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

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.

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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

it was also sooooooo pretentious but i also ended up kinda liking that it was so pretentious? guadagnino essentially made the first darren aronofsky film i've enjoyed in ages

the length didn't bother me, like at all

the dance sequences are incredible

oh yeah I don't agree with this at all, other than the gore-assisted bits, the actual choreography was frequently embarrassing

well idk i found the first dance of death absolutely breathtaking, willing to admit i don't know anything about dance i guess

Yeah, I still haven't seen it because the first movie (like Halloween or Texas Chainsaw, say) really didn't need a remake, and certainly while the original is flawed, the way it looks is all-time, and even then I didn't want another hour of it.

How do they compare to the dance sequences in "Climax?" Because those were cool, too, and also the best part of the movie, which I'll probably never see again. (Though would likely see again over any of Noe's other films.)

i haven't seen climax! now i want to bc i can endure any kind of annoying garbage if there's dancing

the suspiria remake has basically nothing to do with the original, the only overlap is "dance school run by witches." guadagnino could've just called it something else

I am not firmly anti-Noe but Climax bored me silly tbh

I forgot to mention my favorite joke in Possessor: subjecting Sean Bean to his grisliest "death" yet but then announcing via newscast that he is still alive

Has this been mentioned anywhere here? A student recommended it. Looks good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYY0QJhlXjc

If you like yr horror humorless, hopeless, and oppressive, Bryan Bertino's The Dark and the Wicked, recently added to Shudder, is for you.

His House was very good.

Triangle Spoilers!

I watched Triangle last night. I didn't think it was entirely successful but I think it worked as a free-floating metaphor for the difficulties of single motherhood and the tortuous guilt of simultaneously wanting to die for your kid and (un/subconsciously) wanting them dead. I don't think it really earned it's 18 certificate and kinda wish it had spent more time on the kills and I've only got a certain amount of patience with an actor being asked to pull essentially the same face for an hour and a half but I had fun with it. I liked the 'Room 237' nod.

Is that the Melissa George Triangle? She pulls that face for the duration of every film she's in

Aye, Melissa George. I think that's unfair: she had two faces in The Limey.

Holy shit, we watched Triangle last night, too! Or I should I say, I watched it for the third time, with my daughter, who was seeing it for the first time. She had a blast reading internet theories afterward. It's held up great for me on multiple viewings.

But wait, 18 Certificate? Is that the equivalent of X or NC-17? No way does Triangle come remotely close to that. Where was this rated 18+?

Has this been mentioned anywhere here? A student recommended it. Looks good!

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 8 November 2020 17:10 (two weeks ago)

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

― chap, Monday, 2 November 2020 13:35 (two weeks ago)

Triangle is an 18 on Amazon Prime UK - I was expecting/hoping for more gore! It's definitely got under my skin. Will try a rewatch at some point.

Weird, I just looked at its UK listing and it's on there twice, once as 18+ (which is nuts) and once as 15+, which seems a lot more accurate. Dunno if it works, but here is a link to the 15+ one I saw:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Triangle-Melissa-George/dp/B00H36HENK/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=triangle+movie&qid=1606057641&sr=8-2

(If you want a bit more gore, his movie Severance is loads of fun.)