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

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.

fuuuck me, It Comes at Night is possibly the most intense flick i've seen. and i've seen some shit. so claustrophobic, domestic, human.

Just watched that last night. Headshot the night before. Loved both.

yes, the ending had me shook.

as an aspiring cyberpsychologist, it's always good to hear more internet/tech horror! recently watched Kairo (or 'Pulse', 2001 (yeah sorry i know this is post 2005 thread) - spirits leaking from the afterlife via the internet, or something. gorgeous, aesthetically - really interesting sound design that recalled early BBC radiophonic workshop/derbyshire editing. saw 'Unfriended - Dark Web' at the cinema recently, too. pretty silly, but i just loved how it was all set from the OS desktop. unfortunately computer-screen films don't seem to date too well, given the rate of tech progression -- original 'Unfriended', set over skype only four years ago looks pretty old already...

pulse rules

i would like to reiterate: the strangers prey at night is the best recent horror movie i’ve seen

I thought it was pretty good but the swimming pool scene was incredible

The Suspiria remake is a right old mess - some good moments (loved the scene when we spy on the witches taunting the naked policeman), but far too long and too many dance sequences, crappy effects, a near-disastrous last twenty minutes. I'm not, to put it mildly, a Radiohead fan, so for me the soundtrack was a real turn-off - Thom Yorke's usual ghostly or ghastly singing backed by some fairly routine creepy minimalist signifiers. The remake, perhaps wisely, doesn't even attempt to match the original's stunning first half hour in terms of intensity, sound, colour, décor - and is in fact almost totally not scary throughout.

yeah it’s all over the place. the dancing was wicked though they basically spoiled the volk performance by making it really REALLY unpleasant to watch

It Comes At Night is definitely great peak prepper thriller, which seems to be a trend right now, but don't sleep on The Survivalist, which is equally intense.

ICaN did nothing for me tbh. Showcased all the "gentrified genre movie" stereotypes unfairly thrown at so many other recent American horror movies

Another thumbs up for Evolution.

Someone said November is on the American version of amazon prime but without subtitles.

New Suspiria is not good, aside from some nice cinematography and the odd pan and zoom. 'That' casting decision didn't work for me at all

And it's sooooo looooong yes, I was writhing in my seat

Jessica Harper?

No she was fine, I thought it would be obvious but Tilda Swinton as Father Merrin

Horror crew who have Shudder, what do you recommend? I signed up thinking I'd watch Mandy and cancel before my free trial is over, but it's cheap enough that I might keep it for a month or two, maybe watch the Argento and Bava films.

if you like mandy and haven't seen beyond the black rainbow imo do that. also: fulci's the beyond and zombie; one of my favorite slasher sequels ever hello mary lou: prom night 2; abel ferrara's feminist masterpiece ms. 45; gaspar noe's biggest influence which is 1000x better than any gaspar noe film, angst; all the phantasm movies (they're missing phantasm 2 unfortunately); starry eyes is a body horror that freaked me out so much i never want to watch it again; everyone has to watch death bed: the bed that eats at least once

also my favorite movie the exorcist iii

and one probably not for everyone but: tense dreamy identity crisis thriller always shine is one of my favorite movies of the past few years

Thanks! I have a pretty weak constitution when it comes to horror but I want to check some things out. I watched Mandy this evening and liked it a lot.

ok then i take back starry eyes and maybe angst (less scary than stomach-churning) but the rest definitely

omg there is so much to recommend on shudder -- it would be easier to recommend if we knew what you like/are looking for?! :)

beyond mandy, i mean

oh! i really enjoyed the channel zero series -- all three seasons tbh

i've heard almost exclusively good things about channel zero, i should finally check it out

each season has its charms so far -- 2 and 3 in particular (2 thematically and 3 visually -- the Return to Oz factor is very high iirc) i guess there are two more seasons that have aired but i haven't seen. i kind of can't believe this show was on tv?

I'm more or less okay with gore, I like tension but I'm a little wary of jump scares. I'm still trying to figure out what I like after a lifetime of avoiding horror. I watched Audition many years ago and thought it was a terrific film but it left me a mess for a few days and I haven't sought out anything like it.

Things I have watched/plan to watch on Shudder, some of them familiar favorites: Bava and Argento, check; Carpenter's Halloween and The Fog; Ghostwatch; Re-Animator; Short Night of Glass Dolls; the Fulci movies BradNelson mentions; The Old Dark House; Daughters of Darkness; Lords of Salem

Shudder just added some King-related titles and I have watched/will watch Silver Bullet, Creepshow, and Salem's Lot

obv most of these are pre- rather than post-2005

Does shudder as subcomponent of Amazon Prime have all the same selections as shudder standalone?

Is that the original Old Dark House? I've probably seen 75% of the horror movies released in the '30s and that's probably top five from that decade imo.

Starry Eyes def recommended, but iirc it's more unnerving than like gory or whatever. If you can stomach Mandy, you can probably stomach that one.

yes, Shudder has the 1932 Old Dark House with Karloff ... I agree it's one of the best 1930s horror movies

recently I read the novel it's based on, J.B. Priestley's Benighted, and was surprised to discover that the movie is a faithful adaptation

Does the novel shed any light on the casting choice Whale made for the father?