i definitely rec'd it last summer or fall, i believe.
also hi, been thinking about this thread recently, so popped in to see what's up.
turns out, not a whole lot!
but, I do want to say that I feel like Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Barnaby's film before Blood Quantum, is actually a better flick, even if it isn't as strictly bound to the horror genre. i'm also looking at the both from someone who teaches and reads a lot of Indigenous lit and Native Studies stuff, though, so Rhymes might just be more complex and rich for interpretation along those lines.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
Has anyone watched Blood Machines?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 20 June 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
Arrow's releases of old films are still fine but I think their new films have been getting worse, all these weak looking horror comedies.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 6 July 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
You know what movie hits different in 2020, and also while high? Pontypool
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
I love that movie. His new movie sounds like a mess.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
Huh, this is where I learn that Pontypool isn't on any streaming service right now, and can only be rented, apparently exclusively, on Apple TV. To the torrentmobile!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:22 (three years ago) link
kind of intrigued by Dreamland cause it unites a lot of the Pontypool people but yeah his recent output is pretty bad. the Hard Core Logo sequel looked like a particularly bad idea. maybe it's for the best if we never get Pontypool Changes Everything
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 July 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
Weirdos looked kinda promising tho
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Saturday, 11 July 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Couldn't find the trailer for a while.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyRkoL45JGk
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 27 July 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
it rules
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
Looks kinda eXistenZ-y...
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
definitely shares some DNA (as you'd guess) but several orders nastier
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
I still haven't seen Antiviral, but it's on Hulu so maybe I'll get around to it soon.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 27 July 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
Watched Color out of Space (2020) last weekend. Really liked it for the most part. Having never read any Lovecraft, was relying on the husband to point out references but also constantly picking up on stuff like the entity changing its environment to the one it came from (one of many Lovecraft things Grant Morrison stole for The Invisibles), so that was good on both counts. You obviously do not need to be a philistine like me to enjoy this film, but it’s not going to matter very much if you are.Anyway, the body horror in this is fairly gruesome, the kitchen scene really spooked me although it’s relatively mundane - it’s the disconnect as much as the, well, literal disconnection that follows as much as anything. The colour itself infests the landscape til it dominates and smothers. The score is excellent. All very good stuff.I didn’t really feel they did enough with all the references to Gardner’s father, like either go all the way there or just cut it, I don’t think the film would have suffered without it tbh. The mayor plot seemed unnecessary for the amount of time that was spent on it.Obviously the best/worst scene was the attic post transformation and the preceding ones were bad enough.Pretty solid stuff, Nic Cage is fine for the most part (but does The Thing a few points which is always hilarious lol). Joely Richardson also very good.
― let them microwave their rice (gyac), Monday, 27 July 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
Antiviral is...ok. It feels like a student film by comparison to the new one xp
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Monday, 27 July 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
Color Out Of Space has a fantastic Colin Stetson soundtrack as well. Some of the people slagging this excellent movie off only did it because Cage was in it and has become synonymous with garbage!
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Idk why anyone would say that after Mandy tbh
― let them microwave their rice (gyac), Monday, 27 July 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
an ex-film student on my twitter linked some people slagging it off and was saying wtf is wrong with these people! but that was the impression I got.
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 21:23 (three years ago) link
I don't think Cage made anything in this movie better, but there are parts of it he definitely made worse, imo.
I asked a while ago if anyone had seen or knew anything about "Z." Any news?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 July 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
not conventional horror but would recommend Bertrand Bonello's Zombi Child. it's not as memorable as Nocturama but is still worth watching and has stuck with me. It has themes of human zombie slavery and witchcraft in 60's Haiti in flashback form and a posh girls school in modern Paris where a descendent of the victim is.
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
an ex-film student
― let them microwave their rice (gyac), Monday, 27 July 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
oh no he's good not bad and was defending Color Out Of Space!
