Nada umire poslednja. Ko
zna, ponešto od ovoga dole moralo bi da valja! Bar malo! Bar da prebaci trojku?
Da se primakne sve nedostižnijoj četvorki? Bar do 4-? Videćemo.
Ovo ispod je moj izbor, iz preko
deset lista i godišnjih najava, kao i iz moje evidencije nevezane za horor
sajtove, odakle sam odbacio kretenske rimejke i nastavke i generičke studijske
projekte (uz samo poneki izuzetak), i probrao one koji bi kod mene mogli da
zarade barem 3- ako ne i malo više
od toga.
Filmovi su poređani od onih
koji najviše i najsnažnije obećavaju pa do onih koji su manje pouzdani
favoriti, ali vredi ih imati na radaru. Nikad se ne zna...
THE WITCH
Atmosfera
dijabolizma u ruralnom ambijentu!
Najočekivaniji horor prošle
godine još nije dolijao. Ali neće moći još dugo da odoleva: izaći ćeš ti,
majci, na DVD ili VOD pre ili kasnije. Nadam se – PRE!
New England,
1630:
William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of
an impassible wilderness, with five
children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail,
the family begins to turn on one another.
USA – 19th Feb
THE NEON
DEMON
Nicolas
Winding Refn
+ horror!!!
Elle Fanning stars in a
cruel cautionary tale as aspiring model Jesse, who moves to Los Angeles, only
to find her youth and vitality devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what
she has. Sexiness abounds with the likes of Christina Hendricks, Jenna Malone,
Bella Heathcote, Abby Lee and a whole host of nubile lookers. Oh, and Keanu
Reeves will be there as well.
31
a Rob
Zombie film!
31 tells the story of five
carnies in 1976 kidnapped on the morning of Halloween and held hostage in a
remote industrial Hell. While
trapped, they are forced to play a
violent game called 31. The mission is to survive 12 hours against an
endless gang of grease-painted maniacs.
It features cult
legend Malcolm McDowell (A
Clockwork Orange) playing a character called Father Murder.
The Red
Spider
Poljski arty psiho-slešer!
Inspired by one of the world’s youngest serial killers, the genre-bending Polish thriller “The Red
Spider” spins a web that openly challenges pro-forma slasher pics in which
corpses accumulate while a detective races to solve the case. For starters, its
stone-faced antihero doesn’t
actually kill a single person — at least not directly. But even more
peculiar, writer-director Marcin Koszalka wants his audience to identify with the criminal in
question, inviting us to consider the impulses that might turn an “ordinary”
person into a homicidal sociopath.
Grounded not in psychology but in a form of hypothetical speculation, the
resulting film feels as cold and
obsessive as its subject, suggesting an
arty, “Let the Right One in”-like tale of diabolical initiation, with obvious interest for fests and jaded
genre buffs.
THE DEVIL'S
CANDY
Sean Byrne (The
Loved Ones)
Metal music, wet paint, and family are
the passions of Jesse, a struggling painter who lives a happy life with his
wife, Astrid, and their preteen daughter, Zooey. And things look even brighter
when Jesse and Astrid are able to put in a bid on their dream home – a huge property in rural Texas with a barn big enough for a proper art studio –
after the price is driven down due to the home’s mysterious past. After the
trio moves in, Jesse’s work starts taking on a new, considerably darker flavour
– and things get even more ominous when Ray, the hulking, clearly unbalanced son of the deceased former owners, appears
on the doorstep one night, clutching a red electric guitar and asking to
“return home.” It soon becomes clear that Ray and Jesse are both being
influenced by the same satanic forces,
and that Jesse’s family won’t be safe until they find a way to quiet the Devil
himself.
Fires on the Plain
Shinya
Tsukamoto's:
War is horror (and splatter)
There are horrors-of-war
movies (“Come and See”), and then there are World War II horror movies (“Dead
Snow”), and judging by “Fires on the Plain,” it’s not entirely clear whether
Japanese splatter director Shinya Tsukamoto understands the
difference. The “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” helmer claims to have long dreamed of
filming Shohei Ooka’s 1951 novel, already adapted far more artfully by Kon
Ichikawa, but he seems to be deriving a
bit too much pleasure from all those decapitated heads, stacked corpses and
maggot-infested flesh wounds to treat the pic’s anti-war message seriously.
Despite the credibility a Venice
THEY LOOK
LIKE PEOPLE
Perry Blackshear
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man
questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from
himself.
An exercise in minimalist dread, Perry Blackshear’s
film about unsettling paranoia in
those in your environment taps into the alienating
terror that fuels the work of H.P.
