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

Enjoyed Suitable Flesh a lot, but then I'm a sucker for Stuart Gordon films so that might not be surprising. Barbara Crompton is great in it.

It was not bad but I think it could have looked a bit better and maybe a slightly better script but performances were fine.

Had to go to a cinema I've never been to before in the Phoenix chain. I think my brother said it was the only cinema in scotland showing it, oddly

I just seen The Vourdalak. It's not like many other horror comedies I've ever seen because the sensibilities are very different. There's a corpse character created completely through puppetry and I don't think it works completely but it's a bold choice. Based on the same Tolstoy story that was in Mario Bava's Black Sabbath. It's pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOltHm9cloY

immaculate was imo the first great horror movie of the year and the best catholic horror in who knows how long. mean and nasty and bloody and screaming. plethora of jump scares but i think jump scares are value neutral, they can be good or bad depending on execution, and when they are good they make you feel as trapped in the movie as the main character is, and this movie has very good ones. thought sydney sweeney was great

Can't wait to see that one next. I'm at Late Night with the Devil RN but Immaculate is next. Glad to hear it's solid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-uiy20_zM

Infested, coming on Shudder. Watched this teaser yesterday and dreamt about it that night. Ugh.

So, Late Night with The Devil.

To say "Satanic panic horror" is shopworn at this point is stating the pathetically obvious. the margin for error is very small because it's been done so much that it only takes little mistakes for a jaded aficionado to say "meh - I've ridden this ride before". Or filmmakers simply turn it into a CGI fest of jump scares and endlessly twisting heads.

This one succeeds using a novel setting (a late night 70s talk show), dry humor, and a young actress who knows how to leer at a camera in unsettling fashion.

it doesn't have anything new to say, per se. But it goes refreshingly lean on exposition, has a persistently unsettling atmosphere, and goes big at the right times. Recommended - it's a lot of fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uS3t6nFgY

maxxxine looks fantastic

also saw the first omen the other night, actually felt like a legit transmission from '70s cinema. also: finally a catholic horror movie that has the sense of cosmic horror, like an error in the world

The First Omen felt a lot like Immaculate. I had a hard time dealing w/ what felt like too much effort in lining up the events just right with the first film and not enough being terrifying, but I loved the recurring shots of Italy, Nell Tiger Free, and enjoyed it overall.

also I watched Megan is Missing last night and why oh why did I ;_;

Late Night With the Devil is a lot of fun, yeah. David Dastmalchian is great, the whole cast is good, the ‘70s retro thing not new obviously but done very well.

it's also mega fun to see late at night in keeping w/ the theme

I’m not a horror person at all but tagged along to LNWTD and it got the craven ‘70s chat show thing just right, was tons of fun. The patrician skeptic reminded me of any number of similar highbrow guests on MOR shows of the era.

Also reminded me of the PBS funding week that got hijacked by the Backwards Masking brothers buying time off the local station when I was a tween.

So X was kinda grindhouse, Pearl was kinda twisted Douglas Sirk melodrama, Maxxxine, based on the trailer, looks like '80s Argento. I'm in!

btw, all these horror movies rooted in Catholic theology, do any of them ever address other religions?

Nell Tiger Free

Well, then that's no McGuffin

they must be voodoo horror stories. and paganism.

one other issue I had with The First Omen:

having Damien's introduction to the world an intentional introduction by the Catholic church really retroactively blunts the tale for me. Now it's a Jurassic Park-esque "we thought we could control it" versus "oh fuck an unexpected evil has shown up and we're not ready to fight him". considering how much destruction he causes across three movies, I'm struggling to understand how they thought they could control him, especially since they seemed to make little outward effort to do so.

like in the original Omen, Father Brennan did see the birth of Damien and tried to warn Thorn about his son, and he had the mark of the beast on him himself, and was supposed to be a reformed ex-Satanist who reformed after the incident regarding Damien's birth, so it felt like in the first movie, it was the work of then-Satanists, some of whom may have secretly infiltrated the church. whereas now it's actual nuns and Priests who feel like they're doing God's work.

Has this one come up yet? I read a pretty good review.. a horror movie set 45,000 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU_SQo1wbos

Clever concept, at least.

they all live in the same sorority cave, and the call is coming from inside the cave

Abigail was a lot of fun. it's purely horror-comedy and there really are no scares to be found, nor is it really trying hard to do so, but the conceit is creative and the lols are refreshingly more of the slapsticky variety than the cringe humor you usually see in horror comedies these days. also the actress playing Abigail really gives it her all.

my only complaint is that I was hoping it was a movie about the King Diamond album

i really hate radio silence movies and the trailer doesn’t make me think i’ll be changing my mind with this one

What is a radio silence movie, you mean the characters are told that they will have 24 hours with no cell phones or whatever?

going to see In a Violent Nature later

xpost it's the name of the production company

could you use google for once in your god forsaken life

Jeez, are you talking to me? You wanted me to google "radio silence?" I could have sworn in the trailer the guy says "no cell phones," so sorry for making that assumption.

it’s the third result