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

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!

though wait nm i guess that's not supernatural at all

Still, that's a perfect example! You're expecting a twist, but the twist is that there is no twist!

Speaking of Bone Tomahawk, that dude apparently wrote the upcoming full grind house Puppet Master reboot, in which the killer puppets are also Nazis and the movie is apparently proudly and aggressively not PC.

so the Nazi puppets are the good guys?

Go figure but I think they are bad.

Something about the whole Full Moon thing makes me...uncomfortable. I don't know that I've ever actually seen one of their movies, but I've seen enough clips and trailers to have some strong suspicions about their sociopolitical views.

Their 2013 feature Ooga Booga, for instance (probably do not search for this at work).

I watched the trailer and immediately regretted it

Crazy that a) It's actually a spinoff of a previous movie made by the same director, DOLL GRAVEYARD and b) it predates the Michael Brown shooting, and is not a reacton to it

proudly and aggressively not PC

If anyone connected with the movie described it that way, then they can get fucked forever.

I often find myself wondering how prevalent strains of crypto-fascism/-racism are in the horror community.

(Based on the Ooga Booga trailer, I'm fairly comfortable dropping the 'crypto' altogether on that one.)

lol, here's Bone Tomahawk/Puppet Master dude's other upcoming, non-horror, film.

Two policemen, one an old-timer (Mel Gibson), the other his volatile younger partner (Vince Vaughn), who find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics become the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.[1]

wait so there were already three Nazi Puppet Master movies, and Zahler's writing an alternate universe reboot. huh

Dragged Across Concrete sounds pretty right-wing, but so did Brawl in Cell Block 99 and it was just more wacky and violent than actually political. Funny that he's reusing almost the entire cast, including Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson and Udo Kier

tbf if i was a director i'd cast udo kier in every movie i made