this is playing locally as a midnight film; anybody wanna rep for it?http://www.ritesofspringmovie.com/
― I dont even know that I think this sucks per se (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it was definitely effective. I didn't completely LIKE the effect it made on me, but it def made it.
― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Man, "Rubber" was terrible, and terribly smug.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
Absentia's quite good. Simple and effective.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 24 August 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
i really liked 'absentia'.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Friday, 24 August 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
anybody interested in apparition?
― The muted sensation feels amazeballs. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 August 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
so the hobbit version of maniac is out, uh, somewhere. maybe in limited release or overseas. or so i hear. anyone seen it?
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 August 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
so, Kill List? quite effective imo - & [SPOILER] I loved the unexpected third act to homage to 70s Brit pastoral horror.
― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
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, 29 August 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
I wish all these horror movies were just released immediately to Netflix streaming, because that's where they need to be.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― emil.y, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― The Thnig, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
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, 29 August 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
― 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 know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
maybe if i was a walkman enthusiast i would like that movie
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― The Thnig, Friday, 31 August 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
caught Berberian Sound Studio a couple of mornings ago, liked it a lot.
― Simon H., Friday, 31 August 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link
damn, berberian sound studios is a great gis
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/BerberianSoundStudio1.jpghttp://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/BerberianSoundStudio2.jpghttp://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/Berberian-Sound-Studio.jpg
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Friday, 31 August 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
Saw Berberian Sound Studio last night - think it's one of the best films i've seen in years. wrote a bit about why here.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 September 2012 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
I agree! Really really great.
Do you mind if I post your link over on the Berberian Sound Studio thread?
― emil.y, Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link
no, not at all. didn't realise there was a thread.
― Fizzles, Monday, 3 September 2012 06:43 (twelve years ago) link
ok watched a couple of new ones
The Final - i really should have known better, but yeah its a stupid revenge topical bully egdy columbine what if that is a complete movie execs try to imagine the slipknot generation 4 years too late clusterfuck trainwreck. avoid avoid avoid.
Snowtown/alt title The Snowtown Murders - well if you are craving a soul-destroying bleak horror skincrawler ala Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer this is one for you. its fairly brilliant, and incredibly well-acted, and deeply in the camp of "movies that are so hard to watch that i dont really recommend them". its a rough one, and gets worse when you find out that it is a true story.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
available on netflix streaming, if you want to ruin your day instantly on demand.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, this looks either stupid or brilliant:
http://cf.drafthouse.com/_uploads/drafthousefilms/galleries/16162/abcdeathxa-poster2__poster.jpg
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
it can be both!
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
actually i cant really blow up the picture in a way that gives me most of the info at the top abt the directors
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
if they are all troma directors or mick garris is involved i retract my brilliant comment
The ABC's OF DEATH is an ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the motion picture is comprised of 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death. Provocative, shocking, funny and ultimately confrontational; THE ABC's OF DEATH is the definitive snapshot of the diversity of modern horror. Drafthouse Films, Magnet Pictures and Timpson Films are proud to present this alphabetical arsenal of destruction orchestrated by what Fangoria calls "a stunning roll call of some of the most exciting names in horror across the world."