― calzino, Monday, 27 July 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
Several new things recently out on streaming and undiscussed on thread:Impetigore You Should Have LeftAmuletRelicWretchedThe Other LambGretel & Hansel
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
Well looks like I have some work to do
― jjjusten, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
trailers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RfEwT2LI2Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw0-cV_J9q4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV_lUlOc4mQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sHbiv7J1xghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkyHLudSrCEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gjvyfjeJKMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZblQLhKcZQ
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
we watched Relicit was solidly pretty good; idk how long it will stay with me. i found the generational female aging horror a little on the nose. Kind of tired of seeing movies that exploit trichotillomania to express the apparently universally-recognized horror of a bald/balding woman. zzzzzz
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
I'm not going to complain that horror films are in a particularly bad rut because there's been some great ones in the last decade and for overall quality they might be better than ever, I hardly ever see trailers for anything that looks like total shit.
But something about the look and feel of a lot of them is bothering me. Is it color correction? Is it something else about the cinematography? Anyone know anything about the technical stuff able to say? There's some kind of flatness/blandness.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 1 August 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
If anything I think a lot of newer horror films look almost distractingly sharp thanks to the digital cameras/drones so often enlisted for low budget horror. All these flying overhead shots of forests and whatnot, and gliding fake steadicam stuff, it's almost distractingly ... slick, for lack of a better word. Perhaps a lot of filters and other digital correction going in during post to synthetically class up something they didn't have the budget/equipment/crew/lighting to do during the shoot, too? I dunno.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 August 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
FUUUUUUUUUUCK @ "Impetigore".
that shit was bonkers and intense. exactly what i was looking for. classic supernatural curse film.
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 August 2020 05:36 (three years ago) link
"Impetigore" was pretty good! I mean, there were a few choices I didn't like, like the way the flashback/information dump happened, or the tag at the end, but the other 90% was ace. I was worried it was going to be all look at me, I am XTREME! But it was more folk tale-like than I expected. In fact, for much of it I was tempted to say RIYL "Midsommar" (despite my misgivings with that one).
What's with the title though? "Impetigore" seems a much better name for the awesome but XTREME Indonesian segment of "VHS 2."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
folks I trust tell me this is excellent, presumably heading to streaming sometime this year
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7026488/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Monday, 7 September 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
Sweetheart /2019/ is hidden somewhere in the Netflix library and quite enjoyable. The name doesn't suit the movie at all, a breezy reimagining of the LOST pilot with good scares, good visuals and a very non-annoying lead.
― vpn hoodbaby (mahica), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 09:47 (three years ago) link
Yeah, she's really good. Only misstep is the creature design.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 September 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/2020/09/antebellum-movie-review-i-am-tired-of-films-like-this.html
In the wake of Jordan Peele’s success with his first two films — the exploratory Get Out and the beguiling but messy Us — Hollywood has realized that horror is an apt venue for excavating the grooves of Black identity and the mellifluous, dynamic experience of what it means to be Black throughout the diaspora. There is Misha Green’s overwrought Lovecraft Country currently airing on HBO, as well as Justin Simien’s Bad Hair and Nia Dacosta’s upcoming reimagining of the 1990s Tony Todd classic Candyman. The genre, at its best, lets us explore cultural taboos and fears with an unvarnished alacrity. I still think it’s possible to do a horror film that explores slavery in this country’s history, but that requires a sure hand, a strong point a view, and an even stronger sense of history — none of which is demonstrated in Antebellum. It’s hard to create any tension when the characters are so poorly drawn and the world they inhabit has little internal logic. Sure, there are scant moments of tension, but they fizzle out quickly thanks to the inert dialogue and rank stupidity of the story.White people in particular are rendered as caricatures who seem to get an erotic charge from the violence they inflict, including Jack Huston as the leering Hugo Meadows, a Confederate solider of great standing who supervises the plantation — which isn’t necessarily a misguided approach so much as improperly executed, flattening rather than revealing anything about the nature of whiteness and its emptiness in America. Whiteness is an oft-told lie that powers much of the world, yet Antebellum is neither cunning enough nor intellectually ambitious enough to explain such a truth. So the white people have no internal logic, no gravitas. They evoke neither fear nor overwhelming hate, mostly just boredom, except for Jena Malone, who comes the closest to striking the necessary chord by foregrounding white women’s toxicity. But her performance is undone by the odd dishonesty of the film — the N-word is never uttered, for one.The effect is wholly distancing. It’s worthwhile to explore the pain and grit of moving through America while being Black, but that exploration shouldn’t come at the expense of the humanity of the characters. Janelle Monáe is entirely miscast; she has been charming in supporting roles like that in Moonlight, but here she lacks the gravitas and precision to make Veronica feel real. But I can’t blame her for not bringing to life what obviously didn’t exist on the page. Antebellum is ultimately a travesty of craft and filmmaking with a perspective that hollows out the Black experience in favor of wan horror.
