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

(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?

Black Christmas (2006) was stylized as Black X-mas on the poster at least.

Half those 00s remakes should have been subtitled The Shitty Remake

The new Batman should be called Batman 11: Sixth Reboot or something like that. Do you count the cinema serials and animated films

i really think halloween (2018) should've been called "halloween 2 3"

Tangential to this fun goofery, I just learned recently that there's an entire book about abortive Halloween sequels. I had no idea they'd had that much difficulty making these things happens.

I adore the Scream franchise, particularly 2 and 4, and am really stoked about this! (Brad, you're absolutely right in that 4 is a great movie)

Are we talking about Titane anywhere? (I'm not sure if I have anything to say about it, but....)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M92WfkWy6fY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgv1P28anlc

Heh, this is from last year but it's pretty funny. It looks like all the original locations, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmtCycRHN8E

Titane is definitely the new film I'm most looking forward to

it's a trip!

Just saw Titane. It’s busy and fascinating, very smart and very strange.

The car pregnancy is sorta the tertiary plot point if you can believe it? If it has any grander point it seems to be a pathological desire to avoid moral or ethical judgment when it comes to desire, survival and/or self identification. The director’s post show comment was that “I set out to make a movie about love and I think I succeeded.”

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Story Of The Southern Islet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8sPiWBMLk0

Rewatched "Oculus." What a deftly made spooky movie.

Watched "Gaia" and liked it, once past the disliking the female ranger's embodiment of Ebert's Idiot Rule. Nice slow burn, cool visuals, creature comparisons to The Last of Us, would make a good double feature, following "In The Earth".

Also watched "Assimilate", a teen Body Snatchers retread with a good germ of an angle let down by script and F/X, along with "Son", another Andi Matichak horror film. She's the high school daughter in the new Halloween series, but mom to a five year old Rosemary's kid here. Liked the ending, even if the twist was expected.

Watched most of the latest "VHS" movie, and once again Timo Tjahjanto sets the standard for over the top body horror and gore in his segment. Not quite as batshit as "Safe Haven," but definitely tests your mettle.

Yeah i watched it last night too -- I liked all the segments but the last one was a bit much for me. The way it felt like a video game where the shooter was aiming at me was too ott after the day i had.

Chapelwaite has finished now, and it's very good! A strong Salem's Lot adaptation with touches of cosmic horror. It's on something called an 'EPIX' so alternative sources might be needed.

We watched Titane, not nothing anything about it, just that her first film was Raw. I can't recall the last time I was so tense watching a horror film. I'm still processing it but I think it was amazing in the most horrific way, it's almost two movies. I dunno

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

re titane: you'll believe a man can eat a stool

The fireman’s performance was something else

he's apparently a huge star in france
strangely the lead woman is debuting in this and the director got her off instagram apparently?

apparently apparently

He was in La Haine

Just watched Saint Maud. That was an incredible film

broadcast signal intrusion (2021)... what a disappointment. ive always loved the hauntology surrounding signal intrusions. total waste of a film.

i dont know where to begin. i actually got angry over how bad it was. transitions from scene to scene made no sense, it was technologically anachronistic and incorrect (dialling up BBS boards on MS-DOS in 1999?). the mystery was entirely uncompelling and characters felt completely void of personality. avoid

i watched Lords Of Chaos about the norwegian black metal scene and the church burnings and whilst all the people were portrayed as young kids doing things as if they were simple dares, the casual violence in it was quite disturbing and the kind of thing you'd see in a much more serious film, the suicide, the final stabbing.

(the 11th century stave churches looked wonderful though)

i liked lamb btw but fyi it's not a horror movie

I am halfway through Broadcast Signal Intrusion and am waaaaay disappointed, what a thrown opportunity! It is like watching a student film, so poorly put together.

But I have this waiting, which looks more promising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scm4N1s7OhI