The Horror Thread - Part 5

[Lasirius]

I'd love to see what you think is a solid horror film that's been produced over the last 10 years. Conjuring and Insidious are the only examples that can compare with greats such as Halloween, Psycho, etc.

The Mist
Inside
It Follows
The Babadook
Sinister
The Descent
The House of the Devil

 

[Enriquespy]

The Mist
Inside
It Follows
The Babadook
Sinister
The Descent
The House of the Devil

Also.

 

[Prison Mike]

I saw it, it was pretty bad. And it was so short that I didn't think it was worth it. Usual cheap scares, too. Pretty much what you'd expect

A free movie is a free movie

I ended up seeing it and yeah it was a terrible movie. I was rooting for the ghost the entire time. I wanted all the main characters to die. Well at least the movie was free and I got popcorn and soda out of it.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Tales of Halloween.

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Doesn't look all that great but I admit I' am sucker for an horror anthology.

That looks utterly awesome....

 

[Kane52630]

So I saw Creep...I thought it was pretty weak. It reminded me of that VHS segment with the couple going out on vacation. There just wasn't enough going for it.

 

[Heretic]

Watched Final Girl (2015), a movie that seemed to take forever to come out.

The film is about a girl who has been trained to kill people who kill innocent girls. Could have been a unique concept a few years ago, but we've seen the "female turns the tables on the attackers" idea a few times already in better films.

The basic concept and title are spoilers...in fact, I think the trailer shows the final shot in the film, so there is never any doubt about what will happen here...

Spoiler

This stars Abigail Breslin, in her second Horror miscast of the year. She was in Maggie playing a girl who was bitten and slowly becoming a zombie. In that film, her healthy figure and round face did not lend itself to being a zombie. There's a reason why so many actors cast to play zombies have very defined facial features etc (like Contracted from a few years ago, which was another film about a girl slowly becoming a zombie...Najarra Townsend is attractive, but her features lend themselves to being zombified). In this movie, her character has spent several years as part of an organization that has done nothing but train her to kill bad guys. Meanwhile, the actress doesn't appear to have ever thrown a punch in her life...and they even show her being trained to punch as a mid/late-teen (apparently in over a decade of training before that, punching never came up). If you watch the film...and consider all of the aspects going on...it is STUNNING that she spent her entire life training to be the perfect killer, and yet had such a hard time taking on the untrained, intoxicated fools she was up against. The film even uses not so clever tricks to avoid showing the actress performing much of the action. I get that they wanted a cute, innocent looking girl for the role...but COME ON. Someone like Caity Lotz would have been better since she has training in that field. She wouldn't take a crappy role like this...but for instance...there's a little known indie actress named Seri Deyoung who is pretty darn adorable and looks totally unthreatening, but she also has plenty of martial arts training as well as stage combat (and she would have been cheaper than Breslin).

Anyway...enough about that.

It's pretty bad all around...the dialogue...the acting...for some reason it appears set in the 50's or something. Plus, it's boring, as the action is delayed by a lot of talking. It's a really disappointing movie. Not much in the way of blood/gore either.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

Does anyone here like The Collector? I thought it was pretty solid and creepy. The mask is really, really cool too. Well anyway that director is now helming Halloween Returns. Unnecessary? Probably, but as a huge Halloween fan I'm freaking excited. Especially since it's going back to the original continuity and setting itself after the original H2. Zombie's movies didn't do it for me so going back to the roots is exciting

I hope the new mask looks like one of these:

Spoiler

 

[Heretic]

Does anyone here like The Collector? I thought it was pretty solid and creepy. The mask is really, really cool too. Well anyway that director is now helming Halloween Returns. Unnecessary? Probably, but as a huge Halloween fan I'm freaking excited. Especially since it's going back to the original continuity and setting itself after the original H2. Zombie's movies didn't do it for me so going back to the roots is exciting

I hope the new mask looks like one of these:

Spoiler

Interesting! The guy did a few Saw movies in addition to The Collector and The Collection. Not a bad choice, really. And I hope that isn't just me being glad its anyone but Rob Zombie.

 

[Johnny-Oh]

I liked both The Collector and The Collection

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

Interesting! The guy did a few Saw movies in addition to The Collector and The Collection. Not a bad choice, really. And I hope that isn't just me being glad its anyone but Rob Zombie.

