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Man, I've watched like every drat movie in this thread, I love this type of stuff. Resolution's next on my list. Some to add that I don't think have been posted: The House of the Devil - College student is desperate for money, goes to babysit at a creepy mansion during a lunar eclipse even though there's major red flags. Little bloody at the end, but not like, hostel-type. Mostly slow burn bump-in-the-night type of creepiness. Mientras Duermes/Sleep Tight - Concierge guy secretly messes with the people in his apartment building, then starts specifically targeting a young woman, then everything spirals out of control. Disturbing as all hell, god drat.
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I never finished Sleep Tight because I was too creeped out halfway through. Is it worth going back just to see the ending?
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Throwing in a third recommendation for House Of The Devil, and basically anything Ti West does. I just watched his latest, The Sacrament, and really enjoyed it. It's filmed as a VICE documentary - with authentically obnoxious presenters - going to investigate a Jonestown-style cult. The tension and atmosphere build really well and, of course, the ending is totally traumatising.
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Absentia - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1610996/?ref_=nm_flmg_edt_5 Directed by Mike Flanagan (this is his film he made before The Oculus) A woman and her sister begin to link a mysterious tunnel to a series of disappearances, including that of her own husband. People disappearing, scary feeling tunnel. Basically just as good as The Oculus with less screen jumps scares. The Oculus budget: 5 million Absentia budget: 70k Ill leave it for you to decide which one was better. Tenzarin fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Aug 14, 2014 |
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I dig the trailer, and I frequently have cause to pass through a similar tunnel, so I'm down to check it out.
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tenniseveryone posted:Throwing in a third recommendation for House Of The Devil, and basically anything Ti West does. I just watched his latest, The Sacrament, and really enjoyed it. It's filmed as a VICE documentary - with authentically obnoxious presenters - going to investigate a Jonestown-style cult. The tension and atmosphere build really well and, of course, the ending is totally traumatising. I saw The Sacrament last year at Fantastic Fest and was completely underwhelmed. I'm typically a huge fan of cult-related fiction like this but it was just so predictable that I couldn't get into it. There was little to no mystery aside from the cult leader, who ultimately ends up being a very generic villain. For reference, though, I went absolutely bonkers for Kill List which, in my opinion, works the cult angle much more skillfully and with significant, heavy suspense.
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The Clap posted:I saw The Sacrament last year at Fantastic Fest and was completely underwhelmed. I'm typically a huge fan of cult-related fiction like this but it was just so predictable that I couldn't get into it. There was little to no mystery aside from the cult leader, who ultimately ends up being a very generic villain. For reference, though, I went absolutely bonkers for Kill List which, in my opinion, works the cult angle much more skillfully and with significant, heavy suspense. I watched House of the Devil last night based on recommendations from this thread and was also unimpressed. I enjoyed because the look of the film was great. I feel like there were a lot of missed opportunities and overall the film was pretty generic. I cannot believe that the babysitter RAN UPSTAIRS when she could have run right out the front door. I thought we were past this. I also thought it was a poor choice to show us, the viewer, the sacrificial scene inside the locked room upstairs, because it basically tipped the film's hand and left no question as to what was going to happen for the rest of the film.
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Snak posted:I watched House of the Devil last night based on recommendations from this thread and was also unimpressed. I enjoyed because the look of the film was great. I feel like there were a lot of missed opportunities and overall the film was pretty generic. I cannot believe that the babysitter RAN UPSTAIRS when she could have run right out the front door. I thought we were past this. I also thought it was a poor choice to show us, the viewer, the sacrificial scene inside the locked room upstairs, because it basically tipped the film's hand and left no question as to what was going to happen for the rest of the film. I'll agree with you on the second spoiler, but the first spoiler actually makes sense. Whether the house is besieged by a killer or not, there's a little old granny upstairs who she has agreed to watch over for the night. She can't just bolt out the front door and leave granny to fend off the murderer for herself.
