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

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?"

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‘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

hobo with a green room

Possessor was great even if jon snow seemed to be struggling playing the Iago. Cronenbeg fils definitely trained at the school of his father.

Wasn't crazy about Possessor. Seemed like a few interesting ideas and good images strung together but lacked much coherence. I haven't liked Christopher Abbott in anything I've seen him in yet either

Chris Abbott is real good y'all tripping imo

keep thinking about Bliss and its accidentally Verhoevian sense of sleaze

Watched the uncut Possessor tonight. Not entirely convinced it held together and it felt very televisual in places (not a criticism; I'm not even entirely sure what I mean) but the impact was considerable. Cronenburg senior is everywhere, but it's as much a homage to Cronenburg's influences, I guess - Ballard, Philip K. Dick. I liked the commentary on the hellscape of corporate work (Sean Bean quoting Walter Benjamin under a mock-up Sistine Chapel roof), and the sound design was excellent - particularly the grunge and glunge of bodies. I want to watch it again already!

Cronenberg, ffs.

I've woken up thinking about Possessor and specifically why I wasn't 100% convinced (and why I want to watch it again to check) I think it comes down to Abbot's central performance and what Cronenberg's tasking him to portray: essentially to exteriorise an interior drama - that of the battle for control for a consciousness. It's basically trying to reify a metaphor and it resulted in lots of close-ups and mid-shots of Abbot looking bewildered/in mental torment. I loved it when it switched to more concrete portrayals of this drama, for instance, the whole sequence with Abbot in a Riseborough mask will stay with me forever (was it a deliberate nod to the Myers mask from Halloween?) and the beautiful latex orgy of the transformation scenes. Anyway, I'm sounding really negative and I had a blast with it.

I think that's a fair complaint

that said he's better than a few of the leads in early D. Cronenberg movies lol

Agreed on all points. A better actor could have made this a great movie, but it works nonetheless.

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Posted this to detritus, but probably best here.

The Zoom movie was absolutely unwatchable to me

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Watched this ('Host') today and thought it was fantastic. I've rarely rooted against an entire cast so much, which I'm sure was intentional. Seriously technically impressive, tense, and a necessary externalisation of all the universal fears that have surfaced during a time of intense claustrophobia. That feeling of indoor spaces stagnating with dread. But way more fun than that sounds. Also an hour long.

Host freaked me out more than any film has in a long time but I watched it on my tablet with the phones in in a very old hotel room in the dark, which I guess is a fair sized caveat

I've skimmed enough spoiler free stuff about "Hunter Hunter" to make me pretty intrigued.

host is good as hell!!! not quite unfriended: dark web quality but so good for what it is

"Hunter Hunter" had an ambivalent review today in the L.A. Times. Sounds like an interesting premise. Reviewer's mention of disturbing / gory elements probably are positives for folk here.

finally watched We Are the Flesh - as grotesque as promised but almost funny as well. I hope the performers were well compensated.

It's definitely super weird and surreal and funny and gross.

this looks fun and dumb!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thcQFXC5sKY

co-written by max landis lol