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

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.

Earwig by Lucile Hadžihalilović. This is really good, I liked Evolution a lot and Innocence is pretty good too. Brian Catling (writer of the novel) said she could change as much as she liked so I'm not sure if the novel will help me understand the film more. Very quiet film.

I'll check it out.. I thought Evolution was fantastic, I often forget if I've seen a film but not that one.. it was very singular

The film removes a lot of the context and specificity found in Catling's novel, especially around the title character and his history - probably in the interest of making everything more ambiguous - but otherwise hews pretty close to the overall plot. Would say the novel is quite a bit more coherent than the film, which has a fabulous atmosphere but seems just a bit too shapeless.

Catling was a really interesting person, would hope that as this film continues to make the rounds more people will check out his work.

Finally saw Resurrection. Didn't like it at all. Thought Roth completely phoned it in.

Always love Rebecca Hall but this story was too bonkers even for me

"Totally Killer" was so bad from the start we watched the whole thing convinced it was in on the joke and there would be some smart twist but no, it was just bad.

Bout to watch Slotherhouse

when evil lurks very creepy and perverse argentinian horror from the guy who made terrified. will be on shudder soon afaik

saw x was also super entertaining

argentinian horror

Read this as algorithm horror, lol, which is a good way to describe a lot of dreck that pops up on streaming services.

I really enjoyed the Shelley Duvall-esque mom character in When Evil Lurks. Good movie!

Some very small talk upthread but I watched The Outwaters last weekend..

really enjoyed it, as a good Cosmic Horror/found footage experience.

more like that please...

Slotherhouse showed some promise as a horror comedy for the first 40 minutes but then they completely half-assed the rest of it.

Not sure where to slot it, but I thought "No One Will Save You" was really well done. Very ambiguous, which can be risky, since people like answers, but I appreciated the ambition.

THANKSGIVING!!!!! god. it gave thanks. five stars

Fucking loved it

Felt like a love letter to the off-brand slasher flick thread

Watched TALK TO ME last night (rentable on Amazon), thought it was well made and the cast was strong — Sophie Wilde in particular. Not a feel-good movie lol. Some plotting problems and even with necessary disbelief suspension some things were hard to buy. Reminded me at various points of Hereditary and It Follows, though not as stylistically striking as either.

I highly recommend Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor if you want to experience your heart stopping multiple times.

Really? Cool!

It's great, matches the original. I skipped the two middle sequels based on reviews.

Loved the original so will check this out

Hmmm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puY9AthRUCQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF_J3-DmiS0

rose glass (saint maud) returns!!! this looks like a riot

Evil Dead Rise - better than I expected. Has there been a movie based on the inevitable lifetime of therapy the young girl who survives would be forced to go through? Like a rom com about 20-somethings but our protagonist’s entire family was slaughtered 20 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkcrNh9XSSw

whoa