Angela Bettis Hélène Cattet Ernesto Díaz Espinoza Jason Eisener Bruno Forzani Adrián García Bogliano Xavier Gens Noboru Iguchi Thomas Cappelen Malling Jorge Michel Grau Yoshihiro Nishimura Banjong Pisanthanakun Simon Rumley Marcel Sarmiento Jon Schnepp Srdjan Spasojevic Timo Tjahjanto Andrew Traucki Nacho Vigalondo Jake West Ti West Ben Wheatley Adam Wingard Mikael Wulff Yudai Yamaguchi Lee Hardcastle
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
considering how little ti west usually gets done in 90 minutes i am worried abt what he can do in 5
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
super gory trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq0NKDex30U
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
M1ke D'4ngel0 said that Ti West's segment should appeal to the same crowd that digs A Serbian Film. Yay.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
since i have nothing today, a brief summary
Angela Bettis - dig her, but roman was just kind of ehHélène Cattet - made amer which is A+++Ernesto Díaz Espinoza - something called mirageman? idkJason Eisener - hobo with a shotgun! getting more promisingBruno Forzani - also amer relatedAdrián García Bogliano - cold sweat? unknown to meXavier Gens - frontier(s), another good sign, potentiallyNoboru Iguchi - the machine girl. not totally my thing, but could be interesting, def will be wacky Thomas Cappelen Malling - did that norwegian ninja thing i still havent watchedJorge Michel Grau - we are what we are? again, idkYoshihiro Nishimura - tokyo gore police, which i liked even less than machine girl. splattertown for this one i am sureBanjong Pisanthanakun - shutter and alone, pretty solidSimon Rumley - red white and blue which i also have only gotten through a little of, pretty slow starterMarcel Sarmiento - deadgirl, which is one of my modern favesJon Schnepp -metalocalypse i guess? something called the removers that i know nothing abtSrdjan Spasojevic - if you couldnt guess from the name, its the serbian film guy. which i still havent seen so i will reserve judgementTimo Tjahjanto - stuff called macabre and dara, no clueAndrew Traucki - black water which sucked, the reef which i never watched because of black water, s for shark or a for alligator i imagine. yawn.Nacho Vigalondo - timecrimes dude! awesome!Jake West - doghouse, which was a knucleheaded assholish messTi West - house of the long naps. yuckBen Wheatley - down terrace and kill list, keep meaning to watch down terrace but haventAdam Wingard - V/H/S, which came out last week and i havent heard much about, along w/his other films pop skull and laura panicMikael Wulff - some show called pandaerne? who knows?Yudai Yamaguchi - versus which is awesome! meatball machine which is not.Lee Hardcastle - apparently a hyper-violent claymation dude? credited with segment "T is for Toilet" which sounds like no thanks to me.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
looks pretty promising to me, although the ultra short format is worrisome.
has anybody heard anything abt V/H/S? i know its a found footagey thing which can be very nagl, but i still hold out hope for the possibility of good work thx to rec etc
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
Reviews have been pretty awesome for it, iirc.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Jorge Michel Grau - we are what we are? again, idk
really wanted to see we are what we are, spanish cannibalism flick on the realism tip
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBkNz3_pzsw
― vincent black shadow giallo (Edward III), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Bogliano is a very interesting Argentinian director. prolific, too. haven't seen Penumbra. Rooms for Tourists is still my favorite. B&W Hitchcock/Argento boarding-house melee with a biting message.Gens made the truly ghastly big-budget nukesploitation slog The Divide. and the even worse Hitman. remind me why we ever cared about this guy? oh, yeah. five minutes I will probably be skipping. but I'm expecting Rumley's short to be my favorite. if it's half as good as his contribution to Little Deaths, I will walk away very satisfied.Macabre is the Western title for Rumah Dara, an Indonesian bloodbath of near-Inside proportions. eager to see what else Tjahjanto can do, esp. without his "team" (The Mo Brothers).Vigalondo's Extraterrestrial is a lot of fun. Edgar Wright-ish sci-fi rom-com. nothing like Timecrimes. he has some range.yeah, Doghouse wasn't so great. but West's Evil Aliens remains a blast. a very wet, very silly blast. he's erratic but talented.Wingard's mumblecorror A Horrible Way to Die made waves earlier this year. no fan of his earlier films, but AHWTD showed some raw promise. with the proper Adam Green-sized breaks, he could go places.Hardcastle is a (relative) unknown whose short became a YouTube sensation and won him a place among the other 25 slots. it's very gross, and very funny.
― silent ouzo eclipse (Mr. Hal Jam), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
oh see i have dodged little deaths because i was afraid it was yet another mediocre trilogy alpped together after three extremes (the first one) had such an impact. i just skipped it on my netflix queue, will amend.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link