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
― 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
& Pan's Labyrinth, if that counts
― they ate only candy canes (Pillbox), Thursday, 4 February 2010 06:32 (fourteen years ago) link
ok well now that this is done, my horror votes and their points - placing ones with asterisks (kinda horror ones in italics):
Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006) - 40pts*Cremaster 3 (Matthew Barney, 2002) - 39ptsMarebito (Takashi Shimizu, 2004, Japan) - 36ptsWolf Creek - 35ptsMulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001, USA - 32pts*Ring, The (Gore Verbinski, 2002, USA) - 31ptsThem aka Ils - 30ptsHard Candy (David Slade, 2006) - 29pts28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007) - 26ptsGrindhouse (Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, EdgarWright, and Rob Zombie, 2007) - 23ptsSeverance (James Moran, 2006, UK) - 21pts28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002) - 20pts*Slither (James Gunn, 2006, USA) - 19ptsWoods, The - 17ptsSession 9 (Brad Anderson, 2001, USA) - 16ptsShaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004, UK) - 14pts*Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001, Japan) - 12ptsBattle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku, 2000) - 11pts13 Tzameti (Géla Babluani, 2005) - 10ptsMartyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008, France) - 9ptsA Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon, 2003) - 8pts
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 06:22 (fourteen years ago) link
By the time Cremaster 3 becomes anything resembling a horror movie, it's been almost two hours, so when they start cutting each other's legs off, it isn't horrific, it's a joyous relief that something interesting is actually happening.
― sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 08:30 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man i dont even know what to say to you if thats what you think
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 08:33 (fourteen years ago) link
also re: cutting legs off have you seen this movie?
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I've seen four of the five (I haven't seen the opera one), and Cremaster 3 is just interminably dull, though intentionally so. I mean, it deals with a lot of Japanese ritual stuff that is traditionally slow moving and, well, dull. I liked Cremaster 2, the one about Houdini and Gary Gilmore. That one was about 45 minutes, if I remember right. The first two he made were about 30 minutes.
― sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 08:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i admit i have never seen any and am willfully oblivious. what is the thing that he did with this erect penis shaping the pottery? i like that a lot.
― "broken heart" is just a 50s euphemism for "the clap." (the table is the table), Friday, 12 February 2010 08:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean you caught the part in the first fifteen minutes where the corpse lady (representing gary gilmore) digs herself out of her grave right. or the flesh stripped horses. or the tooth destruction scene. perhaps the prolapsed disembowelment?
multiple xposts
that was cremaster 2 i think? the one with the bee/drone deal.
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 08:43 (fourteen years ago) link
cremaster 2 was the one with the bee/drone deal - it's a Mormon/Utah thing, also the one with Dave Lombardo
All I remember is a lot of boat, fishing baskets, tea ceremony, and Bjork playing with fruit in the bath -- I could very well be forgetting things, it's just my overall impression was one of a long period of tedium.
― sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah thats not a cremaster movie. you are thinking of drawing restraint 9. cremaster 3 is all about the masons and the chrysler building and lots of (admittedly slow developing) fucked up shit going on.
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 08:49 (fourteen years ago) link
a charming still from C3 that might make my horror justification carry a little more weight:
http://www.entreumcigarroeoutro.kit.net/cremaster_3.jpg
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 08:51 (fourteen years ago) link
oh whoops - you're right - yeah Cremaster 3 was a lot more exciting/interesting - that's the one with Richard Serra, and the Agnostic Front/Murphy's Law "battle" in the Guggenheim and the sheep kickline dancers that one was pretty good.
― sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 08:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I saw Cremaster 3 not long after seeing From Hell.
― sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 08:53 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost ok good because you were making me v v confused - was wondering if the cutting legs off comment was in re: aimee mullins ( who is an irl not having legs person)
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
No - I was confusing one 3 hour long Matthew Barney film for the other one.
― sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 08:59 (fourteen years ago) link
And maybe I'm remembering wrong again, but I was taken with the fact that Richard Serra resembled Ian Holm who played a sorta similar Masonic role in From Hell.
― sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 09:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah dude is not really into brevity anymore (speaking of which btw, i think C2 is 1:20 or so. and how it flies by! ok not really)
xpost: huh yeah kind of. also C5, for whoever hasnt seen it, is fucking beautiful. no really!
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
thats the opera one btw. also i realize that saying "oh hey see this asap" makes me kind of a dick considering this stuff never plays anywhere ever. thx walker arts for owning all 5 terrifyingly expensive laserdiscs.
as an added note, while tooling around looking for cremaster info, i discovered that one of my cremaster books is going for $750 on ebay. yay modern art!
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Friday, 12 February 2010 09:06 (fourteen years ago) link
not saying there's any intentional resemblance - C5 is the one I haven't seen, though I have seen stills and they are really lush and beautiful, it's the opera house one.
one can come by bootlegs of the Cremaster films - I got 1/2 and 4/5 in that format from Amoeba. The Walker and SFMoMA jointly own their copy of Cremaster 2 and affiliated artifacts, I believe.
― sarahel, Friday, 12 February 2010 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link
zombieland had its moments, but there was something not all there about it. no spoilers here cameo makes it well worth watching tho. so great.
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Monday, 15 February 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
also basically not horror at all. my measure for this is if my gf can make it through the whole movie without being angry at me for making her watch it afterwards, it is not real horror.
― 3:16 (jjjusten), Monday, 15 February 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
got my hands on a screener of Babysitter Wanted. wow. great little fright flick. exact same jumping-off point as House of the Devil, similar slow-burn build, but then tense and intense, by turns, from midway until the end, and definitely its own beast. watch for a wide release in May.
― Mr. Hal Jam, Monday, 15 February 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
just finished Dead Snow and wow i kind of hated it.
― THEY HAVE CREATED ANOTHER (jjjusten), Friday, 26 February 2010 06:06 (fourteen years ago) link
ok new moratorium, no humor allowed in zombie movies for the next 5 years and then we'll give it another try.
― THEY HAVE CREATED ANOTHER (jjjusten), Friday, 26 February 2010 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Watched Pontypool recently. Pretty good, it goes off into the deep end 2/3 of the way through, but an interesting take on a tired genre.
― DavidM, Friday, 26 February 2010 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, re that newly revived Japanese House from '77 -- I didn't laugh or jump once.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 28 February 2010 07:49 (fourteen years ago) link
so the verdict on house of the devil is generally thumbs-up? planning on watching it tonight.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Monday, 15 March 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
It depends on whether or not you appreciate the aesthetics of early-80s B-movie horror - drive-in-era relics & such. If you are down with that, HOTD is pretty much a straight-up homage, lovingly crafted as such, & u will def love it. Subtracting the nostalgia factor, I imagine it might seem oddly bland to the objective viewer.
― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Monday, 15 March 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link