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

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

Yeah, I was wondering one day if I should check out the Puppet Master movies and I noticed the arguable overemployment of Nazis in a series of movies about murderous puppets and I thought, y'know, maybe I don't really need to check out the Puppet Master movies.

They are pretty bad movies but I still find the puppets lovable. Anything past Pupper Master 5 (I might make exception to Curse of the Puppet Master if I re-watched it) was the worst kind of bad.

I hope the reboot is good.

Anyone else see The Housemaid?

I thought the (French-Canadian) Ravenous on Netflix was dull as dirt. Zombie movie, but not at all scary. Bits of humor, but not enough to make it a comedy. Some weirdness to make me think maybe more was going on but not enough to make me think. Just slow going, with characters inexplicably not taking their situation seriously enough to generate any suspense. Looks OK, but it felt like a HD camera was doing the heavy lifting for a super low budget. Oh well.

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i just saw "It Follows"
and not to get TMI but i made the (humbly) ingenuous decision to watch this after i got 2 shots of penicillin for a "gay male" issue and...
it was THE BEST

The last two posts both otm

xp lol amazing

got around to Raw last night. very good, subverts expectations nicely and agree w dog latin upthread that the gore/scares are v much earned and well-grounded in the plot + characters. It reminded me of Parents, which is a very different kind of film (partially because it's v American), but had a similar fatalistic adulthood = cannibalism theme, framed as a bildungsroman.

had no idea the score was by the same guy as A Field In England. one to watch for, that guy.

Has anyone else seen "I Remember You"? More a mystery / ghost story than horror, with some beautiful visuals of Iceland, and decent acting. The ending left me puzzled for one character's motivation, so now reading the book (by Yrsa Sigurdardottir) to get clarification. Already getting some good backstory on the characters, which is helping, though I'm wondering if they have similar conclusions.

Raw was scored by Jim Williams? Is there a soundtrack release?

stuff like Raw is always refreshing to me, reminding me why horror's one of my favorite genres, just so many ideas/issues dealt with in interesting ways

JIM WILLIAMS
the most difficult man to google when A Field in England came out and I was obsessed with the score
he really gets it

Colin Stetson apparently did the score for Hereditary, which comes out this weekend iirc
This is a trend I can support with genuine enthusiasm

yeah trying to research our man jim is basically impossible

who is colin stetson?

cool looping sax player
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJHr2DlRog8

ooh neat thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1ePFp-nBI

Looks good. Looks like a mix of the first one + H20. I mean, they've told this story so many times, but I guess I have high expectations? Trailer is menacing enough.

so is this like the Superman Returns of the Halloween series, where they just pretend most of the sequels didn't happen (but some did?)

I think it pretends that everything after the first one - all the sequels and reboots - never happened.

When can we talk about Hereditary?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!??!

I saw it last night. Haven't quite stopped thinking about it since. Toni Collette was amazing. I understood the plot on a surface level but wonder what it really ~means~, esp the song that played during the closing credits. Extremely incongruous and was a powerful emotional catalyst. I would see this movie again!

The score was, as predicted, well done.

I am going to try and see it next week. Whenever a movie is presented as the scariest thing ever, it is usually a boilerplate jump-scare movie like A Quiet Place, or a really well-made and acted film that is not terribly scary, like The Babadook. From what little I know about it this seems more like the latter, a psychologically scary art film, something to think about, usually about grief.