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

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.

Whoops on the hidden text. Thought it could handle carriage returns. SPOILERS ABOVE.

> Thought it could handle carriage returns

maybe the help text can be updated

Don't know if it's discussed further up in the thread, but my wife and I (both folk horror aficionados) watched the folk horror doc Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched over the weekend and enjoyed all 3-plus hours of it. It's on Google Play right now for $1.99. It's hugely ambitious, spinning off of the "holy trinity" to explore the whole idea of folk horror. Sometimes the roster of talking heads feels a bit like Kier-La Janisse basically just recruited all her film-geek friends, and sometimes it wanders in a way that makes it seem like everything is folk horror, but overall it does a good job of returning to its key themes while attacking them from several different angles. Plus it's a ridiculously roster of movies, just dozens and dozens of them. Highly recommended if the subject matter intrigues you at all.

Ridiculously HUGE roster of movies, that should say.

we got the box set as a gift to ourselves for the hols! the first movie we watched was Eyes of Fire, which I hear has just been added to Shudder.
super recommended, looks amazing & brings the vibe in the best way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8_HDMaOMro

I think the other one we've watched so far (before our viewing was derailed by life events) was called Allison's Birthday. Also recommended.

We're about halfway through the box so far, just about to start the Australian discs (of which Alison's Birthday is one).

Viy was a clear highlight buy I was very intrigued watching Tilbury, which felt like it was made by Dennis Potter. I've enjoyed everything though Lake Of The Dead was really tenuously folk horror.

We watched Viy somewhere last year — maybe on Shudder, not sure — and loved it.

Count me as another disappointed Censor viewer. I was surprised to see Kim Newman's name among the producer credits; I'm guessing that he was partly there for genre scholarship and deep knowledge of video nasties, but the details all felt ersatz and not very accurately observed. Also found lots of the performances to be severely lacking (especially the sinister horror film director).

On the other hand, I absolutely loved Titane - seen in the cinema, a pure blast of energy. The first 30 minutes in particular are wonderfully intense and expertly sustained. And the scene where the 'son' dances in front of his co-workers is a pretty brilliant piece of filmmaking all by itself.

I wasn't really sold on Censor either. I thought the first bits were fine but it really fell apart around the point she was trying to get the under the counter film and never recovered. By the end and the multiple (?) dream states it was just a mess but looking at the positives it made me realise a film of Studio of Screams has serious potential.

Thought Titane was great up to a point but in the end was simultaneously too crazy and not crazy enough, depending on what sort of film it was supposed to be. A whole film of the 'son' plot would have been fine, as would a whole film of the 'pregnancy' but both together ultimately felt a bit forced.

Titane spoiler:

was I the only one who thought she was going to give birth to a toy truck?

Mentioned in a few posts back in September I’m the other thread, with 2006 in the title. Just watched the whole thing. Thanks for the recommendation, really well done.

we got the box set as a gift to ourselves for the hols! the first movie we watched was Eyes of Fire, which I hear has just been added to Shudder.
super recommended, looks amazing & brings the vibe in the best waywe got the box set as a gift to ourselves for the hols! the first movie we watched was Eyes of Fire, which I hear has just been added to Shudder.
super recommended, looks amazing & brings the vibe in the best way

Also recommended, but after I had watched it, I saw there was a directors cut also on the disc, so if you only want to watch once, then go for that one.

No idea of the differences, but some parts of the film were so atmospheric, I hope it leaned into that a little more.

Not sure if it counts as a horror but Memoria definitely unsettled and startled me. Almost requisite you watch it on a cinema screen if you're going to.

You can only see it (legally) in the cinema - it's not going to be made available on digital media or as physical disc.

oh right that explains why I couldn't find it on the torrents/nzb servers!

it's available on torrents just fyi

Watched Censor tonight. It’s really fucking good. Don’t want to say anything else about it; go in as cold as possible.

xp

I've looked again and it isn't!

My last post was referring to Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, of course. Also just found this blog and the accompanying book: https://ayearinthecountry.co.uk/about/