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

Censor didn't really do anything for me. Niamh Algar was great and Michael Smiley immediately ratchets up the tension in anything he's in, but ultimately I couldn't suspend my disbelief and found the conceit(s) clumsy.

Luz: The Flower Of Evil - Nutty christians losing their shit again. But it's set in the Colombian mountains and it looks really good, striking colors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5PW5r3pEOg

trailer for ti west's x prequel, pearl. imo fuck yeah

Stories by Michael Shea and Henry Kuttner!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwVv6QEzqSs

so excited for my october horror marathon this year https://letterboxd.com/unbornwhiskey/list/halloween-2022-dead-by-dawn/

I have no idea why, but I saw the trailer for One Dark Night when I was, what, 8? Something like that. And it's stuck with me ever since. I've never seen the movie.

Do you lead up to the best budget/production films or intersperse them? Darkness was really satisfying, and I have hope for Halloween Ends, despite the last being a mixed bag. Just watched Black Cat. You could play a drinking game each time Bela flares his eyes or Boris has a spaced frozen expression, but it was still a fun watch.

honestly i just arranged the films by title/poster this year

i am sooooo excited to see darkness

Oh man, I have never heard of Blood Theatre. That looks so bad/great.

good picks! Doing Winterbeast and Monster Dog back to back is heroic and bold. I love them both but they are real mind melters.

Thumbs up for The Shout and Boxer's Omen

meant to report here on orphan: first kill and i'm not even gonna suggest it's "good" or anything on the level of the first orphan in terms of filmmaking (which makes the trashiest concept into a super stressful and effective thriller) but it IS fucking crazy entertaining and i was on the verge of hooting and hollering in the theater all through the second half. i think i prefer it to the first on every level except visually lol (but some shots are great! it's just lit like grey digital soup. but i don't even care!!!! five stars)

saw Barbarian last night: not a horror connoisseur by any means but I think the hype is well-deserved

Yeah, I've kept myself in the dark about that one because I've heard nothing but good things (and also to keep myself in the dark).

Meanwhile, looks like Ti West turned around that prequel to "X" impressively fast (maybe I read that he filmed some of it at the same time?). And from the trailer, at least, "Pearl" seems pretty different from its predecessor.

Would recommend Hellbender, if you run across it. Low-budget, family directed/acted as press says. Found it realized and focused, and thought the mom and daughter sold their characters.

I watched the Conjuring a couple of nights ago - the ending felt kind of limp, the exorcism wasn't that difficult?

Film's kinda overrated, it's boilerplate Catholic guilt horror. Sequel is far better

Saloum on Shudder was very enjoyable. It’s by the same guy who did the Senegalese cop show Sakho & Mangane for Netflix.

Seen so many horror trailers at cinema last week, everything looks competent and professional but nothing grabbing me at all. Is Two Witches any good?

Have you seen Barbarian? People love that one.

Two Witches ... is that, like Hellbender, another mother-daughter movie about, um, two witches?

I'll keep Barbarian in mind but I generally feel wary about the hyped ones if the trailer isn't grabbing me at all. Still haven't seen Titane, Bliss and Possum and some of them are getting a bit old now. These days I want a bit more allure and glamour, ideally artsploitation.

My reservation about Two Witches is it might be overdoing the scary face thing clumsily. I've went on at length about how much I like scary faces but I'm not sure about this one.

Earwig looks pretty good

I really ought to keep track of cinematographers more because a good one looks downright heroic now

At this point, I'm tired of possession or demon films. Haunt films are ok if they're not a visual-only "no rules" affair.

Zombie films only acceptable if they're approaching from an interesting angle (a la The Cured. Romero formula and winky comedy formula are played).

Seems like there are pretty frequently good zombie films from new angles, even if those are still sometimes hit or miss. That Native American zombie movie (great idea, ok movie), One Cut of the Dead, Train to Busan (which I never made it through, but which people love) ...

Possession films are often pretty boring, imo, because they are so tied in to theology - do non-Catholics exist in the world of movie demons and exorcisms and evil nuns and whatnot? - but for some reason I feel like haunt movies have been explored less, or often only by way of spooky kid movies.

Train to Busan is great

Okay, managed to go into Barbarian totally blind, per recommendations. It starts off pretty smart and well made, then it goes off the rails in a stupid and lazy way. Ways, really. There are a lot of similar movies I liked better and still didn't like that I would recommend over this, but I won't spoil any surprises this may have in store by mentioning them.

Men, nice building atmosphere of dread and the movie is gorgeous. Goes enough into metaphor that I lost connection with the protagonist, but still enjoyed the film overall. Bonus for the best analytical reviews of a horror movie I've read on IMDB.

SPEAK NO EVIL (2022)… pretty decent

After the Maxxxine teaser, did anyone know this was going to be a series of (Mia Goth/Ti West) films? Just a trilogy?

Watched X and Jenna Ortega's wailing made me think of John Travolta's "it was a good scream"

Iirc when they were doing press for "X" West and Goth said they had written a script for a prequel, maybe even filmed some stuff. But the third movie I think came as a surprise.

Okay, managed to go into Barbarian totally blind, per recommendations. It starts off pretty smart and well made, then it goes off the rails in a stupid and lazy way. Ways, really.

Yeah it was setting itself up to be a lot more interesting than it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUlgwJNdu2I

casting jamie clayton as pinhead is such a fucking brilliant idea

Thank fuck it's a movie and not a series, so yeah, I'm probably in.

Loved Barbarian, love when a video nasty shows up unexpectedly

Scream 2022 kind of sucked

You prefer the Babadook?

5cream was bad, i was v disappointed

I'm literally never going to see that Scream movie, but I must admit I am intrigued by Brad not liking it.

i kept being reminded throughout that even the least-good wes craven movie at least has something to fucking say

actually i've never seen vampire in brooklyn so i have no idea if that movie has something to say

about the only funny part is Kadeem Hardison getting bitten by Murphy and slowly turning into a vampire and having various body parts fall off and someone yelling "YO YOU BETTER DO A QUICK DICK CHECK"

that was the only laugh

I laughed at "flippery shit" but it was a long time ago

SPEAK NO EVIL (2022)… pretty decent

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this left me even more bummed than Martyrs did but it's extremely contrived in its nihilism

ffs

After years of trying to bring his remake to life, The Northman’s Robert Eggers finally has the backing needed to create his own version of Nosferatu. Officially in production with Focus Features, the film will star It’s Bill Skarsgård and The Idol’s Lily-Rose Depp.

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“It’s fallen apart twice ... " Eggers previously told IndieWire. “And I just wonder if Murnau’s ghost is telling me, like, you should stop.”

Yeah, no shit. This is like when Del Toro was wasting his time trying to make "Frankenstein." I don't care who's making it, who needs it? I still haven't seen the new "Suspiria" for the same reason. The only thing worse than all those slick big budget remakes of '70s and '80s horror movies is remakes of things that have been remade so many times they've been reduced to tropes and cliches. Though tbf I guess if ever there was a genre that has made great art despite/out of tropes and cliches, it's horror.

It's not Nosferatu, it's NosferaTWO, the sequel

suspiria is a pretty thorough reinvention of the source material

i liked it! i can recognize why others found it unbearably pretentious. but it's hardly a retread of the original