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

So without muddying the water with all the decades of classics - what horror movies did it for you (so far) this year? It's almost halloween, and we all need some new stuff rather than watching Suspiria for the fourteenth time, right?

the fourteenth time high? it really makes a difference

well yeah

My surprise nominee (and none of these are going to be academy greats duh) is The Haunting In Connecticut which will not go down in history or anything, but was a totally capable jump scare flick. I have no idea why they promoted the movie the way that they did, the initial theatrical release campaign made it look like some sort of slow yawn slightly creepy snoozefest, when in fact it is 100% cut from the flash of CREEPY DUDE in the mirror/corner/behind the kid school of filmmaking.

plot holes? well yeah, duh, but who cares

This is prob a good place for me to fly my challop flag and say that as great as Let the Right One In is, it isn't really a horror film IMO.

i kinda want to see paranormal activity.

yeah me too! although i fear the possibility that it might be a hype triumph and disappoint.

Drag Me to Hell!

man, still haven't seen that. or even zombieland (which doesn't sound like horror).

all i've really seen in 2009 is drag me to hell and zombieland, which isn't really a horror movie either

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i just watched drag me to hell last night, and as a old school Raimi fanboy it was a ton of fun (srsly sam it is amazing how much mileage you can get out of the power of people/corpses/demonwhatevers vomiting on other people). Curious to find out how it worked for people that weren't kind of the target audience, esp the classic moments of Raimi complete set up nonsense (the best of which had to be the "well duh why not use these ice skates i was about to pawn on my suspended anvil" idiot lunacy).

anybody see any of the big remakes (last house on the left, whichever one rob zombie did this year, etc)?

drag me to hell was so great -- just rewatched but seeing it in the theatre was amazing what with everyone laughing & screaming simultaneously

i think the only nasty cut-em-up flicks i like anymore come from france or asia, though the first 'hostel' and the first 'saw' were good. i have a ton of friends who are in the horror film community and they're all pretty cynical about it these days, everyone wants to turn shit pg-13.

no desire to see the halloween remake, but the trailer was fucking terrifying (i've long held that horror movie trailers are usually way scarier than the actual movie, you just get a succession of jumps and creepy images without any context or warning).

loved drag me... anyone seen paranormal activity yet?

or left bank?

the french stuff is just brutal, but its been some of my favorite stuff as well, im sure a bunch of the usual whiners are going to lump it into the totally dumb invented "torture porn" genre but it just has such a deep sense of misanthropic malice and self-loathing xpost

i have a ton of friends who are in the horror film community and they're all pretty cynical about it these days, everyone wants to turn shit pg-13.

― access flap (omar little), Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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^^^ omar's friends

considering using my mod cheat powers to edit the title to include 2008 because so much great unheralded stuff came out last year

'inside' was just as rough thematically as it was in terms of gore imo, i.e. it's one of my favorite films of the past few years.

id make it the whole decade but i think that the hostel/saw/ring/rob zombie non remake stuff would just take over and we've talked about that a billion times already (i love all three of the originals, and will go to bat for hostel 2 as well)

me too hostel 2 is so underrated

really felt roth didn't want to cheap out with an easy sequel on that one

the saw series has turned into a joke imo

oh yeah saw 3 was particularly awful

never seen a saw movie (i am okay w this)

I didn't really feel Hostel when I watched it - though that might've been because I'd watched Wolf Creek the night before which ten times more brutal and believable. Still haven't seen any of the Saws.

martyrs was the best horror movie I've seen in years. it's french torture porn, and then again, it's not... which is what makes it so great. it totally transcends the genre and I can guarantee you won't guess where it's going.

eden park was pretty good. not the greatest film ever made but a nice patch on the "hunted by locals in the woods" genre.

Eden Lake you mean? I liked that a lot, some bits haunted me for a few days. Such a dark ending!

duh, yeah eden lake

there are a lot of recent horror films I wanted to see that I haven't gotten around to. off the top of my head: teeth, the uninvited, embodiment of evil, dead snow... and I guess the haunting in ct now...

anybody repping for inside in this thread needs to see martyrs stat

paranormal is not that great. download it and see it at home. more of a living room thing than a theatre experience.

I wanna see nightmare, too. it's an older film that just got released on DVD, kind of low budget but looks promising.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455983/

oh hey btw for the french horror heads, if you haven't seen frontier(s), thats pretty essential

Eden Lake is british, right? some great horror coming out of britain in the past few years, esp if you like a bit of comedy mixed with your gore (top recs would be Severance and Shrooms)

paranormal is not that great. download it and see it at home. more of a living room thing than a theatre experience.