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Sarchasm posted:I'll agree with you on the second spoiler, but the first spoiler actually makes sense. Whether the house is besieged by a killer or not, there's a little old granny upstairs who she has agreed to watch over for the night. She can't just bolt out the front door and leave granny to fend off the murderer for herself. I'm talking about after she wakes up in the basement and the ritual is being performed and she knows the people that hired her are up to know good. She escapes and runs up the first floor, and instead of running out the door runs up the stairs, fights the young guy and kills him on the second floor and then runs up to the attic.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Have any of you seen Ti West's new movie The Sacrament? I liked The Innkeepers, and LOVED House of the Devil, so I'm hoping it's good. I saw it. Sacrament felt much more mainstream to me. House of the Devil is the best of those three by far. The Sacrament is creepy and unsettling but the ending was just flat horror and shock value with little bite. Enjoyed it but didn't love it.
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The Clap posted:I saw The Sacrament last year at Fantastic Fest and was completely underwhelmed. I'm typically a huge fan of cult-related fiction like this but it was just so predictable that I couldn't get into it. There was little to no mystery aside from the cult leader, who ultimately ends up being a very generic villain. For reference, though, I went absolutely bonkers for Kill List which, in my opinion, works the cult angle much more skillfully and with significant, heavy suspense. If you're into cult films (films about cults) you've probably already seen Martha Marcy May Marlene but it does the theme far better justice than The Sacrament does. I'd say it's scarier by a fair bit as well. Not sure if you've seen it and it doesn't really belong in this thread but Reginald Harkema's Manson, My Name Is Evil is also worth a look. It's disjointed but also develops its ideas much better than West manages to.
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This doesn't fit into the other horror thread, since that's basically the slasher/goreporn side of things, so let's give this a go: Society (brought to you by the guy who produced Re-Animator). I went looking for it because it's on a few masterlists of 'must-see body horror' flicks, and ended up finding it (which was honestly more difficult than I thought it'd be). I'd been warned that the last twenty minutes would throw me for a loving loop in the worst possible way, and didn't really pay attention, since the first, I don't know, hour of it is so drat goofy. Well, I haven't met a single person that hasn't  'd at that ending.It's not a thriller, it's not particularly deep, but it is outright weird. One I'd like to suggest that's actually in this vein, however, is The Hitcher, specifically the 1986 version. It isn't gory in the least, its pacing is really well done, and it's nothing but tense from point a to point b. A friend of mine showed it to me nearly ten years ago, and I was not expecting them to go as far as they did with it. It remains one of my favorite films, and I still have the song from the end credits on anything that can play mp3s. As a note, there is a scene in this that I still can't watch again, even it shows absolutely nothing explicitly. It makes me get tense and uneasy every loving time I notice the build-up to it. I'm honestly surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. It's incredibly effective. EDIT: What makes it more unnerving in general is what the director ended up doing none too long ago. Not quite as comparable to the Jeepers Creepers poo poo, but there's a rather long article about what he did, and his films show an incredibly distinct pattern. After the two counts of vehicular manslaughter, I'm honestly shocked that he's still allowed to make films. Old Boot fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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Old Boot posted:Well, I haven't met a single person that hasn't
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Seaside Loafer posted:its just a stupid harmless 80's movie about greed and being a yuppie etc, then watch their faces for the last 20 mins. This is the best thing. I showed it to someone and we never managed to finish it, then I gave him the DVD to finish watching it, and the first thing I got in my email on that very night was, in so many words, WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH. And I have to second the whole 'seriously, don't spoil it.' I watched it on my own, and had that moment of 'laugh because you honestly don't know what else to do' at the end. Watching other people react to the ending is also one of the best things you could possibly do for yourself. The film sets things up so perfectly that you really have no loving idea what's coming.
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Hitcher and 1408 loving own and Society is weird as gently caress.
