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

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.)

15+ definitely makes more sense. I'm convinced it was 18+ but I'd had a couple beers so... Te last five minutes of this were so good. Love the theory that the taxi driver is Ares and she Sisyphus being punished for cheating death ('you will comeback, right?' )

I'm going to try and find Timecrimes, which I've read is similar but the better film.

Time times is tremendous, have put Triangle on my watchlist. Viewer ratings also mention Coherence which I enjoyed too.

Triangle I think is better than Timecrimes, but Timecrimes is more fun, iirc.

Severance and Coherence on this list, cheers. Timecrimes is basically unavailable (legally) in the UK.

Anyone watched any of the new Blumhouse line-up on Amazon? We watched Black Box, it was pretty well done, the twists in the story were effective.

Kind of hate blumhouse but also interested to know whether any of these are worthwhile

So Possessor gets a UK release on 27th. I don't really want to go to the cinema but this is the best excuse I'm ever going to have to break that.

Just watched Koko-Di Koko-Da, which I thought was very good. Is it folk horror? I'm going to say yes.

Kind of hate blumhouse but also interested to know whether any of these are worthwhile

not yr question but general attn: saw the Blumhouse "Freaky Friday The 13th" flick FREAKY at the drive-in last week, by the Happy Death day dude. totally recommended if the description sounds of interst, and if Vince Vaughan's irl MAGA-ness won't stop you enjoying him play a bodyswapped teenage girl with mild flouncing. Like last year's April W0lfe Black Christmas reversion, it's mainly aimed at teenage girls, but also at a family (that's open to horror/comedy)(and queer teen) audience.

xp to Koko-Di Koko-Da

the twee rabbit puppetry was a bit much and it sometimes spins off the rails but Koko-Di was genuinely unsettling and slowly opened up into something much more complex than it seemed. As far as surreal Swedish meditations on loss and shattered identity told through horror tropes go, it would be a good back-to-back with Persona.

I caught it at a late-night pre-release free screening in the city and the woman next to me clearly thought she had come to a standard horror movie and spent the third reel loudly opining out loud variations on "THIS SHIT CRAZY" and "What the fuck GOING ON in this movie?"

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, February 22, 2020 4:55 PM

‘Freaky’ might even be halfway okay if Vince Vaughn were not so immensely fucking terrible in it. Female lead is great tho!

Vaughn’s continuous “OMIGAWD I AM A GIRRRRRRRRL” mincing is offensive and poorly executed, even if the genderflip romance stuff is pleasantly transgressive

the stereotypiness in Vaughan's performance is way more to the silly fun side than the egregious side imo. though yes, it would read worse if the rest of the film wasn't so casually queer.

also I took the disparity between his tone and Newton's as a way of heightening the fact that she was the lead, and/or an homage to Face / Off.

Watched Possessor last night. It's one of those movies about a Magical Technology that exists in the two hours between the invention of the technology and the moment the general public learns about its existence, at which point it can never be used again. The performances were all really good, though, especially Jennifer Jason Leigh as the creepy-predatory boss, and the main male actor. The scenes where he was walking around in a stroke-face mask (I don't want to say much more) were creepy as hell.

Freaky was OK, would have been 75% better if it had been 25% less dumb

That's about right.

i'm open to different takes on if/how offensive vaughn's performance is but it feels undeniable that he's just BAD; the parts where he's onscreen are straight up boring. and yes, the whole package needed to be considerably less stupid in general.

I think Vaughn is a good actor who was coaxed into doing too broad a performance

new on Shudder: Stephen Lang, William Sadler and Fred Williamson(!!) as elder asskickers in VFW and uhh Bertrans Bonello's Zombi Child. OK then!

*Bertrand

anyone seen the VFW guy's previous movie Bliss? looks wild

in fact I am midway through and pausing to say holy shit this movie

dora madison...incredible

wow VFW rules so far too....if he makes it a hat trick he's getting a thread

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