Hey it's halloween, everybody should shit their pants - ilx horror crew top tens.

Don't think Tucker & Dale was intended to be in any way scary. I've been describing it as a comedy for fans of horror movies.

World War Z has been coming for years. To borrow someone else's zing, you know it's a mess when they call in Lindelof to rewrite the ending.

Still haven't seen Black Death, Amer, Human Centipede 2, House of the Devil, The Woman, Possession (new one), Apartment 143, Shutter, Grave Encounters ,Atrocious, Lots to watch.

Amer is incredible, the only reason it isnt on my list is that it isnt streaming

Top 10 from the past few years:

The Thaw
Cabin in the Woods
Pontypool
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
The Signal
Laid to Rest
Zombieland
Blood Snow (aka Necrosis)
Black Death (kinda Horror? idk...)
The Poughkeepsie Tapes

Stuff I still haven't seen but want to:

The Innkeepers
Cropsey
Yellowbrickroad
The Grey
Berberian Sound Studio
The Snowtown Murders

Most of that stuff I watched on Netflix, don't know if they're still streaming, I don't have Netflix at the moment.

2012 has been a TERRIBLE year for horror. IMHO only a few films have gotten it right:
(starred titles are Streaming on Netflix)

388 Arletta Avenue
*Absentia
Excision
Himizu
*Hodejegerne
MMMM
Sound of My Voice

want to watch Lovely Molly again before I decide whether or not it's worthy of short-list inclusion. first viewing was confusing and underwhelming.

these were fun...
The Aggression Scale
Closet Space
*Dawning
Dear God No!
The Devil's Business
*The Devil's Rock
Famine
The Guard Post
*Mutant Girl Squad
*Nazis at the Center of the Earth
Seconds Apart
*Skjult (Hidden)
*Sympathy
Tormented

+ The Tall Man. even if this IS a horror thread.
+ Exit Humanity. i liked this somber Civil War zombie yarn a lot.
+ Juan of the Dead. upbeat/offbeat Cuban "of the dead." refreshing, even for a zom-com.
+ Livide. at least it's always pretty.
+ Piggy. nasty UK vigilante mindfrig
+ Werewolf in a Women's Prison. which managed to be everything its title promised, and maybe more.

Apparently I only saw three horror movies on instant so far this year that were worth giving three stars to this year:Deathdream, Cabin Fever 2, Frozen. I really need to watch more so i'm glad for this thread.

hey viceroy, sorry to report that Cropsey is boring and terrible imo

^^^ yeah I was so disappointed to hear that when u posted before.

Tell me about Black Snow cuz idk it looked like it wld be terrible?

I don't watch a lot of horror but The Innkeepers is awesome.

I think I mentioned it in the other thread, but watching Ti West movies, I keep sort of waiting for him to "happen." One of these days, I expect him to blow me away, but as of yet?

someday he'll team up with someone who knows how to make something actually scary at the end of the hallway

or he'll learn how to keep the suspense ambiguous throughout

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

how is this? and how is it see-able?

xxxp Damn, the premise seemed so rad. I hate it when people take good ideas and butcher the execution of them.

xp -- Re: The Poughkeepsie Tapes... If you can handle, I dunno, "moderate scenes of torture" its a really good mix of law/police procedural and "inside the mind of the serial killer" type movie. Its very shocking in spots but completely engrossing and well made. It's not as graphic as some of the french new wave horror but it's not exactly light on the torture either. Fortunately, you're not supposed to revel in it and it doesn't really keep the camera on extremely terrible things.

I'm pretty squeamish about abuse-of-females in my horror movies and I could get through it. But, YMMV...

hasnt it never got distribution or w/e? did you torrent, etc it?

