Good new horror films

[Mikes]

I said in the main film thread that The Cursed (2021) was a very good werewolf film, let down by a weak ending, but still very much worth anyone's time. Oh, except Boyd Holdbrook's ENglish accent slipped into his southern US accent more than Keanu Reeves in Dracula.

 

Anyhoo, just watching the Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi Files.  Soooooooo good:

 

 

[yakumo]

16 hours ago, Mikes said:

I said in the main film thread that The Cursed (2021) was a very good werewolf film, let down by a weak ending, but still very much worth anyone's time. Oh, except Boyd Holdbrook's ENglish accent slipped into his southern US accent more than Keanu Reeves in Dracula.

 

Anyhoo, just watching the Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi Files.  Soooooooo good:

 

 

Kôji Shiraishi!!!

 

yes, it does drop off in quality but its not a patch on his earlier stuff but it's still got some good moments. I do like the bearded guy who's so off the rails.

[Mikes]

18 minutes ago, yakumo said:

Kôji Shiraishi!!!

 

yes, it does drop off in quality but its not a patch on his earlier stuff but it's still got some good moments. I do like the bearded guy who's so off the rails.

 

Ooh, what earlier stuff?

[yakumo]

1 minute ago, Mikes said:

 

Ooh, what earlier stuff?

You seen them, he's the king off FF in Japan. It's the same person who made Noroi, Cult, Shirome.

[Silent Runner]

Chucky season 2 has started back. First episode is good fun but there's not a lot of Chucky so far. 

[Mikes]

9 hours ago, yakumo said:

You seen them, he's the king off FF in Japan. It's the same person who made Noroi, Cult, Shirome.

 

Oh right. It did have the same feel as Noroi. I'm loving the series so far. But yeah, bearded guy 😁 I love that his first response after initial questions fail is to start wailing on people like a WWE wrestler.

[yakumo]

29 minutes ago, Mikes said:

 

Oh right. It did have the same feel as Noroi. I'm loving the series so far. But yeah, bearded guy 😁 I love that his first response after initial questions fail is to start wailing on people like a WWE wrestler.

Yeah that guy is hilarious. His new series Occult Village is decent too.

[Davros sock drawer]

Not a new film per se (2018) but last night I watched Possum, Matt Holness’s debut feature.

 

I thought it was great. Very unsettling atmosphere and premise, and although the denouement was quite “real world” the film managed to evoke a nightmarish feeling in the true sense. The sort of nightmares where you’re doing things you’re not sure if you did, forgetting things you shouldn’t, and everything being “wrong”.
 

The soundtrack did an excellent job of cementing that atmosphere, but there’s also an emotionally exhausting but mesmerising performance from Sean Harris at the heart of the film, without which the film would perhaps have felt a little thin on actual plot. Personally the more his face contorted in fear and confusion, the more it drew me in. 
 

It’s the sort of film you used to stumble across in the small hours on channel 4 and wonder what the fuck you just watched. Great (under) use of the main creature too. If like me a lot of modern movie monsters leave you cold and you’re more unsettled by low key “things being back where you know you just removed them from” type scares, this will be just the job.

[Dark Soldier]

Sean Harris is the best actor working in the UK imo. He does odd, hbhinged, weird yet grounded characters so fucking well.

[yakumo]

8 hours ago, Davros sock drawer said:

Not a new film per se (2018) but last night I watched Possum, Matt Holness’s debut feature.

 

I thought it was great. Very unsettling atmosphere and premise, and although the denouement was quite “real world” the film managed to evoke a nightmarish feeling in the true sense. The sort of nightmares where you’re doing things you’re not sure if you did, forgetting things you shouldn’t, and everything being “wrong”.
 

The soundtrack did an excellent job of cementing that atmosphere, but there’s also an emotionally exhausting but mesmerising performance from Sean Harris at the heart of the film, without which the film would perhaps have felt a little thin on actual plot. Personally the more his face contorted in fear and confusion, the more it drew me in. 
 

