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

Saw Halloween.

Competent. Not that good tho

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

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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

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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.

The Invitation might be the horror(ish) film I've recommended the most the last couple of years.

Ended up not seeing Overlord. Something about it just didn't feel right. It didn't help that I've been dealing with local Nazi shit, but the idea of Nazi medical experiments turned zombies, let alone the specifically idea that these were POWs being experimented on and turned into zombies, felt fine for a grind house exploitation film but nothing I feel comfortable enough sitting through at the multiplex right now.

I enjoyed Hereditary. I'm sure I wasn't alone though in laughing at the car/telegraph pole incident.

Telegraph pole?

What happens to the daughter.

I loved the new Suspiria! I think it is my favorite film this year.

Nothing to do with the original, in some ways the complete cinematic opposite. But still amazing.

My sister said she laughed at the telegraph pole bit and couldnt stop and nobody else in her theatre did

there was quite a bit of unintentional comedy in Hereditary. Can't say I was laughing at that particular moment though...

Evolution (french - strange island inhabited only by young boys and adult women) was a delightful surprise. Super fucking creepy and rather Cocteau-esque and arrestingly weird climactic reveal moments. Going to rewatch.

That's the one by noé's wife?

idk

serbian sounding name

Bosnian! Lucile Hadzihalilovic. I have not seen Evolution but Innocence is a classic.

Cam on Netflix is not bad given the generally low bar for internet/tech horror films.

i watched Sleep Tight (Spanish, 2012) the other evening. director of REC. delightfully disturbing psychology and so, so tense.

Cam was written by a former camgirl -- haven't watched yet, but I assume that helped with the whole verisimilitude angle

Yeah, CAM was ok. I saw a screening at the local theater. I love the concept and that it addresses more current porn/cam culture. As a horror film though, it dragged a bit and took too long to get to the good parts.