Lovecraft.
FEBRUARY (aka The Blackcoat's Daughter)
Set at an all girls
boarding school, February tells the
story of two women bound together by a series of sinister events. This artfully crafted shocker is directed by
non other than the son of horror legend Anthony Perkins (Psycho).
With Emma Roberts (American
Horror Story).
Ipak, neke kritike kažu i ovo:
A film too busy trying to be clever
to realize how dumb it truly is.
Did Perkins just marathon David Lynch and Nicolas
Winding Refn movies in order to prepare for his debut? It certainly
feels like it, given his liking for overlong pauses in conversations and low,
rumbling sounds that only get higher in volume as every exchange keeps going.
It’s a cheap attempt to throw some dark undertones over plenty of vague and
banal lines of dialogue, lines specifically designed to enhance the aura of
mystery.
24 September
GREEN ROOM
Jeremy Sauliner (Blue
Ruin)
Stars Patrick Stewart and
is about a young punk band that witnesses some horrible act of violence and
comes under attack from a group of skinheads.
Ovo možda upadne u horor a
možda je ipak samo napeti triler. U svakom slučaju, jedva se čeka!
Midnight Special
Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud)
A Firestarter-ish sounding story about a father taking his supernaturally powered young son on the
run. The father is Michael Shannon.
Also starring Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver and Joel Edgerton. A kind of tribute
to 1980's John Carpenter films.
Creepy
Takakura is a former detective. He receives a
request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows
Saki's memory. She is the only surviving family member from the case.
Meanwhile, Takakura and his wife Yasuko recently moved into a new home. Their
neighbor, Nishino, has a sick wife and a young teen daughter. One day, the
daughter, Mio, jumps into Takakura's house and tells him that the man is not her father and she
doesn't know him at all.
Kijoši odavno nije snimio dobar film, ali ovaj
povratak hororu rado ću pogledati, donekle suzdržanih očekivanja, jer kritike
kažu i ovakve stvari:
“the film is an unfulfilling experience;
incredulously dull, unwittingly absurd and comical, and featuring the most
plank-like lead performance I’ve seen in quite some time. Detached, lethargic,
and predictable picture. Apart from a couple of neat camera movements where
action is allowed to speak louder than words, Creepy is so disposable it
hardly feels directed at all.”
Under the Shadow
Još jedan iranski ženocentrični horor!
A satisfyingly tense and
atmospheric thriller set in a haunted Tehran
apartment during the terrifying final days of the Iran-Iraq War. Slyly
merging a familiar but effective genre exercise with a grim allegory of female oppression, Babak Anvari’s
resourceful writing-directing debut grounds its premise in something at once
vaguely political and ineluctably sinister. “Shadow” delivers the sort of sleek, swiftly paced freakout.
VERONICA
A Mexican movie about middle aged recluse psychologist who has stopped practicing years ago decides to
take the case of Veronica, a young woman who’s treatment was mysteriously
interrupted by the Psychologist's old professor, who has disappeared. As a
condition, the Psychologist requires Veronica to stay with her in her country
house for the duration of the treatment. Here, they will both discover what lies behind their deepest secrets.
The film evolves slowly from stark black and white into glorious
technicolor as it progresses.
THE MIND’S
EYE
Joe Begos (Almost Human)
A drifter with psychic powers takes on an evil doctor and his crew of telekinetic assassins.
The Mind’s Eye recalls
the golden era of telekinesis based
terror such as The Fury (1978), Scanners (1981)
and Firestarter (1984) so expect much vein popping, head
detonations and all round tumefacation in general.
It's got Larry Fessenden in
it.
DELIRIUM (aka HOME)
Dennis Iliadis (LAST
HOUSE ON THE LEFT)
The R-rated horror/thriller
stars Genesis Rodriguez and Patricia Clarkson. The story centers on a man
recently released from a mental
institute who inherits a mansion
after his parents die. After a series of disturbing events, he comes to believe
it is haunted.
SEPTEMBER 30TH
A MAN IN THE
DARK
Fede Alvarez (EVIL
DEAD rehash)
The story about a group of teens that break into a blind man's home
thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong. Stephen Lang
adds some gravitas to the proceedings, with the great Sam Raimi and his Ghost
House Pictures lending its producorial blessing.
AUGUST 26TH
The Darkness
(aka 6
MIRANDA DRIVE)
Greg McLean (WOLF CREEK)
Stars Radha Mitchell + Kevin Bacon
in the lead. The simple plot revolves around a that family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation with a supernatural presence in tow.