It was on Netflix awhile back -- I believe it did get some distribution but it wasn't a major release anywhere. Probably played a week at art house cinemas.

cropsey is shitty

xp huh are u in usa? been in my 'saved' 4eva
im just naturally curious when things are hard 2 see tbh

this cropsey news is a bummer

Sound of My Voice

I assumed this was terrible because it shares personnel w/ Another Earth. Anyone else wanna vouch for it?

i looked up cropsey and it seems to be well rated on imdb, so all i am saying is that i hated it

yeah i have the same experience w/the poughkeepsie tapes i think, its been on my shortlist of stuff i want to see but cant get a hold of, along with Noroi/the Curse and (shudder) A Serbian Film

like seriously netflix, you cant even get discs of a serbian film, but human centipede 2 is on streaming wtf

fyi, as a dude who really liked human centipede, human centipede 2 is pretty terrible

also i think mum and dad is now streaming, if you want to ruin your night and feel bad about the world

Yeah, I stopped watching HC2 after awhile. Just no fun anymore.

Anyone who's looking to watch A Serbian Film should consider also getting Tears for Sale (with which it shares a writer and themes, but is a sort of quasi-historical adventure movie/fairy tale) as a chaser/palate cleanser.

haha Thnig, if you got death bed from netflix this month, it probably had most recently been in my house, because given how long it sat in the very long wait section before i got it they only have one copy of it.

haha! that movie was so weird and i rather liked it. the disc did smell funny though, he's right.

Cabin in the Woods
The Innkeepers
The Signal
Absentia
Daughters of Darkness
Rare Exports
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
Pontypool
Dream Home
Kill, Baby... Kill!

One thing I learned today from my WI account activity: I tried to watch Melancholia on six different occasions and still didn't finish it!

It doesn't get any better.

I tried watching Melancholia a few times but fell asleep each time, so I deleted it. Does the world end?

*spoilers*

yes

*end spoilers*

like seriously netflix, you cant even get discs of a serbian film, but human centipede 2 is on streaming wtf

― I'M THE ONLY ON (jjjusten), Thursday, October 25, 2012 4:01 PM (2 hours ago)

to be fair you can buy the human centipede off an endcap at target, for deep genre atrocity it's inexplicably mainstream

yeah true

been curious about Death Bed for awhile but never picked it up

will definitely investigate Martha Marcy May Marlene

Uncle Sam is not a good movie but there are parts of it that are fantastic

Just watched The Tall Man. FUCK yeah. Recommended without hesitation. And not really possible to discuss without ruining.

Really dig how Tucker & Dale and Martha et al kinda traipse around the idea of being horror movies without quite fully committing. Cabin In The Woods does the same thing except then it just commits to being a completely different kind of horror movie. At any rate, I welcome anything that shakes off stale genre conventions while still being interesting and/or fun.

xposting, but Rare Exports is great.

Not only is Martha, etc. not anything special, I dunno what it's doing in this thread.

true. my memory of it is already fading and i was neither high nor drunk while i watched it.

the snowtown murders, otoh, ruined my saturday night... made the world seem like a sad and dirty place. *shudder*

Poughkeepsie Tapes is on YouTube, I think.

sounds like I should watch the snowtown murders huh

I found Snowtown pretty ignorable. Also, not a horror movie per se, just to be clear.

I'm not sure I'm allowed to talk about this bc I didn't see it on Netflix but can we talk about XTRO? It was like Phase IV-level weird and I thought the effects were great! Kinda Cronenbergy, what with the woman giving birth to a full grown man and all.

There's a great click somewhere on http://siskelandebert.org/ of Gene and Rog flipping out over how awful and gross Xtro is. Always kinda made me wanna see it.

at the time (pre-Scream) the meta-commentary aspects of it maybe made it seem more clever than it is. cuz yeah I don't love it so much anymore either.

Perhaps u would like it better if it starred Colin Farrell, and if so I have good news 4 u.

u r incorrect

last night's Halloween pick was JAWS, which my wife had never seen before. It's on streaming in what i assume was the most recent clean-up version and it looks amazing. I enjoyed her reaction to some of the choice moments: Ben Gardner's face popping down into the open hole in the hull, the actually horrifying moment the shark attacks the boy on the raft behind the other people in the water (something in this version made it even more shocking), the buildup of suspense before the shark attack in the "pond" with the kids and the fake fin, and the girl on the shore who spots it. It's all just as good as I remembered.