White people in particular are rendered as caricatures who seem to get an erotic charge from the violence they inflict, including Jack Huston as the leering Hugo Meadows, a Confederate solider of great standing who supervises the plantation — which isn’t necessarily a misguided approach so much as improperly executed, flattening rather than revealing anything about the nature of whiteness and its emptiness in America. Whiteness is an oft-told lie that powers much of the world, yet Antebellum is neither cunning enough nor intellectually ambitious enough to explain such a truth. So the white people have no internal logic, no gravitas. They evoke neither fear nor overwhelming hate, mostly just boredom, except for Jena Malone, who comes the closest to striking the necessary chord by foregrounding white women’s toxicity. But her performance is undone by the odd dishonesty of the film — the N-word is never uttered, for one.
The effect is wholly distancing. It’s worthwhile to explore the pain and grit of moving through America while being Black, but that exploration shouldn’t come at the expense of the humanity of the characters. Janelle Monáe is entirely miscast; she has been charming in supporting roles like that in Moonlight, but here she lacks the gravitas and precision to make Veronica feel real. But I can’t blame her for not bringing to life what obviously didn’t exist on the page. Antebellum is ultimately a travesty of craft and filmmaking with a perspective that hollows out the Black experience in favor of wan horror.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
I see there's a horrorish sounding new John Hyams thriller, Alone, set for VOD imminently.
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
omfg possessor
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 18 September 2020 00:24 (three years ago) link
it's so good!!!!
― Simon H., Friday, 18 September 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
finally someone made a perfect movie
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 18 September 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
somehow manages to feel like a '90s industrial cyberpunk body horror film without ever completely looking like one. i bet the films syncs up really nicely to a skinny puppy record
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 18 September 2020 01:38 (three years ago) link
dissociation cinema
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 18 September 2020 01:40 (three years ago) link
That trailer looks excellent.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 18 September 2020 01:42 (three years ago) link
there's a reason I was hyping it up back when it first leaked....it's roughly 10x as good as Antiviral which looks and feels like a student film by comparison
― Simon H., Friday, 18 September 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
Not sure if this is horror but I'm intriguedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74axp18cK3I
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 25 September 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
It was 5 years ago but did anyone see WE Are Still Here? Just thinking that I need to see more things with Lisa Marie in them. She hasn't been in anything since that year, sadly.
I wonder how she managed to sell warehouses full of Tim Burton's stuff without his permission. Story is that she had the keys and just sold it off quickly, maybe it was just one buyer.
Kind of forgotten how strong an impression she made on me in her Burton films.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
Saint Maud was worth the wait. Didnt think i had much time for slow burn psychological horror right now but the performances are great and it nails the run down English seaside town psychogeography vibe i assume it's going for
― or something, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 13:00 (three years ago) link
House That Jack Built recently added to Shudder....might be time for a revisit
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 14:01 (three years ago) link
Once was more than enough with that
― or something, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
I'm a huge horror fan and have slogged through my fair share of Von Trier miseryfests but I preemptively nerped the eff out on that one after reading some detailed plot descriptions. No can do.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
its saving grace is that it's frequently pretty funny, and the ending is kind of wonderful. lots of pretty pointlessly ugly sadism in between, of course.
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
The Lodge - liked its pacing and felt it earned (and stuck) the ending. The Wretched - decent low-budget flick and performances. I like endings, though, vs. "it ain't over!" endings.Underwater - better than I thought. Kristen Stewart in a Dr. Christmas Jones role - ymmv. Good Lovecraftian monsters, reasonable ending, though I question the last station's safeguards.Black Christmas - hokey premise, but appreciated the #metoo inversion. Thought the end fight veered slightly over the top, and glad they didn't go with the alternate "it ain't over" ending.
Waiting to borrow The Hunt, Relic, Vivarium, Train to Busan 2, Save Yourselves, and Fantasy Island from the library. Love my library.
Is Sputnik worth a $6 rental? Expecting that to be Underwater-grade.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link