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

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?

Nice

Cool:

'When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go...'

Watch the first trailer for my new film: #LastNightInSoho. Can’t wait for you to see it in cinemas this October. pic.twitter.com/hA2wR2Ukl0

— edgarwright (@edgarwright) May 25, 2021

Someone's been doing their homework on Polanski and (esp.) Argento.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlUHSoa8H4

i finally watched the empty man. it didn't make any sense at all and i loved it

it's so good

lately I'm beginning to think it's the only movie that makes sense lol

Wow, that Last Night in Soho looks great

I think Edgar Wright is a big old bag of wind and I've decided, after Baby Driver that enough is enough, but that does look quite good...

I watched Insidious, which I'd managed to miss until now. I thoroughly enjoyed the first 45 minutes and thought, well, this has aged rather well, but then the frog brothers turned up and it went to shit. Oh well.

Apologies for the random usage of commas. In all my posts. I'm so tired.

Two of the best actors working today, too. Not sure if even Wright could mess that up.

It'll be Edgar does Giallo and he will have done literally hundreds of hours of research and everything will be in the right place and it will annoy me.

Why?

This one looks fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpj1VOJWf98

"based on the video game"

aaaaand I'm out.

I was wondering about the Ubisoft logo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC1DQsaKdgw

Trailer gives away any "is / isn't he?" mystery, but the movie has some neat additions to the genre with some daylight action and a non-standard werewolf look.

Cross-posting with the "last movies you saw" thread:

Signed up for HBO Max and finally watched The Conjuring, which I've been meaning to check out for a while. James Wan speaks the language of horror cinema better than almost anybody around right now; I expected lol70s cheese, but this thing is no-fucking-around scary. If you're in the mood for old-school horror (I strongly suspect more of the effects were practical than digital) with really good performances all around, especially Lili Taylor, it's kind of a must-see. The most genuinely frightening horror movie I've seen since Prince of Darkness.

I love the Conjuring - it's taken everything that worked from lots of haunted house movies and stuck them together.

Watched The Unholy (which was fine) and The Corruption of Divine Providence; which was nearly as good as it's title! I understand complaints that it wsa too crowded/busy, and I'd love a bit more Tarr to it, but what it did it did well.

Finally got around to The Dead Don't Die and In Fabric. The former was exactly what I expected from a Jarmusch zombie film, and enjoyable as such. In Fabric I kinda loved even though it was ridiculous. So many great images and scenes.

in fabric is so so so good. i'm a strickland stan at this point

Yeah I dug Berberian Sound Studio too. I still need to see Duke of Burgundy (which I guess doesn't qualify for this thread).

it doesn't but it's still creepy and kinda scary at points

also his best imo but i love lesbians

Duke could probably pass as psychological horror.

I really disliked The Conjuring, goofy melodrama, it treats mediums with an annoying reverence and it doesn't help that it has two real life frauds as heroes

Duke could probably pass as psychological horror.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, June 1, 2021 9:27 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it could also pass as a comedy, movie really has everything

It is pretty funny, tbh.

The Conjuring ... iirc it relied sooooo much on loud scares, not just jump scares but *loud* jump scares, which I think are an extra kind of cheating.

The Conjuring 2 >>>>>>>>>>> The Conjuring

I don't care about the real life frauds being the 'heroes', I just pretend the film takes place in a world where they're real and actually saw what they claimed to.

the first Conjuring was just mediocre Catholic-guilt horror. second one was better just by going bigger and actually killing people.

Sinister was better than both