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

[Lootpack]

Alright since it's been awhile since Terrifier 2 came out I can ask thisuspenseful. If you don't want to be spoiled skip my post.

Do you guys like it when the protagonist in horror movies have supernatural powers? The ending threw me off when she got magic powers or at least weirded a magical sword. For whatever reason I can't get into horror movies if the protagonist has supernatural powers. It's the same reason why I can't get into F13 Part 7( the one where Jason goes after a Carrie like girl).

Am I wrong for this? I tried googling other examples but no one has really made a list. They gave The Conjuring, Blade, Chronicle. It's been a while since I watched Chronical but I wouldn't call that a horror more, same with Blade. I don't think Lorraine Warren's powers made the movies less suspenseful.

Wait as I was typing this I remembered NoES Dream Warriors and Dream Master. I think that's a bit easier to buy for me because the powers happen in dreams.

Are there any horror films that you guys can name where the protagonist has powers? Maybe some other movies can help me change my mind.

For me it just depends on if it fits in line with the rest of the movie. I didn’t mind it in Terrifier 2 because in a lot of ways it reminded me of those shlock B-level horror films that came out in the 80s. The ones that mixed in fantastical aspects into its lore, and never seemed to take itself seriously.

Think part of the reason I was taken aback by that ending was because of how long it’s been since I’ve seen a heroine portrayed in such a way. Sienna was on her Ash/Evil Dead shyt and I was loving every bit of it. I can see the magical sword bit be considered a “jumping the shark” moment but in a franchise where an immortal killer clown with glowing eyes can teleport from Place A to Place B, it just wasn’t that to me.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

There is a zero percent chance that this movie will flop even if it is awful.

It’s been hyped for 4 years- of course mainstream watchers will watch it. May not be a flop in terms of box office numbers for the masses. But for true horror aficionados like myself and the rest of the og Scream team - we know how this ends and it won’t be positive. There’s no need to switch up a formula that worked.

 

[Jello Biafra]

I saw an ad that said "if you liked Battle Royale, you'll love this..." and rolled my eyes. But I also went to check the trailer just in case.



So...I see the BR vibe but that's a straight up classic that spawned a global phenomenon (this is a Hunger Games joke that's too vague to land). This looks like it could be campy fun though.

That J-Pop ballad that starts playing at the end of the trailer is jarring.

 

[Jello Biafra]

If they can't use Jason, but CAN use the hockey mask; I could see an opportunity to make it work. But that's a really tough needle to thread.

Idea: Remake the first movie but have Pam escape with her head but be pretty badly wounded so she decides she needs to have a someone else handle the revenge part so she kidnaps a kid who she raises as her homicidal surrogate son to become her agent of vengeance against camp counselors.
So the sequel is set a decade or so after the first movie with a hockey mask wielding killer (not named Jason) doing Pam's bidding.

 

[Lootpack]

It’s been hyped for 4 years- of course mainstream watchers will watch it. May not be a flop in terms of box office numbers for the masses. But for true horror aficionados like myself and the rest of the og Scream team - we know how this ends and it won’t be positive. There’s no need to switch up a formula that worked.

You sound exactly like the fans the movie made fun of in the latest flick.

 

[storyteller]

Idea: Remake the first movie but have Pam escape with her head but be pretty badly wounded so she decides she needs to have a someone else handle the revenge part so she kidnaps a kid who she raises as her homicidal surrogate son to become her agent of vengeance against camp counselors.
So the sequel is set a decade or so after the first movie with a hockey mask wielding killer (not named Jason) doing Pam's bidding.

That could be really cool. They could even have Pam chilling in the shrine that Jason built in the OG sequel.. Instead of taking commands from a disembodied head, the new "Voorhees" could take marching orders from her for real.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

You sound exactly like the fans the movie made fun of in the latest flick.

No one needs to quote me about SCREAM anymore- I’ll sit back and wait for the fail to hit theaters in March

 

[abominable1]

UK horror comedy with a splash of sci fi
like an 80's creature throwback, (picture Ghoulies)
it needed better actors

its n ot bad, but its just ..........not good

decent gore fx though.

 

[abominable1]

re watched this because it was on earlier

if it wasn't a direct sequel to the hitcher
it would be a decent flick. ( with the exception of the earlu 2000's bad CGI)

and C Thomas Howell should n0t have come back for this
Did he need beer money or something?

 

[Jello Biafra]

That could be really cool. They could even have Pam chilling in the shrine that Jason built in the OG sequel.. Instead of taking commands from a disembodied head, the new "Voorhees" could take marching orders from her for real.

Yeah, I thought about how that would be a good remix of the "Pam's head" trope in the franchise.
You'd think someone would've come to Victor Miller with this idea already since it would give him the thing he seems to most want: Jason always being dead.

 

[Jello Biafra]

UK horror comedy with a splash of sci fi
like an 80's creature throwback, (picture Ghoulies)
it needed better actors

its n ot bad, but its just ..........not good

decent gore fx though.

I watched this last year. I agree with your assessment that it's not bad or good, it just is.
I probably gave it more leeway because it was giving me vintage Doctor Who production value.

 

[Jello Biafra]

re watched this because it was on earlier

if it wasn't a direct sequel to the hitcher
it would be a decent flick. ( with the exception of the earlu 2000's bad CGI)

and C Thomas Howell should n0t have come back for this
Did he need beer money or something?

I must have blocked this movie from memory because the idea is preposterous that I would not have already seen a Hitcher sequel that starred The Dorito Girl and Gary Busey's goofy kid.

 

[Jello Biafra]

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[storyteller]

Yeah, I thought about how that would be a good remix of the "Pam's head" trope in the franchise.
You'd think someone would've come to Victor Miller with this idea already since it would give him the thing he seems to most want: Jason always being dead.

I really like it as an opportunity to do a bunch of clever mirroring that's not too on the nose. That's a pitch worth swinging his way for sure.

 

[Duke Dixon]

I never knew that was a thing with the F13th franchise. I think AHS borrowed that idea for thier 80s season.

Edit: they might have said that in the one documentary but that shyt was like 7 hrs. I only ever watched it once and don't remember everything they said.