It’s the sort of film you used to stumble across in the small hours on channel 4 and wonder what the fuck you just watched. Great (under) use of the main creature too. If like me a lot of modern movie monsters leave you cold and you’re more unsettled by low key “things being back where you know you just removed them from” type scares, this will be just the job.

Might enjoy Caveat too, if you enjoyed Possum.

[ImmaculateClump]

I saw Cronenberg's Spider the day after Possum and they went really well together.
Give that a watch as well if you can. Spider is amazing.

[ImmaculateClump]

"Piggy" is really good.

[Stanley]

Is Terrifier any good? I’ve been reading about the sequel and wondered if the first one is worth a go. 

[Goose]

1 hour ago, Stanley said:

Is Terrifier any good? I’ve been reading about the sequel and wondered if the first one is worth a go. 

 

Acting is pretty poor across the board, but there's a some really good effects work. Lot of frustration from the stupid things people do (or don't).

[Stanley]

1 hour ago, Goose said:

 

Acting is pretty poor across the board, but there's a some really good effects work. Lot of frustration from the stupid things people do (or don't).

I read it had some really good practical effects work, and pretty old school in that regards. 

[Jammy]

10 minutes ago, Stanley said:

I read it had some really good practical effects work, and pretty old school in that regards. 

It’s very much a slasher in terms of effects, how the characters behave, etc., but still worth a watch. Have also been reading about the sequel this weekend; a lot of hype around how gory it is.

[Stanley]

Yeah they’ve certainly got the marketing down for it, people passing out and all that 

[Timmo]

3 hours ago, Stanley said:

Is Terrifier any good? I’ve been reading about the sequel and wondered if the first one is worth a go. 

It’s fucking shit but it does include a kill you’ll never forget. 

[ImmaculateClump]

4 hours ago, Stanley said:

Is Terrifier any good? I’ve been reading about the sequel and wondered if the first one is worth a go. 

 

I had to turn off terrifier after half an hour or so, it was boring the arse off me, but yeah, I'm hearing good things about the sequel.

I'm not entirely convinced, but I suppose I'll give it a go once it's available.

[Arn X Treme]

I've started watching "Spider" last night after seeing the recommendation last night. 

 

It's like Gabriel Byrne never ages, as he looks nearly the same as what he does at the moment in War Of The Worlds.

 

Spider's a bleak film so far, and It was too late/early to do it in one sitting. 

 

I've gotten to the part where,

 

Spoiler

He's took the shovel to Spider's Mums head.

 Wasn't the reaction I was expecting to that scene and I'm sure it's going to get worse as the film goes on.

 

 

[Scribblor]

9 hours ago, Stanley said:

Is Terrifier any good? I’ve been reading about the sequel and wondered if the first one is worth a go. 

I thought it was utter shit, but definitely take that with a bucket of salt if you enjoy the sort of film it is.

 

My memory of it is that it's nothing but a below average slasher with an above average amount of gore. The sort of film that bores me rigid.

[Goose]

Yes, Terrifier has some excellent practical effects, especially in that one scene. Like Timmo said, a kill you'll never forget. 

 

I think Art the Clown is a good modern villain. I am interested in seeing part 2, but won't rush to see it.

[squirtle]

If you like found footage, there's a good documentary on Shudder called The Found Footage Phenomenon.

[Loik V credern]

There was a recomnend a horror thread on reddit and what came top was 1988's The Vanishing, so I immediately watched it. Yeah...Kubrick also liked it apparently. It felt older than 1988 to me given it used basically nothing to build tension, The Shining was 1980 right. 

 

I thought it was crap. Like it had nothing going for it. A film so universally praised you have to search by lowest ratings on user reviews to find some negativity. Anyone else not like it? Anyone love it? I thought Audition was the creepiest film I've seen but maybe I was just seeing things that are not there as i think people are with The Vanishing. It's regarded as the scariest non horror film ever. 'The ending will haunt you'. Yeah, there is an issue with that though in terms of character development. 

