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

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Some y'all may disagree with me but I finally gave 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2' a watch and it just wasn't my bag. I wanted to give it a chance because Tobe Hooper was back in the director's chair but it just got too goofy to me. I don't mind that in horror obviously but it's too far removed from the original classic I feel. The characters felt totally different even though they are portraying the same people. That said there are some wacky parts to this I enjoyed and I felt Dennis Hopper was a highlight.

 

[storyteller]

Horror thread's 31 days of Halloween List - Day 30 - The Shining

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.

The Shining remains one of the most unsettling movies of all time to this day. The hotel itself is uncomfortable, Jack's fade into madness is brutal, the abuse Danny and Wendy face is uncomfortable, and after all that... there are the ghosts. Kubrick really nailed the vibe, with rapid cuts to horrific imagery, and a bunch of uncanny valley moments that are as ambiguous as they are creepy.

It's kinda funny, I feel like time (and Dr. Sleep) made me overrate Hallorann's presence. I've always chuckled at how easily he gets bodied, but he talks to Danny way less and doesn't really do much with his powers. Maybe he had more to do in the book.

I love to overanalyze symbols and hidden meanings, but The Shining is an exception. I like the ambiguity of everything. The confusing aspects add something to a watch-through; not much makes sense, yet it all feels like it's supposed to. Do I need to know why the bear and the old man showed up? I'd rather not. But thanks to good timing and the messed-up nature of the scene, it manages to be a creepy moment.

Absolute masterpiece!

The List:

Spoiler

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* - Haunt (2019)
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* - New Religion (Screambox)
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* Thesis 1996
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* - Session 9
28. 28 Days Later
29. Black Christmas (Tubi)
30. The Shining(MAX/Apple TV+)
31. John Carpenter's Halloween

We're down to the one and only.

 

[Duke Dixon]

Watched 3 more

The Amityville Horror 1979

This movie was alright. Following James Brolin's descent into madness was good. I also enjoyed how Catholic the movie, and family was.

Story shares some beats with The Shinning so I understand why it's not as popular today

I've never seen a haunted house steal someone's money before

The Entity 1982

I've watched Insidious before and was like why is James Wan introducing Patrick Wilson's mom like this. I thought she had to be a final girl in an older horror movie and I looked her up and I saw The Entity. Now I know why

Barbara Hershey was amazing in this movie, and sells the premise. Watching Insidious I obviously got the homage to The Poltergeist, but this movie inspired Insidious too. The movie was released around the same time, but The Poltergeist had a bigger budget, better effects, and Steven Spielberg as the producer so of course it was the bigger film. The subject matter of a women being violently sexually assaulted by a ghost also hurts the movie with the general movie audiences.

The movie was well made and if the content doesn't trigger you, you should see it. The attack music is great at giving you a visual for the horror. It makes you say oh no not again when you hear it. The cinematography was great and always made you feel off because so many scenes were shot off level. The movie had a bunch, maybe too many, split diopter shots. This is in a lot of horror movies, and noticed them more and more over the month. I noticed this one when I was watching Black Christmas

Brian De Palma has them a lot in his movies and when I looked up the cinematographer, Stephen H. Burum, I saw that they collaborated on Body Double, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, Raising Cane, Mission Impossible, and Mission to Mars.

Martin Scorsese uses them a lot. He also named The Entity as one of his scariest films of all time. Barbara Hershey plays Mary Magdalene in his The Last Temptation of Christ.

Quentin Tarantino also uses this a lot. I also learned that the attack music from this movie in Inglorious Basterds in this scene for Christoph Waltz character.


The movie Strange Darling that came out this year has Barbara Hershey in it. It's been called a Tarantino homage and it also has a split diopter shot in it.

TLDR: The Entity is a great movie, watch it if you haven't

The Guardian 1990

From the Director of "The Exorcist"

It's a cheesy 90s horror movie forreal. Pretty sure I saw this as a kid because I remember Julia Louis-Dreyfus' husband running around his house from some coyotes.

This was by far the best scene in the movie. The movie never reaches this fukkery again unfortunately

 

[abominable1]

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New SCARY MOVIE Officially Moving Forward With Marlon, Shawn & Keenen Ivory Wayans On Board

A new instalment in the Scary Movie horror parody franchise is officially moving forward, and the Wayans Brothers are back on board...

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[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I cannot believe I slept on 'A Quiet Place' 2018 for this long. A lot of people told me to watch it but I put it off and put it off. I like a good "alien invasion" as much as anyone but this is so much more than that. The way sign language is used, the way they literally have to walk on eggshells every step of the way was pretty innovative and made this 10x unnerving and scarier. Emily Blunt is my girl. Such a great actress of her generation and another reason why I shouldn't have slept on this for so long. There's a lot of depth here and probably little Easter eggs I missed. Now I have to get into the rest of the series soon.

 

[MenacingMonk]

A Quiet Place is overrated to me. Can’t believe they made a franchise out of aliens who just need loud music to die.

