Don't Breathe got great buzz on the film festival circuit and I've been wanting to see it for some time now. hopefully it will not disappoint.

Rings trailer is horrific, avoid watching at all costs Guessing the movie will be abysmal as well but will make a gazillion dollars just because. And I'm not hating on the "franchise"; I thought Gore Verbinski's version was really well done (I still haven't seen Ringu yet).

I just saw the trailer for Don't Breathe, and it looks really good. Although I don't understand why they couldn't just sneak up on a blind guy and hit him with a heavy object.

Green Room

It was a solid movie, not sure it deserves all the praise it's been getting. The premise is simple, but the director used a style of less information is more, and I found it quite distracting. I didn't understand why the bad guys were doing the things they were doing, like leaving the room unattended, sending in only 2 guys at a time, etc... It sort of made sense at the end, but not enough where I felt like this was actually a plausable way for these events to play out. Patrick Stewart was good, but it wasn't like he was some incredible villain like Hannibal Lecter or the Joker that was that memorable. He put in some solid work, nothing more.

A few things I didn't quite get.

Don't Breathe was v. solid, was on the edge of my seat throughout. As someone who didn't like Green Room at all, this is a much better suspense horror imo.

re: Green Room

re: Don't Breathe - I thought it was pretty solid, I'd give it a 7/10. There are some major things u have to overlook when digesting the plot as a whole:



but the movie moved along at such a brisk pace with danger at seemingly every moment u can overlook and forget such things. the one thing I can't forget or forgive is:



still, I was mostly entertained through out and that's what counts in the end I guess.

BLAIR WITCH - Against my better judgment I went and saw this. Mostly because I did like the original and was curious to see what Adam Wingard (who directed YOU"RE NEXT which I liked) could do with a BW re-boot. Unfortunately, I should trusted my gut and stayed away.

The 1st half of the movie is actually OK - some further explanations about the BW legends that are mentioned in the original, a decent build up with some weird stuff happening and a twist I didn't expect. But the 2nd half is an incoherent mess and what is supposed to be scary just comes across as silly.

Thumbs down

I couldn't agree more. I don't understand why so many people thought it was boring. Everything about the movie was filled with dread for me (the farm, the lighting, the drab colors, life filled with nothing but trying to survive Winter, the animals). It was incredibly well done from my perspective. Can't recommend it highly enough.

I finally saw It Follows. Don't really get all the rave reviews of it. The premise was very interesting, and the atmosphere / mood was good, but it got worse and worse as it went on, and the ending was totally ridiculous. Just couldn't believe the heros could be so incredibly stupid with their ridiculous plan to defeat the monster.

bummed that new blair witch sucks. i was looking forward to that.

Exactly. The entire tone of the film was just perfect.

31 (2016)
Are you looking for horror that's fun, exciting and innovative? Wanna watch horror where the violence is wince inducing brutal and disturbing? Are you fed up to the back teeth with the same old same old ho-hum set ups???
Then DON'T watch 31, as it's the most derivative bog standard run of the mill garden variety totally generic horror you're ever gonna see! It's like Rob Zombie just isn't even trying anymore.
A strong contender for the most meh horror of 2016.

i watched goodnight mommy (ich seh ich seh).
a bit too much arthouse for my taste.

a bunch of solid ones that I've seen lately were:

-Train to Busan (new Korean zombie flick) - 7.5/10
-Lake Mungo - 7/10
-10 Cloverfield Lane - 7/10
-The Witch 8/10
-Green Room 8/10
-Goodnight Mommy 7/10
-Spider Forrest 7.5/10
-Eden Lake 8/10
-Creep 6.5/10

-Martyrs 9.5/10 - always thought of Martyrs to be this infamous artsy French torture porn movie but i have to say this makes every other horror film I've seen to date look like utter garbage.
That being said I never want to see it again^^

I just watched it as well and thought it was great. Real good slow burn for those who like that.

Saw The Shrine last night. Mostly drivel and really bad acting but the end (last 20 minutes) had somewhat of an interesting twist. Not sure I invest the 87 minutes to get there though...rest was weak.

Watched Korean horror called Bedeviled. Fell asleep about halfway thru and woke up 30 min later and it was mayhem lol. Standard Korean crazy. Looked interesting so might have to rewatch.

Bedevilled is a great horror mate, well worth checking out again.
Mean spirited as hell though.

Two other Korean horrors to check out one which was earlier mentioned and which I'll totally second:

Train to Busan (2016)
South Korea once again effortlessly show us all how awesome they are with this pretty dang gripping zombie/infected flick, concerning a bunch of hapless commuters on a train dealing with an onboard outbreak. While it could have been leaner and has some dumb decision making in parts, it's still pretty frickin' cool. 8/10



The Wailing. (2016)
From the director of the pretty cool The Chaser (2008) and The Yellow Sea (2010), which I haven't seen yet, this is even better than Train to Busan although very convoluted. I'm not gonna say anything about it except to say it's very probably the best horror of the year. 8.5/10



Taking part in an online horror challenge to watch 31 horrors for the month of October, so here's some other modern horrors/horror related films I've caught recently.

