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

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Looks good thanks

Superdeep got terrible reviews but I quite enjoyed it. It’s not particularly innovative but it’s pretty fun.

Good soundtrack too.

Thelma was the first film I've seen by J. Trier and it's certainly worth a watch but I found the pacing somnambulant and its need to overexplain everything tedious. Great acting and a fun take on Firestarter with a "kill the patriarchy vibe".

I just watched Host and really enjoyed it. Loved the formal invention, which managed to deal with the 'just turn the fucking thing off!' conundrum quite neatly, and I totally fell for the cast and was invested in them, which is rare for a horror film. I was properly scared in a few places - to the point where I actually roared at one point and one of my kids came down to see if I was alright!

I've signed up for a month of Shudder as well, so will be enshittening myself for most of July and August.

you'll find plenty of shudder recs if you go back thru this thread

Nice one cheers. I'll have a dig around.

Watched The Hunt last night on HBO Max. I knew it would be dumb as shit, but it was actually OK, a few suuuuuper on-the-nose/this-film-was-made-in-2019 lines of dialogue aside. It's a Hostel/The Most Dangerous Game knockoff with "political" overtones, some decent fight scenes (it's often more action movie in the Scott Adkins/old-school Van Damme vein than horror, exactly), and (digital) gore. The biggest surprises come from who turns out to only have been hired for a single day of shooting, if you know what I mean.

I actually enjoyed "Werewolves Within," which features a lot of familiar funny faces in the cast, even if it's more fitfully amusing. If you liked "Ready or Not" (I did) you'd probably like this, too. Got some of its own on-the-nose political jokes, but I thought they mostly worked.

I liked the hunt. some amusing elements and Betty Gilpin rules

Following some of the Shudder recommendations, I watched Beyond the Walls over the last 3 nights and loved it. I'm a sucker for a 'house as symbol of the unconscious' and I loved how the house was rendered. It did lose its way a little in the final act but held its nerve and mercifully held off from 'chuck everything at the screen' rising climax approach. Great stuff.

Empty Man is on Disneyplus now

In the uK, at least

Blood Born is pretty good, though it kind of comes apart a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4unxjlKCpw

Shudder's new one, Son, is pretty decent too, if you prefer you trauma post-partum instead.

gah definitive no thanks!! that image is even a bit much for me. i don't like grisly pregnancy horror tbh unless it is The Brood. It's hard enough having these reproductive organs, I don't need any more horror :)

Only just post-2006 but saw Lake Mungo this afternoon. Very affecting, expertly constructed and beautifully paced with the revelations slowly gathering momentum. It made me think of House of Leaves (most things do) but most obviously Twin Peaks (a bit on the nose to call the family the Palmers? Perhaps). It seems insane that the director has essentially disappeared but fair play: create something perfect and take your leave.

In The Earth is a nice addition to the psychedelic horror genre.

So it looks like a couple horrifically anthropomorphized animal films on their way?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hleuhBW_lc

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

I'm assuming the pig in Pig is just a pig, though.

Love the cute wee sheepies

oh man, lamb looks awesome

Mandibles is above standard Dupieux, definitely not a horror film but a good time.
Lamb looks amazing.

Despite finding plane hijackings to be a horrible dramatic setting, Blood Red Sky on Netlfix was pretty good, fun.

do y’all think i should make a thread for the empty man

I'd contribute! Just watched it and loved it.

Still processing The Empty Man. I loved it for all sorts of reasons. Some of them (most of these are themes/connections):

I'm glad I saw this knowing mostly nothing so *possible spoilers*

I winced at the run time but it didn't feel long at all. Too much happens; it's too well constructed.
We're in a rich vein of films about disassociation - enough for it to be a signal of the times? This and Possessor feel like peaks.
The film within a film referencing Candyman and Nightmare on Elm Street (among others).
The film within a film of the prologue that I absolutely could have watched another hour of.
The weird clicking whisper that permeates the whole thing made me think of the ""ki ki ki, ma ma ma" from Friday 13th.
Jacques Derrida High School! (Kinda cheap, but I liked it).
Cherry-picking and straight-up Orientalism in places but the references to the darkness at the heart of a lot of Buddhist thought are thoughtfully managed. The Alexandra David-Néel book they referenced is excellent. The Pontifex (bridge-building) Society embody that worst kind of syncretism and cheap folk-wisdom. Stephen Root as the Hubbard figure was fantastic.
The 'dreaming into being' of Lasombra is straight out of Borges' The Circular Ruins. (Lasombra means 'shadow' 'phantom' - I'm a total sucker for (not so) buried references like this).
I wanted more Ron Canada. 'We can't indict the universe'.
Prior has worked with Fincher? This has something of Zodiac about it for sure.

