Essential The Official Coli Horror Film Thread: Discussion, Recommendations And Murder.
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Decent flick
Live feed (2006)
Live feed (2006)
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I agree. It seemed like something was missing.Resident Evil: Welcolme to Rac00n City
...aside from setting it in 98 and showing the RE Mansion this missed the mark
If done right this could be a dope TV horror series
Do y’all remember Terminator and Maximum Overdrive…?? they’re here.
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I loved the sound of the Stairs as a concept, but I didn't really like it. It felt like they were gonna go one direction and then they completely 180'ed and went a different route that I was disappointed in. I'm also not sure if it was the way characters were written or how they were portrayed, but it felt B-movieish a bit too often.
The YouTube and IDMB comment section killed any hope of this movie for me. Now You’ve confirmed it. At this point- studios are throwing out their straight to stream leftovers so I expected this time to be slow. I’ll just sit back and patiently wait for Scream 2022 next week.
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It honestly has some GIF-worthy fukkery but that's the best I can give it. You're right about the straight-to-stream run...seems like it's gonna become a quick way to pump out cheap content. What sucks for the Stairs is that there were a bunch of notes of good ideas and imagery, but the low budget definitely turned scenes that coulda been really impactful into potential GIF material.
Speaking of Scream though, I've been binging the movies all week. I'm down to Scream 4 and I'll be fully ready for the new one
Channel Zero: Butcher's Block did the whole idea of stairs in the woods better than The Stairs.
I agree the whole of The Stairs felt very B-movie.
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Butcher's Block ironically was my least favorite season of Channel Zero, but definitely did it better though. Channel Zero deserves more recognition than it gets IMO. Butcher's Block wasn't bad, but the other seasons outshine it for me. The Tooth Fairy from season one (was it Candle Cove?) is an elite design and the Nowhere House season was super creative.
I've been trying to dig up some hidden gem horrors since the drops have been cooling off, but it's been a tough. This joint had some alright elements (Lin Shaye doing her thing and Tony Todd with a quality cameo), but it's another one that I'd put on the "watch it if you're bored with nothing else to throw on" range.
The only gem I've found is a Lovecraftian horror novel that was written BEFORE Lovecraft. Turns out Lovecraft was inspired by it, not vice versa, and this joint really does feel like it laid some groundwork. The style of storytelling reminds of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (characters retelling accounts of strange events they experienced that creates a mystery), but from chapter one there's a Cosmic Horror element that feels ahead of its time.
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