AntiBirth (2016)
Bizarro horror in which a drug fueled stoner chick may or not be pregnant while a nefarious conspiracy may or may to be unfolding around her. While somewhat messy, I nonetheless enjoyed it overall. 6.5/10


The Hallow (2015)
An English couple are menaced in the Irish countryside by something evil in this partially derivative, partially fresh and overall entertaining horror. 6/10




The Neon Demon (2016)
God this was terrible. Really really terrible.
Bloke who made Drive, don't make another horror film ever again, cheers. 3/10


I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
Interesting and quite decent & absorbing slow burner in which a sociopathic teen with homicidal impulses gets caught up in a spate of serial killings plaguing his small town. 7.5/10


The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015)
a morgue attendant brings his mates in to view the fresh corpse of a famous film star only for things to go quickly south, in this lean, mean, tight Spanish horror. 7.5/10, good stuff.



Priest (2011)
Paul Bettany's badass warrior priest goes up against hordes of vampires in this really bland and ho-hum action horror. 4/10


The Witch (2015)
After all the positive vibes/reviews, all I can say is... this film really bored the hell outa me. 4/10


The Funhouse Massacre (2015)
Six escaped serial killers take refuge in a funhouse and promptly start picking off customers in this really stupid but nonetheless kinda fun flick which has its moments anyway. 5.5/10


[*Rec] 4: Apocalypse (2014)
I gotta say, considering it's a part 4, this was a lot better than it had any right to be. 6.5/10


High-Rise (2015)
This ranks up there with Neon Demon as suckiest view of the challenge so far, right down to the ham fisted allegories. I'm just gonna say it I find Ben Wheatley way overrated so far. 3/10



White God (2014) 6/10
Yet another allegorical horror, on the heels of Neon Demon & High Rise in which an abused dog leads a revolution against humanity in this not bad but coulda been so much better offering from Hungary.


Daylight's End (2016) 3.5/10
Unutterably meh humans vs vamps flick that not even the awesomness that is Lance Hendrickson can save.

Honeymoon

A claustrophobic tale of a newlywed couple on their honeymoon, and one of them may be having something terrible happen to them. It's a tense environment, and did a nice job of keeping us in the dark, but the third gory act was a big letdown imo.

A young couple travels to the bride's family cabin in a remote area of the woods for their honeymoon. They are very much in love, and the director did a nice job of making us like these characters. The first night, there's a strange light, the wife goes out in the woods, the husband finds her naked outside, and after that, nothing is quite the same. She starts acting strange, at first it's little things, like forgetting to make the coffee, but then it gets worse, with her not knowing things about their relationship, or showing up with strange marks on her inner thigh.

Some of the story is too implausible to let go. The husband isn't stupid, and yet by the time he says let's get the car keys and get out of here, you feel like he would've made that decisions ages ago. Yes this is his new bride and he didn't want to confront her too harshly, but some of the stuff was just too big to ignore. He would confront her, and then they would go for a canoe ride. It just didn't add up.

I was a little disappointed that they didn't go down the road of "do I really know this person I just married?" It was pretty obvious from the start that something was wrong, and this wasn't just a married couple figuring each other out. It would've worked better had there been a more gradual transition towards the eventual. The third act, when we finally reveal what is going on in those woods, is a gory mess of a letdown. We removed all tension, and get an answer to our questions. I think the movie would've done better without answers, and left us guessing what was happening.

That's because it relies on atmospherics and tension rather than loud noises and jump-scares like most modern horror films.

Hush

This is another home invasion movie, with a slight twist. The protagonist happens to be deaf. This obviously opens the movie up to having a few very tense moments when we can hear someone coming, but know that she can't hear it. The movie did a nice job a couple times during the movie of putting us in her perspective, and not letting us hear what was going on around her. I actually thought they could've done more of this, as the parts without that were just your typical home invasion stuff. In addition, I wished they would've kept the bad guy's mask on for longer, as he was way scarier with the mask on than without. There are a couple roll your eye moments of bad decisions that both the deaf girl and the killer make, but overall this was a solid movie, with great tension, and a few genuinely frightening moments.

Yeah I liked Hush and found it pretty solid. Have you seen Occulus yet? It's by the same director and not bad, has its moments anyway. He also did that new Ouija flick which is out now, according to the surprising amount of ads for it on the telly over my way. He's also apparently adapting Stephen King's Gerald's Game, of all books, which I'm not sure if that can be done successfully, actually.

I seen Don't Breathe recently and quite liked it. I can even forgive the diretcor for his Evil Dead remake which I really disliked, personally.

Occult (2009)
A psycho in Japan goes on a rampage and the director of the film Noroi (2005), plays himself making a documentary film on it, only to be drawn into a creepy mystery.
This is a very interesting meta style horror and while it's not as good as Noroi, it's still pretty damn good. Only quibble is it has terrible CGI but I would love to see what this guy could do with some better FX.
But overall it's a creepy and absorbing little film and worth checking out.
(no subs in the clip but the film is available on y/t with subtitles.

I think it's very hard to make a good movie in the horror genre. The last good recent horror movie I can remember is Martyrs (the french version).