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

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

Split was fine, but the surprise connection to *spoiler* and the upcoming sequel automatically bumped it up in my estimation

It Stains the Sand Red was ... I don't know. Better than I expected? Worse? I know at some point I looked at the time and thought, jeez, there's an hour left? How will they pad that out? And then they ... pad it out. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Ultimately felt like a slightly above average midnight movie, both more ambitious than it had to be but also still sort of disappointingly slight/lazy, especially the way it kept relying on stupid behavior to stretch out the solid premise. Also, for not committing one way or another to comedy or drama, with one foot in each but neither terribly convincing. I dunno, worth 90 minutes, I guess.

Happy Death Day wasn't much, had good humor and was more a drama than horror really. seemed to think it could get away with its shameless Groundhog Day pillaging simply cos it acknowledged it later in the film.

aw. gonna see it tomorrow

I mean it's not bad or anything....

heh i figured it couldn't possibly be as good as that premise was

It Comes At Night was really well made. Not necessarily horror, though close enough, and definitely pretty grim. I think I might prefer The Survivalist, which almost works as a sequel, or at least a companion.

I did eventually go see Happy Death Day, really liked it. Low expectations, but it did what I hoped it would do

WE ARE THE FLESH

Haven't seen anything gross and nasty in a while because I've drifted away from that a bit, but this looked very very pretty so I gave in. It helps that Arrow gave it a kind of modern classic packaging (which the very good Villainess also got).

I was bracing myself a little bit, but actually it wasn't hard to watch at all, much sexier than I thought it would be too.

You might feel it doesn't really go anywhere but the two great performances, the sheer gorgeousness of the visuals and the hotness made it very much worth my time.

In the credits, all of Minter's influences for the film are named and it's a lot of the people you'd expect for an arty taboo lover. This is like a modern revival of the panic movement.
I was surprised Cuaron and Inarritu were big supporters of this film.

Looking forward to anything else Minter does.

Watched Split - the Shyamalan movie - last night. It was surprisingly good; a tense thriller with a very early-Cronenberg (Brood, Scanners) vibe (lots of wood paneling and therapists with wild theories that prove to be horrifyingly correct).

I watched “Them” last week - first half great, second half same as the first half zzzz
there’s only so much running away i can stand

that opening though was legit scary

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/9/9e/Top10_1950s_them.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20141129103318

First 10 minutes are good but the rest were not, for me.

Was "The Strangers" a flat-out remake? One of the reasons I liked "You're Next" so much is that it felt like a satire of both of those films.