13 May
ANTIBIRTH
Danny Perez
In a desolate community
full of drug-addled Marines and
rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner
named Lou (Natasha Lyonne) wakes up after a wild
night of partying with symptoms of a strange
illness and recurring visions as
she struggles to get a grip on reality while stories of conspiracy spread.
Director Danny Perez is
well known for having a strong leaning towards the experimental side of film making – with the accent heavily on
the ”mental”.
Endless bong
sessions, psychosomatic episodes and drug rattled veterans wrapped up in a
visual maelstrom.
With Chloe Sevigny and Meg Tilly.
Perez showcases Lou's hallucinatory drug trips somewhat differently than what we've seen
in film before. Rather than carry on for an entire scene with manipulated lens
filters and shudder effects, Lou only hallucinates in "shards of
time," as if the bong rips force her to remember, rather than forget,
glimpses of how she became "pregnant."
The cinematography
from Rudolk Blahacek is also quite impressive. I love the way the film is lit,
especially during the final 10 or so minutes. Blahacek's work also allows the
special practical effects to shine for ultimate, slimy, gross-out impact.
If you can picture a less intelligent version of David Lynch's Eraserhead with the body horror of David Cronenberg, you'll have a good idea of what to expect from Antibirth.
If you can picture a less intelligent version of David Lynch's Eraserhead with the body horror of David Cronenberg, you'll have a good idea of what to expect from Antibirth.
Before I
Wake
Mike Flanagan (Oculus)
Atmospheric
chiller
about a child whose nightmares come to
life.
A young couple adopt an orphaned child whose dreams
- and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps. To save their new family,
Jessie and Mark embark on a dangerous hunt to uncover the truth behind Cody's
nightmares.
Kate Bosworth and Tom Jane star.
8 April
Hush
Mike Flanagan (Oculus)
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in
her secluded home.
8 April
XX
Female horror
anthology,
with segments by Karyn Kusama
(Jennifer’s Body), alongside directors Mary
Harron, Jennifer Lynch and Jovanka Vuckovic.
Izgleda da je Meri Haron
otpala iz ove kombinacije; detalji su još tanki; govorka se da je Jovanka
obradila priču Džeka Kečama „The Box“...
The
Diabolical
Alistair Legrand
When a single mother and her two young children are tormented by an increasingly strange and intense presence, she turns to her science teacher boyfriend to help take on the violent forces that paranormal experts are too frightening to face.
Alistair Legrand
When a single mother and her two young children are tormented by an increasingly strange and intense presence, she turns to her science teacher boyfriend to help take on the violent forces that paranormal experts are too frightening to face.
Cast: Ali Larter.
SUN CHOKE
Ben Cresciman
A tale of psychosis and
unspeakable delusion, Ben Cresciman’s surreal
fright flick has one of the most visceral
and unforgiving third acts seen in 2015.
This psychological horror film evokes the Polanski
of Repulsion
but also the Todd Haynes of [SAFE] and the Altman of 3 Women … it’s tactful but disturbing, and gets into
the fractured psyche of its leading
lady (or ladies). A little too
oblique for regular horror, it’s a haunting
work.
LAST GIRL
STANDING
Benjamin R. Moody
A clever, creepy twist on
the “final girl” archetype, LAST
GIRL STANDING examines life after a slasher film, turning in one of the most unexpected and contemplative
psychological thrillers of the year.
DEAD BODY
Bobbin Ramsey
With great characters, expert tension
and a fantastic execution, DEAD BODY
is the pick-’em-off horror film of 2015, and one sure to help
continue ushering in the new wave of excellent indie slashers.
NORWAY
Yannis Veslemes
One of the most unique
terror titles this year, NORWAY is an exceptionally
fun and brilliantly twisted take
on the vampire story, conveying the
stylish tale of a vampire whose life as a late night raver takes him into a
bizarre, oddly tragic story.
MORTAL
REMAINS
Mark Ricche & Christian
Stavrakis
A faux-documentary about a legendary
cult filmmaker who may have served a more sinister purpose before his
alleged death, MORTAL REMAINS is engrossing
and absolutely fun, with one of the
best bloody final moments in years.
THE CORPSE OF
ANNA FRITZ
Hèctor Hernández Vicens
A twisted psychodrama of
the highest order, THE CORPSE OF ANNA FRITZ could quickly become the next
buzzworthy underground title if given the proper platform.
After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in
a shelter by two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread
chemical attack.
With John
Goodman.
Upravo krenuo u USA
“The best part of "10 Cloverfield Lane
Director’s Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein
Tim Kirk
A fictional and highly
engaging commentary track is laid over a forgotten 1977 Frankenstein film in
this experimental outing from the
producer of ROOM 237. The climax is just as exciting as any action film I saw this year.
