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

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MenacingMonk said:
Ive seen them years ago, but wanted to know if there’s a connection to the recent Alien film. I don’t think there is because those were its own universe, but asking just in case.
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No connection. One of the things I thought Romulus had going for it is that it’s a self-contained story. A few sprinkled in easter eggs here and there for the OG fanbase, but nothing crazy.
 
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Shudder got some updated options. Bloody Axe Wound is...probably meant for a younger audience than I fit into. I wasn't feeling it, but maybe my nieces and nephews would appreciate it. Idk.

But I also wanted to shout out the Sator which dropped a few years back. It's not great, but the way it got created adds a lot of intrigue IMO. The director's grandmother started talking him about a real experience she had, and he recorded interviews about it. Then he shaped the movie around the interviews where his grandmother described communicating with a supernatural entity in her past (she wound up in a psychiatric institute during the whole ordeal).

It kinda makes for a meandering story that's more atmosphere than plot. But throw in that the recordings you hear are from a woman who really believes it and claims to have spoken to this thing, and the movie gets way more interesting. Here's an interview excerpt breaking it down:

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Sator - Interview with Filmmaker Jordan Graham | Borrowing Tape

Sator is a 2019 horror film that follows a young man who realizes a supernatural being has been watching and influencing his family in an attempt to claim them. Jordan Graham, the filmmaker behind Sator spoke with Borrowing Tape interviewer Nace DeSanders on his impressive directorial debut feature.
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Yeah, that question is always like...there's so many different inspirations and the main one is my grandmother, and that didn't come until I was actually shooting the film. So, my grandmother in 1968, she bought home an Ouija board and she conquered up an entity named Sator and throughout that summer. So three months of being with him doing something called automatic writings, which is where she had a glass of gin in one hand and a pen in the other hand, and she'd let Sator speak through her, and she would write down what he said. So, at the end of that three months, she ended up at a psychiatric hospital because of that.

I didn't know any of this before I was making the film. So, I started shooting the film with a script that I already had. Since I decided to use cabin, or sorry, her house as a location for the film, I was like, let's get a quick cameo with her in the film. Let's just put her in the film for a little bit and then I'll be able to memorialize her and that was it.

So the actor, Michael Daniel, who plays Pete in the film, I told him that we're going to do an improvisational scene with my grandmother, you're going to meet her on camera for the first time, you're going to pretend to be the grandson and maybe talk about spirits because she likes talking about spiritual stuff and just go from there. And so, we started the scene and that's when she randomly started talking about the voices that were in her head and the automatic writings. And, I've never heard of her automatic writings before. So after that day was done, I went home and I was reviewing the footage, and was like, what is this automatic writings?

Then I started doing research on my family's history, and her with the voices in her head, and I would go back and shoot more. I was like, I have to put this in the film like this is so personal and so unique, and I have to pursue this more. So, I went back to my grandmother, shot more footage with her, went back home, tried putting it in the film. But you can never... when you're with her, you can't tell her what to say, and you have no idea what she's going to be talking about. So, a lot of the things that she would say, would not work in the current story that we already had. So, I would have to go home, rewrite, spend a week, take a week break, and just rewrite what she just said into this film, and then I would go back and shoot and the same cycle would happen.

So that happened probably like, five times or so. Yeah, so that's kind of how the inspiration...it was evolving the whole time, the story just kept evolving throughout the process of this film.
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I’ll add Sator to the watchlist. A meandering story that’s more style over substance was exactly how I felt about FlyLo’s new joint last night. I think Shudder productions got the crown when it comes to that. It’s bittersweet because while the atmosphere is a journey in itself, I can’t help but think of the story’s untapped potential.

But hey, at least those films are giving me something.
 
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abominable1 said:
our favorite MSN unpaid intern is byke with another shytty open AI horror list

50 worst horror films


I scrolled through this and could not find one one Rob Zombie horror film - :usure: (looking at you Halloween 2)

i was like

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It's crazy because she doesn't even have to write anything or explain her logic. It's literally just a list of titles and a IMDB synopsis of the premise. The lists are terrible, but if there were explanations with some personality and valid reasoning, I might give them a pass.
 
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