NEWS: I bought a collection of MR James short stories recently, once I've finished with Lovecraft I will read him. I will report back.

I saw a few Crap/Not Crap threads on individual films but, no thread on horror in general.I guess the idea is to have a thread to post news, reviews, or questions on horror films(or plays, books, whatever).To kick it off, I came across this -http://twitchfilm.com/news/2011/06/its-the-fight-of-the-living-dead-first-teaser-for-monster-brawl.phpIt's not exactly serious horror but, I'm interested.Official site: http://www.monsterbrawlmovie.com/

Bill Swansea wrote:NEWS: I bought a collection of MR James short stories recently, once I've finished with Lovecraft I will read him. I will report back.Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad, and Martin's Close are a couple of favorites, though I'm likely to pour through anything he has written.This weekend I saw Megan is Missing. Not sure about who I'd recommend to see this movie. I was just as floored by the final twenty-five minutes as I was of footage showing fourteen-year-old girls supposedly acting like fourteen-year-old girls. It tells the story of teen best friends Megan and Amy. Megan is the promiscuous party girl while Amy is her shy best friend that no one likes. The girls spend their entire lives online via web cam chats, skype, and cell phone vids, and that's how the story is told. You see them partying via cell phone vids and being annoying teens over their web cams. It can get annoying, but as soon as Megan meets "Josh" is when things start to get creepy. Megan ends up missing after attempting to go on a first date with Josh, and the mockmumentary moves into news footage that could be seen as satirical, but it also touches on slight themes of racism and violence-as-entertainment; then Amy goes missing. As soon as they get to the unreleased photos that were posted on a fetish website of a girl who they think is Megan is when things get completely fucked and the final twenty-minutes or so of Amy's camera footage shot via "Josh" is beyond-completely-fucked.On the DVD Mac Klaas, father of Polly Klaas offers commentary to lend credence to this movie as being a cautionary tale for teens and parents and not just some exploitation flick. I, however, didn't see it on DVD, but even without Marc Klaas' commentary it can still be looked at in that light. You can check it out in the Digital Premieres category of the Movie section on OnDemand.I'm never having kids.

Is anyone familiar with the Australian film The Tunnel?Another in a long line of found-footage documentaries; this time focusing on journalists attempting to expose a government cover-up in Sydney's abandoned train tunnels.TrailerThe notable feature about this release is that it was basically funded through a crowd-funded investment model called the 135K Project. They sold individual frames for $1 hoping to achieve their stated goal. Most importantly, they released the movie legally for free on BitTorrent. Word on the digitized street is that the movie is pretty great. Nothing new, obviously, but what it does it does very well.

emmanuelle cunt wrote:KerbledThat seems to be just films, this is any and all forms of horror.I've fallen behind on my horror short story reading after picking up Lady Chatterley's Lover and falling behind with that (though not behind with her, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING).Need to get back on it (and the horror stories too IF YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING). Has anyone here played the video game Eternal Darkness? That was an interesting survival horror. Also, I'm replaying the last Zelda game, and whenever I have to explore caverns, I walk slowly in terror in case one of the giant spiders are there. For horror fans and video game players, the Zelda games really do have their fucked up moments by the way. I mean, the giant spiders aren't that bad, most of the time the horror bits are like the worst acid trips ever. I'll compile some classic bits by searching on Youtube. Seriously, it's gloriously weird.

RSMurphy wrote:Is anyone familiar with the Australian film The Tunnel?Another in a long line of found-footage documentaries; this time focusing on journalists attempting to expose a government cover-up in Sydney's abandoned train tunnels.TrailerThe notable feature about this release is that it was basically funded through a crowd-funded investment model called the 135K Project. They sold individual frames for $1 hoping to achieve their stated goal. Most importantly, they released the movie legally for free on BitTorrent. Word on the digitized street is that the movie is pretty great. Nothing new, obviously, but what it does it does very well.I've seen this one. It's not bad and worth a look. It does quite a nice thing where someone is listening back to recorded sound which turns creepy (hardly a surprise but its well done enough).I have some reservations about its structure, namely the inter-cut interviews with 'participants'. Though the film-makers try to keep dramatic tension by saying early on that not everyone wished to give these interviews, the viewer is given the fact that at least a couple of the principles survive and who these are, thus reducing any tension a bit. Totally understandable why they did it and all but still, it seems a touch deflating.Also, I didn't really like a couple of the characters very much at all which I guess is a facet of these type of films where you get a glimpse of people acting in extreme ways which is liable to show them up to be less than perfect. But, even with the interviews to flesh these characters out I find it difficult to warm to them much.I'm being too negative though. It's worth a watch and the Australian sense of humour (at first) shines through, before the monsteriness.Has anyone seen The Silent House? Supposedly shot in one take. I didn't think it was very good, any formal cleverness aside. I'd be interested to hear other folks take on it.

Kerbled

Bill Swansea wrote:emmanuelle cunt wrote:KerbledThat seems to be just films, this is any and all forms of horror.I've fallen behind on my horror short story reading after picking up Lady Chatterley's Lover and falling behind with that (though not behind with her, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING).Need to get back on it (and the horror stories too IF YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING). Has anyone here played the video game Eternal Darkness? That was an interesting survival horror. Also, I'm replaying the last Zelda game, and whenever I have to explore caverns, I walk slowly in terror in case one of the giant spiders are there. For horror fans and video game players, the Zelda games really do have their fucked up moments by the way. I mean, the giant spiders aren't that bad, most of the time the horror bits are like the worst acid trips ever. I'll compile some classic bits by searching on Youtube. Seriously, it's gloriously weird.i remember being at a house party and some punk kids were playing majora's mask and watching how weird that got...

Just found out tonight that Rozz Williams co-directed and starred in a silent, experimental horror short called Pig. Meh. You can watch it in two parts on YouTube, but it does contain images of mutilation, sadism, and nudity. Meh. Basically it looks like a precursor to the torture-porn industry looming on the horizon. Rozz plays a serial killer whose victim, to me, acted the opposite of what a victim would act like. There is some interesting imagery. Rozz's character seems to be taking his cues from a book titled Why God Permits Evil. The book is filled with bizarre cut-ups and religious imagery as is the abandoned house where everything takes place. In the end, though, it all seems weak and contrived.I guess it's about twenty minutes worth of your time if you're a casual Christan Death fan.

If you are in Northern Illinois:http://www.horrorsociety.com/2011/07/01/terror-in-the-aisles-8/Flashback Weekend is next weekend: http://www.flashbackweekend.com/(Faux-thunderstorm in the background upon opening this page)