And also it's an extremely amusing film in a very naturalistic way that seems to have been replaced in current films w/more meta humor, the latter really irrationally embarrassing me bc i can see the snarky effort from the writers. Compare that to Jaws w/Brody's little asides and replies and the timing in those moments, Hooper's perpetual bemusement mixed with shock at the ignorance of the people he's dealing with, and also the very easy, low-key funny way Brody and his wife deal with each other.

my wife noted correctly that it's not a horror film, it's more a seafaring adventure thriller, but it does show a knack for horror moments that a lot of more mediocre directors of horror aren't very skilled at.

I love all the moments w Sherriff Brody & Mrs Brody

the makeup effects are really unpleasant. Especially evil ed’s janky teeth & chris sarandon’s weird red gekko eyes

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, November 1, 2018 4:06 PM (two days ago)

Wrong type of unpleasant? Or do you mean they were low quality? I always quite liked the scary faces in the first two films.

unpleasant as in, idk - they look like they are REALLY uncomfortable to wear? like those contact lenses are so big, too big for Sarandon’s eye, and almost completely opaque, and they look really thick. i just look and think OW. and Ed’s vampire teeth are way bigger than his mouth & he can’t really talk... like that set of teeth would be comically oversized on an adult & with the added saliva effect it’s just kinda hard for me to look at him

the visuals were cool when i first watched the movie though, no real diss against them as effects.

but the practical aspect stands out to me more now

Somebody should write a history of sharp teeth on film actors. So many years of vampire teeth looking a bit silly and concept artists cant really go crazy with the teeth because it probably wont work.

i looked up the wikipedia & jfc @ this:

The most excruciating part of the makeup process for the cast were the contact lenses. In those days the lenses were hard plastic, which Steve Johnson hand-painted (throwing some glitter into the mix), lacquered and sanded.[22] The cast could only wear them for a maximum of 20 minutes because they were virtually blind in them, and they were thick, painful and dried out their eyes. A set was made for Stark to wear when he's in his final pursuit of Peter and Charley, but he kept tripping on the stairs. Holland told him to take one out, and he was then able to perform the scene.[9][22] Three sets were made for Amanda Bearse, but one of them caused her agonizing pain which she initially tried to endure. When it finally became too much to bear, she took the contacts out and the crew realized they'd forgotten to buff them.[22] For the scene in Mrs. Brewster's bedroom, Geoffreys kept his contacts in for nearly 40 minutes, resulting in scratches on his eyeballs for months afterward.[22]

and this is nightmare fuel O_o

The makeup for Evil Ed's wolf transformation took 18 hours.[22] While he had the wolf head on, the crew began pouring what they thought was Methylcellulose into his mouth to create the illusion of saliva, but when Geoffreys began to complain about the taste, Mark Bryan Wilson realized they'd been using prosthetic adhesive, which was gluing his mouth shut.[22]

there are awful stories from back in the day too...the shit that karloff went through for the Mummy, Frankenstein etc sounds godawful (and painful)

I first heard about those lenses on the commentary to Evil Dead, but I don't recall there being any mishaps like those examples above.

I recently acquired a trove of unseen (by me) classics. But which do I watch on this All Hallows' Eve?! Which!?!?

Dead of Night
Trilogy of Terror
The Night Stalker
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931)

considering when it was released, Dead of Night is damned scary

I haven't seen Trilogy of Terror since it came out but Karen Black vs. devil doll is classic

I saw The Night Stalker again recently; the comic elements haven't aged well, but Barry Atwater as the non-speaking vampire is better than 98% of all other vampires

The Girl Who Knew Too Much aka The Evil Eye is an entertaining proto-giallo, if you can get past the silliness of the protagonist; extra points for John Saxon as her romantic interest

The 1931 Jekyll & Hyde is the best J&H if you like the property, but none of the film versions do much for me

so I'd recommend watching them all in the order listed

is dead of night aka deathdream? watch that immediately

No, it's the '40s Dead of Night. Too damn many Dead of Nights out there.

Deathdream by any title is creepy as hell, even though it looks like they spent about $500 making it

Bob Clark's career was weird as hell.