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

Happy Death Day was slight but fun

i think happy death day 2 is a significant downgrade from the first. i still liked it but i feel like the opening 20 minutes promised a more interesting movie than the one i got

FWIW I'm even down with horror comedy recommendations that lean like 90-10 in favor of comedy (a la Tucker & Dale).

oh since i can't stop talking about the final destination movies, one of the movies on my decade list would be final destination 5. tony todd returns to the cast, all the deaths are excruciating, and the twist ending turns the franchise into an ouroboros, not that you need to be familiar with previous final destination movies to enjoy it

Yeah, I'm all the time thinking about pulling the trigger on these budget-priced collections of horror series that have passed me by altogether. I'm just going to assume that running through all the Final Destination movies would probably be a better use of my time than Saw or oh say Leprechaun.

yes they're so fun, even the shittiest one is fun

FD 2 I thought was novel, in that they're aware of, and involve, the first movie's characters. Also that having that knowledge doesn't help them survive.

I bought a Blu-Ray set of all six Resident Evil movies for like $10 a few months back and by the time I got to the last one my brain was dribbling out of my ears.

the fifth resident evil sequel, retribution, rivals event horizon for the best paul w.s. anderson film. i think it's brilliant

Sometimes this tack really pays off (as it did when I bought the Chucky set and slogged through those first three cinematic trash fires only to learn to my delight that the brilliance of the series lies entirely in the back half). But, yes, it's often a great way to underscore the essential futility of human existence.

imo the only bad child's play movie is the third one. 2 is extremely fun. greatest horror franchise of all time next to phantasm imo

the fifth resident evil sequel, retribution, rivals event horizon for the best paul w.s. anderson film. i think it's brilliant

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:38 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

to expand on this, it incorporates a very video game-y concept (respawning) into the actual plot and it has incredible emotional impact

xpost I am being unfair inasmuch as, yes, 3 is the only really irredeemable entry, but the first two are rather perfunctory compared to what happened once they fully popped the cap off the can of batshit.

there are few cinematic experiences that will ever compare to the first time i saw seed of chucky

Seriously.

I'm pretty sure The Loved Ones was this decade, distribution-wise. Unnerving Australian black comedy/coming-of-age horror with a delightfully twisted protagonist.

Echoing pretty much what everyone's said, but other favourites from this decade include: Under the Skin, Midsommar, A Field in England, Prevenge, Get Out, Creep, Mandy, Green Room, Killing of a Sacred Deer.

I never heard of Starry Eyes before this thread. I might watch that over the next few days, as well as The Wailing, which I've been meaning to get to forever.

Starry Eyes was really good, just not one of my personal faves.

Loved Ones is fun for sure. His followup The Devil's Candy was OK as well

Yeah, The Devil's Candy was pretty good. Great soundtrack (lots of metal, but used organically - the characters are into metal but that doesn't automatically make them evil).

oh that's the one with ethan embry! that was good.

there are few cinematic experiences that will ever compare to the first time i saw seed of chucky

haha me too, I saw this in the theater with a bunch of friends in the middle of the afternoon (I had skipped out of work) and everyone was hooting and hollering along

Brad mentioning Resident Evil made my mind jump to a movie that is probably technically action but has strong horror elements: Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

I don't know that I've seen anything else in the series but knew the premise. Completely ott, begins with the murder of the main character's family, and does some pretty wild things mid-film

A Girl Walks Home Alone... is more of a curio than a great film. It has some interesting stuff going on for sure, but I wouldn't necessarily put it in a best-of-decade list. Honestly what I liked most about it was the setting/geography of it (central CA stand-in for Iran?) Felt a lot like a Jarmusch film, albeit not exactly Jarmusch's own vampire movie (which should also maybe belong here, although it is not particularly scary).

US:DoR is fucking bizarre and horrifying and brilliant - sci-fi action movie that swerves hard into body horror and Gaspar Noe-style shock. I love it.

the psychological twist is kind of overshadowed by the stabbing and strobe lights but I completely agree

Day of Reckoning may be the most viscerally violent movie I've ever seen.

Yeah, the fight scenes - I'm thinking in particular of the one in the sporting goods store - are insane.

Doctor Sleep was....fine.

xp the reviews that used phrases like “cronenbergian body horror” and “david lynch vibes” were a little ott but I would definitely buy the Gaspar Noe comparisons, if only for the fact that mf’er loves flashing lights 😏

Day of Reckoning looks like the sort of thing I can watch with my partner and we will both be satisfied. Noe vibes, okay, but what about Uwe Boll? or is it simply not as nihilistic?

(i'm going to admit my great admiration for Boll, probably an unpopular opinion here as most places)

I haven’t watched a lot of Boll! But I’m rewatching now and wondering how the hell I questioned it was horror. It’s about a guy who (very minor spoilers, it’s the opening) sees his family killed, then wakes up from a coma and that is *the only memory he has of his life*

Apparently Nicholas Winding Refn is a “devoted admirer of John Hyams” (director of DoR) and they’re collaborating for HBO now, if that endorsement counts

Not sure if this is horror (...is Under the Skin horror?), but I loved Upgrade.

Re: Baskin - that movie is INSANE. I recommended it to some horror pals, not really out of a good faith rec, but more that I wanted to subject them to that totally batshit movie. Years later, they still text me about my horrible taste in horror movies. I finally had to give up the ruse and admit to them that I didn't actually think it was good and just wanted them to have it burned into their psyche. I didn't have the extreme reaction to it my friends had, but be warned.

If we're being broad, I'd add Bone Tomahawk to the list of recent heavyweights. I've been put off Midsommar but will definitely check it out given its placing alongside so,many other great films in this discussion. Saw Green Room recently - some genuine gasp out loud moments.

Bone Tomahawk is p horrifying - Western horror subgenre?

Anything else in that particular niche? Did Fulchi make any horror westerns?

Upgrade was fantastic. i started a thread for it that i don't think anyone else ever posted on. but it's more sci-fi/action than horror in my opinion.

Yeah, I loved it (can the main dude please get all future roles that people might be considering Tom Hardy for?), but I wouldn't call it a horror movie really.

strong body horror elements when he realizes he isn't the one driving

There are Venom people and Upgrade people. I am a Venom person.

Upgrade and Bone Tomahawk are both often weirdly funny.

I am a Venom person.

― Simon H., Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:27 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

same

it's the only good modern superhero movie

Anything else in that particular niche? Did Fulchi make any horror westerns?

Ravenous

(not Fulci)

Near Dark!!

eh that's a stretch

(also not a good movie imo)

Offered 3 options for Halloween viewing: Crawl (alligators in a flooded house), Don't Breathe (dumbasses break into a wily blind man's house, things go badly), The Shallows (Blake Lively vs. shark). We're going with Don't Breathe.

xpost What's your beef with Near Dark?

Don't Breathe is solid. Contains a moment that inspired a viscerally satisfying audience response.