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

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

If it's only a shaggy dog story leading you to the punchline it's still a tremendous punchline, it fucked with me in a manner I can only compare with "Oldboy"

will check it out

the french one, right?

xxxp I'd say if The Shining counts as horror then so does Doctor Sleep
(PS I actually really enjoyed it FWIW)

xp yeah i've never seen the remake but let's assume it's shit like every other anglophone remake

Fairly certain this wasn't cleared through legal...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7446638/
(trailer NSFW or for sanity)

For me the scary woman in the house is the best thing about Martyrs and then it moves away from that. Always surprised that many people prefer the torture.

i uh don’t think anyone here has said anything like that

Anyone else seen Tale Of Tales and November?

Across The River has some camera footage stuff but otherwise it's like a brutal MR James thing.

Here's a review of that KFC movie. Sounds NFM (Not For Me) but thoughtful and well crafted.

shit realized I left the Babadook off my decade list, would def add that

many xps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agnpaFLo0to

oh jeez that looks tight

Man, what has Richard Stanley been up to? A career of bad luck?

I saw COOS. It's alright. The last 15 minutes is by far the best part, which makes it seem / feel better than it is.

I enjoyed Doctor Sleep. The predators of the movie are one of the creepier vampire posses

Our Joel described it as a well-crafted entertaining rendering of a book that should never have been written

I described it as one of the spookiest Charmed season finales OF ALL TIME

Seems like Flanagan is the guy if you want a polished realisation of a wholly misbegotten project for sure, this is probably the pinnacle of that. You could remove an hour of this film and it would just be serviceable glossy Netflix garbage (or just... a slightly above par Stephen King adaptation, the book is goofy King and Flanagan massively increases the schmaltz as is his wont) but the entire enterprise is so perverse it’s hilarious

Like it’s one thing that (MILD SPOILERS) it’s this YA adventure with a psychic child doing battle with a Disney villain called “Rose the hat” whose catchphrase is “hi there” and who says shit like “curses! The brat’s powers are stronger than I feared!”but then at the same time it’s going out of its way to constantly remind you that this film — in which everything is explained and there is no trace of the uncanny — is a sequel to STANLEY KUBRICK’S THE SHINING. It’s fuckin wild. This isn’t a spoiler really since it’s present right from the beginning, but they have actors made up to look like characters/apparitions from the original film, but with performances & writing much closer to the 90s miniseries, and I’m sitting there like “it rules that someone thought this was a good idea”

i think King approves of it which is as damning as it gets

Wait: does someone in this movie actually sincerely say 'curses!' because I didn't realize this movie was Hocus Pocus.

I’ve seen ppl giving MF credit for his attempt to “reconcile” Kubrick’s vision with King’s, ymmv on whether this kind of puppyish eagerness to please all the people all the time makes for good horror but it certainly doesn’t seem like a trait that either of the SKs share

I’m paraphrasing the “curses” part but it kind of is hocus pocus yes

wins pretty much has it

I was joking with a friend that half the plot is the same as The Last Jedi, with a prospective teacher hiding his magic powers away for decades and spurning a young apprentice

FWIW I thought the shot recreations were artfully integrated and way preferable to reused footage. And the astral projection sequence was cool.

It's annoying that Flanagan is so respectful of King.

On the marketing side, I'm pleasantly surprised that the execs didn't push hard for The Shining 2. Particularly since Doctor Sleep is and always has been a really awful title.

Having not been a Stephen King reader but having watched a number of film adaptations, I'm wondering: is the Overlook as a place that feeds on those with the shining something that was extrapolated on more in the books? It wasn't quite clunky, but as a parallel to these energy vampire people who also feed, it made me wonder why they didn't seem to know such places existed.

The series is, like the book, much more about alcoholism than Kubrick’s version.

(And the scene that would be the ‘here’s Johnny’ scene is completely trapped by the Kubrick version - it’s kind of interesting)

It's annoying that Flanagan is so respectful of King.

lol, this looks abundantly bad; somebody watch it and tell me if you die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=1WbXAOBuo6A

i can't find the thread wherein people post their favorite jump scares or scenes from horror films.. help?

Best and/or Scariest and/or Creepiest Scenes Ever (from horror films or TV shows or whatever, I don't care)

There's really not much to it - medieval-ish monster hunter doing the rounds a la "The Witcher" - and I can see why the ending might be divisive (it also gives it an ironic horror anthology vibe), but I thought "The Head Hunter" was extremely well done, especially since it reportedly only cost $30,000. If that's true that's crazy, because it looks great, the props are great, the location shooting perfect, even the make-up an sound design is pretty good. Very impressed.

Never heard of this before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZqtRbifT6Q

I was shocked to learn it was filmed in Portugal! I would have guessed Iceland, or someplace Scandinavian.

that movie was really well made, and imo also had a lot to say about masculinity, self-destruction, and self-preservation in an abstract/emotional sense. excellent movie if you like this sort of thing.

Also work/life balance!

Has anyone else watched the Channel Zero series on Shudder? I have now watched all four seasons and...enjoyed every single one! Would recommend. S4 was especially interesting in its treatment of coping with childhood trauma. A lot of the show has to do with that now that I think about it. Very relatable for a horror series!