 

[It's_Nade]

Watched 3 more

The Amityville Horror 1979

This movie was alright. Following James Brolin's descent into madness was good. I also enjoyed how Catholic the movie, and family was.

Story shares some beats with The Shinning so I understand why it's not as popular today

I've never seen a haunted house steal someone's money before

The Entity 1982

I've watched Insidious before and was like why is James Wan introducing Patrick Wilson's mom like this. I thought she had to be a final girl in an older horror movie and I looked her up and I saw The Entity. Now I know why

Barbara Hershey was amazing in this movie, and sells the premise. Watching Insidious I obviously got the homage to The Poltergeist, but this movie inspired Insidious too. The movie was released around the same time, but The Poltergeist had a bigger budget, better effects, and Steven Spielberg as the producer so of course it was the bigger film. The subject matter of a women being violently sexually assaulted by a ghost also hurts the movie with the general movie audiences.

The movie was well made and if the content doesn't trigger you, you should see it. The attack music is great at giving you a visual for the horror. It makes you say oh no not again when you hear it. The cinematography was great and always made you feel off because so many scenes were shot off level. The movie had a bunch, maybe too many, split diopter shots. This is in a lot of horror movies, and noticed them more and more over the month. I noticed this one when I was watching Black Christmas

Brian De Palma has them a lot in his movies and when I looked up the cinematographer, Stephen H. Burum, I saw that they collaborated on Body Double, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, Raising Cane, Mission Impossible, and Mission to Mars.

Martin Scorsese uses them a lot. He also named The Entity as one of his scariest films of all time. Barbara Hershey plays Mary Magdalene in his The Last Temptation of Christ.

Quentin Tarantino also uses this a lot. I also learned that the attack music from this movie in Inglorious Basterds in this scene for Christoph Waltz character.


The movie Strange Darling that came out this year has Barbara Hershey in it. It's been called a Tarantino homage and it also has a split diopter shot in it.

TLDR: The Entity is a great movie, watch it if you haven't

The Guardian 1990

From the Director of "The Exorcist"

It's a cheesy 90s horror movie forreal. Pretty sure I saw this as a kid because I remember Julia Louis-Dreyfus' husband running around his house from some coyotes.

This was by far the best scene in the movie. The movie never reaches this fukkery again unfortunately

Been tryna watch the Entity for a whole now, glad u enjoyed it.

 

[abominable1]

Horror thread's 31 days of Halloween List -

30. The Shining(MAX/Apple TV+)

what can i say - its a fukking classic
from the use of the Doctor who Web of Fear music
to the chairs disappearing and reappearing when Jack and Wendy are talking,
its all the little things that make this movie great.
Its a mastercall in foreshadowing, mood and isolation.
the Ghosts had Jack choosing

Halloran should've kept his a$$ in Miami staring at them titties on the wall

Oh and I personally have a few "TO THIS DAY" theories from the first time i saw this film!




Ocho Cinco Nightcap ---- "Stay with me now"

#1
Jack Had the Shining too

Spoiler

Jack was an alcoholic because he had the Shining and did not know how to deal with it...
Its his inability to control it that the evil in the overlook is attracted too, and why it tries to get rid of Danny
Grady was his "Tony" - to me - its the only way he got out of the locked pantry.
He could also see and interact with ghosts in the hotel

#2 the Delbert Grady / Charles Grady are 2 different people & their conection to Jack
this can easily be disproved as script screw up or misread lines that should have been picked up in editing post production,
but...

Spoiler

when ullman talks to jack in the beginning ,
he speaks of a Charles Grady with 2 daughters in the 1970's

Jack Bumps into Delbert Grady at the 1920's Ghost party and says "read about you, you were the caretaker and you killed your wife and daughter"
He does say that he corrected "them" but he could just be fukking with jack
& Delbert Grady tells him that “You have always been the caretaker. I should know. I have always been here.”



its basically just him letting Jack know that this is a cycle

and jack being in that picture from the 1921 fourth of July ball reinforces that

 

[Duke Dixon]

The Shinning was great of course.

This time i wasn't so stuck on the striking visuals but the sound design/soundtrack. The long heartbeats and the music in the back incorporated all types of shyt. I think teapot, a stove, and furnace. The was also a point when Jack was running with the axe and you got consecutive high pitch sounds like from the shower scene in Psycho.

Spoiler

I agre that Jack had the shining. I was thinking that while watching.

I wanna catch Dr. Sleep now but it might have to wait.

 

[Ozymandeas]

Watching Time Cut on Netflix

It's trippy seeing a time travel movie back to 2003 We're that old huh

 

[re'up]

Can vividly remember seeing Sinister in theaters in 2012, thought it was ok, but mostly was Ethan Hawke in some kind of cardigan old man sweater running around at night lol

 

[Lord_nikon]

 

[abominable1]

Will watch just for the high fukkery potential

 

[storyteller]

Looks more Mystery than Horror, but I'm really curious about this joint

 

[storyteller]

I’m trying to incorporate more horror movie topics and discussions into the podcast I co-host. I’ve discussed all this stuff in the thread, but y’all can watch a little chat on new horror if you have 10 mins.