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

Last of Us and Skinamarink have opened to wild success this year bc their style of horror doesn't rely on jump scares or gore but simply on showing audiences what it would be like to live in Alberta

— Ibaka Shinji (@Cam_Oflage) January 18, 2023

In The Earth was okay I guess considering it was a lockdown project but it felt a bit flimsy on the whole

It's the only Wheatley movie I've ever made it all the way through.

Lots to love in the Severin box, I think my favourite discovery was the Icelandic thing that looked like it was made by Channel 4 in the 80s.

100%, the find of the box set in my opinion but the breadth of other stuff was great.

the Australian stuff was a great find... really loved the stuff around postcolonial guilt as a horror theme.

I think *Kill List* and *A Field in England* are the Wheatleys that will endure - that's even with the daft final act in the former.

I thought In The Earth has some pretty good performances and was a bit underrated but I wouldn't urge anyone

I don't know if Sarnet's November counts as folk horror but it's definitely in my top5 from the past decade.

I was hyped for Enys men (loved bait) and it did not disappoint

I think once I might have had reservations about putting so much artistic energy into a kind of pastiche, to that earlier me I say: stfu nerd. Gorgeously composed, eerie vibe, great storytelling (NO CHANGE) - it recalls those earlier films but doesn’t really resemble them, the editing style & sound design are closer to bait. I kept thinking of underground short films & my friend said it reminded him of Czech animation which I can see

Another riposte to both past-wins and emil.y’s friend is that in folk horror (folk anything) you might expect to see familiar tropes - that’s implied in the folk part no?

lol also I have not seen angst and my v enthusiastic co-signing of brad’s post was because I thought they were talking about ANGUISH the bigas luna slasher that apparently only I am obsessed with

i desperately need to see anguish

dammit i keep watching new movies impulsively due to this thread.

so uh, Angst is great because it, like some other films, dispenses with the idea of a 'brilliant' serial killer, with meticulous planning, long thought out rituals/messages, and puts you in the POV of someone who is merely fucked up by years of unchecked sexual and physical abuse from just about every family member growing up, treated only as a carceral concern and receiving zero help. how he'd act if they were released from prison with a ten year murderous itch that hadn't been scratched and spent an entire day acting out his fantasy on pure instinct. nothing he plans in his mind works out right, he kills the old woman too fast, the young girl doesn't get to see her dead mother, he doesn't get to continue his spree, he gets in a wreck, etc....and he changes his plans frequently, like he can't commit to one idea. he's just spiraling and treats slaughtering an entire family like scratching an itch in his brain

Everybody does! Preferably without knowing anything about it going in

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not available 'in my region' on Amazon prime. lol I thought I found it but of course due to the common name it was some unrelated 2015 film.

Whoa, wasn't expecting an Enys Men trailer at AMC today (followed by one for The Quiet Girl... while seeing Saint Omer... AMC is good now?)

Though I still haven't found a way to see Bait, years after its one local screening

just watched this, it's on iplayer until tomorrow for those of you in the uk (and with a tv licence)...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001dh75/host

"Host", a Zoom seance

I'm not 100% sure what "Bodies Bodies Bodies" was going for, so I can't really say how well it nailed it, but it was better than I expected. The cast was great, though they do seemingly spend half the movie running around in the dark screaming.

lol my girl was dozing on the couch and woke up to the scene early in Bones and All when Mark Rylance is eating a woman's belly and she had a full on fit

lol my wife would do the same thing, I’m cracking up imagining this happening with us.

I wanna see Skinamarink and I’m thinking about taking my 13 kid. The scariest movies she’s seen are The Thing and Drag Me To Hell. We recently watched Meshes of the Afternoon which she enjoyed, especially the experimental aspect. Is it more unsettling than violent?

it's more boring than anything! There's nothing violent about it fwiw.

no clue how a 13 year old would process that, being much closer to their own childhood. might really creep 'em out, might do nothing. in fact that's pretty much my review of the movie. it's not the only horror movie to have a creepy psychological aspect and it's not the only one to center around kids, but it is the only one where psychological horror is inflicted on the kids. it got to me but that's probably because my own kids are about that age

it's not violent but there are a few really loud jumpscares. kinda hated that fwiw, made the whole movie (most of which is really quiet and subtle) incredibly tense.

just watched it last night, not been that unnerved by a horror movie since... ever?

