The Horror Thread - Part 5

[Enriquespy]

I feel like watching a few Friday the 13th´s Both for the Aniversary, and in Remembrance or dear Mrs Voorhees.

BTW I finaly saw "The Babadook" Great methaphore of anxiety and fear, a well crafted film.

Spoiler

But it becomes a little formulaic after the entity enters the mom. Except, of course, for the part of having a Babadook as a pet, that was a was a cool twist.

 

[Sian]

Joy Ride was an awesome, well-crafted B-movie. Not ashamed to say I own it.

So do I, the touches of black humour were what made it stand out I think

 

[Sian]

I think that's true for about 95% of the film. There should be somewhat of a payoff for the other 5%. Annabelle did it correctly, in my opinion. There's an element of "what's in your own head should be scarier than the threat on screen," but if you're going to show something, you better deliver the goods, and it better be scarier than what was in your head.

- Annabelle
- The Babadook
- The Ring
- Insidious

I think these are good examples of that.

The movies that don't deliver in this department are the ones that you never hear or think about anymore, like Mirrors, The Unborn, Boogeyman, etc.

I still have nightmares about the Ring!!

One of the rare examples of a remake that's actually as good as the original.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Got round to seeing 'Clown', very impressive piece of horror, if a little 'genre familar', good concept, well handled. 8/10

 

[Thundarr]

I feel like watching a few Friday the 13th´s Both for the Aniversary, and in Remembrance or dear Mrs Voorhees.

BTW I finaly saw "The Babadook" Great methaphore of anxiety and fear, a well crafted film.

Spoiler

But it becomes a little formulaic after the entity enters the mom. Except, of course, for the part of having a Babadook as a pet, that was a was a cool twist.

I'm doing that very thing right now.

 

[Keehar]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Be_Afraid_of_the_Dark_(1973_film)

Is that any good?

 

[Broseph44]

Got round to seeing 'Clown', very impressive piece of horror, if a little 'genre familar', good concept, well handled. 8/10

I enjoyed clown as well

 

[Naked Shia]

I've seen it follows. what an overhyped piece of ....

It was boring, never scary, nor original, the characters were incredibly dumb....

 

[Alien Anal]

I've seen it follows. what an overhyped piece of ....

It was boring, never scary, nor original, the characters were incredibly dumb....

This is opposite day surely! :P

I loved everything about this movie

 

[Naked Shia]

I know a lot of people liked it, including a good friend of mine, but I can't think of a thing that I liked in this movie. I guess the music was good.

 

[StarLord]

Watched a low budget flick called We Are Still Here the other night, after reading a few positive reviews I thought I'd check it out. Here's my ramblings, SPOILER tagged just in case.

Spoiler

I have to say that it was quite refreshing to see an older couple as the leads.

Anyway, Paul (Andrew Sensenig) and Anne (Barbara Crampton) are mourning the death of their son from a few months prior, they move out to a remote house in an attempt to move on with their lives. Anne starts to get these strange feelings like she can connect to her son through the house and at the same time things start to unravel with the history of the house and a few unhappy locals decide to reveal the truth... which ends in a bit of a bloodbath!

The effects were decent and the ghostly residents/beings reminded me of the pirates in Carpenter's The Fog. Overall a decent watch, a little cliche but pretty good for low budget. The snowy surroundings also provided quite a haunting touch too. 6/10

 

[StarLord]

The Green Inferno - Official Trailer

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[Prison Mike]

I've seen it follows. what an overhyped piece of ....

It was boring, never scary, nor original, the characters were incredibly dumb....

Just saw it the other day too. Yeah it was crap....

 

[antsman41]

So far, It follows is my favorite horror this year with Creep coming up close.

What We Do In The Shadows is amazing but is more of a comedy.

Maggie and Poltergeist were just ok, I didn't like We Are Still Here. it seemed like it was trying too hard and the acting was terrible, even though the concept was cool. I hated Girl House... that was trash.

 

[Kane52630]

It Follows is the clear favorite for me so far... although Maggie is pretty close.

 

[StarLord]

My Top 5 Horror Movies so far this year are:

1. What We Do In the Shadows
2. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
3. Housebound
4. It Follows
5. Spring

#1 and #3 are horror-comedies, but they are amazing. Highly recommended.

