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

[storyteller]

I have the same complaint about Heart Eyes and the Monkey both; they're much more comedy than horror. The tension is never built to a real scare; it's always a laugh.

They're both good, not great. Nothing close to entering the all-time horror comedies conversation. But they did what they set out to do. My whole clique was rolling during a priest's speech in the Monkey.

Spoiler

It is what it is, Amen.

 

[Lootpack]

I have the same complaint about Heart Eyes and the Monkey both; they're much more comedy than horror. The tension is never built to a real scare; it's always a laugh.

They're both good, not great. Nothing close to entering the all-time horror comedies conversation. But they did what they set out to do. My whole clique was rolling during a priest's speech in the Monkey.

Spoiler

It is what it is, Amen.

Yeah, it was silly B-movie fun. My theater erupted in laughter during the priest’s speech, too. It was hilarious in the trailer and even more-so in the final product, so bravo there. Frodo’s bit got some hard chuckles out of me as well and those characters weren’t even part of the lead cast. Lol.

Viewed the “toy monkey” the same way as I did with Death in the Final Destination series. Had me feeling like an agent of chaos myself to where I was feening for the gross-out kills, rather than the family drama that the movie wanted me to feel for. There was one point of the film though where, to me, it straight up goes overboard with the campiness and suffers because of it.

Spoiler

The moment in which Hal’s twin brother reveals his plan like an unmasked Ghostface or scorned Batman villain was

Baited the fukk outta my guy with the fake-out handshake tho.