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

anybody see any of the big remakes (last house on the left, whichever one rob zombie did this year, etc)?

drag me to hell was so great -- just rewatched but seeing it in the theatre was amazing what with everyone laughing & screaming simultaneously

i think the only nasty cut-em-up flicks i like anymore come from france or asia, though the first 'hostel' and the first 'saw' were good. i have a ton of friends who are in the horror film community and they're all pretty cynical about it these days, everyone wants to turn shit pg-13.

no desire to see the halloween remake, but the trailer was fucking terrifying (i've long held that horror movie trailers are usually way scarier than the actual movie, you just get a succession of jumps and creepy images without any context or warning).

loved drag me... anyone seen paranormal activity yet?

or left bank?

the french stuff is just brutal, but its been some of my favorite stuff as well, im sure a bunch of the usual whiners are going to lump it into the totally dumb invented "torture porn" genre but it just has such a deep sense of misanthropic malice and self-loathing xpost

i have a ton of friends who are in the horror film community and they're all pretty cynical about it these days, everyone wants to turn shit pg-13.

― access flap (omar little), Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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^^^ omar's friends

considering using my mod cheat powers to edit the title to include 2008 because so much great unheralded stuff came out last year

'inside' was just as rough thematically as it was in terms of gore imo, i.e. it's one of my favorite films of the past few years.

id make it the whole decade but i think that the hostel/saw/ring/rob zombie non remake stuff would just take over and we've talked about that a billion times already (i love all three of the originals, and will go to bat for hostel 2 as well)

me too hostel 2 is so underrated

really felt roth didn't want to cheap out with an easy sequel on that one

the saw series has turned into a joke imo

oh yeah saw 3 was particularly awful

never seen a saw movie (i am okay w this)

I didn't really feel Hostel when I watched it - though that might've been because I'd watched Wolf Creek the night before which ten times more brutal and believable. Still haven't seen any of the Saws.

martyrs was the best horror movie I've seen in years. it's french torture porn, and then again, it's not... which is what makes it so great. it totally transcends the genre and I can guarantee you won't guess where it's going.

eden park was pretty good. not the greatest film ever made but a nice patch on the "hunted by locals in the woods" genre.

Eden Lake you mean? I liked that a lot, some bits haunted me for a few days. Such a dark ending!

duh, yeah eden lake

there are a lot of recent horror films I wanted to see that I haven't gotten around to. off the top of my head: teeth, the uninvited, embodiment of evil, dead snow... and I guess the haunting in ct now...

anybody repping for inside in this thread needs to see martyrs stat

paranormal is not that great. download it and see it at home. more of a living room thing than a theatre experience.

I wanna see nightmare, too. it's an older film that just got released on DVD, kind of low budget but looks promising.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455983/

oh hey btw for the french horror heads, if you haven't seen frontier(s), thats pretty essential

Eden Lake is british, right? some great horror coming out of britain in the past few years, esp if you like a bit of comedy mixed with your gore (top recs would be Severance and Shrooms)

paranormal is not that great. download it and see it at home. more of a living room thing than a theatre experience.

― let them eat cankles (jeff), Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

I liked Drag me to Hell. Also liked Jennifer's Body actually. I think a lot of good recent US horror has been genre pastiche/comedy (I'd include Hostel ii).
The French/Asian stuff is nice because it still does well playing the eeriness/bone-gristle straight. I've only seen the first 2 Saws but had to stop because why bother when there's stuff like Martyrs out there.

dead snow is pretty half-assed tbh

theres a foreign language film that is a great companion piece to Eden Lake that i can't remember the name of right now and it is killing me.

Eden Lake is british, right? some great horror coming out of britain in the past few years, esp if you like a bit of comedy mixed with your gore

Yep, it's British. Not many laughs though.

Just grabbed some new 80s movies to watch. Can anyone vouch for these?

Combat Shock
Demented
Don't Go In The House
Night of the Demon

oh yeah wait, Ils (or Them) is the Eden Lake parallel. creeeeepy

haha yeah Eden Lake is def not chock full o' laughs

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

Because...

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...it is pretty much just a Blair Witch clone and more fun than scary. For me, the experience was ruining by a theatre of 500 groaning teens.
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*ruined

combat shock is fucked up. also pretty interesting and pretty good.

thread title edit for the purposes of why not

In light of the new title I will mention Wolf Creek again.

dead snow is pretty half-assed tbh

yeah it looks totally cheeseball but I'm a huge shock waves fan so...

speaking of which, the aussies have def had a horror boom this decade as well xpost

for aussie film fans i def recommend this hilarious doc:

http://www.smartartists.com.au/not-quite-hollywood/nqh-poster.jpg

"The Descent" is still the scariest film of that time span. "Drag Me to Hell" was tons of fun, though essentially just a remake of "Night of the Demon." "Zombieland" was entertaining, but totally sloppy and lazy.

Aussie-wise, "Rogue" is an undervalued and very well made gem in the giant croc genre.

Just came across some Korean POV torture porn flick called "The Butcher," which from the look of it may be the most unpleasant movie ever made.

WC is the only Aussie horror I've seen that I can recall. Recommendations?

xxpost

xp to jeff
I saw 'Don't Go In The House' last October. It has a nice gritty grindhouse vibe along w/ a Norman Bates type guy who uses a flamethrower instead of a knife.

Any good Japanese stuff from this period?

