Remember to keep in mind this was his post 9/11 allegory as well
Essential The Official Coli Horror Film Thread: Discussion, Recommendations And Murder.
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Remember to keep in mind this was his post 9/11 allegory as well
Flex Grossman
Funky
Watched Spring last night.
Basic idea is a guy goes to Italy and falls for this girl, but there’s something not quite right about her.
When he finds out, he asks her “So are you a vampire, werewolf, zombie, what?”
She says “Are you afraid of me?”
He says “Yeah.... so explain it to me.”
Man..... that just summarizes where so many horror movies go wrong.
Anyway, I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve never seen Suspiria, so I got tickets to see the 4K restoration at Alamo Drafthouse tonight.
Basic idea is a guy goes to Italy and falls for this girl, but there’s something not quite right about her.
When he finds out, he asks her “So are you a vampire, werewolf, zombie, what?”
She says “Are you afraid of me?”
He says “Yeah.... so explain it to me.”
Man..... that just summarizes where so many horror movies go wrong.
Anyway, I’m ashamed to admit that I’ve never seen Suspiria, so I got tickets to see the 4K restoration at Alamo Drafthouse tonight.
I will. Didn't know that..hmmm.thx.
He said he wanted to make a story about the haves and the have nots and how that income gap and power gap just kept increasing over time. I think he had the script written for a while but it didn't go forward until after the towers came down. And when the movie finally came out, all of his messaging was really on time and on point
I had to look it up about the theme after you told me ...you're right on point- lot of political and societal elements, that's deep: (and they use Pittsburgh , ground zero as the equivalent)
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead is an overlooked classic
Romero was always ahead of his time. Truly a big loss when he passed away
Mandy was insane.
Also watched Terrifier and while it had the bones of a good horror movie I was unsatisfied watching it mostly because the filmmakers were operating on a tiny budget and some seriously shoddy gore effects but instead of working around that they were intent on putting all of the more violent stuff on full display and when you are making a movie on a budget it aint a good idea to focus so much on how shytty your practical effects and blood work are.
Duke Dixon
Superstar
Robert Englund is gonig to be Freddy again on The Goldbergs
I'm also going to try and catch up on horror movies next month.
I'm also going to try and catch up on horror movies next month.
Flex Grossman
Funky
Hell House LLC 2 is out on shudder. Gonna check it out in the next couple days.
storyteller
Veteran
Rearranged my crib this weekend and have to wait for Verizon to reconnect my cable boxes which meant a lot of spare time to watch some horror movies yall have mentioned.
The Collection - I really liked the Collector a lot, this one took it all the way camp. The kills are absolutely insane, they make no qualms about staying realistic and it ends up being a pretty fun movie as a result. The Collector was basically "what if the Home Alone kid grew up to be a sociopath" and this one is like what if that kid had the resources of a typical Bond villain. I'd go Collector >>> Collection but they're both good imo.
Mandy - Idk what I just watched. There's an extended POV experience of someone dosed with LSD being come on to by a cult leader, chainsaw fights and mutant LSD motorcycle guys that I think are supposed to be human but might as well have been Toxic Avenger villains. It's weird. Only Nicholas Cage could pull this ish off. It's insane in every way, just gotta get past the first 20 minutes or so where they vaguely introduce you to the cast in a dreamy (sleepy?) open before they go full on insanity from there.
Summer of '84 - This got a lot of compliments here and I'm right with yall. It's like Stranger Things meets Disturbia with R rated humor and legit slasher horror elements. There's a bit of an abrupt jump from the teenage "stand by me" type stuff to the slasher attacking children stuff; but as someone who grew up on both genres, this ish played right into my nostalgia.
(bit more on this since I haven't seen it mentioned here)
The House on Willow Street - I talked about the Vault a while back, where bank robbers end up in a haunted vault. Well this is kinda like that genre bending thing except it's kidnappers and I don't want to spoil any more than that. They do a decent job giving each of the characters a backstory although I don't think they did enough for me to actually be invested in anyone. It's also a weird mix of horror creatures here so that you're not really sure if this is a infection type deal, possession type deal, hallucinations and ghosts? And that kinda works to make you ask more questions than you would if they kept typical tropes only, but it was still really predictable. They probably could have skipped the sorta mystery and characters figuring it out stuff, replaced that with more in depth looks at character former trauma and that'd make their individual scary moments actually scary. Instead you usually see a "thing" and then they'll tell someone else what that thing was and either in that scene or a little later they'd divulge why they were faced with that creature...basically they got the formula backwards. Anyway, it's still pretty fun for a fairly shallow flick.
The Collection - I really liked the Collector a lot, this one took it all the way camp. The kills are absolutely insane, they make no qualms about staying realistic and it ends up being a pretty fun movie as a result. The Collector was basically "what if the Home Alone kid grew up to be a sociopath" and this one is like what if that kid had the resources of a typical Bond villain. I'd go Collector >>> Collection but they're both good imo.
Mandy - Idk what I just watched. There's an extended POV experience of someone dosed with LSD being come on to by a cult leader, chainsaw fights and mutant LSD motorcycle guys that I think are supposed to be human but might as well have been Toxic Avenger villains. It's weird. Only Nicholas Cage could pull this ish off. It's insane in every way, just gotta get past the first 20 minutes or so where they vaguely introduce you to the cast in a dreamy (sleepy?) open before they go full on insanity from there.
Summer of '84 - This got a lot of compliments here and I'm right with yall. It's like Stranger Things meets Disturbia with R rated humor and legit slasher horror elements. There's a bit of an abrupt jump from the teenage "stand by me" type stuff to the slasher attacking children stuff; but as someone who grew up on both genres, this ish played right into my nostalgia.
(bit more on this since I haven't seen it mentioned here)
The House on Willow Street - I talked about the Vault a while back, where bank robbers end up in a haunted vault. Well this is kinda like that genre bending thing except it's kidnappers and I don't want to spoil any more than that. They do a decent job giving each of the characters a backstory although I don't think they did enough for me to actually be invested in anyone. It's also a weird mix of horror creatures here so that you're not really sure if this is a infection type deal, possession type deal, hallucinations and ghosts? And that kinda works to make you ask more questions than you would if they kept typical tropes only, but it was still really predictable. They probably could have skipped the sorta mystery and characters figuring it out stuff, replaced that with more in depth looks at character former trauma and that'd make their individual scary moments actually scary. Instead you usually see a "thing" and then they'll tell someone else what that thing was and either in that scene or a little later they'd divulge why they were faced with that creature...basically they got the formula backwards. Anyway, it's still pretty fun for a fairly shallow flick.
they really need to do something with this series cause both them shyts was DOPE!!!
Arkin with the heart of gold.
spirit of a soldier!
storyteller
Veteran
they really need to do something with this series cause both them shyts was DOPE!!!
Arkin with the heart of gold.
spirit of a soldier!
They legit got so much right with those joints. I have no clue how it doesn't have a stronger cult status, Netflix pumping out everything...they need to get on a revival or remake of these joints. Whatever it takes to bring it shine and build on something. I legit think you could make a Netflix series out of the original premise.
Word!!
Yo that girl from the 1st one had some BIG ASS TITTIES!!
Them kills were like Home Alone on steroids!!