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

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.

watched hell house recently. pretty good. doesn't quite stick its landing, but those are often tricky with horrors so...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_House_LLC

re Them ... also I rolled my eyes @ the ending/“reveal”

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).

― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, November 4, 2017

ahahahaha no

yeah Split was fucking terrible.

I'm with unperson, thought it was decent

Antibirth - colourful stoner comedy with really gross horror bits. Feels so much like a Gregg Araki film. Nice to see Meg Tilly again.

i liked that one. Natasha Lyonne greatly used her naturally charming/gross ways

She's gross in other films?

But I'm not sure she was gross in this either, more her condition.

this seems to be getting attention

https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/mom-and-dad

Does Craig Zahler's "Brawl in Cell Block 99" count as horror? The second half is a bastard of Riki-Oh and Martyrs.

Blue Ruin/ Green Room guy's next film "Hold the Dark" apparently about a guy rescuing a young girl from a pack of wild wolves in Alaska.

I thought "The Ritual" (on Netflix) was really quite good for all the reasons movies, but particularly horror movies, should be good. Well acted, well directed, great setting and in particular well written, with strong, believable characters that help it immensely despite it teetering on the brink of the ridiculous (which of course is something the best horror films pull off). While I don't know how well this one will age, I think it's at least as good as, say, "The Witch."

Not quite on the witch’s level for me. Very good, though.

I'm looking forward to that coming to UK Netflix.

There seems to have been an incredible dearth of good contemporary horror films recently. In that context, i quite enjoyed Ouija: Origin of Evil and Veronica - both of which are slightly-above-average possession flicks that show flashes of real promise.

Really liked The Ritual AND the new Ravenous (not to be confused with Guy Pearce cannibal Ravenous), also on Netflix. Quebecois zombie flick. Watched those two back-to-back a week or so ago and my wife and I were really excited to be on such a roll of "hey, we're watching actually good horror movies that we can both agree on, subject-wise, and are being entertained and scared."

I thought of "The Witch" because it was another one of those what you think is going on is actually going on horror films, with a similar sense of inevitable doom/dread and smart/judicious use of effects/blood. "The Witch" is better, but I think it's partly the period stuff that puts it over. This one, the presence of real characters and plausible behavior makes a big difference. Also, the psychological motivation of the main guy was pretty convincing, and as far as thematic metaphors go, it wraps things up pretty nicely.

Ouija: Origin of Evil

Flanagan is a pretty solid genre guy, and it looks like he might have some deal with Netflix. They released "Hush" and "Gerald's Game," which were both good, and provided a dumping ground for the rescued "Before I Wake" (which is not supposed to be good).

I know this is an adjacent topic but the author of the novel THE RITUAL, Adam Nevill, is my favorite horror author. Expect more adaptations.

Oh cool. Will try to check out.