― let them eat cankles (jeff), Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

really? how so? i would think it would be a quintessential movie theater movie!!

I liked Drag me to Hell. Also liked Jennifer's Body actually. I think a lot of good recent US horror has been genre pastiche/comedy (I'd include Hostel ii).
The French/Asian stuff is nice because it still does well playing the eeriness/bone-gristle straight. I've only seen the first 2 Saws but had to stop because why bother when there's stuff like Martyrs out there.

dead snow is pretty half-assed tbh

theres a foreign language film that is a great companion piece to Eden Lake that i can't remember the name of right now and it is killing me.

Eden Lake is british, right? some great horror coming out of britain in the past few years, esp if you like a bit of comedy mixed with your gore

Yep, it's British. Not many laughs though.

Just grabbed some new 80s movies to watch. Can anyone vouch for these?

Combat Shock
Demented
Don't Go In The House
Night of the Demon

oh yeah wait, Ils (or Them) is the Eden Lake parallel. creeeeepy

haha yeah Eden Lake is def not chock full o' laughs

really? how so? i would think it would be a quintessential movie theater movie!!

Because...

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...it is pretty much just a Blair Witch clone and more fun than scary. For me, the experience was ruining by a theatre of 500 groaning teens.
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*ruined

combat shock is fucked up. also pretty interesting and pretty good.

thread title edit for the purposes of why not

In light of the new title I will mention Wolf Creek again.

dead snow is pretty half-assed tbh

yeah it looks totally cheeseball but I'm a huge shock waves fan so...

speaking of which, the aussies have def had a horror boom this decade as well xpost

the backmasking…. her constantly hearing crying babies in the audio… on top of this coming off as “scary stories for conservatives” it’s very hokey

Snowtown truly horrible stuff. It did feel very real which I guess is a point of praise but just unbelievably bleak and hard-hitting.

haven't seen it since it was new but I remember thinking that the use of non-actors in snowtown was effective. I also remember staying up mega late watching it in the middle of the night so that it wouldn't ruin my day lol

TS: Risking ruining a day or giving yourself insomnia? I always watch horror at night because nobody in my house likes it, but then I have to go to sleep with whatever imagery it put in my head.

I watched Solvent for the first time and it felt mostly like an authentic take on descent into madness in a found footage film, but with a largely unnecessary amount of penises.

oooooh unnecessary penises

https://c.tenor.com/926QPdsy4c8AAAAC/homer-simpson-drooling.gif

sorry that's the voice i heard in my head reading that post...

I can't adequately explain why I've called them unnecessary and not gratuitous without spoiling where the plot goes I think...

If penises must be unnecessary at least make them largely so, I say

Sticking with found footage I watched both Norai: The Curse and fuji_jukai.mov recently - very different but both excellent.

Really tempted to dig more into Koji Shiraishi's back catalogue as a result, I've only seen Carved: The Slit-Face Woman in his other work and it had a lot of good ideas in it if not as Cosmic Horror as (apparently) the rest.

I think Alpha is showing soon in america, I strongly recommend it

Noroi is great and inventive

Ready or Not 2 was fun but has sequel syndrome. The biggest flaw is introducing a sister character who really adds nothing to the film and creates very stilted attempts at dramatics.

Likewise, they kind of go John Wick 2 with the lore which is fine but it has a feel of "making it up as we go along" which hurts compared to the simplicity of the first one.

BUT, it's fun because Samara Weaving fully commits (between this, Guns Akimbo, and Mayhem, she's kind of an action star now). And they go much more over the top and tilt the balance further towards the comedy.

Not essential, but fun

Kathryn Newton adds a “ready to pounce on the quip or punchline like a Disney kid” energy that was one of the Ant-Man 3 failings, so was tempering expectations. But Samara being a joy, if she’s good that’s all I need. Her warbly scream is unique.

Okay, people aren't exaggerating when talking about decent budgeted films flying under most people's radar. I haven't heard of Guns Akimbo, Mayhem or Ant Man 3 before now.

also really liked alpha. raw still prob my fave (keeps it simple), but if you’re worried that it wont be bleak/stressful/gross because it isn’t horror… worry no more!

and yeah, koji rules. aside from noroi, occult and a record of sweet murder really impressed me. tho the latter does have one of the most unnecessary and stupid rape scenes i’ve ever seen in a movie, and for a japanese movie in particular, that’s really saying something…

Kathryn Newton adds a “ready to pounce on the quip or punchline like a Disney kid” energy that was one of the Ant-Man 3 failings, so was tempering expectations. But Samara being a joy, if she’s good that’s all I need. Her warbly scream is unique.

― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Saturday, March 21, 2026 5:26 PM bookmarkflaglink

Yea Samara lets out one yell that basically would get a pit punching each other. She's great

I was watching the latest RLM video, and they say there are strong indications Shudder is shutting down?

hmm such as? they recently did a big redesign of the app, i think (hadn’t opened it in a minute tho)

I'll have to go back to what the guys said, but iirc it had something to do with trouble/changes at MGM+/AMC+ (which is owned by Amazon), Joe Bob dude losing his flagship show, plus apparently a lot of other layoffs in the Amazon streaming world. I wouldn't be surprised if it was shutdown as a standalone channel and incorporated directly into Amazon/MGM/AMC somehow, but I'm not an insider or anything.

oh man, i wouldn’t be surprised either given all of that + the general state of things in 2026 but… it’s one of only a handful of streaming services that doesn’t feel like a big ol faceless slop machine and i’d be sad to see it go

Some folks complained about the lack of classic tentpole horror in the library and it was like "that's the best part you clowns, why would I pay a subscription fee to watch movies I've seen 40 times".

But have noticed lately they've been adding many of these movies to their library

Primate - it's no Slotherhouse but slasher flick meets Congo could have been worse. The monkey looked surprisingly good for (I assume) a fairly low budget horror movie.

The Mortuary Assistant - bailed 20 minutes in, seemed like it was going to be terrible but not in an entertaining way.

Huh.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/new-longlegs-movie-nicolas-cage-1236564219/

well this looks really scary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UStBM95pUP8

Lin Shaye, excellent to see her.

Read that Paranormal Activity is getting rebooted. Argh.

faces of death surprisingly excellent. smart little slasher they crafted around an old cult phenomenon

oh, I really want to see that even tho I have no interest in the source material

I liked, didn't love Faces remake. Thought Dacre Montgomery was cartoonish and arch as the villain, but I did think the second half was an effective bit of horror

Think maybe The Autopsy of Jane Doe was produced by the same team as The Pitt.

This might be horror, depending on your definition. Looks pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgtdkuNFoKk

Was Snowtown marketed as an actual horror film somewhere?

― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 19 March 2026 07:12 (one month ago)

I know this discussion was from a month ago, but as a piece of anecdata: I went into Snowtown thinking it was a horror film. Not sure where I heard about it from, but it was definitely my pre-watch impression of what it was going to be. Not horror, yes horrifying.

Got my Hokum ticket for Sunday. Meantime, Mr. Cregger's latest has its first trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPu1spHqfk

I'm more intrigued than I was. Kinda looks like it captures the vibe of the games but jettisons the camp and, er, hokum, which is fine by me.

Resi without camp is like a pretzel without salt

As a game, sure, but I'm not sure how camp would help it as a horror movie.

Japanese video game adaptation Exit 8 was...ok?

The film stars Kazunari Ninomiya as an unnamed man who is caught in a looping subway corridor and must find anomalies in each loop to escape.

Not wildly scary and erred towards sentimentality as the story progressed, but eerie enough to be worth the while.

Loved Saint Maud possibly the first A24 horror that didn't let me down, pure creeping dread and some of the most effective scares in recent memory.

haven't seen this posted yet... not sure if it's horror or fantasy/sci but I like 'Enys Men' by the same director

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw371ui9cTk

Another one I found just OK, lots of atmosphere but ultimately didn't deliver on the premise. More quiet spookiness than proper horror though.

I'm sitting on the beach it's comfy

Omfg I thought I was texting my mother jfc

The text is coming from inside the thread.

Lol

Hahah.

Loved Saint Maud possibly the first A24 horror that didn't let me down, pure creeping dread and some of the most effective scares in recent memory.

Really strong film for sure, and Morfydd Clark delivered. And a proper ending that casts the entire film in a new light. Also singlehandedly convinced me to catch Love Lies Bleeding on its run and that's an amazing two for two for Rose Glass.

I saw Hokum a few weeks ago and loved it. McCarthy just ticks my boxes

Yeah, caught it this morning and that was good stuff. He's not reinventing horror but he's a really skilled craftsman. Adam Scott was good casting too.

What about Caveat?

New Evil Dead movie coming in July:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnHby2cxJzs