Essential The Official Coli Horror Film Thread: Discussion, Recommendations And Murder.
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storyteller
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- Watched part of Holidays, way too over the top for my taste but the Easter story was pretty damned disturbing from creature design to the straight up weirdness and abduction stuff.
- Switched from that to They Look Like People, which was pretty cool. 100% psychological, no gore, no real jump scares and a story that felt grounded in reality (it's basically happening from the POV from someone who is schizophrenic). My complaint is it's almost entirely tension right up until the end but it's a pretty short movie that builds the tension well up to that big conclusion. The concluding scene was a bit frustrating but extra intense and then it just ends abruptly..which was disappointing. 6/10 though...pretty damned original in my eyes and had some pretty effective moments even if they were scattered. Coulda been better but still worth a peep for something different.
- Switched from that to They Look Like People, which was pretty cool. 100% psychological, no gore, no real jump scares and a story that felt grounded in reality (it's basically happening from the POV from someone who is schizophrenic). My complaint is it's almost entirely tension right up until the end but it's a pretty short movie that builds the tension well up to that big conclusion. The concluding scene was a bit frustrating but extra intense and then it just ends abruptly..which was disappointing. 6/10 though...pretty damned original in my eyes and had some pretty effective moments even if they were scattered. Coulda been better but still worth a peep for something different.
Atlanta 80s baby
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I need help referencing a movie. Can't remember too much detail and paraphrasing a bit.
A group of individuals go to a huge old mansion that is haunted, I guess to debunk it. In actuality, it's half fraudulent and half haunted caused by the burial of an evil cult like leader inside a deep chamber . One of the young girls is clairvoyant perhaps.
I remeber seeing it late 80s, early 90s. Had to been produced during the 70s if not 60s.
A group of individuals go to a huge old mansion that is haunted, I guess to debunk it. In actuality, it's half fraudulent and half haunted caused by the burial of an evil cult like leader inside a deep chamber . One of the young girls is clairvoyant perhaps.
I remeber seeing it late 80s, early 90s. Had to been produced during the 70s if not 60s.
That sounds a bit like The Haunting:
It was remade in 1999 with Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta Jones:
Netflix is actually working on a series based on it right now.
Watched Beyond The Gates and I Am Not A Serial Killer over the weekend.
Beyond the Gates was hella disappointing from casting to acting to direction.
I Am Not A Serial Killer was pretty good. Has me interested in reading the book series the movie is based off of.
Would probably make for a better TV series though.
Beyond the Gates was hella disappointing from casting to acting to direction.
I Am Not A Serial Killer was pretty good. Has me interested in reading the book series the movie is based off of.
Would probably make for a better TV series though.
Atlanta 80s baby
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This wasn't it tho. The original Haunting movie brought back similar memories but the movie I'm talking about was in color with no memorable celebs like the remake. I just remember a dead occultist was mummified in a deep chamber and his life force was part of the reason the mansion/hotel was haunted. The other reason was some other person was conning the group with his own fake tricks. Only else I remember it coming on local TV here in Atlanta circa 1990.
Oh well, now yall got me googling top100 scary movies from the 70s trying to move on from this movie.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
This on netflix or prime?
I haven't been in this thread in a minute and I'm back in a horror mood. Any of y'all got good psychological or supernatural movies i should catch? Even campy stuff full of jump scares is fine, just no gore
storyteller
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This one was on Netflix and I'd definitely put it in the psychological category. Creep has a few jump scares and is on Netflix too; the beginning is weird as hell but it gets intense and no gore (plus it's short).
I still can't believe they thought the best guy to handle the first Annabelle was the director of mortal kombat annihilation
Watched the thing for what seems like the 1000th time. God I love that film. It's a perfect horror film.
Decided to watch the thing 2011 again since I had only seen it once.
God. The CGI is so bad. It's just night and day.
Practical effects on a 15 million budget from a film thats over 30 years old holds up better than a film with a 40 million budget that's only 6 years old.
The film itself is fine but it's completely and utterly ruined by the use of CGI. If only they had used practical effects.
Decided to watch the thing 2011 again since I had only seen it once.
God. The CGI is so bad. It's just night and day.
Practical effects on a 15 million budget from a film thats over 30 years old holds up better than a film with a 40 million budget that's only 6 years old.
The film itself is fine but it's completely and utterly ruined by the use of CGI. If only they had used practical effects.
I remember the people behind the 2011 Thing were doing interviews early on talking about how they were going to use a lot of practical effects instead of CGI and then the whole fukking movie was not only CGI but badly rendered cheap looking CGI.
Studio came in and added all the cgi. Idk why idk how the director felt about it but they basically took it from him in post