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 One of my favorite psychological horror films is Finland's Sauna. It has a political backdrop of Russia/Sweden marking the border to create modern Finland after the Cudgel War of 1595, but the war aspect of it is only a subplot. The main plot is two brothers, one a scholar and the other a soldier dealing with trauma from the atrocities of war, trying to escape the memory and guilt of an atrocity they committed. As they trek out to mark the border they find it runs through the center of a village in a swamp, which has a mysterious sauna that inexplicably draws the brothers toward it as they start seeing strange visions (saunas are a huge part of Finnish culture and there's a belief that bathing in one can 'wash away your sins'). Its main flaw is that it's short - just under 80 minutes - but that may even be a benefit because it's easily digestible to people who might not have checked it out. Still, I feel there could've been more of the political B-plot to flesh it out to at least 90. The cinematography is gorgeous (find it in HD if you can, it's totally worth tracking down), the acting is great, the story is really cool, and it gives you just enough information to figure things out for yourself. It's heavy on symbolism the way a psychological horror should be so it doesn't give away too much. I put it on the level of Let the Right One In as far as Nordic cinema I really enjoy. For whatever reason it's renamed in some places as 'Filth' or 'Evil Rising', but Sauna's the original name. There's a BluRay copy with optional English audio but I think it's import-only. I'd love a North American release. 
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Old Boot posted:EDIT: What makes it more unnerving in general is what the director ended up doing none too long ago. Not quite as comparable to the Jeepers Creepers poo poo, but there's a rather long article about what he did, and his films show an incredibly distinct pattern. After the two counts of vehicular manslaughter, I'm honestly shocked that he's still allowed to make films. This is a really fascinating and sad story that I had never heard despite being a huge fan of The Hitcher and Near Dark. Thanks for sharing it. edit: i just crossposted it over in Gen Chat, great article. Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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Just watched Coherence and thought it was worth mentioning in this thread. It's not a horror, but if you liked Triangle you'll like this one too.
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monkey posted:Just watched Coherence and thought it was worth mentioning in this thread. It's not a horror, but if you liked Triangle you'll like this one too. Just watched this based on your suggestion and I'll second that recommendation. In a lot of ways it handles alternate/parallel universes better than Triangle, with the added bonus of being a more intimate and claustrophobic movie. The conversations among these old friends seem to flow naturally and they seem like real friends with real skeletons in their closets who just happen to find themselves in the middle of a supernatural event that they can't explain. The foreshadowing in the beginning also really pays off in spades. My only complaint is that they just happen to have a magic book that perfectly explains the exact phenomena that is happening to them at that moment. For a movie that focuses so much on random chance, this seems like a major cop-out and it would've been more enjoyable to leave unexplained.
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monkey posted:Just watched Coherence and thought it was worth mentioning in this thread. It's not a horror, but if you liked Triangle you'll like this one too. I saw this one at Fantastic Fest last year as well and really enjoyed it. Apparently most of the dialogue was improvised, they just sort of let the actors jump into their characters for each scene which is fairly unheard of in science fiction. For most of the running time I was afraid of how it would end - with a film as complex as it is it would be easy for them to gently caress it up. Thankfully it sticks the landing and wraps up with a very character-focused conclusion that makes sense within the boundaries of the metaphysical fuckery instead of just more metaphysical fuckery. The Clap fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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speshl guy posted:My only complaint is that they just happen to... I didn't see it like that at all. What they read in the book seemed less like exposition and was just a flawed interpretation of events that did very little to explain whatever "magic" was going on. The book was more of a plot device to get them out of the house and force interaction between realities.
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monkey posted:Just watched Coherence and thought it was worth mentioning in this thread. It's not a horror, but if you liked Triangle you'll like this one too. I mentioned it in the recommend me thread last week, glad someone else has seen it. Hands down one of the best movies i've seen recently. Saw it with no reviews or trailers, and glad of it
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I finally watched Oculus, which I think was mentioned in this thread. I thought it was pretty good. The ending was pretty predictable, but the visual storytelling was fantastic. The way that flashbacks and hallucinations blended together seamlessly was a really powerful storytelling device. I don't think I've seen something quite like that before.
