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

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

1st 5 minutes of Tales From The Hood 2 dropped about as much knowledge as all your favorite black flix combined.

Watched the whole thing yesterday and it was awful hurt my soul because the first was so good.

Seemed like the writers were willing to do anything to get a sequel made and chose to go away from its roots. The last story couldn’t make up for the rest of the trash

 

[Neuromancer]

THRILLER

Thriller follows the story of an introverted young man named Chauncey Page who is sent to juvenile hall after he accidentally kills a young woman who is part of a group of tormentors that play a cruel prank on him.

Years later he is released and is back for revenge — and blood — as Chauncey (Jason Woods) serves up some murderous karma as the group, now in high school, gets ready for Homecoming. Dressed in a hoodie and a menacing glare, he terrorizes them and picks them off one by one.

Produced by Divide/Conquer and written and directed by filmmaker Dallas Jackson, the movie subverts the classic slasher genre of the ’70s that usually takes place in white suburbia and sets it in modern-day Compton, CA, where teenagers experience an unforgiving cityscape of racism and violence.

Thriller stars Fences star Mykelti Williamson, rapper-actor RZA as well as a roster of up-and-comers including Jessica Allain, Luke Tennie, Tequan Richmond, Paige Hurd, Chelsea Rendon, Mitchell Edwards, Pepi Sonuga, Jason Woods, Maestro Harrell, and Michael Ocampo. Director Jackson serves as producer alongside Greg Gilreath, Adam Hendricks, and John Lang.

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I am getting a lot of OG Prom Night vibes from this movie.

Interesting

 

[BXKingPin82]

Watched the whole thing yesterday and it was awful hurt my soul because the first was so good.

Seemed like the writers were willing to do anything to get a sequel made and chose to go away from its roots. The last story couldn’t make up for the rest of the trash

shyt aint have no business being made.

 

[Neuromancer]

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.

gonna check these.

 

[Jello Biafra]

(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.

I came away from The House on Willow Street wishing the movie had been about the exorcism that was shown in the videotape instead of the stuff with the kidnappers.
And I still don't get why the demon version of Hazel's mom helped her out.

 

[storyteller]

I came away from The House on Willow Street wishing the movie had been about the exorcism that was shown in the videotape instead of the stuff with the kidnappers.
And I still don't get why the demon version of Hazel's mom helped her out.

I was disappointed at how the tape played out, but the whole set up of that house and a better conclusion to that tape definitely coulda been a strong movie all its own. And same on the demon mother tip, the whole demons/ghosts/visions thing seemed like they used it for scare moments but didn't actually have a fully fleshed out set of rules for how they worked. I wonder if it was budget or cutting footage though because that backstory from the video tape seems fully fleshed out and then they give us this aftermath where pieces don't quite fit and characters have what seems like a backstory but they left a lot to the imagination...That's me being optimistic though, it could just be that these guys had a great elevator pitch but didn't have a full plan. Feels like a lot of horror I've watched recently comes down to a great premise that the team didn't put enough care into developing further.

 

[Jello Biafra]

I was disappointed at how the tape played out, but the whole set up of that house and a better conclusion to that tape definitely coulda been a strong movie all its own. And same on the demon mother tip, the whole demons/ghosts/visions thing seemed like they used it for scare moments but didn't actually have a fully fleshed out set of rules for how they worked. I wonder if it was budget or cutting footage though because that backstory from the video tape seems fully fleshed out and then they give us this aftermath where pieces don't quite fit and characters have what seems like a backstory but they left a lot to the imagination...That's me being optimistic though, it could just be that these guys had a great elevator pitch but didn't have a full plan. Feels like a lot of horror I've watched recently comes down to a great premise that the team didn't put enough care into developing further.

That irks me as a movie fan when there are either no rules to how things work or the rules are established then summarily ignored not long after.

 

[Theolodius_Black]

What yall Halloween viewing looking like

Id like to do one a day all October

Any recommendations?

 

[MartyMcFly]

What yall Halloween viewing looking like

Id like to do one a day all October

Any recommendations?

I normally do a marathon of horror one weekend in October. This year I’m doing that and going to the horror thing Alamo does every year. They show 3 or 4 movies and don’t tell you what the movies are till like a week before.

 

[MartyMcFly]

Edit. Double post

@Theolodius_Black what have you seen so I can make some recommendations

 

[Theolodius_Black]

Edit. Double post

@Theolodius_Black what have you seen so I can make some recommendations

I have watched some of everything from anything with living dead in the title, to that Dr Satan joint rob zombie did. Good, bad, doesn't matter. I enjoy terrible horror movies just as much as good horror movies.

 

[BXKingPin82]

I have watched some of everything from anything with living dead in the title, to that Dr Satan joint rob zombie did. Good, bad, doesn't matter. I enjoy terrible horror movies just as much as good horror movies.

Oh!!
So you my friend have to watch Surf Nazis Must Die!!
:smoothhoffa:

And

Class of Nuke Em High
:smoothhoffa:

 

[Jello Biafra]

What yall Halloween viewing looking like

Id like to do one a day all October

Any recommendations?

If my schedule stays chill I plan on doing a personal 31 days of horror marathon with a horror flick a day.

 

[Theolodius_Black]

Oh!!
So you my friend have to watch Surf Nazis Must Die!!
:smoothhoffa:

And

Class of Nuke Em High
:smoothhoffa:

Are they terrible:Nowords:

 

[MartyMcFly]

Are they terrible:Nowords:

Yup.