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

[Lootpack]

just had a 'discussion' with a friend about Blade.

I consider it Action Horror, while he is calling it a Super-hero fantasy film

i was like , for fukks sake, its got VAMPIRES & Blood in it

Told him, his logic was flawed & we should Consider the OG Jurassic Park comparable to a Pixar or Dreamworks Damn Childrens Movie using it that way

Yeah I agree with you, it’s definitely shot like a horror at points. Sinister tone that’s set in the opening sequence with the blood shower rave and carried throughout the film.

Superhero fantasy is what most people are fearing the MCU’s Blade to be. I was kinda shook about it too until I saw Mia Goth land a role, and then Michael Green penning the script. Deadpool & Wolverine’s success at the box office making it easier for Feige to introduce more R-rated projects down the line too. I think we’ll be okay.

 

[LJLYDK!]

October 1st Spooky Season finally here horror fam

 

[MenacingMonk]

So Speak No Evil already hitting streaming. This shyt flopped, huh?

 

[abominable1]

October 1st Spooky Season finally here horror fam

 

[Straw Hat Luffy]

LETS fukkING GOOOO

 

[storyteller]

Great idea for 28! I think that's perfect. Link that Letterbox list for sure!

That makes the official list:
Horror thread's 31 days of Halloween List -

1. Triangle (Prime)
2. The Loved Ones (Paramount+)
3. Salem's Lot 2024 (Max)
4. Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (Tubi)
5. VHS Beyond (Shudder)
6. *Choose your own*
7. Don't Go in the House (Tubi, Youtube)
8. Cure (Internet Archive)
9. Masque of the Red Death(Pluto/Apple TV+)
10. The Eyes of My Mother (Max)
11. Henry Portait of a Serial Killer (Peacock)
12. Curse of Chucky (Netflix)
13. *Choose your own*
14. Junk (2000) (Youtube)
15. Detention (2011) (Tubi)
16. Sleepaway Camp (Peacock)
17. The Skeleton Key(Peacock/Apple TV+)
18. The Witch (Max)
19. Brain Damage 1988 (Tubi)
20. *Choose your own*
21. Audition (Tubi)
22. J. D.'s Revenge(Tubi/Brown Sugar/Prime)
23. Dead Silence (Tubi)
24. Sinister (Max)
25. World War Z (Paramount Plus)
26. The Burbs (Youtube)
27. *Choose your own*
28. 28 Days Later
29. Black Christmas (Tubi)
30. The Shining(MAX/Apple TV+)
31. John Carpenter's Halloween

For anyone who wants to roll with us through the marathon and comment along the way.

Day One: Triangle

Five friends set sail and their yacht is overturned by a strange and sudden storm. A mysterious ship arrives to rescue them, and what happens next cannot be explained

I first watched Triangle a few years back, and this was my third time rewatching it. It's a really fun journey from start to finish, thanks to the constant pivots and twists that it throws at you. I think the third watch was fun because I didn't have to overthink plot beats or anything, I just let myself ride with the story. If you think too hard about it, the plot will probably fall apart...but as long as you just immerse yourself in the MC's experience, it's a fast-moving experience with some fun beats.

 

[Straw Hat Luffy]

Alien was a really good movie, but I docked it down to the second tier because the horror aspects weren't as good as the action parts IMO.

My tier 1 this year (8 out of 10 or higher) is First Omen and Late Night with the Devil. Tier 2 is the 7-7.5 range and that's got Alien, Oddity, Grave Torture, and A Quite Place.

Plus I've got Immaculate and Beezel set aside as movies I want to rewatch before I place them...both are borderline 7's.

Respectable list.

This makes me believe this year was a decent year for horror.

I have Maxxxine rated in my tier 2 list, bringing this up since I don’t see it on your list at all. There are some movies on your list I haven’t seen.

Is the first omen popping like that? Haven’t hear anyone talking about it

We still have so many movies like Terrifier 3, Smile 2, Salems Lot and VHS dropping soon

 

[storyteller]

Respectable list.

This makes me believe this year was a decent year for horror.

I have Maxxxine rated in my tier 2 list, bringing this up since I don’t see it on your list at all. There are some movies on your list I haven’t seen.

Is the first omen popping like that? Haven’t hear anyone talking about it

We still have so many movies like Terrifier 3, Smile 2, Salems Lot and VHS dropping soon

Maxxxine is tough for me to score. I think it's a near-perfect conclusion to the X trilogy, but the weakest of the three films as a stand alone. So, I kinda dock it's score based on the fact that I think you HAVE to watch the first two films to fully appreciate it. It's definitely one of the better offerings this year though (6.5).

First Omen is really good. In a year that had some big name prequels and religious horror movies, it's comfortably the best prequel and religious horror movie imo. It might have the best crafted scare-scenes of the year in my book, though I'd have to rewatch a few of my favorites.

