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

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

Pontypool is another recent one that takes place in a DJ booth & another one which really doesn't exit in a satisfactory manner. It's worth a look though.

Has anyone seen Grace or Giallo?

I AM A GHOST. THIS IS A TAKEOVER.

I enjoyed turistas. then again, I went into it with really low expectations. I've never seen anybody say anything good about it, but it's got great cinematography, some creative set scenes, and realistic acting. the xenophobia aspect of the premise is sorta o_O but the same could be said about eden lake.

Would've been great if Giallo was a 'Grindhouse'-style homage to all those 70s films. Instead it's:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ne5Lb2SiFHg/SpvbzxSGD8I/AAAAAAAAkb8/COv33HMJVmo/s400/giallo_poster.jpg
"i am a dud!"

the unborn was supposedly crap but I wanna see it for some reason

still haven't seen the orphanage

and speaking of korean films, chan-wook park's new one, thirst, is about a vampire priest, it played for 5 days here and I missed it... grrr

btw I owned this record as a kid, can I just

http://tcmmoviemorlocks.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/famous-monsters-speak2.jpg

this one too

http://www.wxyc.org/blog/dwf.jpg

sorry what were we talking about

The Descent is great until the monsters show up

Paranormal Activity is bad, unless you really loved the Blair Witch Project

Last House on the Left remake has an interminable rape scene that kind of ruined the rest of the movie.

The Unborn was okay, kinda creepy when you find out the little girl star is an actual little girl

Halloween remake was terrible

Drag Me To Hell was pretty boring

Devil's Rejects is fantastic, a million times better than anything else Rob Zombie has done.

28 Weeks Later > 28 Days Later, but both are pretty good

Got dragged to see The Collector, which was one of the worst movie experiences of my life. People who enjoy that kind of shit make me do the arched-eyebrow emoticon.

http://io9.com/5387328/see-the-beginning-of-the-descent-2

i rep for 'rec' btw. not sure about the upcoming sequel since the demonic possession/religious stuff in the first one seemed pretty weak & tacked on, but i hope it's good.

I watched the last 20 minutes of the ruins last week, it seemed terrible

Last House on the Left remake has an interminable rape scene that kind of ruined the rest of the movie.

not sure how this differs from the original

Is the original rape scene 10 minutes long?

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

Abigail was a lot of fun. it's purely horror-comedy and there really are no scares to be found, nor is it really trying hard to do so, but the conceit is creative and the lols are refreshingly more of the slapsticky variety than the cringe humor you usually see in horror comedies these days. also the actress playing Abigail really gives it her all.

my only complaint is that I was hoping it was a movie about the King Diamond album

i really hate radio silence movies and the trailer doesn’t make me think i’ll be changing my mind with this one

What is a radio silence movie, you mean the characters are told that they will have 24 hours with no cell phones or whatever?

going to see In a Violent Nature later

xpost it's the name of the production company

could you use google for once in your god forsaken life

Jeez, are you talking to me? You wanted me to google "radio silence?" I could have sworn in the trailer the guy says "no cell phones," so sorry for making that assumption.