as opposed to some stupid gunslinger cliche bullshit e.g. it's pale rider but w/ werewolves!
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
although on second thought that might be cool, too
filmmakers get to it
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― toastmodernist, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
oh yeah, pulse is pretty great, also (altho v different) Charisma. i wasnt knocked out by "cure" but lots of horror geeks love it
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Pulse blew me away. I am all about glacially paced post apocalpytica, and with ghosts.
― toastmodernist, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
ha shit i didnt see that you said "post-pulse" up there. my responses are useless lol at me
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
ok actually "bright future" is kind of a great mindfuck!
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
not really at all like pulse, at moments kind of a comedy, but i really liked it
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 2 February 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait shit not bright future, doppelganger. what the hell is wrong with me today
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
oh shit i havent voted in that yet
Doppelganger reminded me of one of the earlier films that was better
― sarahel, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
@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?
― toastmodernist, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
do we need to change the thread title to "post 2005 horror film and related relationship advice thread?"
― sarahel, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
there's not enough of that going round.
― toastmodernist, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― 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
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
looking forward to mostly getting shut out on that thread tbh
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago) link
audition ftw
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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. :)
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
whoops, should be "how FEW horror-qua-horror films made my top 20."
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Mr. Hal Jam, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
@toastmodernist - Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child, maybe?
― Mr. Hal Jam, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think that had potato sacks in it, but that movie is classic!
― sarahel, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
the kid in The Orphanage had a crude sackcloth mask. but he did say "kids."
― Mr. Hal Jam, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― b( ۠·_۠·)b (Lamp), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
You liked Session 9 that much? I liked it a bit, but by the end I was disappointed.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I vote session 9 pretty high too
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― b( ۠·_۠·)b (Lamp), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
ok so now that the results are rolling out, not expecting anything horror to place in that list outside of prob audition
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
what about 28 days later?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― DavidM, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
28 weeks later wasn't even nominated, i don't think
― sarahel, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
no, it was, because i voted for it
― rhea perlman is "horrible" (jjjusten), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i voted for 28 days later - even though 28 weeks later had Idris Elba and featured the, I'd like to think, Dead Alive-inspired rotary blade method of killing zombies
― sarahel, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I voted for 28 Days Later, Pan's Labyrinth, Shadow of the Vampire, May, Wolf Creek, & Let the Right One In
― Darin, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I voted for Let the Right One In and Shadow of the Vampire - though not sure how much they are "horror" movies
― sarahel, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
god im pissed that i didnt see let the right one in on the noms list, would have voted unreservedly
― Jake Gyllenhaal needs more juggalo in it (jjjusten), Thursday, 4 February 2010 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
: /
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 4 February 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I voted Audition, Martyrs (will be pissed if this doesn't rank, but it prolly won't), Let the Right One In, The Host, A Tale of Two Sisters, May, Trouble Every Day
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 4 February 2010 01:33 (fourteen years ago) link
horror-ish shit in my top twenty: the host, american psycho (it counts, i think), visitor q, hostel ii, planet terror (yeah, yeah...but i think it was really dulled by its in-theater proximity to death proof and it was one of the most purely entertaining films i saw this decade).
still kicking myself as per upthread for not including audition and martyrs. wolf creek, pulse, and drag me to hell would have made a top forty if i'd bothered to do a list that long. still do not get the extreme love for let the right one in.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 4 February 2010 02:19 (fourteen years ago) link
planet terror (yeah, yeah...but i think it was really dulled by its in-theater proximity to death proof and it was one of the most purely entertaining films i saw this decade).
otm
― sarahel, Thursday, 4 February 2010 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i voted for JUST planet terror, too, but i'm afraid my votes will just wind up going to grindhouse as a whole. :/ (and neither will probably place anyway.)
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 4 February 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
okay, can't remember who rec'd it, and it has little to do with new horror, but there is NO WAY 'The Whip and the Body' is better than 'Bay of Blood.' got the former from Netflix today, and i don't think i've ever been more bored while watching a Bava film.
ahem. continue.
― arch-enemy Gay Cowboy Monster (the table is the table), Thursday, 4 February 2010 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I voted for: Audition, 28 Days Later, Drag Me to Hell, Martyrs & The Descent.
― they ate only candy canes (Pillbox), Thursday, 4 February 2010 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link