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

how awesome does embodiment of evil look? I can't believe I've had this sitting unwatched on a shelf for 4 months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtPQh1AMl2Q

Pontypool is a decent low-budget zombie movie (as in, you only see a few zombies).

and this is the part of the thread where I rep for 30 days of night

I watched it a second time and enjoyed it a lot more than the first time

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/30_days_of_night.jpg

now let's talk about the mist again

30 days of night got off to such a great start, and i was so excited about it, and then it just stopped being scary and turned cartoonish

The Mist - Good movie, shite ending.

really wanted it to be a creep-o slow burner, but noooooooo

i had forgotten about the ending of the mist, in my mind it stops with the fucking giant skeleton elephant thing

the mist was great

xpost oh man i thought the ending was perfect

xxpost yeah 30 days of night fell off for me as well

the mist didnt suck but it surely tried my patience pretty much any time some1 made a speech in the cereal aisle

do u h8 cereal?

i fucking loved the mist

The movie and the short story deserved something better than a LOL GOTCHA ending.

Cut to black after they count bullets and look at each other.

see, i liked that the short story and the movie had different endings!

i wanted the one chick to be like I SOLD ALL THE BULLETS TO BUY U THAT NINTENDO DS U SD U WANTED LOL

There's some superior fan made "Mist" ending on youtube. Or at least there was. Maybe this is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuLVpJqxy4Y

Love the option of watching the movie in black and white on DVD. Makes the gore less gratuitous.

nah, THIS is how the movie should have ended

http://oneshort.ytmnd.com/

the original ending of The Mist is perfect, complete w/ great Thomas Jane overacting.

The Orphanage was pretty good, kinda similar to The Haunting in Connecticut in that it sort of sheds its horror movie skin by the end

Just watched Trick R Treat. That was pretty fun.

Has anybody see Voice? I just read a pretty enthusiastic write up about it and it seems promising.

I've got The Thaw and End of the Line coming next from Netflix. Probably add House of the Devil, too.

The Descent is great until the monsters show up

otm

30 days of night got off to such a great start, and i was so excited about it, and then it just stopped being scary and turned cartoonish

also otm

has anyone seen the woods (lucky mckee)? i liked may, but that's all i've seen by him.

omg Teeth was amazing.

It didn't scare me, but The Devil's Rejects was certainly the best horror-ish film of this time span. Inland Empire is beyond genre, but without a doubt the scariest movie I've seen in the last five years.

― cough syrup in coke cans (Eric H.), Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:16 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what about the sequence in the diner in Mulholland Drive where the guy is recounting his dream? I think that's the scariest thing I've experienced as an adult.

I like how Lynch's "eye of the duck" moments are either strangely beautiful or HOLY FUCK I THINK I MAY HAVE CRAPPED MY PANTS.

The Mist is pretty full on! The Marcia Gay Harden stuff was kind of overdone though.

I think someone said they hated the ending upthread. I thought it was brutal! Far more nihilistic and fucked up than them all just dying.

If he'd shot them and then stepped out into the unknown Mist to face Fate, maybe nihilistic and fucked up. Still would have preferred the ambiguity of counting the rounds and fading out.

Shooting them, stepping out into the Mist and then the Army rolling through is just a cheesy GOTCHA, should have listened to the other folks!

Basically, I think any horror movie with that kind of turnabout ending is taking the easy route - providing pat answers and a neat finale to the audience.

Nah, the mood of the whole movie is a total horrible downer and I think the ending fits.

But I think the human aspects could've been more well handled - like MGH should've been less obviously batshit, and the atmosphere in the supermarket should've built for mild consternation rather than everybody just shitting their pants from the minute the mist rolled in.

The ending is less bleak than the rest of the movie, though.

end of the world, no hope at all
vs.
oops u shot ur kid, should have waited three minutes

Shock endings suck.

It's bleaker for our viewpoint character. Worst possible outcome for him.

I didn't enjoy any horror films from this period (not really my genre), but I did enjoy thinking about some films that borrowed the zombie trope.

In particular Les Revanants/They Came Back (2005 outside of France), which is a slow, pensive film about the undead who silently want their lives (jobs/relationships/parents) back. I, like many others, felt left down by the ending, but it kept my attention for most the running time.

Also Deadgirl (2008), a discomfiting film about teenage lust, objectivization, and the loss of friendship. A summary of the later (teen outcasts find an undead woman tied up in a basement, and act upon their instincts) doesn't quite do it justice.

tonight i am watching "the collector" by the saw guys, looks feh

and tomorrow paranormal 'tivs.

based on the john fowles book slock?

i dont think so! actually im sure its not. it looks like saw with... uh... a different guy.

milo so otm about the mist

haven't seen the mist, should watch it.

i cant believe u mist it

In particular Les Revanants/They Came Back (2005 outside of France), which is a slow, pensive film about the undead who silently want their lives (jobs/relationships/parents) back. I, like many others, felt left down by the ending, but it kept my attention for most the running time.

been wanting to see this for a while, such a fantastic concept...

still kinda baffled by y'all who think the mist > 30 days of night

30 days of night is kind of cartoonish but it was, uh, based on a comic book

the mist had really bad cgi, bunch of contrived character types, and an unearned suhprise! ending

really? how so? i would think it would be a quintessential movie theater movie!!

― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:35 PM

^ yes

I want to see Deadgirl, but reviews are pretty mixed - seems like it's hard to get a good read on indie horror quality. Critics automatically downplay the flicks, while horror fans get excited over pretty much anything.

It's a year too soon for this, but the Dawn of the Dead remake was really, really good.

I still wanna see the black and white version of the mist, seems like it might redeem at least the cgi stuff

but reviews are pretty mixed

it's KIDS... with zombies!!

Dawn of the Dead was good...especially the part with the preggers girl

bugcrush is kinda good. (i guess the whole thing's not up on youtube anymore, but it might be around somewhere.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kExFp8VT9eE

Shock endings suck.

http://www.arachnoid.com/ChildrenOfNarcissus/images/sutherland_invasion_1978.jpg

Deadgirl is amazing

my thoughts from that itr thread where i do one sentence reviews of streaming netflix stuff i watch at odd hours:

deadgirl - this is going to be another one of those recommendations that isnt really one, i thought it was great, some weird rivers edge/brick/donnie darko/grossout horror flick blender action going on, really really mean spirited, another wonderful film designed to make you feel like people are just basically horrible and evil, dont know if anyone else should really watch it if they dont want to feel dirty and simultaneously violated and entertained, oddly wacky and slapstick in all the wrong parts, at least one (maybe both) of the leads is shockingly brilliant and will probably never get cast again. A-