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

I read "The Terror" a couple of years ago I thought it a few hundred pages too long, though I did like the rigor and research behind it. I watched maybe half the series and just found it so turgid and ... boringly faithful to the book? Anyway, good acting, etc., total snooze, imo.

yeah I was listening to it on audiobook but got a bit bored

Watched Upgrade instead of Mandy this weekend and was very pleased with my decision.

have you actually seen Mandy yet, because it's like several orders of magnitude better!

but we're on exactly the same page re: LoS

I'm about 300 pages into the book The Terror at the moment. At this point I'm finding it to be a gripping read, but not sure how well it will sustain its story over the next 400 pages.

I somewhat agree with what calzino was saying on the another thread about this last week:

I don't know why they needed to add any HORROR, when the story already has a horrific blend of peak BE officer classes, cannibalism, pneumonia, scurvy, lead poisoning, the unremitting sub-zero winds etc...

― calzino, Friday, September 14, 2018 1:56 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

At least in the beginning, I'd be cruising along through what seems like really well researched historical fiction when a vague monster appears, briefly. And let's be clear, I signed on for the monster! Didn't pick this up because it was on some list of Best Boat Books of the 2000s. Things do seem like they're picking up steam at the point I'm at anyway.

I'm enjoying the show, although idk how many seasons they could really stretch this out for (things would have to get a *lot* weirder)

pretty sure it was a “limited series” yes?

I have no idea. the season I'm watching is 10 episodes so maybe it will all be wrapped up with a happy ending lol

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lol

Someone here was unimpressed but Across The River (2013) is one of my favorites of the past decade. It's very quiet but I thought it was a good mix of old fashioned spooky and nasty.

Pyewacket - not bad for the most part. Mother & occult-obsessed daughter struggling with death of husband/father, at odds with each other, until a 'fresh start' move pushes the daughter to wish her mom dead and perform a demon-summoning ritual to make it happen. Good build of tension and interesting creature, but a predictable resolution (vaguely along "Bye Bye Man" lines) brings it down to a C+ for me. I find east coast sparse forests so much creepier than PacNW denser forests - those bits were well done. An empty forest behind the girl, then an unnoticed swath of black in the background suddenly hides behind a tree - love background stuff like that.

Is this the main thread where ILX talks about Shudder? I subscribed yesterday and am impressed by the selection ... I wish it provided more information about when films rotate in and out of the collection, and title-only search is weak, but these are minor complaints when it offers so many movies I'm looking forward to seeing. Most of what I've added to my list is pre-2005, but I plan to step up my post-2005 horror game too.

Any recommendations? (I am in the US btw.)

Saw The Blackcoat's Daughter last week - it's another one of those "exactly what you think is happening is happening" slow-march-to-doom movies, this one revolving around demonic possession in a semi-abandoned girls' school. Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper from Mad Men) is quite good in it.

Shudder is one of the only services worth paying for (esp since it's not very expensive) -- the curated lists are pretty good, not a bad place to start if a general search is leaving you cold.

Saw Halloween.

Competent. Not that good tho

So it's very much like the original film, is what you're saying.</challops>

🙄

oh hey the Starry Eyes guys are remaking Pet Sematary w/ Seimetz (yay) and Lithgow (yay) and uh Jason Clarke (enh)

https://youtu.be/VllcgXSIJkE

I knew about the remake but not the creative team. That renders me less entirely disinterested, I guess.

Anything wrong with Jason Clarke?

I liked The Apostle but I've had enough of those grisly skinny masked guys in horror. The action is pretty good, the setting is convincing and the supernatural element quite interesting.

Nothing wrong with Clarke, just never found him particularly interesting

Halloween was much better than I expected tbh - unlikely to leave a massive impression but a strong claim to best Halloween sequel at least (it’s this or 2, the rest are dogshit)

More violent than I expected. Last half hour mostly great

I thought the third film was supposed to be good?

Quite liked Michael Sheen in Apostle.

I spent my whole life assuming I would love Halloween 3 from everything I knew about it, but it is absolutely not good

Hooray hooray, UK screenings this year and bluray next year

https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/news/eureka-acquire-rights-twisted-estonian-fairy-tale-november

been going through the halloweens and: three is great come on. i also love four but i know i won’t convince anyone. h20 holds up remarkably well especially the ending. 5 and 6 are extremely damaged (i think 5 is terrible but not uninteresting and 6 is a fascinating barely coherent ‘90s horror about druidic murder cults starring paul rudd in heavy eyeliner therefore i love it)

i like most of them more than the new one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've never seen a Halloween film in full. I've seen most of the first one though.

I watched the first one two weeks ago for the first time, and a staged version of it by drag queens last week.