 

[Matt Mortem]

Was not impressed by Maggie at all, it was kind of a wreck. It Follows was amazing though, loved every second of that flick. What We Do in the Shadows was so good I was genuinely sad when it ended. I could have sat there for 8 hours watching all those shenanigans. Haven't seen much else in the way of horror this year.

Oh and StarLord I want to point out the hilarity of seeing your Obi-Wan moustache twirling avy right above my Dr. King Schultz moustache twirling avy. Amazing.

 

[StarLord]

Was not impressed by Maggie at all, it was kind of a wreck. It Follows was amazing though, loved every second of that flick. What We Do in the Shadows was so good I was genuinely sad when it ended. I could have sat there for 8 hours watching all those shenanigans. Haven't seen much else in the way of horror this year.

Oh and StarLord I want to point out the hilarity of seeing your Obi-Wan moustache twirling avy right above my Dr. King Schultz moustache twirling avy. Amazing.

That's awesome.

What We Do In the Shadows was SO GOOD. The whole gang cracked me up, especially Viago. Hilarious.

 

[antsman41]

Thanks for the recommendations, StarLord...

My favorite line in WWDITS is, "I think we drink virgin blood because it sounds cool.". And, then the whole comparison with a half eaten sandwich was outrageous.

 

[StarLord]

No probs, anstman.

Yeah that's a great one too. I love the conversations they have about the most simplest of things and how straight face they play it. Genius.

 

[kickass]

The Babadook is the best horror film in years. I just saw Creep as well and man oh man, that film is incredibly unnerving!! Spring is also beautiful and Housebound is tons of fun.

 

[chamber-music]

Let Us Prey is another great horror film released this year that was slept on.

It is Assault On Precinct 13 meets Angel Heart.

 

[Heretic]

Watched Horsehead (2015)

I've seen this described as what would happen if Argento did a remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. That's about right.

Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux (who I've never heard of, but she did a fine job here) plays a young woman who has been plagued by nightmarish dreams (and is therefore studying dream psychology in college). Her grandmother dies and she reunites with her estranged mother for the funeral. I'm not sure that the primary mystery is really that difficult for the viewer to figure out, nor is it that intriguing to watch her put the pieces together...but the "real world" scenes in this seem to only exist to stitch together the dream sequences.

Director Romain Basset has made an interesting looking movie here, but I'm not entirely sure what I just watched. The dream sequences are intriguing, often sexualized scenes of Horror. Sometimes all you need in a weird movie like this is really cool stuff to look at. But it would be nice if the story being told in the real world was worth piecing together from all of the imagery and clues. Make no mistake, I do have lingering questions that aren't answered by the end of the film...they just aren't important enough for me to keep thinking about the way the best of these types of movies make me do.

The camera work, the lighting, costuming etc...all great. The film captures the mood its going for very well. It's beautiful.

I've seen several reviewers criticize the "dubstep" music score in this. I'm not a fan of that type of music, but for me, it sounded like an homage/update on classic Horror scores. Maybe these reviewers are just being too cool for school. It really worked for me and was one of my favorite parts of the film. In fact, the dream sequences almost play a bit like darkly erotic music videos (like maybe a Marilyn Manson video starring a beautiful girl who seems to take a lot of baths).

The movie is loaded with symbolism. Some works, some doesn't.

The fact is...with the year half over, this has been a very bad year for Horror thus far. The visuals alone put this above most of the movies I've seen, even if the story isn't that great.

 

[Heretic]

Watched Area 51 (2015), another found footage movie from the director of Paranormal Activity.

This was supposed to come out 5 years ago but sat on a shelf until the studio finally unceremoniously dropped it on the public recently. Having watched it, it's clear why this sat for so long: It's dreadfully boring.

A group of friends decide to break into Area 51 to find evidence of alien life. The entire first hour is just them on their way to the facility. It has all the thrills of watching annoying strangers drive a long distance. We are of course treated to the typical found footage over-explaining, and honestly I was checked out for much of it. Finally, they get to the most top secret base on Earth (which has fewer security guards than my local mall) and get to see shaky video of walls as they walk around the base. The end makes no sense.

Look, I'm not a found footage fan. It's not for me...but seriously, this is not one of the better examples of the format.

 

[Johnny-Oh]

I thought the Babadook was mediocre, It Follows on the other hand lived up to the hype.