Essential The Official Coli Horror Film Thread: Discussion, Recommendations And Murder.
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I was a lot more interested in this movie before they revealed that it was a Blair Witch sequel.Just posted in the other thread but gat damn
The black cat is out of the bag, officially, as Lionsgate has officially pulled off the greatest coup in the history of cinema. The Woods, in theaters September 16th, has a new title: BLAIR WITCH.
Yup, all this time The Woods has secretly been the hotly anticipated sequel to Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick’s indie smash The Blair Witch Project.
I believe now is as good of a time as any to throw out a booming TOLD YOU SO. Back on April 11, 2015, Bloody Disgusting exclusively broke the news that The Woods was allegedly a Blair Witchfilm. We knew we were onto something when we were met with deafening silence from the studio, producers and filmmakers.
But I digress, there’s a lot of good news here. The first being that we’re finally getting a sequel to The Blair Witch Project, the other is that it’s awesome. Yes, I’ve seen the movie and loved it so much I’m going to be championing it all the way through release this coming September. In fact, I’m now allowed to share my review, which you’ve seen plastered on posters and in the initial teaser trailer.
” ‘Blair Witch’ is that game-changer horror fans desperately have been waiting for. It will usher in a new breed of genre films that are targeted at creating an emotional experience above all else. “Scary” is probably an understatement as this may just be the first film since ‘The Exorcist’ that will leave younger audiences scarred for life.”
It truly is one of the scariest movies ever made…
Blair Witch is directed by Adam Wingard, who helmed V/H/S and V/H/S/2 for Bloody Disgusting (in the interest of full disclosure), not to mention the awesome The Guest and You’re Next. But when Blair Witchreleases this fall, he will become a household name. Blair Witch is written by his longtime collaborator Simon Barrett:
“A group of college students venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of James’ sister who many believe is connected to the legend of the Blair Witch. At first the group is hopeful, especially when a pair of locals offer to act as guides through the dark and winding woods, but as the endless night wears on, the group is visited by a menacing presence. Slowly, they begin to realize the legend is all too real and more sinister than they could have imagined.“
James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Valorie Curry, Corbin Reid, and Wes Robinson star.
As I said previously, I’m putting my full weight behind Blair Witch in a way that I haven’t done since Paranormal Activity. It’s terrifying. It’s rattling. It’s next level.
Roy Lee (The Ring, The Grudge, The Strangers, It), Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity, Insidious), Keith Calder and Jessica Wu (You’re Next, The Guest) are the producers.
going to peep thi when i get the chance
yall peep Lights Out yet?
i might check that tonight
i might check that tonight
I found it to be a bunch of meh to decent jump scare moments in desperate need of a movie that didn't suck.yall peep Lights Out yet?
i might check that tonight
I watched it last night. While there are definitely some keepers, there is also more than a few duds.
Here are my personal rankings, from best to worst :
Father's Day - 4.5/5
Original, subtle, and filled with tension. Almost a mystery film. The director was patient and respected that the audience would be patient too. The pay-off would have felt cheap if not for the excellent set-up. Definitely the class of this film. Didn't hurt that it starred Jocelin Donahue, who some might remember as the girl from The House Of The Devil (2009).
St. Patrick's Day - 3.5/5
The most surrealist segment, and I imagine that this will likely be the most contested. I could see some people loving or hating it depending on their taste. Me? I love bizarre, ambiguous stories like this. I also enjoy cult/esoteric/ritual based stories. So this was right up my alley.
Easter - 3/5
Scary and strange. If Father's Day was the most tense segment, this was the scariest to me. Actually manages to comment on the absurdities of Easter as it relates to Jesus/Catholicism without feeling like it's lecturing at you. Cool monster design/performance.
Christmas - 2.5/5
With a few tweaks, this may have fit in as one of the Black Mirrors "White Christmas" segments. They had a chance to reach that type of satire/modern critique/future warning, but they settled for a cheap twist-ending that doesn't really add anything to the story. This wasn't unbearable, but it was definitely the biggest missed-opportunity, because the potential was there. It starred Seth Green, if anyone cares.