I love Halloween 3! I'd watch it over the original. Probably.

been going through the halloweens and: three is great come on. i also love four but i know i won’t convince anyone. h20 holds up remarkably well especially the ending. 5 and 6 are extremely damaged (i think 5 is terrible but not uninteresting and 6 is a fascinating barely coherent ‘90s horror about druidic murder cults starring paul rudd in heavy eyeliner therefore i love it)

i like most of them more than the new one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I love Halloween 3 too, though regret that they tinkered enough w/ Nigel Kneale's script for him to take his name off it - what might have been, etc.

revisiting it last night confirmed it, i love zombie’s halloween ii

i saw MANDY!
loved it
esp Mandy herself & the amazing soundtrack, which elevated what could have been a campy and ridiculous movie

also forgot to mention when i saw it, but the Australian film BOYS IN THE TREES was a tender look at the horrors of young men and their emotions, would recommend. the 90s soundtrack will take you back whether you like it or not.

revisiting it last night confirmed it, i love zombie’s halloween ii

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Monday, October 29, 2018 5:48 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was the director's cut btw, which... i thought the ending seemed different, lol. anyway, bc i loved this so much i watched lords of salem last night, which FREAKING. RULED

yes!! his best movie that I've seen

i would implore anyone who loves lords of salem to watch halloween ii

Marrowbone - Anya Taylor Joy and Mia Goth in a rural horror film, I'm instantly sold. Unfortunately the only bluray version is from Spain (director and crew is spanish), but not to worry too much as it's multiregion. Film works fine but the deleted scenes added a bit more depth, they look unfinished so maybe there was a deadline and they weren't unusable (couldnt understand the spanish commentary to deleted scenes). Goth reminds me a bit of Shelley Duvall in this.

Overlord any good?

Plan to see it soon, generally heard positive things.

If you liked Marrowbone, you might check out The Lodgers. A few good jump scares and a similar atmosphere.

well... the new suspiria is a thing that exists

the scene w the main dance performance of volk is really unpleasant

what happened to Ty West?

Or Ti West, for that matter.

straight-up horror film of the year is the strangers: prey at night

the camerawork alone. the FOG alone

Hereditary - Interesting soundtrack with the low but fast throbbing and I quite liked the way some images with similar elements were cut together. It all seemed quite taut until toward the second half, which did contain memorable parts but just gradually decreased my interest as the witch tropes and Blumhouse manners increased.

The Invitation - Good. Logan Marshall Green is good in this and I'd only seen him previously in Upgrade. For a while I was expecting something similar to Alan Partridge saying "These are Sex People!"

It Follows - Good. This might seem like an odd highlight but I've been very amused by the way the young man responds to a joke about him humping the girl's leg.

Incident In A Ghostland - Surprised how little talk of this I've seen. It's the latest Pascal Laugier film but it looks nothing like any of his previous films. It often looks like a Blumhouse product and is marred by their clichés (also could have done without the slapping, sniffing and breathing sound effects) but it's ten tons heavier, nastier and a lot more compelling. I was surprised by how quickly the film starts, I was thinking "already? this is happening now?"
The quality of the visuals varies, the house is very detailed but things like the tv interview look a little weak.
I'm sure many will chuckle at the appearances of HP Lovecraft played by a heavily made up actor but also opening the film with a famous photograph. Laugier says that the film being very non-Lovecraftian is part of the point, the young writer is following a different path from her hero.
Unsurprisingly there have been criticisms of transphobia but it only goes as far as having one of the reprehensible villains a trans woman but we never get to know much about them.
French pop star Mylene Farmer plays the cool mom.
Despite several complaints I like this better than most of the new horror films. Check it out.

A Cure For Wellness - I was prepared for this to be a bit of a slog but it actually paces itself well enough. Design is pretty good but there's just too many overfamiliar things (particularly the ballroom dance). Not sure what to make of the almost retro monster movie ending, but it could have been much more impressive if they hadn't resorted to the cgi face (the cgi deer near the start is even worse). Mia Goth's character is another over-familiar type but she does this kind of thing really well, my favorite part of the film easily. With a few changes this could have been really good but I still kinda like it.

November - The best film of this lot by quite some distance. I had heard it was funny but this could fairly be called a sort of comedy, people in the screening I went to were laughing regularly, the thing the father says about avoiding the plague is particularly funny. Lots of toilet humor.
Rural squalor, people transforming into various animals, magic mechanical contraptions, all the wisdom of the world's water being gathered into a snowman. Lovely photography, black metal fans may enjoy. Something I particularly loved was the depiction of the devil (was he also the chicken in the woods?), that guy was fantastic, my new hero.