I'll stop now.

Was enjoying Saint Maud but godammit the special effects really spoiled it for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xjAaO5NGy0

chucky show looks amazing

Who needs a house out in Hackensack?
You'll get killed by a doll named Chucky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwpHlcb0G2s

looks really good :)

Was literally in the middle of writing this. I dunno, it felt very much like the new "Halloween" trailers. "And now, years later ... evil comes home ... to die!" (Not literally, that was just the vibe.) Also, just an aside, I'm in general not a fan of the "Scream" movies (in fact, if memory serves I walked out of the last one, because I was bored and it felt like bullshit), but I think I have seen them all. One thing I got from the first one, though, at least as I remember it, was a more heightened degree of sadism and cruelty that made me feel uncomfortable, esp. in the context of a movie with so many elements of self-awareness and comedy. And, for better or for worse, that queasy sense came back to me immediately in the first few seconds of this trailer. I like horror movies. Heck, I love horror movies. I usually have no problem with the stabby-stabby stuff. But the violence in "Scream" always felt ... not shocking but (if you pardon the pun) sharper, more visceral. No idea why.

(btw, if someone in a very specific Halloween mask killed a bunch of people and then it happened again and again and again, you'd think they'd stop making that mask.)

Did we know this was happening? I don't think I knew this was happening.

scream 4 is awesome, your loss if you walked out

i knew! the directors are radio silence, aka the ready or not ppl xp

I don't feel like I lost anything, just gained an extra 10 minutes of my day (since I think I almost made it to the very end).

I think I'd heard about the new one because it made news in all the Neve Campbell outlets that Neve Campbell was coming back.

i would say all the scream movies are baseline good, with 2 being the best

3 is the weakest and yet cannot be read in the present as anything but the most anti-harvey weinstein movie ever produced by the weinsteins

It's just called Scream, but it's not even a reboot, obviously a sequel, why not just call it Scream 5? The earlier films seemed self-contained enough to be understandable to newcomers.

I thought the 3rd film seemed like they were pissing about, terribly lazy humor

They could have called it "Screams." "Scream, Too." "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream."

Not to mention the fact that the only people that would gaf about the return of Neve Campbell et al. to this particular franchise are old like me. Unless this is one of those franchises that has cross generational appeal?

This is just the new naming convention. If you wait too many years after the previous sequel, you give it the name of the original so that people don't get confused. And then the sequel after that one gets 'Again' or '-s' or 'Bigger Longer and Uncut' appended to the name.

yeah both halloween (2018) and candyman (2021) have already done this and i no longer care

tbh "halloween kills" is 100x worse than naming a direct sequel to halloween "halloween"

Should be "Halloween Slaps"

Halloween? Ugh, I Literally Cannot

Halloween, Halloweezer, Hallowutang

hallowed be thy een

"Hallow, It's Ween"
"Hallowe'ens Vs. You'uns."
'Ween

you give it the name of the original so that people don't get confused.

― Donald Fhtagen (Old Lunch), Tuesday, October 12, 2021 7:04 PM (one hour ago)

But how confused could they be? Is it because numbered sequels aren't as common as they were? They should still probably understand it. Definitely creates confusion when you're tracking down a film or series without knowledge or enough information to tell which one is the remake.

I wish somebody had the guts to add The Remake to their title (I know some low budget films do this). Like Black Christmas, Black Christmas: The Remake and Black Christmas: The Second Remake.

I've heard people talking about studios trying to bury their back catalogue but I don't get how that works with the nostalgia that propels the remakes and presumably you want to keep selling your back catalogue?