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

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.

Admission: The US remake of the original Grudge and the original Silent Hill film are both flicks I enjoy immensely despite feeling as though I shouldn't.

I haven't seen Silent Hill in a long time but I remember being really impressed by its darkness and weirdness at the time. Some real nightmare-fuel visuals in that movie.

iknow fans of the game weren't as enthusiastic but I think they nailed it, aesthetic-wise.

fucking loved in fabric

SPOILERS: didn’t even mind that it was two interconnected stories, in fact i really liked that bc the dress/shop are the main characters. the overwrought dialogue of the shop clerk! the hilarious bank clerks! the fugue of pleasure everyone goes into when that guy describes how to repair a washing machine!

I felt a bit frustrated by there only being two stories, like we should have seen at least another short's worth of the dress doing its thing to really tie the thing together cinch the narrative's waist

slender man: people really hated this movie! i liked it a lot

one of those movies that answers the question "is this movie really atmospheric and cool or is it just poorly lit" with a resounding "yes"

"Colour out of Space" was ... I dunno. It does a lot right. It looks cool, the mood is surreal and spooky. It also does a lot wrong, like letting Cage go full-Cage, which undercuts the mood, imo. Also has a bad habit of characters on screen saying stuff the film has already visually answered. Like, if you see two people fused by space lightning into a melted mess of a being, and they're moaning, you don't need to have someone ask "why are they making that sound!?" Or if you've seen all sorts of crazy things and mutated animals and other horrific shit and the horse is acting strange, you don't need someone asking "why is he acting that way?" For a movie partly about something making people behave in odds ways, it still made me constantly question choices people were making. Like, if there's a well, and there's been strange shit going on with the well, and your dog has gone missing (see: all the weird animal shit), and you think you hear the dog at the bottom of the well, and you stupidly decide to climb down the well (who does that?), and *then* halfway down you exclaim "ugh, it smells like something died down here!", like, don't go down the well!

The well was part of the problem with the way the story was told, too. As I understand it in the Lovecraft it's something in the water, but this movie has a meteorite crash to earth and implies it's the source of it all. (Including, inevitably, characters saying again and again "it's that thing that came from space, it's the source of it all!") But the movie still implies the water is the root of the problem, and ... I dunno. Maybe they should have had the meteorite crash and vanish in a prologue? Regardless, the story has been referenced or borrowed from so many times, from "The Blob" to "Annihilation" to "The Thing" (which this movie explicitly echoes) but mostly in a bunch of Stephen King stuff, like "The Mist" and "The Tommyknockers" and "Weeds"/"The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill," so I guess in the end it's so surprise it comes off as just another average King movie (with some better than average visuals).

^^(Some spoilers, obviously)

Nicolas Cage is a very bad actor and I don't trust the taste or opinions of people who claim that he's good.

Richard Stanley is a placeholder of a director and people who claim he's some major creative voice who's been stifled by The System are full of shit. I've seen Hardware, I've seen Dust Devil, and I've seen The Island of Dr. Moreau; the latter movie isn't good, but all the offstage drama ensured that there was basically no chance it ever could be; given the choice between Richard Stanley and John Frankenheimer, no sane person is gonna choose door #1.

letting Cage go full-Cage

he goes 1/5 Cage at best

Unperson OTM (about Cage, haven’t seen this yet).

His line readings hover around 3/5 on the Cage scale. There were lines that seemed built to be "bees!" like memes.

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/tommy-chong-interview-color-out-of-space-weed-and-joker