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

I'm in my 40s so possibly not qualified for your creepypasta demographic

i’m glad you couldn’t immerse yourself in it at all, that makes you very cool
how you managed to read "i'm above all this silliness and very pleased with myself" when i went out and saw this on opening night is beyond me, but go off

I'm in my 40s so possibly not qualified for your creepypasta demographic
maybe it's not an age thing then? the entire crowd when i saw this and the general online demo appears twentysomething.

it taps into some ageless existential fears. if it connects with you I think that transcends demographics, if it doesn't then yeah, I could see it being boring af

i was a kid prone to regular hallucinations and panic attacks but not really from this perspective
trailer DID unnerve me tbh, that's why i was curious in the first place. i like the 30 second version.

yea it's an interesting film in that it would work just as well, maybe better, in a 30 minute version. even the trailer is sort of its own self contained thing. it doesn't really even have the basic elements of an actual movie. so much of it is just waiting for something to happen and I guess that makes it remarkably tense

I'd say it needs to be at least an hour, 70 mins. but they could've (should've?) easily trimmed it by 20 mins

anyone else see infinity pool? thought it was impressively fucked up, tho this might not really be the right thread cause it isn't interested in scares, per se

would really like to!

I loved it, the obvious allegory was as subtle as taking a sledgehammer to the temple, but I don't really see that as a bug in this case.

yeah i’m with you. loved how mia goth grew more and more unglued as the movie went along

kind of annoyed i haven’t gotten to infinity pool yet! just wasn’t feeling like heading out to the movies recently but i’ve enjoyed what i’ve seen from brandon cronenberg so far

Well I went to see Baby Ruby so you don’t have to. So don’t.

Aw, my friend directed Baby Ruby

I'm familiar with her theater work which is what got me in the door.

She Came from the Woods was an incoherent mess.

Chief son being the piecemeal telling of the baddie's origins on three separate occasions, the longest of which occurs as people are actively being slaughtered in the woods, as if this is the right moment for story time.

Lol also at casting a marble mouthed male lead who mushes his words so bad you lose entire chunks of dialogue.

*sin

We haven't talked about this one, yet, I don't think? Could be shit, but it's been getting good reviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Du7TvNqvY

That was the other one I considered seeing yesterday (theatre had both). Might be my next attempt

i saw the trailer for the outwaters before terrifier 2, looks dope

The first time I heard of that movie was on Bloody Disgusting, which is a pretty run of the mill horror/genre site that often has news or trailers or whatever. Lately, though, they've really blurred the line between editorial and promotion as they've dipped into distribution. For example, they were among the first places I started hearing about "Terrifier 2." Lots of stories, lots of raves, but of course ... they distributed it, lol. Same with "The Outwaters." Bloody Disgusting was the first place I heard of it, and heard positive reviews, but Bloody Disgusting is now owned by Cinedigm, who ... distributed "The Outwaters."

fwiw other places have also given it good reviews, not sure why this sort of inside baseball is shocking to anyone

yeah the aggregate is pretty good for it.

Speaking of trailers seen on that site:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2z3kasg0g

Oh, and responding to the inside baseball stuff, I don't find it shocking, but I expect at least a little transparency when the site is literally invested in what it's promoting, whether or not the movie actually turns out to be good.

I watched The Night House. Eh, it was fine. The central premise was muddled and essentially unfilmable but the direction meant this didn't really become an issue until the final act. It was genuinely creepy in places and Rebecca Hall was really great.

My wife and daughter are out of town tonight, so I need to watch a horror movie they won't watch. I've only seen Pearl and X out of movies released over the past year (enjoyed both). What do I watch? Thought about Prey, but I'm much of a Predator fan. What about that new one Cronenberg's kid did? That's supposed to be good, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching_(film)

Totally forgot about that one. Thank you!

I watched Barbarian and Ultrasound over a single weekend and they both went well together.

both start with 'a stranger knocks on a house at night and gets invited in' and then they both goes off in very different directions.

Barbarian was more straight up Horror,

Ultrasound was more like a Momento/Primer like thriller.

really liked them both, but Ultrasound edged it for me, haven't seen much talk of this film here or elsewhere.

I liked Pearl quite a bit, Mia's facial expressions were amazing

scream vi was ok, which is better than 5cream. ladder scene, convenience store scene, subway scene: all really good. still looks like utter shit and is very stupid in its (mercifully brief) attempts at social commentary. “franchise rules” way cooler and more fun than the “requel” shit. still suffers from one of the most boring main characters of all time

Infinity Pool reminded me a lot of that episode of Mad Men where Don is on business/holiday and he winds up with these rich eccentrics and faints by the poolside and there's a really sickly feeling about it all. Except this is way more nightmarish.

New A24 - shit, this almost looks too scary for me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLAKJu9aJys

renfield fuckin sucks

the new Evil Dead is getting suspiciously good reviews

i thought evil dead rise was pretty wonderful

felt like getting bathed in a bath of blood

Yeah it was glorious. Going to go again

Intrigued! Couldn't take the last one, for lots of reasons, but this one seems to have righted the ship, as it were.

the 2013 remake was pretty awesome imo, probably even gnarlier than this one

I just don't recall it being any fun, which is why I (and apparently others) got torture porn vibes from it, even though it wasn't.

Can someone help me remember a film I know I saw, maybe over ten years ago, so my memory is super foggy. I think it was set either in South Asia, the Middle East or Eastern Europe (apologies, it literally only popped into my head and I'm almost wondering if it was real).
It was set almost entirely at night, a lot of red lighting, urban setting, and it involved a group of five or six men with some prominent scenes outside cafes and in cars.
That's pretty much all I have. I know that's really vague but if anyone has a clue, please say.

do you remember the shadings of the storyline, even if just a tiny fragment?

only one I can think of is Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

I've done a bit of digging and I'm guessing it's probably the Turkish film Baskin. Weird, I haven't given this film a second thought since I watched it and just as I was falling asleep, it popped into my head

Aaaand going back through this thread it seems I did watch it, 7 years ago, and thought it was quite good.

Baskin is on Tubi now; I started watching it about a week ago but bailed when the serious torture began. Creepy as fuck until that point, though. Was thinking about recommending it to a fellow of Turkish background that I know; I don't know if he's a horror guy, though.

Yeah from what I remember it was a decent movie till it got to the torture pr0n, which was well on its way out as a thing by then

renfield fuckin sucks

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, April 16, 2023 9:33 AM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I thought it was entertaining, if not really worth a second watch. I mean, maybe if I was doing laundry or something though. It was aspiring to something higher than its reach, but it had heart. Some good laughs throughout (although definitely some misses). The gore and action were fun - memorable dismemberments. Awkwafina's performance was pretty stilted - she was obviously trying to do a "tough-guy emotionally-damaged cop" but it kinda ended up slowing things down. Ben Schwarz was a little distracting and over the top, but also delivered some great lines. Nicholas Hoult was great, Nic Cage was insane.

that's about how I felt. honestly felt that Cage was the least entertaining thing about it, which is...weird.