It's another Korean flick, but if you count "The Host" as horror, "The Host" is a blast. The director's "Memories of Murder," while slightly pre-2005, is worth seeing, too, though not really a horror film. More a serial killer procedural along the same lines as "Zodiac."

Just grabbed some new 80s movies to watch. Can anyone vouch for these?

Combat Shock
Demented
Don't Go In The House
Night of the Demon

if you are in the mood to see one of the worst films ever made, you can't go wrong with the 1980 night of the demon

http://www.youtube.com/v/CryBPpYTWfk

so weird i was just going to mention memories of murder with that same caveat

memories of murder is almost on par with zodiac i think

At some point J-horror switched from ghost girls to low budget OTT 80's style gore. I'm not really keen on it.
One I liked was 'Exte' by the guy who did Suicide Circle about cursed hair extensions. Tonally a lot like Uzumaki & pretty fun.

the horror film 'the booth' is a very good japanese flick about a haunted DJ booth. not gory but i thought it was pretty spooky especially considering the setting.

I really really really liked the strangers until the end

another one of the many horror movies with a great setup and no idea how to exit in a satisfactory manner

part of why I loved martyrs so much was that it found a graceful way out of its narrative challenges

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

Enjoyed Suitable Flesh a lot, but then I'm a sucker for Stuart Gordon films so that might not be surprising. Barbara Crompton is great in it.

It was not bad but I think it could have looked a bit better and maybe a slightly better script but performances were fine.

Had to go to a cinema I've never been to before in the Phoenix chain. I think my brother said it was the only cinema in scotland showing it, oddly

I just seen The Vourdalak. It's not like many other horror comedies I've ever seen because the sensibilities are very different. There's a corpse character created completely through puppetry and I don't think it works completely but it's a bold choice. Based on the same Tolstoy story that was in Mario Bava's Black Sabbath. It's pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOltHm9cloY

immaculate was imo the first great horror movie of the year and the best catholic horror in who knows how long. mean and nasty and bloody and screaming. plethora of jump scares but i think jump scares are value neutral, they can be good or bad depending on execution, and when they are good they make you feel as trapped in the movie as the main character is, and this movie has very good ones. thought sydney sweeney was great

Can't wait to see that one next. I'm at Late Night with the Devil RN but Immaculate is next. Glad to hear it's solid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-uiy20_zM

Infested, coming on Shudder. Watched this teaser yesterday and dreamt about it that night. Ugh.

So, Late Night with The Devil.

To say "Satanic panic horror" is shopworn at this point is stating the pathetically obvious. the margin for error is very small because it's been done so much that it only takes little mistakes for a jaded aficionado to say "meh - I've ridden this ride before". Or filmmakers simply turn it into a CGI fest of jump scares and endlessly twisting heads.

This one succeeds using a novel setting (a late night 70s talk show), dry humor, and a young actress who knows how to leer at a camera in unsettling fashion.

it doesn't have anything new to say, per se. But it goes refreshingly lean on exposition, has a persistently unsettling atmosphere, and goes big at the right times. Recommended - it's a lot of fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uS3t6nFgY

maxxxine looks fantastic

also saw the first omen the other night, actually felt like a legit transmission from '70s cinema. also: finally a catholic horror movie that has the sense of cosmic horror, like an error in the world

The First Omen felt a lot like Immaculate. I had a hard time dealing w/ what felt like too much effort in lining up the events just right with the first film and not enough being terrifying, but I loved the recurring shots of Italy, Nell Tiger Free, and enjoyed it overall.

also I watched Megan is Missing last night and why oh why did I ;_;

Late Night With the Devil is a lot of fun, yeah. David Dastmalchian is great, the whole cast is good, the ‘70s retro thing not new obviously but done very well.

it's also mega fun to see late at night in keeping w/ the theme

I’m not a horror person at all but tagged along to LNWTD and it got the craven ‘70s chat show thing just right, was tons of fun. The patrician skeptic reminded me of any number of similar highbrow guests on MOR shows of the era.

Also reminded me of the PBS funding week that got hijacked by the Backwards Masking brothers buying time off the local station when I was a tween.

So X was kinda grindhouse, Pearl was kinda twisted Douglas Sirk melodrama, Maxxxine, based on the trailer, looks like '80s Argento. I'm in!

btw, all these horror movies rooted in Catholic theology, do any of them ever address other religions?

Nell Tiger Free

Well, then that's no McGuffin

they must be voodoo horror stories. and paganism.

one other issue I had with The First Omen:

having Damien's introduction to the world an intentional introduction by the Catholic church really retroactively blunts the tale for me. Now it's a Jurassic Park-esque "we thought we could control it" versus "oh fuck an unexpected evil has shown up and we're not ready to fight him". considering how much destruction he causes across three movies, I'm struggling to understand how they thought they could control him, especially since they seemed to make little outward effort to do so.

like in the original Omen, Father Brennan did see the birth of Damien and tried to warn Thorn about his son, and he had the mark of the beast on him himself, and was supposed to be a reformed ex-Satanist who reformed after the incident regarding Damien's birth, so it felt like in the first movie, it was the work of then-Satanists, some of whom may have secretly infiltrated the church. whereas now it's actual nuns and Priests who feel like they're doing God's work.

Has this one come up yet? I read a pretty good review.. a horror movie set 45,000 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU_SQo1wbos

Clever concept, at least.

they all live in the same sorority cave, and the call is coming from inside the cave