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

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.

the two leads are great but the movie lost me instantly when awkwafina started acting (sitcom level acting and double takes in a movie! get outta here) and then renfield had a pinterest-ass apartment decorating montage (obv meant to be hilarious but just kinda hammered home how ugly and empty the movie is for me)

fights felt unimaginative except in the degree of (cgi, shitty-looking) gore. movie’s sense of humor peaked with ska jokes

think i might’ve been more forgiving if i half-paid attention to it on streaming but i went to the theater

it felt a little like one of those 90s piss take comedies where most of the energy was sunk into creating ridiculous set pieces for the leads and then everything else was filler. which is why it was 'good' but not 'great' for me.

I think it's more accepted by audiences due to the Family Guy-ification of comedy where only jokes/gags matter and not how you got there. heard the "who cares about the story, you're here for the JOKES" defense too many times, as if actually earning the humor through an engaging story is a bad thing.

that said, they did do that in some places here, I did like the support group angle and how they were grounded and not merely a setpiece for mockery. and Hoult does a very nice job of selling the 'familiar finally enforcing boundaries after many centuries of abuse' motif. but so many of the smaller details were stupid, like every single cop and FBI member openly supporting the mob family to where they let a mobster walk free after they try to murder a cop in broad daylight with multiple eyewitnesses. or every cop actively trying to gun down a NOLA cop in broad daylight in an apartment complex.

but that said I still laughed a lot, which is a testament to my ability to find just about anything funny

found the boogeyman very effective. creepy, great lead performance by sophie turner, great kid performance, great use of elliptical light, pretty creative from shot to shot, would double feature well with smile which it is much kinder and gentler than but i was super down for that

great lead performance by sophie thatcher* (not turner) (i'm so good at remembering the names of actors)

sophie thatcher aka young natalie from yellowjackets

I did enjoy Boogeyman. I liked the way it dealt with familial trauma, and the chemistry between the actors was great.

I found "Evil Dead Rise" really disappointing for a lot of reasons, annoying or boring for others, but I think what bugged me most of all is that it's set in a tall apartment complex, yet does absolutely nothing with its vertical setting, and populates it with, like, five people. Like, why bother? They could have just set on a farm in Oklahoma or some shit. Hell, they filmed it in New Zealand, just set it in New Zealand. "We haven't heard from mom/dad/cousin/anyone in months, but I just got this weird message to meet them in Wellington, and these first class one-way plane tickets arrived in the mail ... "

I mean, it's supposed to be unpopulated because it's being torn down or something, right? And there was one set of neighbors. I think being trapped in a high-rise that you can't get out of is a good premise.

My complaint is that it just should have been more over-the-top. There was plenty of great, squicky, gory violence, but insufficient insanity.

Yeah, there's a line about it getting torn down, but either it would be empty by then or there'd still be more than five people in the whole building, let alone part of that handful being a single mother with three kids. Hell, that woman from the (lame) bookend shows up to the garage in full-on vacation mode at the end! I'm happy to nitpick about that setting (which would have been great, if used well, or really at all) all day. Like the way the generic horror movie dark 'n' green look made it just as dim when the power went out as when the lights were on. Or the way lots of stuff still seemed to work with the power out. Or the way it was set in "Los Angeles," yet poured rain non-stop ...

I agree, though, being not insane enough was its biggest problem. I think that's because it took itself too seriously. Too many shots of scared shaking kids muttering "www ... wwhat's wrong with mmm ... mom ... !?" Imagine how much fun it might have been if it was like "The Raid" or something, or maybe "The Raid" meets "Poltergeist 3." This one reminded me of a more po-faced "The Gate."

how you gonna do a blood elevator climax in something that's not a tall building

Fair enough, that is the most ott bit in the movie, they probably started with that and worked backwards.

I could have sworn I heard that the latest "Scream" movie wasn't that bad, but it pretty much was, and was boring, too. "Infinity Pool," on the other hand, was incredible.

talk to me was EXCELLENT. was so pleased with every decision it made

dammit now you're making me want to leave the house again tonight.

Against all reason I watched the new Texas Chainsaw on Netflix. So unbelievably stupid and bad, gory but never once suspenseful or scary. Avoid.

I almost did, I started trying to watch em all for completist purposes and god, after 2 anything interesting about this franchise just disappeared

loved Birth/Rebirth

it's psychological, more of a prolonged discomfort. it takes swings at a lot of things - the sacrifices that American society regularly forces single mothers to make, a labor culture that is increasingly anti-worker, and how struggling civilians are forced to acquire what they have by stepping on the backs of other people. particularly how society pits women against each other as well and expects them to be at their best without regard for their wellbeing. moreso though it's pretty grounded in the way it presents the premise (resurrection), one which has been done to death in horror, but nicely avoids almost all of the usual cliches.

ending is pretty devastating.