rug out from under you.

House of the Devil, too.

main protagonists of both films are essentially able to survive only because of their past traumas iirc

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, October 30, 2019 9:20 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

can't argue with this without spoiling both films so:

SPOILERS

the "past trauma" in you're next is that she grew up in a survivalist cult. this trauma does not destabilize her relationships with anyone in the family (who she's just meeting iirc), it just is extremely fuckin helpful when shit goes down. the invitation's central trauma is the much more visceral and mundane trauma of the main character's kid dying. there's also very little time spent *dwelling* on the actual nature of the situation they're in in you're next, so there's none of that self-doubt and feeling-like-you're-going-crazy energy, which is what gives the invitation its excruciating tension, *even if you know what's going to happen*

END OF SPOILERS

otm. in you're next, her background is like the punchline to a joke you didn't know was being told. But backgrounds in Invitation inform everything.

OH: Starry Eyes is another recent one I saw and liked a lot. I understand opinions are mixed on that one.

starry eyes is one of those movies i thought was great but it freaked me out so bad i’ll never watch it again

the "past trauma" in you're next is that she grew up in a survivalist cult. this trauma does not destabilize her relationships with anyone in the family (who she's just meeting iirc), it just is extremely fuckin helpful when shit goes down.

I thought there was more to it than that (isn't it implied that her family is dead)? Been awhile since I saw it and the wiki summary doesn't mention it, maybe I'm misremembering.

Starry Eyes is great. Beautifully gross in a few unusual ways.

Stuff that I loved from the last decade, in rough descending order:

Under the Skin
Leviathan
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Climax
Get Out
mother!
You're Next
The Cabin in the Woods
The Crazies
It Follows
The Neon Demon
Let Me In

Yeah, I stan "elevated horror" bullshit, I guess. Hell, throw Stranger by the Lake up there near the top, too.