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

I don't know either of those, what's the deal

Both of them have came up months ago, maybe last year.

xp is the ending a classic smash the patriarchy thing? i mean, even discounting that wonderful fever dream ending, seems like she and everyone else paid a huge price for her "power", and the outside, "real" world is just as horrifically misogynist. if anything it's more of a nihilistic film noir ending where nobody wins

sorry to spoil ppl, Love Witch deserves to be seen for sure

symbolically yes I think murdering Prince Charming is a p classic anti-patriarchy move, but yeah it doesn't liberate her, either literally or obviously mentally

Well no reason not to talk about them again - Busan is a (yes I know) yet another zombie apocalypse flick, but stands up in its own right, some pretty amazing image moments, pretty tense throughout but like many Korean horror things oddly maudlin in spots that don't always culturally translate here I think, and long.

The Wailing (also Korean) is a very different thing. Plot rattles around a bit and feels like it might fall apart but sort of masterfully pulls itself together. Heavy themes of cultural identity and hate of outsiders, the typical odd moments played for laughs in a film that is deeply dark and unfunny at its heart. It's a weird one, but the first thing I've seen this year that I can happily throw my weight behind. It's also visually magnificent on pretty much every level.

Busan's definitely on my list, got a lot of attention last year. had a change to see it theatrically but missed the date

Really didn't like Busan. Thought it was pretty cliched and repetitive and larded with unearned sentimentality.

Kind of relieved there's barely anything I'm interested in right now but Oz Perkins seems to be making a name for himself with February/Black Coat's Daughter and I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House. Anyone seen these?

heard mixed opinions on Blackcoat, nothing about the rest

Did not like I Am The Pretty Thing... at all

think i already mentioned him upthread but oz perkins is def someone i'm keeping both my eyes on. really, really loved 'february'. 'i am the prteey...' was also good and absorbing, tho it didn't left such a deep impression.

It Comes at Night aws really good, albeit a depressing way to end an evening

Well no reason not to talk about them again - Busan is a (yes I know) yet another zombie apocalypse flick, but stands up in its own right, some pretty amazing image moments, pretty tense throughout but like many Korean horror things oddly maudlin in spots that don't always culturally translate here I think, and long.

― jjjusten, Thursday, June 8, 2017 10:50 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

busan was about thirty min too long, i actually thought the part where they forced the half a dozen people who'd made it through alive into the front car, followed by the zombies being let in, was a good place to leave the story. my biggest issue was that terrible shoehorned in villain character, which is my exact least favorite type of villain: this craven, cowardly guy who thinks only of himself and gets everyone else killed. i mean there were literally three moments in the final act where he grabbed a character and pushed them into a pursuing zombie so he could escape. devoted way, way too much time to him, time i'd rather have spent watching the uneasy alliance between Seok-woo (the fund manager dad) and Sang-hwa (the working class dude.) nothing wrong with the performances whatsoever, the first couple acts are insane in the best way. but that last stretch, idk.

i mean i feel one of the cheapest and least appealing things in movies of any kind is where this kind of lame character gets a bunch of likable characters killed for dumb reasons that don't make much sense even in the context of self-preservation. it's a pretty common trope, one that immediately takes me out of the movie.

That actually is my main point of criticism too. (Both the 30 minutes too long and the villain I guess, so 2 points.)

The crowd scenes where it was actual extras and not cg were enough to make me on the balance happy with it though.

For totally unoriginal, disposable boilerplate, "Life" is surprisingly well made, from cast to direction to FX.

Kuso, the body horror film directed by Flying Lotus, is going to be on Shudder from the 21st of July. Looks completely ridiculous.

Gina Philips just popped into my head. Then I realised I knew her from Ally McBeal. Totally forgot she was the same person as the girl in Jeepers Creepers. She has a cameo in the third film coming out this year (she hasn't been in anything since 2012). Salva is still directing, kind of amazed his career has survived. I was never huge on the first film but it was a little different from what else was going on at the time.

Started The Void, it's pretty shlocky.

Finally saw "The Witch," which I thought was great and which totally helped (further) erase the half-assed stupidity that was "The Void" from memory.

For a change I feel about The Void exactly the consensus: uninteresting story but worth seeing for the visual effects and I hope their next film is more original because they show promise.

Also saw The White God recently. Again, impressive achievement in some ways but not a good script. Impressive achievement being the dog coordination. Highlights are seeing dogs waiting for a guy in his home and the timeless comedy of dogs making angry faces.

