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

[storyteller]

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.

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I love when she throws the body over a balcony and it lands on the next floor where there are a BUNCH of bodies, so we get to see just how much this loop has kept on going. Then the moment gets revisited with the seagulls at the end...just a great a visual cue.

All the looping stuff works really well imo, except for failing to explain why Melissa George's character doesn't remember everything when the boat situation starts at the beginning. It's small enough of a quibble, that I don't think it hurts the movie though.

 

[storyteller]

Day Two: The Loved Ones

When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.

The Loved Ones feels like an underappreciated gem to me. It's got elements of the torture craze from the mid-00's, but with some People Under the Stairs mixed in for good measure. The only thing that drags it down a peg is the random side story about the MC's best buddy going to prom. I have no idea why that's in there, except maybe to give viewers a break from all the brutality and darkness happening at the house...but the jokes never land for me, and it doesn't have much place in the plot that I can find.

Luckily, that bit only distracts for two or three scenes. The rest of the way, we get a pretty tense kidnapping movie with all sorts of madness. It's a good horror movie, that hasn't gotten enough attention imo.



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

 

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[Dirty Mcdrawz]

This isn’t what I wanted when I said I wanted a pumpkin head remake

 

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Max!,

I had a meatball sub that had provolone, American, Swiss, and pepper jack and it was not as cheesy as this movie but I enjoyed it.

6/10

 

[NobodyReally]

I'm watching Midnight Mass this week for my Halloween marathon. I'll start on the actual movies next week. Anyone going to some of the AMC features like Carrie and Blair Witch?

 

[NobodyReally]

Saw Halle Berry's new movie last week. Basically an horror allegory about mental illness and generational trauma. There seems to be some debate about what actually happened at the end but I think it's pretty clear. At any rate, the idea was better than the execution. Really cool idea for a movie but I'm not sure if worked on screen. Still it was compelling enough to stay until the end and I like how it didn't flinch from some of the more horrific aspects of the story. 7/10

 

[abominable1]

Horror thread's 31 days of Halloween List -

1. Triangle (Prime)
decent Australian time loop film , its paced great , plenty of twists, the director could have turned up the tension just a notch.
nikkas should have known something was up when you set foot on a cruise ship not one person is there.
appreciated the shoutout to the shining with the Room 237 action.
Surprised me with the lack of blood for a Aussie flick

Spoiler

but the Sally scene is visceral and jarring

I remember the first time i watched

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I thought that Heather would pop up in the end for some added fukkery

, but it did not happen

2. The Loved Ones (Paramount+)

Aussies make some great grindhouse, and this is no exception
this is a bloody, grueling torture movie, but not a chore to watch like some in the sub-genre.
its a nice, small, self contained film with the action happening just from a simple intereaction that just spirals.
nice twist

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with the dungeon

aussies know how to do violence in Horror and a lot of the times the filmography of the actual violence is just superiror to americam horror
also they don't have the MPAA running interference and cutting the best parts.

 

[darealvelle]

 

[It's_Nade]

Happy October yall

 

[Lootpack]

 

[Lootpack]

The Loved Ones (2009):

Loved how twisted and cruel this one was, it’s an Aussie horror through and through. Really wasn’t expecting some of the torture scenes to go there, but the entire flick has a “no fukks given” aura about it. Think it works as a nice pre-game flick for anybody catching ‘Terrifier 3’ later this month.

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When homeboy woke up inside psycho girl’s house — that was definitely a callback to ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’, right? Definitely felt like the lobotomized momma was taking up the mantle of Grandpa Sawyer here.

Hope I can catch this with someone next time. Need to see their reactions when that drill actually comes into contact with Brent’s forehead because GODDAMN. I’m exaggerating, but if I was Jim Carrey in ‘The Mask’, my jaw would be on the floor in that particular moment.

That bytch was crazy, and to then turn those poor kidnapped victims into her own ‘Barbarian’ zombies…

 

[Lootpack]

Triangle (2009):

Not my favorite, but an entertaining blind watch nonetheless. Legit did not know where this one was going at the beginning. Thought it would be one of those strict “lost at sea” type flicks. It even had the look and feel of those whacky Sci-Fi Network movies I’d catch on a Saturday night before hitting me with that game-changing twist.

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Seeing the layers upon layers of horrific time loops that the main lead had to go through, in what’s essentially her own version of purgatory, is what truly sets this movie apart. It did eventually get a little redundant for me towards the end because of the timey wimey stuff, but I do wish I could watch this for the first time again.

I think it’s a testament to Melissa George’s acting to hold down the fort as long as she did here. Felt like I was losing my mind more than her character while watching it.

 

[Sauce and Footwork]

I love brandy , but