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

I revisited Evil Dead 2013 recently and man there is some underrated practical-effects gnarliness in that movie

it's a "horror" movie only in the most abstract but i saw Spontaneous last night and it's highly recommended. Meanders when it hits the third reel but the script is tight until then and the lead actress is a treat.

Missed that not only is the PGA pulling their golf tournament from Trump, they have implemented a lifetime ban on ever holding any events at any of his properties ever again. Still think one of the most OTM things I've ever read about this asshole is that he will be the first president in history to end with fewer things named after him than when he started.

lol whoops President Horror Film.

more of a horror movie than what I posted tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5sRggO8Qo
Anyone seen Dogs Don't Wear Pants? It's a Shudder film so I guess it is horror, but it mostly looks like a comedy but I've heard there are truly brutal sequences. On dvd but no bluray forfucksake.

That...doesn't look like a comedy at all?

Totally looks like a comedy to me, the director said it was a sort of romantic comedy.

There's probably one scene of a dog comedically dragging his ass on the carpet and 89 minutes of entrails

Wait can't be a romantic comedy with a dog

I initially thought this was a joke, but it's real
https://thebedlamfiles.com/film/grizzly-2-revenge/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ESXMnn3FY

I'm not a fan of really bad movies, but I did use to watch the original all the time on TV. "Jaws with Claws!"

Man, I wish I could justify subscribing to both Shudder and Arrow, but I just don't have the stomach for another service, let alone two. Something like Arrow looks especially cool. Given its cult/esoteric nature I have a feeling at least a chunk of its content can be found scattered out across my other streaming services, but for the same reason would be exhausting to find and track. I more or less have to maintain a cross-referenced list of what movies I want to see and where they are as it is, and even those take me forever to get to.

Are Arrow and Shudder in the US that much better than the UK? I suspect so because there's no way you could justify a monthly subscription to either here, nowhere near enough worthwhile content

shudder is cheap as hell

...in the US. It's £4.99 over here which isn't exactly going to break the bank but I'd watched everything I wanted to watch within a week on the free trial and they don't seem to add new stuff too often. Maybe it's worth it over there but looks like you guys get a lot more for your money. I just wish it was better here, not their fault I guess

Shudder is ... $6 here? That's pretty cheap, but I can't imagine I'd watch two things on it a month. Of course, it's all hypothetical at this point. I pay a lot more than that for Criterion, which has enough stuff for me to watch for a lifetime, and even that I barely get to as much as I'd like. I used to have a huuuuuge DVD collection (and CD collection, etc.), and if I'm being honest the same collector bug is at work with these streaming services. It's as if the *option* of watching something is what's ultimately proving hard to resist, even if I know I won't get the most out of even $6.

yeah i suspect there may be differences in what content is available in both regions.

I love Shudder cos it's filling my blind spots fast

Shudder is my fave streaming service and it's not close

every other week they add some genuine "oh fuck yeah" films I've been meaning to get to, as if by telepathy

nothing was funnier than pulling up a random horror film (can't recall if it was on Shudder or off, something like Bubba, the Werewolf or some shit) and seeing two friends of mine were in it cos it was shot in FL, including one I hadn't seen in 8 years.

it was really bad and my friend was doing his stage mannerisms and it was weird to see in a film

I got rid of Shudder because most of it seemed like crap or stuff I'd already seen a billion times, and I wasn't utilizing it except when exclusives like "Blood Quantum" would show up.

I finally watched Paranormal Activity last night and really enjoyed myself - to the point that I was awake at 4am this morning, hearing all sorts of shit in my house. Once I'd thrown my lot in with the characters and abandoned any sense of logic or sanity, I really loved the simplicity of the premise and the simple fact of watching the main frame of the action for movement and shade. I mean, it totally shits itself in the final 5 minutes, in its (erroneous) desire to escalate but I can forgive it that. They should have ended with the appalling screams from downstairs, with something unutterable emerging quietly from the hallway.

Are any of the others in the series worth watching?

I'm reading the collected M.R. James at the moment too. Christ alive is my mind active. It's like I can feel my deep workings being altered. I love/hate that feeling of going to bed with your blood singing.

I bought a collection of M.R. James a couple of years ago. When you're in the right headspace for that stuff it can really get you.

I remember 3 being pretty effective? xp

The first three Paranormal Activities are pretty good, iirc. Each adds a tiny twist or evolution of the formula (like the rotating fan cam), and if they start to lean into mythology a bit too much, it doesn't really matter. The movies might be gimmicks, but I don't know a single person that felt entirely comfortable turning off the lights at the end of the night after watching them.

Paranormal 1 definitely stuck in my mind. Mostly the videotape of the sleeper standing over the bed. good nightmare fuel, that.

Yep. I put drawing pins around the bed last night, just in case.

Watched Kindred the other night... good performances, a little gothic, good film overall.

yeah the first three PAs are good but with diminishing returns each time. each one slightly more disappointing if not 'good'. never got around to the others.

45 minutes in and already comfortable recommending the empty man (2021)

oh btw it’ll be easy pickings for the ppl tired of a24 horror or whatever but i really liked saint maud

I've heard only bad things (and not only from a24 haters) so you have me curious

45 minutes in and already comfortable recommending the empty man (2021)

this horror movie about twitter was incredible

I've heard only bad things (and not only from a24 haters) so you have me curious

― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Tuesday, February 9, 2021 5:46 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm not really sure what's to hate tbh unless ppl find the end a little hokey. it's creepy and gay and the cool dying lesbian plays esg at her parties and the major jump scare rocks

people have a lot of inner obstacles that keep them from having a creepy good time with a movie tho so i get it

it may not be entirely responsible with its closeted queer themes but idk, felt a little similar to thelma to me, in both the closet especially the closet of religious repression actively destroys your life and relationships

i have seen thelma three times now and it does not belong in this thread bc it's not a horror film, and it's not perfect, but god it's fucking great imo

I never actually write anything real on letterboxd but I did feel compelled to write a little "about" the empty man. no real spoilers but also won't make much sense till you've seen it.

https://letterboxd.com/suckerhowell/film/the-empty-man/

I actually did a quick google of it, because I hadn't heard of it, and ... it was really poorly received?

by dummies!

most of the ppl i follow on letterboxd love it and i implicitly trust them

yeah seeing @d@m n@yman and j0sh lew1s both rave about it tipped me off

for me it was a five star review from albert pyun scholar and total genius sydn3y

i was so annoyed that the most popular (somewhat positive) review was by sean fennessey that i almost started a thread where ppl can post the writers they think are so bad

does anybody think that's a necessary thread or am i asking for a fight

necessary? not at all. fun and funny? probably

actually I would just love a thread about letterboxd and its weirdness

oh whoops i started the stupider thread

simon you should start a letterboxd thread so i can go on and on about the genius of nathaxnne