I was so bummed about The Void, but yeah, how it looked was the least of its myriad problems. Also some absolutely incredible boneheadery at work in the script. My favorites may be a guy stumbling into an emergency room with a knife wound and the doctor telling the nurse to "put pressure on it!" Well, duh. It's a hospital, she's a nurse! The other was a bad guy with a scalpel, and the doctor says "put the knife down." It's a scalpel, you're a doctor!

Anyway, "The Void" was like first draft of a very poor man's "Event Horizon" crossed with "Hellraiser." Which is just bad. It was so incoherent for a second I thought a missed a few minutes. Maybe I did? Who knows, who cares.

The most clear inspiration is Prince Of Darkness, with other Carpenter bits.

I thought of Prince of Darkness, and Mouth if Madness, but at least the former I had some inkling what was going on and why, and the latter kind of creepy and cool. This one was like hour-and-a-half of bad actor villain just pontificating about his power.

Unburden yourself of your flimsy Earthly vessel and become all that you can be! Infinity calls to you with the promise of immortality and endless power. Be born again my child, rise up and blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Indeed

Has anyone seen "The Transfiguration"? I really liked it. It featured at Cannes which is unusual for a horror movie. It's quite a low key slowburn horror, all filmed in Rockaway, Queens which lends it a gritty feel too. Reminiscent of movies like Martin and Let The Right One In

Sold

I watched this film Creep the other night. Only two characters, all done with handheld camera. I don't really know horror that well but it certainly creeped me out.

That's the one with the wolf mask right? I like that and I'll say no more

xps Yeah, I thought The Transfiguration was pretty cool and interesting. The kids were excellent.

I thought Creep was really, well, creepy.

'the transfiguration' to the wishlist.

quite liked 'the void' even w/ all the explicit reference cartography - barker, lovecraft, anderson, fulci at the end - and extreme carpenter worship.

you were all right about 'XX' - kusama's was the only one that left some mark. and clark's was basically 'weekend at bernie's' turning into a videoclip imho.

Not strictly horror (although horrifying) but I wanted to note with pride that my great friend's debut feature KILLING GROUND opens in the US soon. Bias aside, it's absolutely brilliant.
https://youtu.be/d3ePiwb0NxQ

I wanted to like the recent Irish rural horror Without Name a bit more than I did as thematically it's catnip for me. It's still pretty solid tho and really well shot

Ooh!

Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani have a new film! It's called Laissez bronzer les cadavres! (Let the Corpses Tan!) Here's the gorgeous poster pic.twitter.com/0cMVFtDbKy

— James Gracey (@jamesgracey) July 18, 2017

New Cattet / Forzani.

https://vimeo.com/202034757

NOVEMBER by Rainer Sarnet. Might not be totally horrory but looks like a must see to me.

It stains the sand red was pretty good. Horror/comedy involving a woman trekking across the desert to avoid a zombie. Don't want to spoil much, but the main character's ability to positively approach the situation was refreshing and brought some levity. One scene in particular was hard to watch and brutal though.

Huh, intriguing, this is the "Grave Encounters" guys. Reviews I just read make it seem like a miss, unfortunately. Variety review brings up this, though, which I've never heard of: Richard Gale’s cult-favorite $600 wonder “The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon."

http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2017/07/28/when-authors-talk-on-twitter-slasher-movie-edition/

haha that was good

hah yeah

Annabelle: Creation = more mediocrity from the overrated Conjuring universe. I think I'm just done w/ the resurgence of Catholic-guilt devil horror cos these films are just fucking interchangeable at this point.

Split was just a hot mess - m. Night simply can not deliver dialogue or performances that don't number among the most wooden and embarrassing on screen. Unfortunately unlike the happening, where his ineptitude is magical and hilarious, this one is just dull and awful.

November is showing 22 October 2017 at Chicago International Film Festival. Hope it comes to UK in some form soon. I'll probably have to wait for the disc release.

did that last Rob Zombie movie even get released?

Yea Split sucked. No idea why people were gaga over it, it was only slightly less clumsy than the rest of his ouevre

cosign

It was alright, nothing particularly special. People are over-/underrating it because of who made it.

Y'all know there's a sequel in production, right? And yes, it is also officially and explicitly a sequel to the other movie.

the only M Night film I've seen that I liked was The Visit