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

I have a low base of expectation and a love for the genre which means even a half decent horror feels like a personal favourite

This is probably discussed somewhere in this thread but I’m not going to load the whole thing looking for it — last night we watched The Wailing (2016, Na Hong-jin), and it was super long for a horror film but also pretty engrossing, very vividly made and with enough twists to keep it interesting. As I often find with K- and J- horror, I’m still trying to sort out its various strands, but its quasi-incoherence didn’t detract from the experience.

horror movies are very good, even the bad ones (not speaking for modern low budget shudder exclusive horror here, i feel like that's probably bad bad)

currently watching a screener for the QC horror-satire Slaxx, with a Dupieux-ish premise involving killer jeans, and it's pretty funny so far. and the correct length at 70 mins.

70 mins

Dag. And I thought it impressive that "She Dies Tomorrow" came in at just under 90 minutes.

I watched Dead Snow last night. It was pretty bad but I had a good time except for the what the fuck scene in the outside toilet.

I mean, I like a lot of crap horror— I'm not some "Artsy Horror" stan.

but for a while, Shudder was just stuff that looked unbearable, stuff I'd already seen a million times, or stuff that I'd seen once and never care to see again lol.

they just added two larraz films, vampyres and edge of the axe, plus amityville ii: the possession which i've always wanted to see

they go through fallow periods but i've never regretted spending $5/mo on it or whatever

they were very useful when i challenged myself to watch all of the ring films a few months ago (project still incomplete)

They also just added Ali Abbasi's Border which I've been meaning to see for years!

We enjoyed the Irish slow-burner Without Name over the weekend... a strong little eco-folk horror with a small cast and a brooding landscape. The film began with a warning for epileptics, so there's some wild visual stuff.

whoah, 'unsane' (2018) was mega. surprised it's had such little attention... i'm quite desensitized and jaded after growing up watching years of dark horror, but this still managed to get me on the edge of my seat and surprise me and make me yell at the tv at points. shot on an iphone, too? so cool. top performances.

About Richard Stanley being an abuser.
https://sharedhallucination.blogspot.com/2021/03/777-truth-will-out.html

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Maybe 2016 is getting to old for this thread but I watched The Untamed. There's a tentacle sex monster in a cabin that people go to and its unpredictable if it will hurt you or not. There's a lot about homophobia, the director said it was partially inspired by an openly homophobic headline in mexican newspapers. There's a crater with lots of animals having sex and it all looks real enough that I imagine they just digitally spliced them together in the same place. It's quiet film for the most part and mostly about a family (but not in a boring way), I didn't understand a couple of things the characters did but I mostly liked it, the ending wasn't anything special.

Ben Wheatley's In the Earth trailer just dropped this morning.. looks right up my alley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lqkfo7IymU

that looks dope!

Anyone seen Koko-di, Koko-da yet?

I really dug it

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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one of the last films i saw in theaters, sigh

Can we talk Possessor spoilers? Really well done film, and educational for the behind-the-scenes stuff. I'm curious about a few things. . The first question, the ending, is fairly obvious, given the overlay of Vos over Colin when she kills her son. What seemed somewhat a conflict about returning to her home life, as evidenced by Vos' initial forgetting she and Michael were separated, then visiting them at home, was actually her desire to leave him and her child entirely. Yes? Second question, why did she disguise her possessing glitches? Was it as simple as she wanted to continue her jobs, avoiding her personal life?

I haven’t seen it yet but I’m excited that Jim Williams (A Field In England) did the score

That Ben Wheatley movie looks great. It also looks *remarkably* like this other movie on its way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9HYegwSw1s

good article slash interview re empty man which was discussed upthread https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/the-empty-man-david-prior-interview

I had a brief email exchange with him, suuuuper nice guy by all appearances

It hadn't occurred to me it might be the last movie ever with the 20th Century Fox logo. that's pretty wild.

loved loved loved the empty man. i have a few complaints (maybe i'm the only one who found it visually kinda flat and drab in spots? yet in others it was incredible) but otherwise it was made just for me. script was completely in the richard kelly register

it was so scary! even the stupid jump scares were scary

yesssss

it's definitely very grey, which both helps/extends the mood and flattens things visually somewhat

there are so many weird little details I still think about regularly

I loved a LOT of images and sequences in Come True......shame the actual plot and characters don't come together and the ending is student-film awful.

but seriously, those dream sequences. truly eye-popping at times.

Okay, finally watched the Australian film Relic this weekend - anyone seen it? What a great, genuinely scary film, tackling a real-life subject with heart and emotion. Mostly female cast, creep old house, creepy forest... a seriously well made film chock full'o metaphor.

Really want to see The Empty Man — James Badge Dale is a great, underrecognized actor.

xp If you liked Relic, you might check out "The Taking of Deborah Logan". Similar dementia/horror vibe though different causes.

Read Cullen Bunn's The Empty Man graphic novels this week from Hoopla, now interested to see how that translates to visual.

@ unperson: that movie has some great moments for all the Daleheads out there

@alpaca: the film and comic have almost nothing in common

Thanks, good to know. The comic has a Suicide Club / Pulse / Pontypool / Clive Barker vibe, so assumed it did, when someone mentioned the gore factor.

I feel like I watched Relic, but can't remember it at all

Oh wait, I did not. I watched the trailer for it and it looked quite good.

Took advantage of Comcast Watchathon to catch up on some Shudder cheese.

Impetigore, 2019 Indonesian, woman returns to home village, people want to kill her to remove curse. Mentioned earlier itt, pretty good. Lots of throat cutting f/x.
The Furies, 2019 Australian, 8 women kidnapped for 8 masked killers to hunt on camera. Nothing novel, but the lead actress did a good job, and they stuck the ending, imo.
Feral, 2017 US, 6 campers in woods with virus-infected humans. Again, not novel, but Scout Taylor-Compton's character, refreshingly competent throughout.

Empty Man was ok but the real star was sasha frolova's bowl cut

that haircut was very divisive in my household

personally i am a fan bc she reminds me of a friend who also had a very bold bowl cut. it's a sign of confidence and dgaf style imo.

110% on board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEhhcdAIVM

Ha.. I wrote a college paper on that story, I'll definitely check it out

probably not really horror but it looks sorta dope

I watched a couple of horror films over the weekend. Trick 'r Treat, an anthology film that was trash but good fun and Coherence which has fucked me up a bit. About twenty years ago, I had a dream in which I found someone had been living under my bed and had been all my life. It was like a glimpse of psychosis. It's become part of a suite of scenes and images that I've seen and stored over the years (the dumpster in Mulholland Drive is most prominent among these). Anyway, this awoke that zone in my poor brain and made it hum for 90 minutes and I was quite close to turning it off more than once - in a way than say Triangle or Timecrimes didn't quite manage. Primer is close but there was something about the febrile nature of this and the people involved. This might be simply the light it throws on my second biggest fear: that there might well be 5 million versions of my life and in each of them, I'm an awful, directionless middle-class cunt with a toolbox of pointless neuroses, none of which add up to anything.

There was an okay film about a guy living in the walls for years and years, had a blind girl, can't recall the name.

Looks promising:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRrhXjH1M70

Echoes of Berberian Sound Studio?