ok, not taking the 13 year old. I'll watch it first. Kinda excited about this one.

it definitely freaked me out after thinking about it some, since there ARE some clues as to what's going on - in the beginning it's mentioned that Kevin fell down the stairs and got hurt, so most likely he's in a coma, reliving the few memories he actually has while his brain is slowly decaying. the "day 572" caption at the end implies he's been in it for a while and from the looks of it things are not going the right way. so what it makes me think of is The Caretaker's Everywhere at the End of Time, except it's happening to a 4 year old boy, which makes my stomach turn. also like that album it feels endless!!!

my take on that was that the kid got a concussion and then he fumbles into a subworld that evokes dreamtime.

I'm wondering how much of skinamarink is dependent on being young enough to be freaked out by creepypasta. excepting the (very awkward and gratuitous) jumpscares, i found nothing unsettling about it at all? it's like getting freaked out by a jonas mekas short.

it reminded me more of very bad dreams i had as a child than it did creepypasta. i’m glad you couldn’t immerse yourself in it at all, that makes you very cool

I'm in my 40s so possibly not qualified for your creepypasta demographic

i’m glad you couldn’t immerse yourself in it at all, that makes you very cool
how you managed to read "i'm above all this silliness and very pleased with myself" when i went out and saw this on opening night is beyond me, but go off

I'm in my 40s so possibly not qualified for your creepypasta demographic
maybe it's not an age thing then? the entire crowd when i saw this and the general online demo appears twentysomething.

it taps into some ageless existential fears. if it connects with you I think that transcends demographics, if it doesn't then yeah, I could see it being boring af

i was a kid prone to regular hallucinations and panic attacks but not really from this perspective
trailer DID unnerve me tbh, that's why i was curious in the first place. i like the 30 second version.

yea it's an interesting film in that it would work just as well, maybe better, in a 30 minute version. even the trailer is sort of its own self contained thing. it doesn't really even have the basic elements of an actual movie. so much of it is just waiting for something to happen and I guess that makes it remarkably tense

I'd say it needs to be at least an hour, 70 mins. but they could've (should've?) easily trimmed it by 20 mins

anyone else see infinity pool? thought it was impressively fucked up, tho this might not really be the right thread cause it isn't interested in scares, per se

would really like to!

I loved it, the obvious allegory was as subtle as taking a sledgehammer to the temple, but I don't really see that as a bug in this case.

yeah i’m with you. loved how mia goth grew more and more unglued as the movie went along

kind of annoyed i haven’t gotten to infinity pool yet! just wasn’t feeling like heading out to the movies recently but i’ve enjoyed what i’ve seen from brandon cronenberg so far

Well I went to see Baby Ruby so you don’t have to. So don’t.

Aw, my friend directed Baby Ruby

I'm familiar with her theater work which is what got me in the door.

She Came from the Woods was an incoherent mess.

Chief son being the piecemeal telling of the baddie's origins on three separate occasions, the longest of which occurs as people are actively being slaughtered in the woods, as if this is the right moment for story time.

Lol also at casting a marble mouthed male lead who mushes his words so bad you lose entire chunks of dialogue.

*sin

We haven't talked about this one, yet, I don't think? Could be shit, but it's been getting good reviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Du7TvNqvY

That was the other one I considered seeing yesterday (theatre had both). Might be my next attempt

i saw the trailer for the outwaters before terrifier 2, looks dope

The first time I heard of that movie was on Bloody Disgusting, which is a pretty run of the mill horror/genre site that often has news or trailers or whatever. Lately, though, they've really blurred the line between editorial and promotion as they've dipped into distribution. For example, they were among the first places I started hearing about "Terrifier 2." Lots of stories, lots of raves, but of course ... they distributed it, lol. Same with "The Outwaters." Bloody Disgusting was the first place I heard of it, and heard positive reviews, but Bloody Disgusting is now owned by Cinedigm, who ... distributed "The Outwaters."

fwiw other places have also given it good reviews, not sure why this sort of inside baseball is shocking to anyone

yeah the aggregate is pretty good for it.

Speaking of trailers seen on that site:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY2z3kasg0g

Oh, and responding to the inside baseball stuff, I don't find it shocking, but I expect at least a little transparency when the site is literally invested in what it's promoting, whether or not the movie actually turns out to be good.