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

what are 2012's picks?

im interested in that too! i mean obv cabin in the woods but what else

sadly, i got nothing. its been a dry year so far, at least wrt anything i have seen

I'll let you know once I get my hands on some Fantasia screeners

yeah, i ain't got nothing neither. i've talked about most everything i've seen recently, and it's all been older stuff. hal jam mentioned quite a few newish films elsewhere, but i'm not sure how many were actually 2012 releases.

anyone seen lovely molly or the innkeepers?

lovely molly - no; innkeepers i wasnt feelin

I think ti west is crap, so I have not done the innkeepers. Yet.

I want to like Ti West 'cause he seems like an intelligent guy, and I respect that he's trying to do genuinely different things with the medium, but I didn't care for HOTD and strongly disliked Innkeepers.

sleep tight which i mentioned up above is apparently getting a US release later this year, so i'd put that on the list

has anybody heard of "shock labyrinth"? it's on instant watch and seemed possibly interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHomW7otjr0

'Ju-On' and 'The Grudge' series director Takashi Shimizu sets his latest horror outing in a Mount Fuji amusement park that bears a striking resemblance to Japan's real Fuji-Q High Land and "the world's longest horror house walk-through" located there.

the only reviews i can find seem to be "eh."

saw the new fright night a while ago.

Completely forgot that Tennant was in it. Should see it again if only for him. But apart from that I had a really great time watching it I thought Colin F was ACE in it.

Can anyone recommend similar style films? I really enjoy horror (hah, didn't even think it was scary at all) like this.

Watched The Caller last night. It's a creepy premise, and maintains a spooky aura, but there's a lot "no, really, you're not <doing x>" moments and wastes Luis Guzman. (I would say it wastes Bill from True Blood but he doesn't really have charisma or presence anyway.)

made it about 10 minutes into shock labyrinth and gave up - huge fan of that director but it looked like it was going to be a horrendous misstep. also from what i can tell its mostly a film meant to show off 3D tech, and it really really shows.

okay, will pass.
i just got a membership to IFC Center, can anyone rep for this?
http://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-pact/

I really liked The Innkeepers. Dug the vibe and characters. There's something about Ti West that's refreshing without trying to knock us out about how refreshing he's being. On the other hand, though, there's a little oomph missing from his movies. I keep feeling like he's close to making something really significant but it might still be several films into the future.

the missing oomph thing gets at my reservations, though i haven't seen the innkeepers. so far, he seems to generate good instincts and ideas, but rather dull movies.

watched don't be afraid of the dark the other night. was okay, very well-mounted, but sort of flat. one of the only times i've thought that a horror film really, really should have been shooting for PG-13, that it was harmed by its unwillingness to be a "family movie". a bit more cartoonish zip and a bit less grue, and it could have been a halloween classic.

i guess i mean that it could have taken a few cues from gremlins. loved the production design and the kid lead was pretty great. story wasn't much, though.

I missed this last week @ Japan Society, figured y'all shd know about it.

http://www.pajiba.com/trade_news/trailer-zombie-ass-the-toilet-of-the-dead-yes-that-is-the-actual-title-not-a-metaphor-for-an-adam-sandler-film.php

this is playing locally as a midnight film; anybody wanna rep for it?
http://www.ritesofspringmovie.com/

Search says nobody here has been discussing Berberian Sound Studio but I figure the title might not give away that it's a new horror film. Looks good to me.

Ok so I just watched "The Oregonian" last night (netflix streaming fyi) and its def low budget and makes some mistakes but overall i thought it was really really impressive and effective, including some actual physical goosebump/chill moments. riyl: non-narrative, creepy, lynch filtered through dirtbag vibe. its def as much an art film thing as a horror really, some tschevverasky (sp?) in there as well. totally worth it. unless you hate it in which case whoops.

yeah it was definitely effective. I didn't completely LIKE the effect it made on me, but it def made it.

Man, "Rubber" was terrible, and terribly smug.

Absentia's quite good. Simple and effective.

i really liked 'absentia'.

anybody interested in apparition?

so the hobbit version of maniac is out, uh, somewhere. maybe in limited release or overseas. or so i hear. anyone seen it?

so, Kill List? quite effective imo - & [SPOILER] I loved the unexpected third act to homage to 70s Brit pastoral horror.

kill list was one of the few memorable ones i have seen in recent times . V/H/S would be another. it is a short story wrapping a bunch of other short stories, implying they all happen within the same "universe". it would be cool if they made a tv series out of it.

Watched McKee's The Woman. There's something really 1990s about the insertion of the emotional singer-songwriter music over key scenes that either makes me think that 1) McKee is playing with us in an interesting way, or 2) is just tuck in the 90s, which I think is an actual possibility. He's certainly done this before.