Mother's Day - 1.5/5
I can tell that they wanted to say....something here. But the story felt unrealized. I think this was meant to draw upon some of the paranoia and story beats of Rosemary's Baby (1968), but it has not the craftsmanship to make that comparison flattering. It doesn't help that the St. Patrick's Day segment, which I rated higher than this, comes before this segment in the film, and actually seems to do what Mother's Day thinks it's doing in a far more entertaining (and scary) way.
Valentine's Day - 1/5
Man, I love, love LOOOOOVE me some stories about young, awkward, creepy, outsider, high-school girls. Before y'all, let me explain : Carrie (1976), May (2002) , Excision (2012)....when this genre is good, it's usually *really good*. I'd probably throw The Craft (1996) into this lot as well. So I like the type of story that they were trying to tell here...they just failed to give us any reason to care about the raging girl, and that is a MUST, because that's where the heart of these types of stories lie. It's not enough for them to just be bullied outsiders, you have to show some sort of deeper explanation for their pathology (Bad parents, poverty, confidence issues, etc) This segment relied on an insanity/delusion twist....so it has no real point.
New Year's Eve - .5/5
I didn't get much of anything out of this. A serial killer goes on a blind date with a potential victim....he gets more than he bargained for. You've probably figured the twist just off of that short description and that's because we've seen this story plenty of times before. This added nothing new nor did it have anything to say.
Halloween - 0/5
- Directed by Kevin Smith.
- Starring his daughter (17 years old).
- As a cam-whore....
This dude fukked around and made the worst segment while simultaneously portraying his own daughter as a smut. A faux-feminist message that is nowhere near as clever as he probably thought it was. To top it all off, this dude didn't even use the holiday-theme right, and he had the easiest and arguably most important holiday for a horror based anthology! How you gonna have Halloween, not use any Halloween imagery or tropes, and make the worst segment? Kevin Smith is done y'all.
TL;DR : Not a complete waste of time, but as with the V/H/S/ or ABC's Of Death series, you might have to sit through some trash to get to the goodies. Southbound (2015), another recent horror anthology, was far more consistent and I'd recommend tracking that down over this one.
This movie sucked and I agree with you on Kevin Smith's segment being the worst.
I don't know what the fukk happened to Kevin Smith.
He's just terrible now.
His movies always had that touch of realness and soul to them even if they were amateurish.
Somewhere along the line though either his head went all the way up his ass or he just stopped caring.
Tusk was absolutely awful. And that yoga hosiers looks horrendous.
He's just terrible now.
His movies always had that touch of realness and soul to them even if they were amateurish.
Somewhere along the line though either his head went all the way up his ass or he just stopped caring.
Tusk was absolutely awful. And that yoga hosiers looks horrendous.
yall peep Lights Out yet?
i might check that tonight
Meh..a whole bunch of meh. Good idea with very mediocre execution. There's some inventive stuff in it and things to like but it doesn't hang together
Too much weed. Can't deal with criticism. Too gun shy to really try something new although I think Red State is very underrated and has never really evolved as a filmmaker since 97
All that said about Smith, I'm still interested in Clerks 3, his Mallrats tv show, and this Buckaroo Banzai tv show he's in charge of. I really do like Clerks 2 although I haven't peeped it since college meaning since i stopped taking film classes and I'm afraid education may have ruined that shyt for me
Buckaroo Banzai?!All that said about Smith, I'm still interested in Clerks 3, his Mallrats tv show, and this Buckaroo Banzai tv show he's in charge of. I really do like Clerks 2 although I haven't peeped it since college meaning since i stopped taking film classes and I'm afraid education may have ruined that shyt for me
Buckaroo Banzai?!
Yeah he's in charge of the tv show version of it for Amazon. I think he's directing the pilot and writing it and then after that he's just overseeing and wants top notch talent to come in and direct the different episodes
I think TV is where he should stay. He did wonders with the pilot for the (canceled too soon) CW show REAPER and I liked the episode of THE FLASH that he directed.All that said about Smith, I'm still interested in Clerks 3, his Mallrats tv show, and this Buckaroo Banzai tv show he's in charge of. I really do like Clerks 2 although I haven't peeped it since college meaning since i stopped taking film classes and I'm afraid education may have ruined that shyt for me
I wonder how many of the top directors on his wish list he will be able to get? Here is what he said in an interview with ComingSoon about the directors he wants:
He can prob get QT and Edgar.