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

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.

i really need to watch Ducournau's other film and short.

I watched Dead Snow and it was better than I expected. I don't see that kind of nasty slapstick practical gore much in modern films. Don't know what sort of budget but it hit the right level of not being too slick and just cheap enough to be a bit wrong but not shit looking. Not super exciting but a good throwback and a couple of decent disgusting laughs.

Iirc the sequel is fun, too.

xxxp Titane - without knowing much about it i watched it when i was on shrooms ... do not recommend

lol, strong do not recommend agree

😲😲😲 i mean damn

malignant was outrageously fun and bonkers

Malignant would be amazing at 88 minutes.

y'all are obsessed with runtimes as gregg turkington

almost two hours but it felt short to me, which is what matters

for me it spent way longer than needed setting up the "regular" status quo. that was a whole 90-min movie in itself - go bonkers sooner, I promise I'll enjoy it even more

in Titane she's fucking the himbo car and getting knocked up with a human-skin truck baby like 9 minutes in, and that's feeling like my #1 of the year

yeah but you could argue that’s not the point of that movie either

the secret of titane is that the carfucking is a setup for the metaphor of the lead as the mary magdaline of postgender/posthumanityand isn't really the point of the film

yeah but the setup is at full rev nine minutes in, is what I'm saying!

vs 80 minutes of sad relationship drama setup abt ppl who live in a $4 million house isn't the point of Malignant, 20 would have got the job done

James Wan not being able to construct/pace a film but hiding it with escalating madness not that much of a shock.

i'm confused i thought it was a really well-paced horror movie actually, and those first 80 minutes were spooky and varied between the kidnapping, murders, and visions, and contained at least one incredible chase scene

which i think makes it even cooler when things totally break down during the jail cell scene

also the camera angles!!!!

and the silent hill-ass melting walls

The jail cell scene made that movie. Like the first Terminator, when they go from a singular character's story perhaps not being believed by other people and ramp it to "Okay, now ignore or explain this bit" by involving a large number of people, actually changing the story's world, I'm surprised and happy. Also a reason why I liked "It Follows" pool scene, where her friends believe she's being stalked by an invisible being.

I've not seen Malignant! Which is a dumb move I know, but I was basing my (withering lol) comment on the bunch of Wan films I've seen, all of which are fine but do tend to follow a pattern. And no one really goes to Wan for the 'build' sections, do they?

yeah but the setup is at full rev nine minutes in, is what I'm saying!

and then after an hour the film slows down to a crawl and becomes an entirely separate animal.
but sure, it hits the ground running. then she hits her nose on the sink.

censor, on hulu, is fantastic

If you enjoyed The VVitch, I recommend Gretel & Hansel, which is on Hulu. The trailer (below) is somewhat misleading; it has an almost 70s Herzog feel to it at times.

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

resident evil: welcome to raccoon city, more like resident evil: welcome to raccoon silly

i had a great deal of fun though, johannes roberts does his best to make something creepy and atmospheric out of the absolutely dumb lore of the resident evil games

I still think people ITT have seriously underrated Saint Maud

For those who like such things, there’s a version of James’ the Mezzotint on bb2 at 10:30. And at 11 BBC4 has the Turn of the Screw, so something if you like old ghost stories

And after Turn Of The Screw on bbc4 it's Whistle And I'll Come To You for those of you scared of tableclothes.

Ah, I didn’t spot that!

censor, on hulu, is fantastic

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Just watched this, very much enjoyed it. Builds to one of the more clever takes on is it a movie/is it real.

Censor was awesome. If it had an A24 title card before it all yon critics would be all over it

I was so-so on it. Thought it started nicely but tailed off unsatisfactorily

"The Superdeep" - good monster, decent movie, worth the $4 stream.

Thoughts on "The Night House"? Really liked the atmosphere, Rebecca Hall carrying the movie, and enjoyed reading the polarized IMDB reviews. Usually find films that mix objective (what the camera sees is reality) and subjective (what you're seeing is what one character sees, not necessarily the reality) views frustrating unless overtly called out by the film, but I liked this one. At the end, there's still room for debate. The subject (reason for husband's suicide haunts wife) becomes a metaphor that you could interpret the whole film behind. Not sure the mix is fully successful - would give it 4 of 5 stars - but I came out thinking about it, vs feeling I'd wasted my time.

Objectively, her interactions with other people are 'real': the totem and photos she finds and her friend sees, tracing the books to the bookstore and finding the lookalike who later visits. Both lend evidence to the plot that her husband was tricking a supernatural entity with the reversed house and killing the doppelganger women.

Subjectively, all the supernatural elements happen to her alone, while she's depressed and drinking: she's told the woods are empty but finds the reversed house by herself, the spooky events that end with her waking on the couch or floor, the footprints on the dock, the bathroom scene. Was that all hallucinated while sleepwalking? Also, when she finds the bodies under the reversed house's floorboards, why does she call her friend and then take a shower, instead of calling the police? That's the divisive bit for a lot of the IMDB reviews.

Coming to the last scene, felt the film played it coy and wanted it open to interpretation. I didn't mind so much. Though, if objective, she still has to deal with the dead bodies back at the reversed house.

What I really enjoyed were the f/x of the house in the final scenes, with the spaces morphing to a figure's outline, and the blurry shape at the end in the boat. Very creative.