October is about to hit us with a bunch of nice contenders for the top horror movies of the year for sure! I'm probably hyping myself up too much for Salem's Lot and VHS, but those are two properties that I really love. Terrifier and Smile are sequels to two of my favorite theater horror experiences in recent years. So, I'm definitely feeling hype for how my list will evolve from there.

 

[Lootpack]

This year is….okay? Still gotta a few more titles to watch. Box office wise, the genre is doing way better than compared to earlier in the year. There was a point when ‘Imaginary’ was the highest grossing film and that shyt legitimately hurt to see.

Tier 1 for me gotta be between The Substance and First Omen. Spot pending for Nosferatu.

The rest of the films I’ve seen either started off good and fell flat or started out meh and ramped up at the end, but left me wanting more. Just to name a few: Longlegs, Alien: Romulus, Late Night with the Devil, and MaXXXine are in that group for me.

I’m not going to call Watkins’ ‘Speak No Evil’ a horror film. It felt more like a thriller, but was a much needed bounce-back title for Blumhouse…who I can’t even remember the last respectable title from.

‘In a Violent Nature’ is probably the one horror film that I’m most disappointed by this year. It’s nowhere near ‘The Outwaters’ level of bad, but even with the arthouse spin, it just felt kinda empty to me overall.

 

[daemonova]

now on Max

Peacock

 

[Duke Dixon]

I was able to get Tiermaker to work so I made a tier list of the Italian horror movies I watched over the summer. There is no left to right ranking. It's just from the order that I watched the movies.

Realistically there shouldn't be so many movies in the S tier, but those were the films that I absolutely enjoyed watching for the first time.

Spoiler: Legend

S
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Deep Red
Suspiria
Tenebre
Demons
A Bay of Blood 1971
The Beyond 1981
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh 1971
Cemetery Man 1994

A
Inferno
Opera
All the Colors of the Dark 1972
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key 1972

B
The Cat o' Nine Tails 1971
Four Flies on Grey Velvet 1971
The New York Ripper
A Blade in the Dark 1983
Demons 2 1986
The Church 1989
The Case of the Bloody Iris 1972
Strip Nude for Your Killer 1975

C
Nightmare Beach 1989
The Sect 1991

D
The Black Cat 1989
Trauma
A Cat in the Brain 1990

F
I aint finishing this
Mother of Tears
Stendhal Syndrome

There was a bunch that I wanted to see that I haven't had a chance to get to. I'll check out more later. If you want to talk about any movie in particular let me know.

Dario Argento
I couldn't get through Stendhal Syndrome or Mother of Tears. MoT was sad to watch. Dario Argento went from Italian Hitchcock to Uwe Boll When Asia Argento was talking to a force ghost version of her irl and movie mom, I just had to turn it off and never went back to finish it.

The Bird with a Crystal Plumage was an incredibly fun movie to watch. I did not expect it to be so hilarious. The pace was great as well. The movie came out in 1970 and the only thing that dates it is the CSI technology that the movie introduces.

Deep Red was the Giallo with the best mystery for me. The investigation playing out was exciting. Daria Nicolodi was fantastic in this movie.

Edwige Fenech
It was fun watching the movies with her made by Sergio Martino. She's gorgeous, the movie The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh felt like an Erotic Thriller(Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful)

John Saxon
I didn't expect him to be in two of these Italian films. I mainly know him as Nancy's dad from NoES. Him and Michael Parks elevated Nightmare Beach.

Giallo Movies
The fun part to me with watching this subgenre was trying to figure out who the killer was. Sometimes I got it right, but the movies were there are multiple characters threw me off. I also guessed one correctly and thought no way they're just doing a Psycho twist and they did Psycho

The movies were I was able to guess the killer were:
Opera
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
The New York Ripper(although I heard an interesting theory about this movie were I could technically be wrong)
The Case of the Bloody Iris
Pieces(not listed and was a spanish slasher anyways)

The Editor 2014

This movie is to Italian Horror movies as Black Dynamite is to Blaxploitation films. I think BD is funnier, but a lot of the Editor's jokes is having seen the movies its referencing. When the movie parodies The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh and The Beyond I couldn't stop laughing, because this movie highlighted how ridiculous those scenes were.

 

[Ironman]

Looking forward to Nosfratu

 

[Duke Dixon]

I watched Triangle for the second time and still enjoyed it. It takes the movie 40 minutes to become a much better movie than what you watch before it.

Spoiler: Random thoughts

When Sally dies next to the other Sallys is a good moment.

Jess getting the gun thrown at her still got me every time

Only Greg noticed she traded in her Daisy Duke outfit for a Michael Myer's fit.

Jess doesn't take accountability for her actions. She killed the boy on the dock and kept saying, "I didn't do it."

You root for Melissa George to get back to her son because you believe she's a good mother. When she slaps her son you see she clearly isn't because she physically and verbally abuses her son.

The poster art gives away the twist.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Triangle the indie movie from 15 years ago? Or a new film?

 

[Duke Dixon]

Triangle the indie movie from 15 years ago? Or a new film?

The one from 2009 with Melissa George.