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Rocksicles posted:I mentioned it in the recommend me thread last week, glad someone else has seen it. Yeah I saw it at a sci-fi movie marathon last February completely cold and I really dug it. I keep waiting for it to pop up on Netflix so I can rewatch it.
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Holy poo poo thanks for the society recommendation. That ending made me laugh like a madman.
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Factor Mystic posted:Huh, not bad, but not mind blowing. I can't tell if it would've been better if they didn't tell us what was going on right off the bat. There were a few spots where, the second time I watched the movie - I did a double-take and had to stop and go, "hey wait, there'es no loving way any human could have done that! What is going on?" Rhyno posted:Other than Groundhog Day I'm stressing to think of another movie where the entire timeline cycles. Then again, the "oh no I'm a ghost and stuck in the real world where nobody can see me and I can barely touch anything or communicate" comes remarkably close to the same overall storyline ie man versus the world, where the character has to divine the limitations of their circumstances and then use it. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Stargate SG-1's "groundhog day" episode is amazing. There is a 2010 film called Repeaters which is supposed to have a time loop premise, but I haven't seen it yet. I wholey recomment the short (13? episode) tv series Daybreak, which stars Taye Diggs as a cop repeating the same day. The catch here is, unlike other time loop stories, he quickly finds that if he is injured, his injuries carry over into the next loop. This means that unlike in Edge of Tomorrow, he cannot learn by trying until he succeeds. It's even worse than not looping, because while his injuries carry over in to the next loop, his clothes and any bandages do not, so he wakes up with open wounds.
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My hangover and I stumbled on this thread yesterday and I wound up watching Prince of Darkness, Frailty, Triangle, Session 9, Kill List, and Coherence in one sitting with limited interruption for the ingestion of reefer and Chinese food. All of them were great so I wanted to add a couple suggestions of my own. Silent Running - 1972  Set in a future where all plant life on Earth had been wiped out due to environmental cataclysm, Silent Running follows a young Bruce Dern as Freemen Lowell, a botanist serving on a transport ship carrying six domes housing the planets last remaining forests. The movie has a wonderfully eerie and detached vibe as it follows Freeman's struggle between his own humanity and his love of nature. Made in 1972 this movie was a major inspiration for films like Wall-E and Moon. It's directed by Douglass Trumbull who was previously the special effects supervisor on on 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Andromeda Strain and you can really see his influence from those films in the sets and art direction of Silent Running. It's a fascinating look at the Sci-Fi movies as they stood in the early seventies before Star Wars changed the face of the genre. It's even got a soundtrack by Joan Baez, one of the many things that makes this wonderful film a real unique product of it's era. Deja Vu - 2006  Deja Vu follows Denzel Washington as Denzel Washington, an ATF Agent investigating a terrorist attack on a New Orleans ferry. The discovery of a woman's body washed up on shore after the attack leads Agent Washington into a complex web of mystery surrounding the terrorist attack, the dead woman, and a secretive branch of the Department of Homeland Security who posses a unique surveillance technology that may be the key to saving many lives. The film opens like any other over stylized Ridley Scott Jerry Bruckheimer venture but quickly sets itself apart with an intriguing plot usually absent from movies from these two. While laughably over the top this movie also features a very unique take on the traditional car chase scene. Do yourself a favor and go in blind expecting typical Bruckheimer explosion porn and leave pleasantly surprised. Fun fact, the screenwriter's first script was 1989's Little Monsters. The Signal – 2014  This one flew under the radar this year and it's too bad because it was a fun ride. The Signal follows a group of MIT students on a road trip who are drawn into a bizarre cat and mouse game with a mysterious hacker calling themselves NOMAD. The film's protagonist Nic is slowly degrading from muscular dystrophy which has taken its toll on his relationships with his best friend Jonah and his girlfriend Hayley whom they are helping to move to California. The group plot to ambush the hacker in New Mexico along the way after using their own computer skills to track NOMAD down. From there things begin to take a turn for the strange as you fall down the rabbit hole as the film's different layers of reality get peeled back. This film has some amazing and original art direction and special effects that are used wonderfully sparingly. Overall a really fun cerebral Sci-Fi movie that builds up to some gorgeous action sequences. Not to be confused with. The Signal – 2007  This The Signal is about the aftermath of a signal that infiltrates every radio broadcast, phone line, and TV station that once heard slowly drives you murderously insane. It's told in three parts showing the perspective of three different characters over the course of the day the signal hits. While not the most original concept ever what sets this movie apart is the execution. It has a very unique style that can be terribly brutal and intense while at the same time truly hilarious. An interesting thing about this movie is that each of the three narrative perspectives of the three main characters is written and directed by a different person and then all edited together in a non linear fashion that gives the viewer their own sense of escalating madness as the film progresses. Incredibly this movie was made for only $50,000 and shot in less than two weeks. James Woods fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Sep 27, 2014 |
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I just finished Coherence, and it was outstanding. Definitely recommended viewing if you liked Triangle, or even if you didn't.