Also the guy who played the dad was great. Pretty good ending, too.

emil.y, i think it was Simon H on another thread who also called Berberian Sound Studio a horror film - can I ask what makes you think that it is? Based on Peter Strickland's previous movie, and on a feature in the current Sight and Sound, I don't think it's a genre film as such (ie i get the impression it's about psychological collapse rather than supernatural threat) , although not having seen it, I could be wrong.

I wish all these horror movies were just released immediately to Netflix streaming, because that's where they need to be.

ie i get the impression it's about psychological collapse rather than supernatural threat

So, err, you don't think Repulsion is a horror film?

I mean, okay, the reasons I think it is a horror film: it premieres at FrightFest, a horror film festival; it has been reviewed as a horror film by every publication; the themes are of psychological horror set in a giallo production (and you are missing a lot if you don't think psychological horror is 'really horror'); the director thinks it's a horror film; the sole imdb genre tag is 'horror'.

I'll actually see it on Saturday so I can tell you if I suddenly have a revelation that it isn't one, but I'm fairly sure I won't.

Watched McKee's The Woman. There's something really 1990s about the insertion of the emotional singer-songwriter music over key scenes that either makes me think that 1) McKee is playing with us in an interesting way, or 2) is just tuck in the 90s, which I think is an actual possibility. He's certainly done this before.

Also the guy who played the dad was great. Pretty good ending, too.

― The Thnig, Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:30 AM (2 hours ago)

liked the movie, but thought that the soundtrack was badly misjudged. almost certainly the result of being a bit too attached to 90s/early 00s indie film sensibilities. that said, the power-pop goofiness did soften the blow in a way that i appreciated. if the soundtrack had been all glowery and "intense", i probably would have found the film a good deal more repulsive.

Watched and enjoyed Ti West's The Innkeepers last night. Not great, but it rewards the patience it demands. It's similar to The House of the Devil in that it spends way too much time on the slow-paced development of uninteresting characters, but by time spooky stuff started going down, around the halfway point, I was hooked. It's vanishingly slight, and the ending is a bit anticlimactic, but I was genuinely unnerved for most of the last half hour. Also appreciated West's willingness to leave his audience with more questions than answers. Otoh, it's all but done in by the casting. The lead actress is clearly supposed to be cute as a button, and she is, but she's also terribly one-dimensional and unconvincing.

For better or worse (maybe worse), I've given up resisting Ti West because of his clear flaws and instead just loving him for existing at all.

Anyone ever seen his pre-House of the Devil flicks, The Roost and Triggerman?

House of the Devil burned me so badly that it will take a really desperate night of netflix streaming for me to even think about giving this dude another shot.

Innkeepers is a totally different vibe. Definitely lots of laughs. Triggerman has its fans, but it was only in cropped form when it was being streamed.

House of the Devil burned me so badly that it will take a really desperate night of netflix streaming for me to even think about giving this dude another shot.

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:20 AM (8 minutes ago)

this isn't a recommendation, cuz i think you'd probably hate it, but i hated house of the devil and at least half liked the inkeepers. spent most of the first 45 minutes wondering how i'd let myself get fooled again, though.

i sort of liked the house of the devil, enough to watch it twice. i thought is it was very "neat", every facets of the retro fetish thing, the photography, costumes, lame intrigue, just a retro-licious neat litle bad horror movies like i have seen when i was a kid on on Commander USA's Groovie Movies and stuff. anyone remember a psycho knockoff from the late 70's early 80's where the killer inject a syringe of blood in a blow up doll full of water? that one was odd.

google tells me it looks like it was "Private Parts " .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mURQ4OKRygA
will have to watch that one again i think.

House of the Devil burned me so badly that it will take a really desperate night of netflix streaming for me to even think about giving this dude another shot.

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 11:20 AM (8 minutes ago)

I didn't hate HOTD, but my main impression was that I'd liked to have seen Tom Noonan's awesome creepy dude performance basically C&Pd into a better, scarier movie.

maybe if i was a walkman enthusiast i would like that movie

emil.y, i look forward to hearing yr report on Berberian Sound System and am, right this v second, happy to accept that it is as horribly horrible as repulsion

Just watched The Caller, which is sorta like a remake of that Dennis Quaid movie Frequency with less laughing. Really dug it -- effectively wrings every bit of unpleasantness out of the situation, possibilities of which only dawned upon me slightly before the happened in the movie. Mostly, though, it made me depressed that good solid Grade B+ horror films like this never make it to the U.S. multiplex anymore and instead we get sludge like The Roommate and Sorority Row.

caught Berberian Sound Studio a couple of mornings ago, liked it a lot.