Day of Reckoning looks like the sort of thing I can watch with my partner and we will both be satisfied. Noe vibes, okay, but what about Uwe Boll? or is it simply not as nihilistic?
(i'm going to admit my great admiration for Boll, probably an unpopular opinion here as most places)
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 31 October 2019 02:19 (four years ago) link
I haven’t watched a lot of Boll! But I’m rewatching now and wondering how the hell I questioned it was horror. It’s about a guy who (very minor spoilers, it’s the opening) sees his family killed, then wakes up from a coma and that is *the only memory he has of his life*Apparently Nicholas Winding Refn is a “devoted admirer of John Hyams” (director of DoR) and they’re collaborating for HBO now, if that endorsement counts
― mh, Thursday, 31 October 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
Not sure if this is horror (...is Under the Skin horror?), but I loved Upgrade.
Re: Baskin - that movie is INSANE. I recommended it to some horror pals, not really out of a good faith rec, but more that I wanted to subject them to that totally batshit movie. Years later, they still text me about my horrible taste in horror movies. I finally had to give up the ruse and admit to them that I didn't actually think it was good and just wanted them to have it burned into their psyche. I didn't have the extreme reaction to it my friends had, but be warned.
― SA, Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:34 (four years ago) link
If we're being broad, I'd add Bone Tomahawk to the list of recent heavyweights. I've been put off Midsommar but will definitely check it out given its placing alongside so,many other great films in this discussion. Saw Green Room recently - some genuine gasp out loud moments.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
Bone Tomahawk is p horrifying - Western horror subgenre?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
Anything else in that particular niche? Did Fulchi make any horror westerns?
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Upgrade was fantastic. i started a thread for it that i don't think anyone else ever posted on. but it's more sci-fi/action than horror in my opinion.
― na (NA), Thursday, 31 October 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I loved it (can the main dude please get all future roles that people might be considering Tom Hardy for?), but I wouldn't call it a horror movie really.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 31 October 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
strong body horror elements when he realizes he isn't the one driving
― mh, Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
There are Venom people and Upgrade people. I am a Venom person.
― Simon H., Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
Upgrade and Bone Tomahawk are both often weirdly funny.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
I am a Venom person.
― Simon H., Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:27 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
same
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 October 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
it's the only good modern superhero movie
Ravenous
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 October 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
(not Fulci)
Near Dark!!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 October 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
eh that's a stretch
(also not a good movie imo)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 October 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
Offered 3 options for Halloween viewing: Crawl (alligators in a flooded house), Don't Breathe (dumbasses break into a wily blind man's house, things go badly), The Shallows (Blake Lively vs. shark). We're going with Don't Breathe.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 31 October 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
xpost What's your beef with Near Dark?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 October 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
Don't Breathe is solid. Contains a moment that inspired a viscerally satisfying audience response.
― Simon H., Thursday, 31 October 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
It gets pretty nasty.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 31 October 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
ha I guess I've soured on it since my initial viewing: The Haunt Of Fear: ILX Top 100 HORROR Movies Poll Results Thread the regressive/conservative ending sticks in my mind, and my hatred of Bigelow's subsequent filmography must've colored my opinion a bit in the intervening period.
I know ppl around here love it.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 31 October 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
I saw Near Dark and Carpenter's Prince of Darkness on the same day back in 1987. One of the best days of my life (PoD still scares the shit out of me).
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Thursday, 31 October 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
Lol at holding The Lost Boys over Near Dark, but more to the point holding The Lost Boys over anything really.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 31 October 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
I dont like the Lost Boys either
― Οὖτις, Friday, 1 November 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Did 30 minutes of that Universal Soldier movie last night you guys and idk. I mean I’m sure it’s surprising to see straight-to-video level action stuff competently directed and ripping Terminator, Robocop, Noe, and whatever else, but it all seemed like “I’m just gonna grab this bag of tricks” cheap mimicry without adding much else.Maybe there’s more later, but was bored enough to switch it off.
― circa1916, Friday, 1 November 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
There's a lot more later. It gets really weird and dark.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 1 November 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
the lost boys is a great movie
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 1 November 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
as is universal soldier day of reckoning, no time for this”i watched 30 minutes and idk” business
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 1 November 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I only saw it once but iirc it gets crazier and more and more hallucinatory.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 November 2019 01:28 (four years ago) link
People liked Bone Tomahawk? I thought it was super dopey, and not much more than a generic old-fashioned “townsfolk vs Savage Injuns” movie that disguises itself in the thinnest veneer.
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 1 November 2019 04:23 (four years ago) link
That's exactly what Bone Tomahawk is.
Watched The Lost Boys with my kids the other night - first time I'd seen it in years. It's dumb and great. I'd forgotten how ugly the feeding scene is.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Friday, 1 November 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
Fulci did make a great, late Spaghetti Western called Four of the Apocalypse that's plenty violent but with no overt supernatural element:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_of_the_Apocalypse
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 November 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
I think Bone Tomahawk is way more than "generic." The ornate dialogue, the pace, the flashes of humor, the shocking extremity of the unexpected (even when expected!) violence ... these all set it apart.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 November 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
There was a time when I wanted to see Bone Tomahawk. That time was before I saw the dude's other movie, Brawl In Cell Block 99.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 1 November 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
Now *that* movie is pretty generic, by design (I think), though entertainingly ridiculous and ott. Bone Tomahawk is much better.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 November 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
Tale Of TalesThe WitchNovember A Field In EnglandMandyAcross The RiverUnder The SkinIt Follows Hagazussa
I regretted giving into the hype for Oculus, The Pact (which seems to be forgotten now), Hereditary, The Invitation and Get Out so I'm not seeing Midsommar or Us.
Baskin has its moments but not enough.
Incident In A Ghostland is not great but it deserved far more mentions than it got, pretty grueling and first film I'd seen in some time that really "went there" where other films would stop. Martyrs/Tall Man/House Of Voices director. Worth a try, some of you might really like it.
Green Room is solid but I didn't feel strongly about it. Climax is great but not quite my version of horror.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 1 November 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
speaking of martyrs, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet. it's so unfriendly that it's hard to recommend without some kind of warning but it's unique and you'll probably get something out of the experience, for better or worse.
also -
here comes the devil - mexican horror notable for its goregrind usage, among other thingsdream home - well-made HK slasher with some really brutal kills
mandy is probably my favorite modern horror film by some margin tho. feels like a classic.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 2 November 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
the original Martyrs is amazing and one of my favourite horror films ever, don't think i'll ever bother with the remake
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 November 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
yep, that one. I always forget that there even is a remake. seems bizarre!
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 2 November 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
God I hate Martyrs, I'm sure I went over this at some point.
― Simon H., Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
One I forgotten: We Are The Flesh.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
We are the Flesh was weird and messed up and funny and nuts.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
where are we discussing Doctor Sleep? Here?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
nah this is the horror movies thread
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
missed the brief martyrs discussion upthread a couple of days ago, but it's an extraordinary movie that has stayed with me in a way that very few have since i saw it at least five years ago
i still don't really know what to make of it tbh
― Titanic was cliched Marxist crap. (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
If it's only a shaggy dog story leading you to the punchline it's still a tremendous punchline, it fucked with me in a manner I can only compare with "Oldboy"
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
will check it out
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
the french one, right?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
xxxp I'd say if The Shining counts as horror then so does Doctor Sleep (PS I actually really enjoyed it FWIW)
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link