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

re:nu-Tetsuo, yeah, an English reboot shot in digital sounds pretty unfortunate. I didn't mean an actual new one, just something as unhinged & galvanizing for these times.

haha. glad i broke my self-imposed lurkerdom, then. if any thread was going to do it...

You've seen Strange Circus (Kimyô na sâkasu) though, right? I'm not saying it's not uneven, but it takes a bunch of huge gambles and pays most of them off. It's not perfect, but it's worth seeing just for sheer visual creativity on a shoestring budget.

^ a lot of what I look for in horror flicks, TBH.

What was wrong with Tetsuo:II? There was a bit in it where he speeds along the side of a building and some guy sticks his head out and goes "wha?" I wish that guy was in Tetsuo I.

I thought Love Object was pretty boring, tho everyone else I saw it w/found it creepy.

the director of love object was my neighbor and used to date my fiancee's best pal, apparently he's a good guy. i did find it funny that when i mentioned this to one of my horror bros, saying, "yeah the director of 'love object' lives in my building," just in passing, he looked at me quite seriously and said, "r0bert p@rigi." one of the great auteurs, i guess!

i'll see your visual creativity, and raise you for Sono's sheer audacity. remake this, Hollywood! but i think i actually admire 'Strange Circus' more than i can say i enjoyed it. Sono (and Masumi Miyazaki) never really sold me on the critical twist, the pacing is unbalanced, the climax is far too chaotic. but, yeah, some of the dream/nightmare imagery is stunning. still, i'll stick with Hisayasu Sato and Naoyuki Tomomatsu for my "ero guro" jollies. and Sono's on the bubble for me. 'Noriko's Dinner Table' was just a very good idea buried in three joyless, plodding hours of footage. i have no idea what he was thinking with 'Exte'. it just doesn't work on any level.

that Parigi story is too funny! wasn't even aware that 'Love Object' had a following among the horror bros. i've never met anyone who even knew about it. though i can see why this film would have its ardent attractors. it's different and well-made enough to stand out from the crowd. but it's also Parigi's lone non-TV genre credit. which makes me wonder if anyone stans for his much more extensive work as an executive producer. prolly not.

oh, wow. the new Tomomatsu/Nishimura (TGP) collaboration looks mental. uh, NSFW? (no nudity, just extreme splatstick). and how much is Robert Rodriguez kicking himself right now for not making this first?

Very TGP-like, which isn't a bad thing at all, but I feel like I just saw every good bit. "Student Wrist Cut Rally" poster is pretty, not sure what to think of the, uh, blackface (???) business. Thing? WTF was that?

"SWCR poster is pretty awesome," is what I meant so say up there about it.

i was thinking of doing a poll of gore scenes from 'inside', following the imdb parents' guide

ive only seen a couple sono movies but love exposure (not horror) is truly one of the most wonderfully weird movies i have ever seen

a four-hour epic about upskirts and boners... it's just like... kinda genius

I really really want to love Love Exposure but I just can't.

Just watched Trick R' Treat thanks to this thread. Thanks, thread! I think I have a new Halloween staple! As mentioned above, not really scary, but a lot of fun. It isn't really that similar, but it reminded me of Creepshow in a good way. And that's a commendable thing.

FYI The Thaw was stoooopid.

^^^ sorry, that was me. Perils of living w/ another ILX poster and all that.

i just watched "the woods" and it was great, looked good, well-acted, etc. but uh i don't really think i understood it plotwise. still really enjoyed watching it (jenny you'd probably like this movie and you can stream it from netflix)

ok reading the wikipedia plot summary it makes more sense (i think i was trying to make it more complicated than it really was).

Thought The Woods made sense, more or less, but that making sense wasn't really the point. Reminded me of Suspiria (beyond the malefic doings in a girl's school angle) in that it's more concerned with creating an atmosphere of dreamy, exaggerated dread than with telling a wholly satisfying story, and I think it succeeds on that level.

yeah, it was really my type of horror movie - i'm all about creepiness and dread and general "WTF" moments, not so much about gore and definitely not torture

Oh, cool. That is also my type of horror movie.

speaking of malefic girl schools, anybody seen innocence? not sure how "horror" it is tho I've heard there's some creepy dread to be had

So does Katalin Varga count as horror? It's basically a revenge tragedy a la The Virgin Spring, but there's plenty of Lynchian (for want of a better term) creepiness and unsettling atmosphere.

just because its after halloween doesn't mean this thread has to die

so "The Last Winter" is actually a pretty great little eco-horror movie with sort of a "The Thing" w/o any real monsters on screen vibe, and i would whole-heartedly recommend it if the last 15 minutes were not basically THE WORST ENDING EVER.

sauna looks like a good one

btw id like to take this opportunity to thank yall for posting to what might be my worst thread title ever. sorry about that.

I like to shit my pants, no worries

Yeah, "The Last Winter" is pretty good. I didn't even hate the ending, and in fact sort of appreciated how he just sort of went for it. It ended how a lot of horror movies these days cold-start.

On Halloween I ended up seeing "House of the Devil" along w/ a bunch of other stuff. It's sort of reverent-to-a-fault somewhere between the Satanist 70s films & a little gore/prosthetics 80s (sort of irked how critics seem to be conflating the two due to it also being set in the 80s). There isn't really any winking or subverting or whatnot, just a pretty decent appropriation played straight. Some of the performances (not the lead; she was good) & camera-work veered into slightly off 'Masters of Horror' territory - i.e. approximating an old style can end up merely looking like recent TV. Doublescreen w/ Burnt Offerings or People Under the Stairs and nobody will bat an eyelid.

