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

Just watched Resurrection, which is a bit of a mess but Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth are both great. A lot going on conceptually, not all of it connects (for me anyway) but quite a ride.

lmao the munsters is fucking amazing

Could someone help out, I'm trying to find a film from a very dim memory of its trailer.

A young girl in a barn in period costume, some sort of pilgrim-era perhaps, and a weird clanky contraption, like metal tumbleweed almost, that rolls past maybe patrolling the area to protect the people of a village?

Sorry I know that's super vague.

November(2017) ?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6164502/

Amazing. Well remembered, thank you!

Watching The Conjuring 2 this afternoon.

thought _smile_ ruled. just the right amount of visual invention and mean-spiritedness keeping that bad vibe afloat and sending it home, god i loved the ending

yeah, the Chekhov's cat, as soon as they didn't show her finding the cat and she got to the kid's birthday, I knew what was coming. In a way that made it worse, cos there was the hope that it would be a train set after all, before the kid's face gave it away. knowing nothing going in helped a lot with me, other than the brief time I was exposed to the trailers.

the music was so good!

i legit can't remember the last time a movie almost sent me into a panic attack. but this one got close.

hence why i call it my "favorite movie of this year that I loved but never want to see again"

the music was so good!

I just saw the trailer to M3GAN and I think Kim going to be laughing for the rest of the year

The new Hellraiser (streaming on Hulu) is pretty good though the heroine is seriously unlikable IMO.

This looks hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRb4U99OU80

It would be awesome if that was not a horror movie.

They could save a lot of time and money at this point just making a movie about an evil picture of a doll.

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— John Frankensteiner (@JFrankensteiner) October 12, 2022

Hellraiser was great (I’m a Barker Stan though, so)

The 2021 Candyman is showing free on Amazon Prime, so I watched that today and it's great. Visually it's fantastic, conceptually it's solid, and all the performances are really good. I particularly like the way the male protagonist is tied directly into the original movie (like the recent Halloween movies, or the new Hellraiser, this is one of those that ignores all the in-between sequels and just jumps forward 30+ years from the first story).

The Descent still rules, but it looked a lot different than I remembered - shot on Super 35 but I would have sworn large parts (not the 'viewed through the camcorder' bits) were early '00s digital video ala 28 Days Later.

The 2021 _Candyman_ is showing free on Amazon Prime, so I watched that today and it's great. Visually it's fantastic, conceptually it's solid, and all the performances are really good. I particularly like the way the male protagonist is tied directly into the original movie (like the recent _Halloween_ movies, or the new _Hellraiser_, this is one of those that ignores all the in-between sequels and just jumps forward 30+ years from the first story).

Rob is a good guy, he once brought a Matthew Barney live video in his hand luggage to a festival I was at so he could play it for half a dozen of us.

very much enjoyed Hellbender. didn't realize that was a family making that movie!

Not new, but post-2005— we'd never seen THE VVITCH until last night. We both thought it was kind of awful and predictable, but that Harvey Scrimshaw and Anya Taylor-Joy were good in their roles.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, October 7, 2022

I think Eggers’ The Witch is really awesome! It is so much better than any of the recent horror films I’ve seen.

Films like The Cabin In the Woods and You’re Next are fun but forgettable.

Cabin in the Woods ruled, You're Next couldn't decide what it was

Yeah, You're Next has its moments, just not in a row.

dark glasses is WONDERFUL

Read a pretty positive review of Matriarch, which is new on Hulu; might check it out this weekend. And Barbarian is on HBO Max now.

Just watched Matriarch; can 100% recommend. Part Hereditary, part The Wicker Man, part Santa Sangre. Really good stuff.

My wife and I watched Barbarian tonight and liked it. I like when horror movies are good at making you guess what kind of horror movie it is. The politics of it are maybe a bit “Do you see?” But that also seems in keeping with horror tradition. Anyway, we thought it was well made — some really nice shots — and entertaining.

I suppose it's as much a horror film as anything else, but "Hunter Hunter" (from a couple of years ago) did not really earn its mean conclusion, though I probably won't forget it or the movie. It's definitely got a lot going for it.

I like when horror movies are good at making you guess what kind of horror movie it is.

Right up until his head got pulped I was wondering how the first white guy was going to be evil. The cut to black and then Justin Long bopping to soft rock was so good.

Yeah, that was a great cut, and so seamless that I just totally went with it. Like, oh this movie is doing something different.

Last night we watched We're All Going to the World's Fair, which we basically liked and thought was well done even if it kept frustrating expectations of what a "horror movie" should do or be. Lots of interesting stuff going on there.

The Justin Long subplot and character felt like filler to me, tbh. Though him measuring the secret scary room for extra square footage was pretty funny.

I think it depends on what you think the movie's up to. I think it's a quasi-satire connecting gentrification and #metoo in somewhat interesting ways, locating the villains of both in white male privilege. Justin Long is White Man Villain #2, after the actual guy who built the tunnels and raped and murdered people. (Bill Skarsgard is initially teased as the White Man Villain before being dispatched, obv.)

I'm not entirely convinced the movie knew what it wanted to do at all. Lots of threads, not much weaving.

Huh, see I thought it was sort of brilliantly constructed. Every piece of it adds up at the end.

Even over constructed, but I think it's plenty coherent.

Though I don't mean to oversell its social conscience. I think this line from the NYT review is pretty otm: "Cregger isn’t as concerned with making bold political points as he is with orchestrating a snappy spectacle that goes a mile a minute. #MeToo, gentrification, the brutal underbelly of the Reagan era — all these elements fit like puzzle pieces into a broader nightmare that lets the context speak for itself."

I guess I would have preferred it do one thing well than bits and pieces of other things that other movies did better.

I ... think it did? But again it really depends on your perception of what it was trying to do. I was getting pretty irritated with it until its first big gear shift, because I thought it was doing something that it wasn't actually doing (because it wants you to think that's what it's doing, until suddenly it's not any more). Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's genius or perfect. But I do think it has a very deliberate structure and strategy.

maybe I'm just tired of troglodytes, lol.

Fair enough, although I liked that even the troglodyte didn't turn out to be the real bad guy. She was more in the tragic-monster tradition.

Barbarian was great. Every twist was a surprise, and all earned. 10/10, no notes.

Still think it could have leaned in harder on the gentrification angle, frankly. I mean, THIS is a real horror story:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/18/detroit-house-free-property-tax

But it was well-constructed in general and just doing that wisely-never-hinted-at-in-trailers mid-movie shift alone was smart.

Meantime was taking advantage of that A24 Streaming Room deal to catch up on a few things I'd missed. Saint Maud, that was an awe-inspiring final shot that transforms the film and the film was already pretty damn sharp.

Saint Maud is either on Hulu or Amazon Prime, I forget which, but it's definitely on my to-be-watched list.

Rewatched Cabin in the Woods and Saint Maud the last two days. Enjoyed them both. I'm convinced Saint Maud is a mini masterpiece

Saint Maud is great, yeah. Tonight we finally watched Jennifer's Body, which I liked. It doesn't surprise me that it sort of fell through the cracks on its release, it's legitimately upsetting in some parts and funny in others. Fox and Seyfried were both good.

Speaking of funny, we also just watched Tucker & Dale the other night, loved it.