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

I enjoyed Doctor Sleep. The predators of the movie are one of the creepier vampire posses

Our Joel described it as a well-crafted entertaining rendering of a book that should never have been written

I described it as one of the spookiest Charmed season finales OF ALL TIME

Seems like Flanagan is the guy if you want a polished realisation of a wholly misbegotten project for sure, this is probably the pinnacle of that. You could remove an hour of this film and it would just be serviceable glossy Netflix garbage (or just... a slightly above par Stephen King adaptation, the book is goofy King and Flanagan massively increases the schmaltz as is his wont) but the entire enterprise is so perverse it’s hilarious

Like it’s one thing that (MILD SPOILERS) it’s this YA adventure with a psychic child doing battle with a Disney villain called “Rose the hat” whose catchphrase is “hi there” and who says shit like “curses! The brat’s powers are stronger than I feared!”but then at the same time it’s going out of its way to constantly remind you that this film — in which everything is explained and there is no trace of the uncanny — is a sequel to STANLEY KUBRICK’S THE SHINING. It’s fuckin wild. This isn’t a spoiler really since it’s present right from the beginning, but they have actors made up to look like characters/apparitions from the original film, but with performances & writing much closer to the 90s miniseries, and I’m sitting there like “it rules that someone thought this was a good idea”

i think King approves of it which is as damning as it gets

Wait: does someone in this movie actually sincerely say 'curses!' because I didn't realize this movie was Hocus Pocus.

I’ve seen ppl giving MF credit for his attempt to “reconcile” Kubrick’s vision with King’s, ymmv on whether this kind of puppyish eagerness to please all the people all the time makes for good horror but it certainly doesn’t seem like a trait that either of the SKs share

I’m paraphrasing the “curses” part but it kind of is hocus pocus yes

wins pretty much has it

I was joking with a friend that half the plot is the same as The Last Jedi, with a prospective teacher hiding his magic powers away for decades and spurning a young apprentice

FWIW I thought the shot recreations were artfully integrated and way preferable to reused footage. And the astral projection sequence was cool.

It's annoying that Flanagan is so respectful of King.

On the marketing side, I'm pleasantly surprised that the execs didn't push hard for The Shining 2. Particularly since Doctor Sleep is and always has been a really awful title.

Having not been a Stephen King reader but having watched a number of film adaptations, I'm wondering: is the Overlook as a place that feeds on those with the shining something that was extrapolated on more in the books? It wasn't quite clunky, but as a parallel to these energy vampire people who also feed, it made me wonder why they didn't seem to know such places existed.

The series is, like the book, much more about alcoholism than Kubrick’s version.

(And the scene that would be the ‘here’s Johnny’ scene is completely trapped by the Kubrick version - it’s kind of interesting)

It's annoying that Flanagan is so respectful of King.

lol, this looks abundantly bad; somebody watch it and tell me if you die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=1WbXAOBuo6A

i can't find the thread wherein people post their favorite jump scares or scenes from horror films.. help?

Best and/or Scariest and/or Creepiest Scenes Ever (from horror films or TV shows or whatever, I don't care)

There's really not much to it - medieval-ish monster hunter doing the rounds a la "The Witcher" - and I can see why the ending might be divisive (it also gives it an ironic horror anthology vibe), but I thought "The Head Hunter" was extremely well done, especially since it reportedly only cost $30,000. If that's true that's crazy, because it looks great, the props are great, the location shooting perfect, even the make-up an sound design is pretty good. Very impressed.

Never heard of this before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZqtRbifT6Q

I was shocked to learn it was filmed in Portugal! I would have guessed Iceland, or someplace Scandinavian.

that movie was really well made, and imo also had a lot to say about masculinity, self-destruction, and self-preservation in an abstract/emotional sense. excellent movie if you like this sort of thing.

Also work/life balance!

