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

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A couple off top, probably not SUPER obscure:

Perkins’ 14
The Burning
When A Stranger Calls Back
Body
Behind The Mask (probably pretty well known in horror circles, but it’s top 5 all time for me)
The House Of The Devil


Was trying to figure out the name of this one since I posted this: The Girl Next Door
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Gallows Hill (2013) - IMDb

Gallows Hill or the Damned

Slight spoilers...A family crashes their car in a rainstorm and winds up in a house with a weirdo old man. They discover a girl locked up in his basement and free her...but the old man isn't so much angry as horrified and all hell breaks loose from here.

It does some things well, you get to know every character and relationship before the horror kicks in so there's at least some investment. There's one truly high quality scene that involves an impromptu interview and the questions asked. Once the action starts, they keep it going all the way through and they do a good job of slowly revealing the rules for this universe and survival. All that said it just wasn't scary. The lack of downtime means they don't build tension, it's just a lot of running and the actual rules of this universe are kinda lame. It feels like maybe they cut a lot, because early on they leave some good story beats but the constant action means they don't get fully explored and just get blown past. Movie has all the groundwork to make a fascinating psychological horror but went more fast paced, action horror after the initial act. It's on netflix, I don't think it's all that worth watching but if you've got nothing else and fiend for a horror movie; it'll pass the time and it is a legit attempt at horror at least.
Thanks for this write up...always wanted to know how this was and some background on it..
 
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