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

That trailer looks excellent.

there's a reason I was hyping it up back when it first leaked....it's roughly 10x as good as Antiviral which looks and feels like a student film by comparison

Not sure if this is horror but I'm intrigued
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74axp18cK3I

It was 5 years ago but did anyone see WE Are Still Here? Just thinking that I need to see more things with Lisa Marie in them. She hasn't been in anything since that year, sadly.

I wonder how she managed to sell warehouses full of Tim Burton's stuff without his permission. Story is that she had the keys and just sold it off quickly, maybe it was just one buyer.

Kind of forgotten how strong an impression she made on me in her Burton films.

Saint Maud was worth the wait. Didnt think i had much time for slow burn psychological horror right now but the performances are great and it nails the run down English seaside town psychogeography vibe i assume it's going for

House That Jack Built recently added to Shudder....might be time for a revisit

Once was more than enough with that

I'm a huge horror fan and have slogged through my fair share of Von Trier miseryfests but I preemptively nerped the eff out on that one after reading some detailed plot descriptions. No can do.

its saving grace is that it's frequently pretty funny, and the ending is kind of wonderful. lots of pretty pointlessly ugly sadism in between, of course.

The Lodge - liked its pacing and felt it earned (and stuck) the ending.
The Wretched - decent low-budget flick and performances. I like endings, though, vs. "it ain't over!" endings.
Underwater - better than I thought. Kristen Stewart in a Dr. Christmas Jones role - ymmv. Good Lovecraftian monsters, reasonable
ending, though I question the last station's safeguards.
Black Christmas - hokey premise, but appreciated the #metoo inversion. Thought the end fight veered slightly over the top, and glad
they didn't go with the alternate "it ain't over" ending.

Waiting to borrow The Hunt, Relic, Vivarium, Train to Busan 2, Save Yourselves, and Fantasy Island from the library. Love my library.

Is Sputnik worth a $6 rental? Expecting that to be Underwater-grade.

I sorta hated The Lodge, almost came off as a parody of "elevated horror" at times

I can see that. It's definitely aiming for The VVitch territory. I thought Keough did a good job, as did the kids.

Speaking of sorta hating and "elevated" parody, how I'm feeling watching "The Third Day".

the lodge is great once you put all notions of “elevated horror” out of your head. singular lonely misanthropic vibes and actually scary! no wonder people hated it

I wish I could find movies scary again, I blame my years covering Fantasia Fest for completely desensitizing me against both psychological and more demonstrative forms of horror (I still enjoy the movies of course)

xpost the suicide in that movie was horrifying

i don't really find horror movies scary anymore either but usually if they penetrate my defenses it's got something to do with the strength of the atmosphere, which the lodge has in spades

speaking of being scared, i watched host the other day and for an hour-long horror movie filmed in zoom it has a bunch of quality jump scares

Yeah, I find the funhouse aspect of horror movies still scary. Like, do they stick with me and keep me up at night? No. But a jump is a jump, and as simple as the movies are I don't know anyone that liked turning off the lights at home at the end of the day after seeing Paranormal Activity.

actually, the midsection of Hill House did sort of get to me, I think as a result of prolonged exposure to the characters and the OTT howling despair. but that was a pretty special case.

Looking forward to Possessor, Green Knight and I might give Blood Machines a try but more than ever I never know how and when I'll see a film.

everyone's raving about possessor but i assume from the cronenberg connection that it's gory/gross ... is that correct?

yes it has its moments

Wolf of Snow Hollow is a weird one - some compelling moments, lots of iffy ones, but mostly worth seeing just for Jim Cummings, who's an incredibly compelling guy to watch. (Also, features Robert Forster's final role :( )

so ... how violent is "possessor uncut" exactly?

i'm really not crazy about gore, was able to make it through "ichi the killer" and "martyrs" but i think that's about my limit

if you made it through ichi the killer i'd say you're doing pretty well for gore in general, tho idk about this film

Well, those two are about as gory as it gets, so I imagine (having not seen it) that you're probably ok.

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I recced that movie to a friend and he got angry at me and couldn't get past the spooge on the plant 2 minutes in

I've never seen that film but Shinya Tsukamoto used his own jizz for that scene. What a legend.

mess-od acting

I truly hope that is the only real bodily fluid used in that movie.

Don't know where else to post this painting
https://beauwhiteart.blogspot.com/2016/09/thirst-oil-on-canvas-2016.html

Possessor is very violent but not quite ichi level

also the violence is pretty spread out iirc, comes out in these sudden bursts

seeing host made me seek out unfriended (fine but i hated literally everyone and they deserved to die) and unfriended: dark web (profoundly upsetting on a level i rarely get from horror at this point)

(profoundly upsetting on a level i rarely get from horror at this point)

does this count as an endorsement?

i would feel weird recommending it to people but yes i absolutely loved it

That'll do for me

Ana Lily Amirpour (Girl Walks Home At Night) doing Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (sounds like dark urban fantasy or something) and.... a remake of Cliffhanger!??
Maybe this film will explore why Frank was smiling?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOW1rhZCTmg

Unfriended Dark Web is great fun imo

Posted on the movie thread, but I guess it's horror, so I'll just say "Save Yourselves!" was great and very funny.

We are watching an UNCUT version of Possessor tonight! It's part of an online film fest thing. I didn't know Andrea Riseborough is in it, she's awesome. We also watched a bunch of horror shorts and most of them were pretty good. One called "Selfie" was picked up by Netflix iirc for a full length film!

Anyone seen Butt Boy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sRvZ8siWLY

two of my good friends have. one of them watched it twice in two days.

i need to uhh see it

Sounds like one of those Quentin Dupieux/Mr. Oizo movies.

Has the been any films with really fun ultraviolence in the recent past? I noticed that slow intense wincey violence seems to have faded away (I never cared for it much).

I really enjoyed His House, quite unique I thought and extremely accomplished for a debut.

xpost That's a good question. I wonder if it's a coincidence that films have perhaps toned things down while conventional TV, like "The Walking Dead" (I assume) and "Stranger Things" (season 3 for sure) have made blood and guts pretty standard. Even a movie like "Impetigore," which features dead babies and people without skin, does both about as tastefully as possible. The last truly ott thing I can remember, in fact, was the Indonesia sequence of "VHS 2," which also makes me think of ott action movies like "The Raid" (or even "John Wick"), and the way perhaps action movies have picked up the blood and gore mantle.

Yeah the level of gore that's pro forma in the tv of today would've had parents picketing outside theaters if it had been present in the horror films of thirty years ago.

finally watched nu-suspiria last night. guadagnino is, imo, a very annoying director, but it ended up winning me over gradually bc the dance sequences are incredible and the dream sequences are very '70s horror cinema in the friedkin/blatty tradition. the climax kinda verges on '90s vhs trash, idk if it was wrong to get a full moon vibe from it but i was very happy

it could have been passable if it had been a full hour shorter