[Exidor]

The Vanishing isn't really a horror in that sense though. It's a missing person mystery/procedural with a really bleak ending, like a banality of evil thing. I like it but I can imagine coming away disappointed if I'd gone in expecting some kind of stalk and slash thing.

[yakumo]

11 hours ago, squirtle said:

If you like found footage, there's a good documentary on Shudder called The Found Footage Phenomenon.

 

I thought it was poor. You learned nothing with interviews being just "reactions" to Blair Witch, Megan is missing, the first few old FF movies etc. Lazy documentation and you be better off googling a wiki page.

[squirtle]

1 hour ago, Loik V credern said:

There was a recomnend a horror thread on reddit and what came top was 1988's The Vanishing, so I immediately watched it. Yeah...Kubrick also liked it apparently. It felt older than 1988 to me given it used basically nothing to build tension, The Shining was 1980 right. 

 

I thought it was crap. Like it had nothing going for it. A film so universally praised you have to search by lowest ratings on user reviews to find some negativity. Anyone else not like it? Anyone love it? I thought Audition was the creepiest film I've seen but maybe I was just seeing things that are not there as i think people are with The Vanishing. It's regarded as the scariest non horror film ever. 'The ending will haunt you'. Yeah, there is an issue with that though in terms of character development. 

You didn't watch the remake by mistake did you...?

[squirtle]

Just now, yakumo said:

 

I thought it was poor. You learned nothing with interviews being just "reactions" to Blair Witch, Megan is missing, the first few old FF movies etc. Lazy documentation and you be better off googling a wiki page.

I don't think they are. The talk of early found footage and where it came from and the talk around why it broke out was quite interesting. I'm only about half way through it, but it comes as no surprise that there is a lot of talk around The Blair Witch, and the positive and negative impacts that had on the nascent genre.

[yakumo]

4 minutes ago, squirtle said:

I don't think they are. The talk of early found footage and where it came from and the talk around why it broke out was quite interesting. I'm only about half way through it, but it comes as no surprise that there is a lot of talk around The Blair Witch, and the positive and negative impacts that had on the nascent genre.

 

It wasn't for me sadly,  Doc was just so dull and lifeless. I felt like the editing plus all the interviewers would want to do anything else than do this doc. More time was spent talking about Megan Is Missing than Blair Witch Project. That’s rough. Regardless  it was just repetitious discussion of FF with no new or interesting insights I haven't heard before.

[Loik V credern]

3 hours ago, squirtle said:

You didn't watch the remake by mistake did you...?

 

No of course not. The dutch one. Or french. It's a good question of whether people really want something that eschews the genre tropes we always see because you realise why films rely on those tricks. I don't mean cheap stuff like jump scares, but it's shot so plainly, que yes but that's why it's so frightening!! I didn't think it had any unnerving vibe, any tension, any build up, any mystery, any engaging characters, I thought it failed in every single way. But it doesn't matter. And I'm willing to be scared, The Shining, clearly unsettling. The Audition is masterful in it setting up a premise then showing you glimpses of something inhuman and its static shots increase the tension because there's enough there for you to use your imagination. It puts the central character in danger throughout. This doesn't. 

 

Spoiler

I would have felt something for the man who lost his friend if there was any development there at all and the film didn't move to the killer's point of view. Kubrick liked the non linear way it was told and apparently phoned the director to talk about it, Ebert liked that it tells you everything but still had a mystery. Except I didn't think it had any mystery at all. Given the tone, it was always going to be something like a buried alive thing, not anything bloody and which required effort. And his philosophical reasons for taking the drug and submitting himself to a stranger who approached him as the killer of his friend, I mean it doesn't allow you to care. But then that's another building block most films generally have - make you care about the character's plight - that it ignores, trying to elevate itself to another more transcendent poetic level maybe.