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

[Duke Dixon]

Yeah, I don't like the Re-Animator meets Mean Girls comp at all. Especially when the best parts of Grafted feel closer to other horror movies. I think a big part of my enjoyment was all the easter eggs. They do little visual homages to movies like Black Christmas, TCM, and a few others I'm forgetting off the top of my head. That kinda stuff is great when it doesn't disrupt the narrative and works with it instead.

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May meets Face/Off is a really good comparison. To keep it horror, I'd say May meets Popcorn. But either way, it works! [/SPOILER

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I didn't even think of Popcorn and I just watched that in November

Actually it seems a bit closer to Lisa Frankenstein to me. Grafted felt geared towards an older audience, and to audiences that are men as well. I don't think LF was bad, it's just so far from my demographic that I couldn't really get into it.

 

[daemonova]

 

[Tunez]

 

[Danie84]

The Last Winter

...Alaskan oil crew gets wipedout by icy an supernatural beat

The brutal blizzard bone-chilling atmosphere was the best part of this long extended X-Files flick

 

[Danie84]

Between this, Smile 2, and Trap; mainstream Music Horror flicks is picking up. I wonder if we'll ever get a non-cheesy Hip-Hop Scary (not including the Wayans spoof or Snoop'sFUKKERY) movie

 

[8WON6]

i watched Nosferatu the other day. It was cool for about an hour then it was like an hour too long and i was zoning out.

 

[storyteller]

This gave me Funny Games vibes...I've been meaning to rewatch Funny Games.

 

[Lootpack]

King dun cursed The Monkey

 

[daemonova]

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

Didn't love the movie overall, but the opening scene to evil dead rise might be one of my favorites ever. Just wish the whole movie had this atmosphere.

 

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[storyteller]

I really liked Companion, though it did have some derivative vibes, everything worked. It has a twisted sense of humor, but actually lands the jokes and it sprinkles in some nice twists even if they are easy to spot.



The cast is stacked and lives up to their roles. The plot pairs up two of the newer tropes of horror, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. But it's not "scary" horror, it's more of a very dark comedy. I'd watch the movie before reading on, because I think the less you know, the better.

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The "nice guy who isn't what he seems" trope has been around for a long time, but it's exploded recently. We got Barbarian which plays on the trope twice; Blink Twice which lives in that trope; and Fresh, which I think handles the trope best of all. We're also getting increasing amounts of technological horror. This movie takes those two tropes and mashes them up for something unique.

My big complaint is that I saw each major reveal a mile away. But I think that may have been intended, because the dialogue and characters don't do anything to hide it. I LIKE that honesty. Sometimes, directors and writers will try to "hide" the reveal and it makes the plot feel sloppy or forced. This movie just tells its story, and if you catch on sooner or later, it should still hit.

Anyway, this joint was good. My one complaint is the final bits of action start to drag a little in order to shoehorn in some added tension. But it's a minor quibble because this movie had a bunch of humors that made me react (which could be me going "holy crap" or me laughing at the ridiculous conversation unfolding). It's another good one to start 2025, and omg my hopes are getting up for this year.

 

[storyteller]

My niece is a horror-head like most of my family, and she wanted to watch something genuinely scary. So, I talked her into watching the Japanese version of One Missed Call, which I haven't seen in probably a decade...this shyt still slaps!



So, full disclosure, I think the plot is kinda shoddy. A lot of revelations are sudden, so the mystery's clues are less like bread crumbs and more like setups for scares. But by focusing everything on scares, One Missed Call winds up having a bunch of tense, genuinely uncomfortable moments. The scare scenes are GREAT. There's a nice mix of subtle stuff, like a hand on a shoulder or eyes peeking out of a dark space, and full-blown crazy, like the infamous studio scene.

It also does my favorite thing in horror, which is setting up a scare trigger (Priming the viewer). Which is basically just, giving you a queue that some nastiness is about to happen. It's Jason's breathing noise; the tape fast-forwarding in Paranormal Activity; the film reel starting in Sinister; or any other repetitive sign that horror is about tap in. For One Missed Call, it's the ringtone, and it hits EVERY time.

Anyway among J-Horror classics; I rate Pulse as having the single best scare scene; Cure has my favorite plot; Suicide Club is the most messed up; but One Missed Call has a great case for genuinely being the "scariest" of the bunch.

Sidenote: I'd also point out to anyone that watches, peep the camera work and how scenes are blocked out. This might be Miike's best camerawork, even over Audition. There are these really awesome panning shots, and a bunch of use of lighting and shadows to make characters feel closed in even when they aren't in a tight space. It's some genius work.

 

[Duke Dixon]

Last night I watched Into the Deep 2025



I only watched it because it had fine ass Scout Taylor Compton in it, and I'm bad at sticking to the movies I say I want to watch and end up looking for films 30+minutes. I said why not, and found out why I shouldn't.

The sharks in this movie gotta be the worst sharks I've ever seen. There's a scene with a shootout that had me laughing because of how bad it is. There isn't enough of these scenes if you're into so bad it's good movies.

Honestly I didn't hate it. The plot is something you'd see in most creature features, where people are the real villains. The main bad guy cooked for a bit in this movie I'm not going to lie. It was also entertaining to see Richard Dreyfuss in another shark movie even if he never interacts with the sharks in anyway. The scuba diving scenes looked great.

 

[LJLYDK!]