THERE ARE
MONSTERS
Bryan Bertino
Concerns a mother and daughter who are terrorized by a monster.
MOST LIKELY TO DIE
Anthony DiBlasi (Dread,
2009, Cassadaga, 2011)
A group of former
classmates gather for a pre-party at one of their homes the night before
their 10-year high school reunion, and one by one, they are brutally slain in a manner befitting
each's senior yearbook superlative.
OUTLAWS AND
ANGELS
When Outlaws on the lam
invade the home of an unsuspecting, seemingly innocent, frontier family to hide
out for the night, an unexpected game of cat and mouse ensues, leading to
seduction, role reversal, and ultimately, bloody revenge.
The revenge western is ripe with horror tropes and the soundtrack
is superb.
USA – 25th May
Phantasm – Ravager
Ovo nije režirao Koskareli,
budžet je neka smešna sića, i javlja mi se da će ovo da izgleda kao nešto
između houm muvija i fan fikšna prema kojem će čak i negledljivi IV deo delovati
kao klasik.
THE CONJURING
2 : THE ENFIELD POLTERGEIST
James Wan
USA – 10th June
Rings
F. Javier Gutiérrez
Samara returns with a familiar video tape to strike terror again in the third film of the Ring
series, Rings.
Video traka? VIDEO?! Će vidimo!
28 October
YOGA HOSERS
Novi pokušaj Kevina Smita da napravi nešto nalik
hororu.
Two teenage yoga
enthusiasts team up with a legendary man-hunter to battle with an ancient evil
presence that is threatening their major party plans.
Yoga Hosers is part of
an insane trilogy sandwiched between a film about a man who turns himself into
a walrus (Tusk) and a killer elk
picture (Moose Jaws).
It features a character
called Yogi Bayer.
UK – Mid 2016
CARNAGE PARK
Part crime caper gone awry, part survival
horror film, this 1970s set thriller
depicts a harrowing fight for survival after a pair of wannabe crooks botch a
bank heist and flee into the desert,
where they inexplicably stumble upon Carnage Park, a remote stretch of
wilderness occupied by a psychotic
ex-military sniper.
Carnage Park is “a nod
to the legendary Sam Peckinpah and his masterpiece The Getaway, the new
French Extremism films of the 2000s, and The Most Dangerous Game.” Its got
Larry Fessenden in it.
E, jebi ga!
UPTAKE FEAR
Uptake Fear invites the
viewer to break the limits of social behavior as the journey goes from real to surreal in a path of violence, blood and the metastases of
reality. Join the rising of a
psychopath as he loses control of his reality and his fears.
The trailer looks like the
kind of insane that only South America (BRAZIL!) can do.
One of the trio of
directors is Kapel Furman (Beyond the Grave) who is one of the best
orchestrators of special effects gore and violence in the world. Some of
his work is truly demented.
TRASH FIRE
Richard Bates Jr. (Excision, Suburban Gothic)
Owen and Isabel’s love
story simmers with spiteful rage,
but unfortunately, for everyone, Isabel is pregnant
with Owen’s child. In order to prove to her that he could become a stable
father, Owen agrees to reconnect with his only living relatives at Isabel’s
request. The couple takes a trip to visit his perversely devoted grandmother and his sister Pearl, who was
severely burned in a fire, to finally bury the hatchet. But sometimes the ties
that bind can cut off all circulation.
THE BLOB
Još jedan rimejk: očekujem
gomilu sluzi (i to kompjuterske).
Verzija iz 1988. je odlična i zasigurno nedostižna današnjim generacijama
američanskih horordžija.
AMITYVILLE:
THE AWAKENING
Franck
Khalfoun
Možda kapne neka kap iz ove
suve drenovine samo zato što će da je cedi stari kompanjon A. Aže (Alexandre
Aja) - Franck Khalfoun. Dodatni plus
je što u ovome igra Jennifer Jason Leigh!
I što će biti R-rejting, a ne PG-13,
kako obično biva sa novijim nedelima o ukletim kućama.
Ovo zapravo kreće 6.
januara 2017. ali neka ga na ovoj listi jer će se pojaviti pre moje naredne
liste ove vrste.
THE
INVITATION
While attending a dinner
party at his former home, a man thinks his ex-wife and her new husband have
sinister intentions for their guests.
Jennifer’s
Body director Karyn
Kusama
USA – 25th March
Ovo sam već video na
FEST-u, samo zato je na dnu ali inače dobar je film; ako ga ja više ne
očekujem, vi kojima je promakao tada, čekajte ga rado.
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