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I do love Triangle, but Coherence isn't really like Triangle except for obviously the 'more than one of me' angle. You should see it because it's a "horror"/thriller/"sci-fi" and it's got a good angle on it. I did like Coherence a lot, but in classic horror movie fashion, the characters are idiots (or alternatively doing what they're doing because the plot requires it, rather than because it's normal things to do). C'mon, when the power goes out do you immediately assume its due to celestial events or that you're in danger? Why not just actually play yahtzee? And candles are the first go-to and not flashlights? And you forgot you had a generator until like 10 minutes later? YOU HAVE A GENERATOR? Counterpoint: they're probably doing the normal things somewhere, just not in the universe where this movie takes place I did really love the big realization near the end though. That was a really cool place to take the story. Factor Mystic fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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I just posted about this over in the Rate the Last Movie You Watched thread, but anyone who has interest in psychological thrillers or Japanese cinema should check out Zero. It's based loosely off of the Fatal Frame game series, but it has a totally different take on the whole concept, retaining only a few nods to the original games for fans. Despite having nothing to do with the source material the plot is very solid, and above that the movie is just way more high quality than you would expect from what was essentially supposed to be a cash-in to re-awaken brand awareness so people would buy the new Wii U Fatal Frame game. I really can't say enough good about this movie. If you understand Japanese I recommend trying to see it in theaters right now, or if not definitely keep an eye out for when it gets subtitled and released in the West. It is seriously amazing. I'm going to get some more friends to go see it again. I wish I could talk about the plot, but I feel like anything I say would spoil the enjoyment of folks who go to watch it. Even the trailer is spoilerific, and I think you'll get the best impact from the film if you go into it knowing nothing. God that was a good movie.
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James Woods posted:The Signal – 2007 I didn't know any of the background and that is awesome. I will also vouch for the fact it's a pretty cool movie.
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Getsuya posted:I just posted about this over in the Rate the Last Movie You Watched thread, but anyone who has interest in psychological thrillers or Japanese cinema should check out Zero.
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Skyscraper posted:Do you have a link to a trailer for this? I've looked, but I keep seeing other things with similar names. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lrOsRiqEEs There's a longer one but it pretty much spells out and spoils the plot so while this one doesn't show very much I'd say it's the safest one to watch.
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Getsuya posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lrOsRiqEEs Well, I don't know a whole lot about what's going on in this movie, but my interest is piqued! Thanks!
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Here's one that belongs in the Psychological Thriller category. Phone Booth "Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle." Directed by Joel Schumacher, I think it sets up a claustrophobic tension really well. Kiefer Sutherland is the voice of the sniper and his voice is perfect casting for a cold and calculating antagonist. It's short and really nicely focused. Collin Farrell brings a great energy to the role. It's not a classic but it's a fun and tense 81 minutes that was seriously overlooked when it came out. Edit: also, the poster is 90s as hell. Thwomp fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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The same guy also wrote Cellular and Messages Deleted. Dude needs to stop using telephones entirely or maybe change providers.
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