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

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.

There was a time when I wanted to see Bone Tomahawk. That time was before I saw the dude's other movie, Brawl In Cell Block 99.

Now *that* movie is pretty generic, by design (I think), though entertainingly ridiculous and ott. Bone Tomahawk is much better.

Tale Of Tales
The Witch
November
A Field In England
Mandy
Across The River
Under The Skin
It Follows
Hagazussa

I regretted giving into the hype for Oculus, The Pact (which seems to be forgotten now), Hereditary, The Invitation and Get Out so I'm not seeing Midsommar or Us.

Baskin has its moments but not enough.

Incident In A Ghostland is not great but it deserved far more mentions than it got, pretty grueling and first film I'd seen in some time that really "went there" where other films would stop. Martyrs/Tall Man/House Of Voices director. Worth a try, some of you might really like it.

Green Room is solid but I didn't feel strongly about it. Climax is great but not quite my version of horror.

speaking of martyrs, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet. it's so unfriendly that it's hard to recommend without some kind of warning but it's unique and you'll probably get something out of the experience, for better or worse.

also -

here comes the devil - mexican horror notable for its goregrind usage, among other things
dream home - well-made HK slasher with some really brutal kills

mandy is probably my favorite modern horror film by some margin tho. feels like a classic.

the original Martyrs is amazing and one of my favourite horror films ever, don't think i'll ever bother with the remake

yep, that one. I always forget that there even is a remake. seems bizarre!

God I hate Martyrs, I'm sure I went over this at some point.

One I forgotten: We Are The Flesh.

We are the Flesh was weird and messed up and funny and nuts.

where are we discussing Doctor Sleep? Here?

nah this is the horror movies thread

missed the brief martyrs discussion upthread a couple of days ago, but it's an extraordinary movie that has stayed with me in a way that very few have since i saw it at least five years ago

i still don't really know what to make of it tbh