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

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."

I watched Gaia last night and thought it was pretty unique... definitely the best psychedelic Conradian fungal horror in Afrikaans I've seen all year

last night in soho was garbage and not even good garbage

waste of a cool premise

Thumbs up also for "Gaia", though the female ranger was a "let's hide behind the chainsaws" character to get the movie started.

Caught "The Devil Below" on Prime. Some leaps of logic, but liked the creature design, and Will Patton starring is a plus.

Has anyone seen "Risen"? The trailer's enticing. Have that and "The Superdeep" on my watchlist. Expecting B-movies, but "Risen" looks like it could creep into A- territory.

Hulu's been pushing Gaia on me - might check it out. I enjoyed In The Earth enough that maybe I'm in a mood for woodsy planet-horror...

I really liked the first half of Last Night In Soho but then it turned out to be pretty straight forward genre exercise and the cgi really taken the teeth out of everything. Seemed like a much more interesting film to start with.

didn't love Gaia - got really into the resort

Did people really introduce Cilla Black like that in the 60s or was that just a nod to her Blind Date years?

titane is the greatest movie ever made

I'm very much anticipating it and also dreading it

it is so good that i absolutely need to make a thread for it, or at least one for julia ducournau

definitely not a good one to watch if you are on a bit of a downer and not in the mood for graphic physical pain and murder etc. But maybe I'll watch it again when I'm in a better mood, because there was something about it.

Re: Doors talk above, it's now free on Tubi. Four disconnected segments, no real throughline other than time passing after these doors appear around the world, absorbing people. Each segment would have been interesting fleshed out on its own, Kyp Malone's most of all, but otherwise, wouldn't recommend. The second segment, in an Annihilation vein, was cool for being filmed around Cannon Beach, Oregon. The local parks and Haystack Rock, beautiful on screen.