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

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.

Yeah thanks! His name in the credits rang a bell but I have not read him. Now I will.

Which book to begin with?

House of Small Shadows.

Speaking of horror, what happened to Ti West? And did the last Rob Zombie movie even see release? What about Adam Wingard, wasn't he supposed to direct a Godzilla movie? I have a hunch his name won't make it to the screen, but hey, maybe he'll pull it off.

Zombie's working on a sequel to Devil's Rejects now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Rejects#Sequel

I liked Creep 2, which is on Netflix now. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it as much as I did - seemed like an infertile movie to sequelize. Like the first one, though, the performances carry it.

If you’re just completely utterly done with found footage horror, it probably won’t win you over. Otherwise, well worth watching.

Sweet Sweet Lonely Girl (2016) - Young woman looks after her hermit aunt in an old house. Autumn moving into winter in Vernon, Connecticut. It's set in the 80s but it feels way more 70s, the songs are almost exclusively from 60s-70s, so why did they set it in the 80s? Maybe they wanted the place and people to seem behind the times? Lesbian romance and some riffing on the third segment of Bava's Black Sabbath.
I saw this on Shudder and it's pretty good. AD Calvo has made a few horror films and maybe worth keeping an eye on?

sounds interesting to me

I think some people here would enjoy it but don't expect too much.

The Housemaid - Not to be confused with the 1960 and 2010 South Korean films of the same name. A French plantation in 50s Vietnam, but dialogue split between Vietnamese and English. The monster looks like a crowned ghost from Lord Of The Rings. It's marred by the sort of special effects you get in lots mid-budget horror films like jerky edited motion and too familiar scream effects but I was quite stirred by some of it and I'm sure it'll be on lists and studies of horror stories about colonialism.

Hello, horror thread - catching up with a few bits recently:

Bone Tomahawk is a mess, tonally (like it's not sure how much fun it should have) and I'd happily, uh, shave off twenty minutes or so, but damn, when it hits, fuck me it hits. I've found myself stopping in various places, reliving that scene. With regards to the 'is it racist?' argument, I guess I'm on the 'it's racist' side (the scalping alone is enough to tie it to a particular cultural memory).

Under the Shadow is properly terrifying in places, but it had too much on its mind and lost its way.

The Witch: shit me up in places (the boy's 'return' to himself and the incantations; the suckling witch), and I loved the total commitment of everyone involved. Loved the colours, which made me think of Witchfinder General. Wasn't enamoured with the ending - particularly the final shot. It made me think about how much I'm STILL annoyed by the ending of Kill List. Wasn't sure about Finchy.

I'm a big fan of enigmatic supernatural films where in the end what you suspect is happening but maybe expect is a fake-out turns out to be, yeah, exactly what you were suspecting. Curse of the Demon, Rosemary's Baby to Lords of Salem and The Ritual, so many in this awesome mold.

aka when the unreliable narrator turns out to be REALLY reliable

(protagonists more accurate than narrator, I guess, but you get the idea)

the invitation!