Has anyone else watched the Channel Zero series on Shudder? I have now watched all four seasons and...enjoyed every single one! Would recommend. S4 was especially interesting in its treatment of coping with childhood trauma. A lot of the show has to do with that now that I think about it. Very relatable for a horror series!

will check it out; thanks for the recommend!

I saw all of s2 and s3 and parts of the other two - good production values and a few supremely creepy moments but neither of the seasons I finished quite came together for me in the end

I mean it's not the world's greatest or High Art or anything -- but I found each season compelling enough to watch the whole thing. That's pretty rare for me.

Oh it's def solid and watchable, it was diverting enough on a long train ride

I watched the Netflix zombie thing with Martin Freeman, Cargo last night. It's alright, really. Low-budget (presumably they spent it all on Tim) and has a central, largely under-conceptualised free-floating metaphor for the horror visited on the Aboriginal people, but it's pretty affecting, is well played (especially Simone Landers, playing a young Aboriginal girl) and it looks half-decent.

I thought "Bliss" was pretty disappointing, like if Gaspar Noe directed a low-budget movie based on someone describing "The Crow" to him.

I'll probably give it a go. I think Eureka are releasing it.

this may be a case where the preview tells you the whole film or it could be a straight up disaster on contact or it could be a fun novelty flick but one thing is for sure: it took a lot of balls to go with that title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOn2-ZxiJgI

Low-budget (presumably they spent it all on Tim)

the rest on gennies to recharge lighting and camera batteries for all-day bush shoots

central, largely under-conceptualised free-floating metaphor

it's pretty well-integrated tbf - makes the point strongly in a few different ways without over-egging* the metaphor, and resolves more closely than the narrative has hewn throughout.


* six of 'over-egging', half a dozen of 'being even slightly close to the horrible reality'

ready or not: kind of poorly-made, kind of ugly, reminded me way too much of you're next at the outset, yet: too fun to resist

Disliked it for almost the whole running time but enjoyed the final tableau.

I've heard of and seen only two of these (One Cut and Climax). Anyone else? Most look pretty intriguing, imo.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3596045/best-2019-10-best-foreign-horror-films-2019/

not yet but i'm gonna use that list for hunting, so thanks!

welp the reviews of the new Grudge are pretty much "meh" or worse across the board

pfft it’s a horror movie, you think i care about reviews

although it seems like it was a victim of studio-mandated reshoots lol so i’m no longer excited

anyway thanks for bumping this thread, i wanted to sing the praises of silent hill: revelation 3d

which is streaming on netflix rn and is full of very ugly cgi and exposition dumps and functions exactly like a video game and the jump scares are just the sort of camera-shaking cheap shots that ruins the new it adaptations for me and yet.... there is something captivating about it. it’s shot really well, the aimlessness/pointlessness of the plot makes the collapsing meta-realties very effective in a hello mary lou: prom night ii way, and jon snow’s american(???) accent is all over the fuckin place it’s hilarious

i went in expecting boring trash that would help me sleep and instead i got this hypnotic weird trash that kept me awake thinking about it

malcolm mcdowell is in it for five minutes and chews so much scenery it’s like he eats the movie whole. it’s awesome

I really liked Antrum, I thought it managed a lot with its budget and quite silly ideas. Several extremely pant-filling moments.

i had never seen the original silent hill so i put it on last night and imo it's one of the most beautiful-looking films ever made

It nicely recreated a lot of the settings but some of the cgi is terrible (a recurring problem with Gans, which is a shame because he has talent) and the ragged people looked a tad goofy. That's only the visual problems though. Am curious to see his segment of Necronomicon.

i kinda liked the ropey creature cgi, it added to the unreality of the film for me. also i gotta say this again: the cinematography is staggering. done by the same guy who did the last two john wick films and crimson peak/shape of water

finally caught In Fabric - mixed feelings about it. It looks (and sounds) fantastic but the writing is half-assed and perfunctory. There's no real story or characters per se, just a bunch of strung-together moments and ideas. It's more like a very detailed sketch of a film than a proper film itself.