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

Ok, finished the burrowers. Liked it quite a bit, weird somber mood to it, and yeah nicely filmed and cast was pretty great!

So apparently the writer/director of this did the screenplay for batman begins?!

also would like to see this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800361/ but it appears to be unavailable on dvd

more importantly, Petty made the disturbing and original Soft for Digging.

from the filmed evidence, the western-horror hybrid is very hard to get right. it shouldn't be. what's naturally spookier than the lonesome plains at night, or a deeper, more mysterious vein than Native American legend and superstition? but, not counting Near Dark, how many solid horror westerns have there been? VHS-era anthology Grim Prairie Tales was pretty decent, with a handful of genuine standout moments. so was Empire Pictures obscurity Ghost Town, a low-key chiller that has stayed with me like few others. can't think of more recent examples. i seem to be one of the few who hate DeadBirds, finding it an insufferably portentous misfire,

... should The Proposition count?

someone really needs to take an overdue whack at filming Richard Brautigan's hysterical PoMo farce, The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western. or, really, any of Robert E. Howard's mercilessly violent Western short fiction.

i recall Stephen King saying that, if he and Louis L'Amour were to stare out at the same picturesque mountain lake for long enough, L'Amour would surely come up with a sprawling saga about the settling of a frontier town, while he himself would end up writing a story about a monstrous being emerging from the depths nightly to drag cattle and cowboys to their watery doom. now, that's a horror western i'd love to see! wish he'd get on it already. and, please, let anyone but Mick Garris helm the inevitable screen adaptation.

have you seen Bruce LaBruce's zombie opus, Otto, Or: Up with Dead People?

I unfortunately only saw the first 30 minutes of this, and wasn't quite sure what to make of it, but it looked promising.

is 'let the right one in' not mentioned because it's not really scary? It has vampires. Also, it's incredible.

my take on it upthread:

This is prob a good place for me to fly my challop flag and say that as great as Let the Right One In is, it isn't really a horror film IMO.

― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:47 PM (3 months ago)

ok so i am selecting out of the on demand section of my cable - any votes for whether i should watch "the burrowers" or "skinwalkers"?

― srsly? im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (jjjusten), Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:09 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i fear i'm too late to save this poor soul but Skinwalkers is garbage

no i dodged that bullet! somebody upthread reminded me that it was some pg-13 teenthrob thing and i escaped the danger

let the right one in is a horror film imo, but it's almost universally loved so maybe there's not much to say about it?

the proposition isn't a horror film, but it does have some horrific gory violence in it. also it's v v good. I started a thread on it a long time ago and ppl were like "eh, nick cave".

I would like to see a horror western film also, seems like a lot of potential there, as long as it mined the terror implied by the primitive lawlessness of the wild wild west (something the proposition did very well btw)

as opposed to some stupid gunslinger cliche bullshit e.g. it's pale rider but w/ werewolves!

although on second thought that might be cool, too

filmmakers get to it

completely missed you saying that jjj. I think yr right re: it not being a proper horror but i think it's worth repping for at any possible opportunity.

Are any of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's movies post pulse any good? Never had a chance to see any and imdb gives them pretty low ratings but, well, it's imdb.

oh yeah, pulse is pretty great, also (altho v different) Charisma. i wasnt knocked out by "cure" but lots of horror geeks love it

the few I've seen post-Pulse seem to be retreads of his earlier stuff, which is far better.

Charisma was pretty awesome. Was Cure the mesmerism one?

it was the one with the murder victims w/x's carved in their necks, ill admit i sort of drifted off and didnt end up paying a lot of attention to it so maybe?

Pulse blew me away. I am all about glacially paced post apocalpytica, and with ghosts.

ha shit i didnt see that you said "post-pulse" up there. my responses are useless lol at me

ok actually "bright future" is kind of a great mindfuck!

not really at all like pulse, at moments kind of a comedy, but i really liked it

should we share what horror movies we put on our ballots for the 00s film poll or maybe save that til after the polll results?

oh wait shit not bright future, doppelganger. what the hell is wrong with me today

oh shit i havent voted in that yet

Doppelganger reminded me of one of the earlier films that was better

@jjj nah, i was lacking in clarity. i arr tired.

The girlfriend is massive horror buff, i wonder if i could pull off buying a bunch of kiyoshi and thirst and have it come off as romantic.

Also i seen a spanish horror v. drunk at the cinema and all i remember is that it involved kids with potato sacks and me liking it very much. does anyone have any idea what it could be?

The girlfriend is massive horror buff, i wonder if i could pull off buying a bunch of kiyoshi and thirst and have it come off as romantic.

do we need to change the thread title to "post 2005 horror film and related relationship advice thread?"

there's not enough of that going round.

should we share what horror movies we put on our ballots for the 00s film poll or maybe save that til after the polll results?

― PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! (some dude), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 8:11 PM (55 minutes ago)

haha prob after since my ballot was basically horror/horrorrelated/documentaries

looking forward to mostly getting shut out on that thread tbh

audition ftw

haha i didn't vote for audition because i took it to be 1999. u_u

also how the fuck had i never seen "cutting moments" before? UGH. ARGH. :)

i was actually surprised at how many horror-qua-horror films made my top 20. (and i've been kicking myself in the ass for two weeks now for not including martyrs.) nearly everything has an incredibly high body count, so i guess that partially makes up for it.

whoops, should be "how FEW horror-qua-horror films made my top 20."

yeah there was some debate about whether audition was 99 or 00 on the thread but omar ruled it fair game for the 00s

xp

re: Kurosawa. once it gets rolling, Doppelgänger is ridiculously fun. the lightest thing he's done since The Guard from the Underground. a bit less bone-crunching than in that one. Bright Future isn't exactly horror, but it is a very good film. i haven't kept up with the guy's work since Pulse. do want to see Loft and Tokyo Sonata, though (being out of work) i fear that one will cut a little too close to the bone. i didn't like Charisma. what was the point?

@toastmodernist - Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child, maybe?

I don't think that had potato sacks in it, but that movie is classic!

the kid in The Orphanage had a crude sackcloth mask. but he did say "kids."

should we share what horror movies we put on our ballots for the 00s film poll or maybe save that til after the polll results?

i had pulse and martyrs p high up on my ballot and i think audition, jeepers creepers and session 9 as well. so a 1/4 (?) of my ballot - if id listed a full 40 i might have placed frailty, thirst, hostel 2 and home movie. probably not all of those tho

You liked Session 9 that much? I liked it a bit, but by the end I was disappointed.

I vote session 9 pretty high too

yah idk sarahel i liked it quite a bit - really well made, paced, shot iirc - great 'atmosphere'

also realized i voted for the devil's backbone

It definitely was well shot and had great atmosphere, and the pacing was good too - I think I remember feeling like the ending was a cop out or something.

ok so now that the results are rolling out, not expecting anything horror to place in that list outside of prob audition

what about 28 days later?

REC, Let the Right One In, The Descent, and Drag Me To Hell might all be in with a shout? Do we count Pan's Labyrinth?

ok either i was distracted or blind but i didnt see let the right one in or the descent on the nom lists so i didnt vote for them NERD RAGE

i could see 28 days later, but wondering if there will be votesplitting between that and 28 weeks later

28 weeks later wasn't even nominated, i don't think