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

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.

Resolution is v good microbudget fun, didn't care much for Spring.

And I much preferred Spring to The Endless. It was almost, and I don't like throwing this word around, Aickmanesque

following up ulysses' post above... in NYC this month

https://www.filmlinc.org/series/scary-movies-xii/#films

"The Curse of La Llorona" - generally bland and tension-free. At least "Darkness Falls" had a few jump scares.

Xpost hmm I’d like to see Prophecy

This probably doesn't fit the thread that well but did anyone see Thoroughbreds? Very quiet black comedy, tiny cast including Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke and Anton Yelchin. It's pretty good.
Just like with Marrowbone, there's more dvd versions of this than blurays, having to resort to a foreign multiregion version ("Nordic version" in this case) to get a bluray. I guess in both cases Universal don't want the expense of so many blurays and expect that people like me will import for a multiregion bluray anyway.

Yeah, I saw that on Amazon. It was pretty good.

Another thumbs-up vote for "Hagazussa"'s imagery and pacing. Interesting comment in the IMDB reviews, thinking it's inspired by a 15th century syphilis outbreak. Explains the mother's death and the daughter's madness pretty well.

Eega: A Bollywood-styled sci-fi/horror film in which the hero is reborn as a fly and fights organized crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cw-n7VsOAc

Wow, that looks awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B6hjhP83ck
full film here, with subtitles even!

Thanks!

Started watching this and a big bluebottle keeps landing on the screen. I’m conflicted about killing it.

is it inspiring a dance number? probably safe to kill if not.

It’s hard to tell when a fly is dancing. Also, the lead in this is a creepy stalker.