Yeah, definitely not a bad choice. He's no James Wan but he seems capable enough to deliver on something more like the originals. Zombie got too weird with Halloween 2. If only the whole movie was more like the dream sequence.

I liked both The Collector and The Collection

As did I

 

[Majik1387]

They were decent horror movies, especially in the current crop of horror movies. It definitely is on the level o the Saw movies.

 

[NotSoLongAgo]

I wanna check this one out sometime

 

[Heretic]

I like it because we know the genre is something he loves, but he definitely comes from a more modern mindset.

 

[redhawk23]

As far as recent great horror films go, I love REC and REC2 despite really hating most found footage movies.

Both avoid most of my pet peeves with the genre (specifically a lot of movies that for some reason still add music or have too smooth or too shakey camera work).

I also just really enjoy the premise and execution of those films.

I'd go to bat for REC 2 being one of the best horror sequels of all time. That may seem like faint praise but it perfectly builds on the first film, expanding it and recontextualizing things from the first movie in interesting ways.

Both films take place entirely in the same apartment building. There is pretty much perfect continuity between the films to the extent it just seems like they were made at the same time despite being made 2 or 3 years apart.

 

[Astro13Zombie]

I wanna check this one out sometime

You should!
It's pretty great.

 

[shalindar]

Hi everyone! I am trying to find a horror movie I saw when I was a kid (12-14 years ago) and I thought maybe you could help me out.
The only things I can remember about it are it was about satan (but not a manifestation of him), a woman getting jumped on and killed by black cats, a girl that was riding a horse and someone does something to the horse and the girl falls and almost breaks her neck. And at the end the same girl hugs her father while a pair of scissors I think floats behind him (the girl was possessed) and that's how the movie ends. Does anyone have any idea what the movie might be?

 

[Majik1387]

So finally gave Ouija a watch. It wasn't as bad as everyone made it out to be. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't good, very cliche heavy and predictable, and a cheesy ending that made no sense. I also don't think I've ever seen a horror movie kill a character on screen without it being clear how the character died.

 

[Kane52630]

As far as recent great horror films go, I love REC and REC2 despite really hating most found footage movies.

Both avoid most of my pet peeves with the genre (specifically a lot of movies that for some reason still add music or have too smooth or too shakey camera work).

I also just really enjoy the premise and execution of those films.

I'd go to bat for REC 2 being one of the best horror sequels of all time. That may seem like faint praise but it perfectly builds on the first film, expanding it and recontextualizing things from the first movie in interesting ways.

Both films take place entirely in the same apartment building. There is pretty much perfect continuity between the films to the extent it just seems like they were made at the same time despite being made 2 or 3 years apart.

Agreed with everything here.

They dropped the ball with Rec 3 by making it more like Army of Darkness, but Rec 4 tried to bring it back (but the ending was pretty meh).

 

[Prison Mike]

I loved the first REC. All the sequels after that have been hit or miss for me.

 

[redhawk23]

Agreed with everything here.

They dropped the ball with Rec 3 by making it more like Army of Darkness, but Rec 4 tried to bring it back (but the ending was pretty meh).

As its own thing, REC 3 is okay but as a sequel to the first 2 it is very disappointing.


SpongeJohn is amazing though and I was really hoping he'd come back one more time at the end.

 

[Majik1387]

Rec 3 was amazing, Rec 4 was all kinds of horrible.

 

[Broseph44]

I'd love to see what you think is a solid horror film that's been produced over the last 10 years. Conjuring and Insidious are the only examples that can compare with greats such as Halloween, Psycho, etc.

Only examples in your opinion. You realize other people might think differently right? What you stated isn't fact.

Tales of Halloween.

[YT]?v=C2tA1e8UAZ4[/YT]

Doesn't look all that great but I admit I' am sucker for an horror anthology.

Will definitely check this out, horror anthologies are always worth a watch.

 

[Kane52630]

As its own thing, REC 3 is okay but as a sequel to the first 2 it is very disappointing.


SpongeJohn is amazing though and I was really hoping he'd come back one more time at the end.

Hah, yeah SpongeJohn was great.

 

[chamber-music]

REC 1&2 I loved.

REC 3 was ok

REC 4 was boring.

 

[Johnny-Oh]

I prefer Quarantine to Rec but Rec 2 was AMAZING! Quarantine 2 and Rec 4 are decent, Rec 3 is just terrible.