(Ok, pedantry alert has to acknowledge that 'PUTS' is 91. 'The Changeling' maybe but not the goofier 80s e.g. 'Fright Night' or 'House')

Oh and there are these, which sold me on it in the first place:
http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/21226/1/THESE-HOUSE-OF-THE-DEVIL-POSTERS-ARE-BETTER-THAN-THE-FILM/Page1.html

Last night I watched End of the Line because of this thread and thought it was pretty damn good. Some OTT gore and par-for-the-course acting aside, it was definitely my kind of flick. The sound mixing alone provided half the scares. I read some less kind reviews complaining about the ending, but I thought it brought home the whole idea of the movie: either way you look at it humanity's fucked.

ugh, Martyrs fucked my shit up last night. tbh, i really thought i might pass out or get sick for a little while (things that have made me pass out before: getting blood drawn, films in health class, a certain episode of nip/tuck.) the ending was really awesome, though i thought it became less disturbing once you started to find out what was going on and no longer had to try to rationalize it yourself.

here's the sauna trailer. title's kind of nondescript but it's from finland so it must've originally been called hey, we're haunted by the ghosts of our evil deeds!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si8IqpZc8Fo

Watched Paranormal Activity last night & was with it all the way up until the ending, which was a total deal-killler. Then I looked it up on Wiki & found out that I had downloaded a version with the original ending & that the theatrical version had been altered for the better, at least based on the wiki description of the revised ending. That's what I get for all the downloadin' I guess.

The Changeling' maybe but not the goofier 80s e.g. 'Fright Night' or 'House' - The Changeling is an underrated classic & probably my fave "haunted house" ever.

*"haunted house" movie

it's from finland so it must've originally been called hey, we're haunted by the ghosts of our evil deeds!

i miss that meme

I like this thread title btw.

saw "trick r treat" - did not really enjoy. half-assed creepshow does not a good movie make.

deadgirl - could've been stone cold classic in surer hands but as-is it's still worthwhile, nervy filmmaking. aesthetics are def more IFC/indie than grindhouse (moody scene transitions with shots of highways and clouds over ambient soundtrack, hello). major mistake: casting folks in their twenties to play high school students. if they had used real teens, the sexual-coming-of-age angle in the movie would have been uncomfortably foregrounded. most chilling shot: a fashion mag ad casually laid over deadgirl's face after it has been beaten to a pulp.

embodiment of evil - bravura gonzo gore freakout, great if you're willing to unplug yr brain and submit to the bountiful flow of horrific imagery. tacky and vile, but also hypersurreal and not without a sense of humor, like hostel if it were directed by jodorowsky or del toro. still waiting on a US DVD release.

"could've been stone cold classic in surer hands but as-is it's still worthwhile"
"great if you're willing to unplug yr brain"

I'm always willing to unplug my brain but right now I want to see stone cold classic that is brain agnostic!
Any new ones out there? (can be older than 5 years)

have you seen martyrs

Getting it now -- any others?

Stuff I watched in the past week that has been mentioned in this thread:

Paranormal Activity: a pair of cultureless, aspirational suburban dullards are mildly irritated by a ghost. I wanted to see them suffer a lot more for their crimes. A lot more. Barely a film.

Eden Lake: I actually liked this. The forest is shot beautifully. I feel a lot of responses to this film have been too hard on the mechanics of the chase ("how do they run for ages and end up five feet away from the pursuers?") but I don't see how else a director could contrive the repeated catch-escape-catch-escape sequences you need in a story of this kind. A lot of people seemed to get really upset with the class issue in this film, but the fact that it was disclosed so readily and brought to such a bleak—almost, almost funny—conclusion means we're not quite meant to see it the way we immediately want to see it, if that makes any sense.

Pontypool: This is a re-watch but the first time I saw it (three? four? months ago) I was pretty high. I LOVE this cute little movie. I seem to remember it was a novel, then a play, and now a film, so sometimes it seems like you're watching a piece of theatre (it's preposterously verbose and almost entirely static). There are also some really good jokes and the most surprising defence of the Official Languages Act (1969) you'll ever come across. You never know when it'll come in handy, right? (Not sure why the military voice at the end has a Metropolitan French accent, though. Maybe a joke too subtle even for me.)

End of the Line: I watched this based on the recommendation of Mr Hal Jam upthread and it did not disappoint. It doesn't hurt that I live a couple of stops from the creepy subway station some of the action was filmed in, but what we have here is a bit of cheap and cheerful horror that does quite a lot with a little. Fun stuff. I also find the idea of an almost entirely French-speaking crew handily knocking out an English language film that's livelier, edgier, and more economical than the somewhat safe, laborious English-language film industry elsewhere in Canada (stuff like Pontypool excepted, obviously).

SAUNA is great, probably the best thing I've seen this year. I don't entirely get it, but in a way that makes me want to see it again, so if you're up for a movie which is closer to 'Seventh Seal' than 'Blood Feast', seek it out. This is Depressive Black Metal Horror, not Pornogrind Death Metal Horror.

(Yeah, OK, reaching out to a single figure demographic there, but then this is probably the place to do that.)

Waaay xpost: "Innocence" is creepily surreal, rather than horrific, but a great movie. Reminded me a lot of Robert Aickman's oblique 'strange tales'.