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

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

w/ Kyp Malone from Tv On The Radio, no less

Looks interesting, but also looks like pure Sci-fi and not really horrific

Hereditary - good movie to watch with your liberal Boomer mom or nah? She likes creepy horror but not too much gore or sex.

or the VVitch?

(I'm not sure I've seen a newish horror movie since It Follows tbh.)

I watched The VVitch with my mom (and my gf and my sister). I think I was the only one who wasn't bored.

Watched the 2011 Thing prequel tonight (also called The Thing). Decent cast but all I could do the whole movie was watch them tick off boxes. See, that’s how those two guys’ heads got melted together! That’s how that axe got stuck in the wall! And on and on like that. All the big action set pieces were straight reworkings of the big scenes from the Carpenter movie. They even used the same font for the credits. Depressing as hell.

i just saw house of wax (2005) and can't figure out which thread to post about it in

a total fucking masterpiece!!!!

oh i guess it should be in the other thread

I forget, anyone else see "Wolf of Snow Hollow." I ... think I liked it a lot? It's such an odd movie it's hard to say. If someone told me Jim Cummings would follow up "Thunder Road" with a werewolf thriller I would have called them crazy. What's even crazier is that he's more or less playing the same character from "Thunder Road," just in a werewolf thriller. Which is super weird. I wish it were a little longer and spent more time with its characters. I wonder if there was something about Robert Forster's health? I know this was his last film, but conspicuously he spends either the entire film seated or (subtly) literally being held under his arm by his cast. Maybe they had to cut some scenes? Anyway, too short but well made and worth seeing. There are a lot of ideas going through it, even if most aren' quite brought to fruition.

Oh, nice to see the central dude from "American Vandal" show up!

This was my Halloween viewing last night, and it was amazing

https://letterboxd.com/film/history-of-the-occult/

Please take a punt on this.

Just saw Antlers. Verdict: Thoroughly whelmed by this aggressively average film. It was also unrelentingly bleak for a film about a killer moose

Best bleak killer moose movie is "The Ritual."