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

there was another version with the slinky dog getting roasted over a fire

Reminds me of years and years ago when a band I was in was on tour and we stopped in a truck stop and bought a Redd Foxx concert cassette. Iirc it was one of the least funny things I've ever heard, but a bit about fighting a midget (his word) has stuck with me. He just kind of grumbled (in front of what sounded like a very small dinner club theatre): "If you ever get into a fight with a midget ... just stab them in the head!" It was so not funny.

Anyway, that's what I think about Child's Play.

Escape Room was good dumb clean fun; really more an exercise in franchise building and action/adventure than horror tbh

Watched "Southbound" last night. a little uneven and certainly suffered from the "trailer gives everything away" problem, but did kind of enjoy the fact that some loose ends left a foreboding ambiguity to the thing as a whole.

examples:

- what does the tall guy whisper to the wife in the home invasion sequence? what did the husband do?
- what's the deal with the roughneck tattoo people, or the fat naked goblin types who are stripping the brother in the previous sequence?

"ma" was pretty entertaining for the first hour but fell apart badly in the climax

free ari aster conversation at lincoln center film on July 9... midsommar opens july 3 so you'd wanna see that quickly
https://www.filmlinc.org/events/film-comment-talk-ari-aster-on-midsommar/

Liked "Escape Room", primarily for the heroine, and appreciated the explanation for "how did they set all that up and with what money?" vs. house trap films like "The Collector" or the "Saw" films. And looking forward to seeing "Body at Brighton Rock" after liking "Southbound" a lot.

escape room's villains being the 0l1g@rchy felt like less of a payoff than franchise building of the maze runner variety to me but i liked it even so.

watched "Downrange" (is it obvious i'm moving through Shudder's offerings pretty snappily?).

fun, though the main characters were a bit too stupid for my taste. my partner watched with me and called the ending.

This looks like it could be fun, in a very You're Next sort of way (warning: I think it gives away a lot):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYTwUxhAoI

Hagazussa was really good -- will never forget that carcass-eating scene and the score was very appealing in that Alpine folk drone way

i was going to watch Hagazussa tonight, but decided to re-watch Deep Red because i hadn't seen it since i was 16.

Is Field Guide To Evil available only on Shudder? Cant find it anywhere else.

Child's Play remake is a blast. It's ba completely different animal and quite ridiculous.

P sure the screenwriters hate Jeff Bezos

i've been v wary of it (and even more wary the more i learn about specific plot points) but a positive neanderthal post will prob get my ass in a theater

The gore is p vicious too!

Loved Hagazussa. Couldn't stop myself from screenshotting bits of it, it was just gorgeous, if harrowing.

Watched "Knife+Heart" ("Un Couteau dans le coeur") last night...parts of it were wonderful. Parts of it were terrible. Don't really know how I feel about it, though I will say that I've worked for cut-rate porn studios and some of the scenes are very....realistic.

Hooray, I've got some people watching Hagazussa and Next Of Kin!

I think November is out on british bluray now so I also encourage that.

Count me in for Hagazussa as well! Looks great. Next of Kin ... is that the '80s Aussie Argento-looking thing? I could get with that.

new child's play was pretty bad. didn't mind the updated concept of chucky, but not scary, not funny, not well acted (aside from brian tyree henry, who is charming as usual)

knife+heart is PHENOMENAL

Should be seeing that at Fantasia!!

oh wait no that's Knives and Skin, d'oh!

i mean i was immediately enchanted by the concept, which i knew going in, but in actual practice gay porn + giallo is... a perfect combination. it's a film that loves its influences yet forms something new out of them. i couldn't have been happier with it

i was very not into how the really disgusting incident between the main protagonist and her lover was settled— it seemed to brush off what struck me as a pretty obvious and horrible violation— but otherwise, i loved it.

**spoilers ahead**

idk i've got a weird read on the movie that i'm not sure is accurate. the main protagonist is def a hideous art monster who assaults her ex, and even though we're technically following her story and even though the killer is a distinct person from her... she *also* feels like the killer throughout, down to the end

which is why i don't think that disgusting incident necessarily gets "settled." it hangs in the air

interesting! yeah, there were moments where i thought it was her.

i also began thinking of it metaphorically in terms of the AIDS crisis, which is kind of inevitable tbh, and how her running of the studio could be seen as aiding and abetting it in some way.... but maybe that's a reach.

i did reference the film in my eulogy to my mentor, actually, who passed away a week before i watched it.

knife+heart on mubi now

dunno if it's been discussed anywhere on here (and the full thread is impossible to load) but the Japanese microbudget meta-zombie movie _One Cut of the Dead_ absolutely merits a watch if you can find a copy with subs. It'll be on Shudder sometime this year as a US exclusive, which means fewer people will see it than should I'm afraid. Worked for Mandy i guess! Anyways, the best way to go into One Cut is a little blind so all I'll say is that what appears to be a lot of really weird pacing is much more than it seems and make sure you sit through the credits!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVOKQQ68NjM

i need to see this movie immediately

yeah that looks good!

You know what movie I randomly think about more than I thought I'd think about it? "Yellow Brick Road." I thought of that one a lot during Midsommer, for some reason.

https://www.filmlinc.org/daily/scary-movies-xii-lineup-features-villains-ready-or-not-directors-cut-of-midsommar-more/

xpost Yeah, man, "One Cut of the Dead" was such a clever, inspired, ultimately charming and funny low-budget horror(-ish) film.

For a movie that revels in familiar exploitation tropes, I thought "Overlord" was surprisingly well made, with some creatively gross prosthetics and fx. Solid stuff, at least up until the very last beats of the film (and that includes the inexplicable choice of a Nas song playing over the credits).

I saw six movies at Fantasia this year and the best was Knives and Skin, not horror but definitely worth being on the lookout for from genre folks, sort of a queer(er) Richard Kelly riff with hints of a lot of other things plus a flavor all its own. Some great and super funny dialogue and performances, too.

I have no idea why, but that 2007 Aussie killer croc movie "Black Water" popped on my radar. Watched it last night, was soooooo boring. Mostly people clinging to mangroves staring at rippling water.

What are you talking about?? That movie was tense af! I thought it was great for/on account of employing such a small concept.

Glad you liked it! I preferred "Rogue."

You wanna talk about boring, let me (not) recommend “I Trapped the Devil”

That's on Hulu and I was considering checking it out. What's bad about it?

SLooooooooooooW. Not scary in any way. Not engaging in any way. Gives away the whole plot in the title and then takes a half hour to get there. Acting is meh. No visual engagement. Dumb ending.

I quite liked They Remain with Rebecca Henderson and William Jackson Harper. It doesn’t entirely work in conveying a sense of unease, and could arguably function almost effectively as a two-handed play, but it’s well acted.

It’s based on a Laird Barron story. Hopefully the first of many to make it to the screen.

Which one of you recommended "Next of Kin?" What a weird-ass movie that was, like Argento in slow motion.

both me and robert adam gilmour have stanned hard for it iirc. it'd belong in the other thread but whatever

Ha, I just posted there before I saw this.

Finally saw Spring and it's super good. I hope somebody gives those guys some money soon.

Benson / Moorhead followed Spring with The Endless in 2017, which is pretty great, imo. ILX somewhere, there are raves about it and connected Resolution (2012).

Synchronic wrapped in Jan, according to Dread Central. IMDB page here.