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

Yeah I didn't find the Peter character to be reliable at all so the whole metal ending functions very well with the subtext of the film.

honestly the movie should probably get its own thread - other recent horror flicks of note have

I don't watch much horror lately, haven't seen Babadook, Witch, Quiet Place, etc., but went to Hereditary with my aspiring filmmaker son last night and we were both very impressed. Certainly not "scariest thing ever" but also certainly not "a hot mess" either. Many scenes will linger with me a long time.

Oh, and also, yes Toni Collette was amazing.

i think i liked the vvitch more than anyone else did

The VVitch is V V high in my esteem tbh

Loooooooved VVitch!!!

So much that I followed a stupid Black Phillip account on twitter and attempted to make Black Phillip jokes irl
lol

Yeah, The VVitch is great. I want to see Hereditary and Upgrade but will have to wait for Amazon Prime in both cases.

can't think of a post 2005 horror movie i like more than the vvitch

hereditary was great though. both are much better than babadook et al

i still want to make my The Marmadook parody

xpost i definitely tried to make black philip jokes irl

did yours land? mine did not. my friend asked me why i was talking in a weird accent and i had to explain it.
lol

upgrade is really good (i liked it so much i started a thread about it) but i would not call it a horror movie (though it has some horror elements for sure)

i think i liked the vvitch more than anyone else did

still my fave of the nu-school US horror flicks

glad i am not alone in my appreciation for T H E V V I T C H

yeah it's definitely the best of recent years

Very last shot aside, big vote for the vvitch here, too.

of the higher-profile supernatural horror flicks of the last few years I would go vvitch > babadook > hereditary > [enter Mike Flanagan movie of yr choice here] >> it follows

Also The VVitch fan.

But calling bullshit on that ranking. It Follows is also excellent. Babadook is the one that struck me as wildly overrated.

last shot is awesome imo

I guess I should see Hereditary

I should have added ">>>> IT" to that list

also why is everyone leaving Get Out off their recent greats lists

because no one likes it

Get Out is v good but it doesn't register as a horror film to me I guess? More of a satire with horror flourishes

lol NA

nothing against you Simon, but why do people always bring up the "it's not really a horror movie" argument. even for HEREDITARY! horror can be a lot of things

The Witch and The Invitation are both movies I loved that I want to see again with my wife just to watch her reactions.

The VVitch isn't really horror it's historical fiction with some horror elements

thanking u for screen name

the VVitch is definitely horror I'd say.

I wasn't trying to classify it, just explain why it didn't occur to me to throw it in that ranking. It feels too tonally different to compare to those other movies.

I'm not at all into genre purism either

we've probably discussed A Quiet Place but I can't load up the whole thread to see. did ILX enjoy it? despite a few VERY OBVIOUS bits of exposition I did like it

planning on renting it but didn't get to see it in the theater

i didn't enjoy it much. it was too heavily reliant on traditional family values and monsters. i'm sure it was well made but the ideas themselves seemed pretty obvious (must protect my family!) and not interesting to me personally.
comparatively, as far as family-themed horror, Hereditary is deeper/more interesting than A Quiet Place. they did both have weird looking girl characters though! i won a bet with my husband that they were not the same girl (before we saw Hereditary)

it was entertaining enough in the theater but it's not great - way more one-dimensional and not as well thought-out as the other movies we're discussing rn

i dug A Quiet Place a lot. very simple, low budget, b-movie type premise, super well executed imo. not much more than that, but for traditional jump scare/apocalypse land it got an A from me

I'm probably missing a bunch of stuff, but I think I'd have Kill List as my benchmark for horror this decade.

Get Out felt like a bit of a Robert Aickmann love letter to me, so definitely horror.

Yes Kill List is how more horrors / creepy films should be

Loved The Witch, agree that Kill List is by far Wheatley's best film, and also thought Babadook was massively overrated and bad.

Avoided Quiet Place at the cinema because I was worried it was the kind of film that could easily be ruined by a chatty audience.

i think A Quiet Place kind of has to be seen at the cinema (unless you've got a great home system). Unfortunately, yes there was a couple right at the back having a full-on loud voice chat during one of the most intense scenes which is not only annoying but kind of unheard of in a UK cinema

Said it before, but The Quiet Place, despite its name, is the movie equivalent of having someone sneak up behind you and yell in your ear, again and again. That's not scary, that's annoying. The movie's not incompetent at least.

The Witch is so not historical fiction, it's totally horror, at least as much as Rosemary's Baby and, ultimately, more so. It's just got a novel historical-esque setting.

i usually hate jump scares. didn't feel like this about Quiet Place. it was the scene with the steps that irked me the most out of the whole thing

yeah, fix that nail, you dopes! still think it would have been funny if every character stepped on it at least once, ending with a monster, who died of tetanus.

i liked Kill List but to me A Field in England crushes it utterly

Kill List vs Field in England = Wicker Man vs Blood on Satan's Claw

fix the nail indeed! I'd couldn't bear it.

just thought Field in England was a bit of a mess (and I get that that's the idea) whereas Kill List had everything in it I like about the 'Folk Horror' genre

IDK if I have seen Kill List yet? I love all of these movies and it's the only one of the 4 I don't remember.

Kill List = mercenaries get caught up in weird cult bizness

The scene w/ the hammer in Kill List is p unforgettable imho, whatever you think of the movie itself.

Kill List is the one I'd watch again tomorrow but aye, A Field in England has something otherworldly about it. I remember like a trip. nb Michael Smiley frightens the shit out of me. nnbb I hope Wheatley doesn't fuck off to Hollywood forever.