Essential The Official Coli Horror Film Thread: Discussion, Recommendations And Murder.

[JarrodG]

What's the word on X?

 

[storyteller]

@storyteller or anyone else who watched “Master” - real quick question. Please tell me there’s redemption value in the conclusion of this? No spoilers please. Yes or No? Because I can’t continue with this if there’s no adequate conclusion to the strife.

That’s all I need to know right now bc I don’t want to start my weekend off agitated at the insufficient traumatic outcome. Too much racist whitery and I’m only at the 21:00 mark. Rather not.


(Doesnt help that “Jasmine” in this movie looks like my freshman year college roommate and we both had to interact with dumb ass girls in the dorm on some us v. them timing until we set boundaries . Resemblance is spooky)

There's not nearly enough come uppance, but there is a cathartic moment. It gets harsher as it goes. They're not subtle to begin with, but get aggressive as it goes.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

There's not nearly enough come uppance, but there is a cathartic moment. It gets harsher as it goes. They're not subtle to begin with, but get aggressive as it goes.

I’m going to have to part 2 this until tomorrow night, finished watching the first 45 mins - my anxiety level is on 1000 with this. I’m at the part where the white Girl leaves the dorm during thanksgiving break.

 

[storyteller]

I’m going to have to part 2 this until tomorrow night, finished watching the first 45 mins - my anxiety level is on 1000 with this. I’m at the part where the white Girl leaves the dorm during thanksgiving break.

The scene prior startled the hell out of me. The arm scratching bit got me too. The scares are really on point.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

The scene prior startled the hell out of me. The arm scratching bit got me too. The scares are really on point.

I jumped no less than 4x - the scenes are intense. I’ll be up all night if I keep watching

 

[Duke Dixon]

I watched Ex Machina last night and really enjoyed it. I don't know why I was holding off watching it for so long. I started watching Under Her Skin afterwards but fell asleep. I need to stop doing that

If I have to rate the A24 movies that I've seen so far it'd probably be

Hereditary or Midsommar. Toni Collette was great in Hereditary but I was engaged from beginning to end with Midsommar. It'll take another watch of both to see which I like better
Ex Machina
The Witch
Uncut Gems
Zola
Spring Breakers
Tusk

 

[Lootpack]

I watched Ex Machina last night and really enjoyed it. I don't know why I was holding off watching it for so long. I started watching Under Her Skin afterwards but fell asleep. I need to stop doing that

If I have to rate the A24 movies that I've seen so far it'd probably be

Hereditary or Midsommar. Toni Collette was great in Hereditary but I was engaged from beginning to end with Midsommar. It'll take another watch of both to see which I like better
Ex Machina
The Witch
Uncut Gems
Zola
Spring Breakers
Tusk

I fell asleep on Under the Skin on my first watch too, can’t blame you there. I really liked it, especially Levi’s score, but yeah….the film can be pretty slow.

Green Room, In Fabric (heavily slept on), Saint Maud, and Climax are some other good horror selections under A24. I guess Climax could be considered more descent into madness than anything else, but it’s still a horror story given the situation. Gaspar’s style may turn you off though.

Also, if you liked how anxiety inducing Uncut Gems was, you may enjoy Good Time too. Same directors.

 

[storyteller]

I fell asleep on Under the Skin on my first watch too, can’t blame you there. I really liked it, especially Levi’s score, but yeah….the film can be pretty slow.

Green Room, In Fabric (heavily slept on), Saint Maud, and Climax are some other good horror selections under A24. I guess Climax could be considered more descent into madness than anything else, but it’s still a horror story given the situation. Gaspar’s style may turn you off though.

Also, if you liked how anxiety inducing Uncut Gems was, you may enjoy Good Time too. Same directors.

The dialogue for In Fabric legit bodied me repeatedly. I really enjoyed that ish.

 

[Jello Biafra]

One other thing about X is that there is a trailer for The Pearl prequel film after the credits.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Blind bought some slasher horrors. First watch was Pieces. Enjoyed it and worth the gamble. The bad stuff was just laughable.

