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

Seriously.

I'm pretty sure The Loved Ones was this decade, distribution-wise. Unnerving Australian black comedy/coming-of-age horror with a delightfully twisted protagonist.

Echoing pretty much what everyone's said, but other favourites from this decade include: Under the Skin, Midsommar, A Field in England, Prevenge, Get Out, Creep, Mandy, Green Room, Killing of a Sacred Deer.

I never heard of Starry Eyes before this thread. I might watch that over the next few days, as well as The Wailing, which I've been meaning to get to forever.

Starry Eyes was really good, just not one of my personal faves.

Loved Ones is fun for sure. His followup The Devil's Candy was OK as well

Yeah, The Devil's Candy was pretty good. Great soundtrack (lots of metal, but used organically - the characters are into metal but that doesn't automatically make them evil).

oh that's the one with ethan embry! that was good.

there are few cinematic experiences that will ever compare to the first time i saw seed of chucky

haha me too, I saw this in the theater with a bunch of friends in the middle of the afternoon (I had skipped out of work) and everyone was hooting and hollering along

Brad mentioning Resident Evil made my mind jump to a movie that is probably technically action but has strong horror elements: Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

I don't know that I've seen anything else in the series but knew the premise. Completely ott, begins with the murder of the main character's family, and does some pretty wild things mid-film

A Girl Walks Home Alone... is more of a curio than a great film. It has some interesting stuff going on for sure, but I wouldn't necessarily put it in a best-of-decade list. Honestly what I liked most about it was the setting/geography of it (central CA stand-in for Iran?) Felt a lot like a Jarmusch film, albeit not exactly Jarmusch's own vampire movie (which should also maybe belong here, although it is not particularly scary).

US:DoR is fucking bizarre and horrifying and brilliant - sci-fi action movie that swerves hard into body horror and Gaspar Noe-style shock. I love it.

the psychological twist is kind of overshadowed by the stabbing and strobe lights but I completely agree

Day of Reckoning may be the most viscerally violent movie I've ever seen.

Yeah, the fight scenes - I'm thinking in particular of the one in the sporting goods store - are insane.

Doctor Sleep was....fine.

xp the reviews that used phrases like “cronenbergian body horror” and “david lynch vibes” were a little ott but I would definitely buy the Gaspar Noe comparisons, if only for the fact that mf’er loves flashing lights 😏

Day of Reckoning looks like the sort of thing I can watch with my partner and we will both be satisfied. Noe vibes, okay, but what about Uwe Boll? or is it simply not as nihilistic?

(i'm going to admit my great admiration for Boll, probably an unpopular opinion here as most places)

I haven’t watched a lot of Boll! But I’m rewatching now and wondering how the hell I questioned it was horror. It’s about a guy who (very minor spoilers, it’s the opening) sees his family killed, then wakes up from a coma and that is *the only memory he has of his life*

Apparently Nicholas Winding Refn is a “devoted admirer of John Hyams” (director of DoR) and they’re collaborating for HBO now, if that endorsement counts

Not sure if this is horror (...is Under the Skin horror?), but I loved Upgrade.

Re: Baskin - that movie is INSANE. I recommended it to some horror pals, not really out of a good faith rec, but more that I wanted to subject them to that totally batshit movie. Years later, they still text me about my horrible taste in horror movies. I finally had to give up the ruse and admit to them that I didn't actually think it was good and just wanted them to have it burned into their psyche. I didn't have the extreme reaction to it my friends had, but be warned.

If we're being broad, I'd add Bone Tomahawk to the list of recent heavyweights. I've been put off Midsommar but will definitely check it out given its placing alongside so,many other great films in this discussion. Saw Green Room recently - some genuine gasp out loud moments.

Bone Tomahawk is p horrifying - Western horror subgenre?

Anything else in that particular niche? Did Fulchi make any horror westerns?

Upgrade was fantastic. i started a thread for it that i don't think anyone else ever posted on. but it's more sci-fi/action than horror in my opinion.

Yeah, I loved it (can the main dude please get all future roles that people might be considering Tom Hardy for?), but I wouldn't call it a horror movie really.

strong body horror elements when he realizes he isn't the one driving

There are Venom people and Upgrade people. I am a Venom person.

Upgrade and Bone Tomahawk are both often weirdly funny.

I am a Venom person.

― Simon H., Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:27 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same

it's the only good modern superhero movie

Anything else in that particular niche? Did Fulchi make any horror westerns?

Ravenous

(not Fulci)

Near Dark!!

eh that's a stretch

(also not a good movie imo)

Offered 3 options for Halloween viewing: Crawl (alligators in a flooded house), Don't Breathe (dumbasses break into a wily blind man's house, things go badly), The Shallows (Blake Lively vs. shark). We're going with Don't Breathe.

xpost What's your beef with Near Dark?

Don't Breathe is solid. Contains a moment that inspired a viscerally satisfying audience response.

It gets pretty nasty.

ha I guess I've soured on it since my initial viewing: The Haunt Of Fear: ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Results Thread the regressive/conservative ending sticks in my mind, and my hatred of Bigelow's subsequent filmography must've colored my opinion a bit in the intervening period.

I know ppl around here love it.

I saw Near Dark and Carpenter's Prince of Darkness on the same day back in 1987. One of the best days of my life (PoD still scares the shit out of me).

Lol at holding The Lost Boys over Near Dark, but more to the point holding The Lost Boys over anything really.

I dont like the Lost Boys either

Did 30 minutes of that Universal Soldier movie last night you guys and idk. I mean I’m sure it’s surprising to see straight-to-video level action stuff competently directed and ripping Terminator, Robocop, Noe, and whatever else, but it all seemed like “I’m just gonna grab this bag of tricks” cheap mimicry without adding much else.

Maybe there’s more later, but was bored enough to switch it off.

There's a lot more later. It gets really weird and dark.

the lost boys is a great movie

as is universal soldier day of reckoning, no time for this”i watched 30 minutes and idk” business

Yeah, I only saw it once but iirc it gets crazier and more and more hallucinatory.

People liked Bone Tomahawk? I thought it was super dopey, and not much more than a generic old-fashioned “townsfolk vs Savage Injuns” movie that disguises itself in the thinnest veneer.

That's exactly what Bone Tomahawk is.

Watched The Lost Boys with my kids the other night - first time I'd seen it in years. It's dumb and great. I'd forgotten how ugly the feeding scene is.

Fulci did make a great, late Spaghetti Western called Four of the Apocalypse that's plenty violent but with no overt supernatural element:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_of_the_Apocalypse

I think Bone Tomahawk is way more than "generic." The ornate dialogue, the pace, the flashes of humor, the shocking extremity of the unexpected (even when expected!) violence ... these all set it apart.