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

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an excellent back story ruined by the need to attach it to Salem, and the occult. Plus, i think five ppl die in total (including someone stabbing at a pile of hay), there was serious attempt to keep the budget down on this, the last 20 minutes are nothing but house game done to pad out the runtime, cannot reccomend
 

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JLC looking like the prototypical Karen and Crimson Chin era Neve. They did my girls so dirty here. All of them were gorgeous when they started out.
Neve was fat In the Craft or at least they made her look that way
 

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Sinners is an elite movie-going experience. The quality of cinematography and score is made for an Imax theater with digital surround sound. The horror scenes are really well done, though the story is more action and drama than horror IMO.

It's just a great movie. But in terms of horror discussion, I think the way Coogler portrayed the vampires is the most interesting part. He took typical tropes (ie: you have to invite a vampire inside) and used them along with the story to make some really tense scenes.

But he also threw in some new concepts. like having the vampires share memories kinda like a hive mind. I'm not sure I've seen that before in a vamp story.

It's a great example of how writers can take tropes and use them to their advantage. What the audience already knows about creatures can be used to fast track certain parts of the story and juice up the tension.
I loved how it paid its respects to blues, but also managed to add those sprinkles of 90s symphonic heavy metal in there to remind audiences that it’s still very much a film that features vampires. That whole back-half of the score from Ludwig where the film mutates into something otherworldly was masterful.
 

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I didn't really think about how bad Until Dawn's gimmick would hamstring it until I was halfway through the movie. In any horror movie, we get annoyed at dumb horror movie logic, but helps add tension since characters are flirting with death. But in Until Dawn, they have a bunch of tries to make it through one night and everyone has to die before the next night starts.

So, characters have to be extra stupid, repeatedly, and there are no stakes to any of it. Once one of them dies, you're just watching for how the rest will get taken out. None of the plot advancement is earned; at one point, it takes a girl's psychic powers to tell everyone to check the top drawer on the only desk in a room. The goofy logic gets to the point that there's no tension.

But the kills are pretty damned good. They're gory, over the top, and generally entertaining. As pure popcorn fare, it's not the worst thing to drop. But it's in that "so bad it winds up being goofy fun" lane that movies like The Bye Bye Man and Tarot occupy, where it's best served as training wheels for horror newcomers.
 
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