 

[Jello Biafra]

Elvira is going to be in Rob Zombie's Munsters movie:

 

[Jello Biafra]

I didn't enjoy Master as much as I wanted to.
All the performances were good and there was some creepy stuff in there but the movie just felt incomplete to me.

 

[Foxmulder]

Just watched The Feast.

 

[FluffyEyes]

I'm probably late but I just watched Ju-On: Origins on Netflix and I enjoyed it. Definitely has some wtf moments and great atmosphere and a quick watch(Six 30 min episodes). I haven't watched the original Ju-On in years nor kept up with the series and I didn't feel confused because of it. 3/5 Would recommend.


Conversely I also watched the 80s schlock fest The Video Dead and it was so bad. Not even so bad it's good, just so bad. Had to wash it down with Return of The Living Dead.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

I'm probably late but I just watched Ju-On: Origins on Netflix and I enjoyed it. Definitely has some wtf moments and great atmosphere and a quick watch(Six 30 min episodes). I haven't watched the original Ju-On in years nor kept up with the series and I didn't feel confused because of it. 3/5 Would recommend.


Conversely I also watched the 80s schlock fest The Video Dead and it was so bad. Not even so bad it's good, just so bad. Had to wash it down with Return of The Living Dead.

That Ju-On series was very good. We Watched it back in 2020. Was hoping they would make a season 2 but I think they just “one and doned” it based on how tht storyline concluded.

@storyteller They wasted no time on this Ju-On first episode. The 6 yr old girl in the car and the mother with her daughter at the school.

Saw this and got excited, today my binge begins...
Netflix's 'Ju-On: Origins' Unfolds a Brutal New Beginning for the 'Grudge' Franchise

Ju-On: Origins was a really quick binge for me. The Grudge series has grown to be one of my favorites in all of horror despite some shortcomings beyond the initial drops. The Netflix series took the typical Grudge formula and threw in a bit of tweaking that's helped it to become one of the best iterations of the series imo.

What usually works for the Grudge is that once someone enters the house, their death is inevitable with no safe space. The curse can get people at any point, day or night; private place or public...and so even if a character is getting close to answers, they might get stopped in their tracks at the damned library because this thing doesn't play. On top of that, the narrative is always disjointed. So the story skips around and where a linear storyline is like connecting dots, you've got a jigsaw puzzle on your hands. The combination makes it a disorienting ride that's tense from start to finish...when it's good.

The problem with the formula is that every sequel was just another repetition. Once you get past the sequencing, it's a lot more predictable...person enters haunted location and encounters ghost; person leaves haunted location; ghost follows person and eventually kills them. All of this digression is to say that the new Grudge series has added ambiguity to tweak the recipe and make it feel unique again.

What I mean by that is that while the ghosts make plenty of appearances, the worst violence comes from living people haunted by the ghosts. The show goes to great lengths to show the types of heinous behavior that can spawn a vengeful spirit to follow a person the rest of their days. Every Grudge movie is about trauma sparking a chain reaction but in this series, every domino comes with a real life moment of violence attached rather than something we can simply blame on the ghosts. The curse feels more internalized and psychological than it ever has before.

But I gotta add a caveat now...the violence gets gratuitous at times. It's all a blur now but I'd be surprised if you couldn't find a trigger warning to attach to every single episode. There's rape, suicide, murder, violence against women and children...and it's all shown just a little more than I felt was necessary (actually a lot more in the fourth episode specifically). For as much as the injection of ambiguity works to refresh the formula a bit, it also forces us to sit through some really brutal imagery point blank.

The other tweak to the formula is that there's a feeling that having episodes instead of one run time gives us less predictable deaths. We've been taught to assume that when someone enters the house, they'll end up dead by the end of run time. But with episodes and seasons, a character's death isn't so easily timed. It's simple and more a result of the tv format than anything, but it helps a lot. I will admit though, I'm a bit annoyed at how this season ended.

Anyway, I love the original Grudge and Ju-On flicks. So consider me biased, but I really enjoyed this one. The violence can be gratuitous at points but I could say that about plenty of other shows and movies (Slasher on Netflix for example). It's a fresh take on the Grudge which has been needed for years and it's also refreshing to have some new horror to comb through.