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

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What's October without some Freddy and Jason involved? I got a twofer here, and on this watch, I was reminded how much I really enjoy Freddy vs Jason. It leans into the schlock and humor that dominated the later entries of the two franchises, but it's clear that the writers genuinely have love for both. The finale lives up to the epic clash and also involves callbacks to the best final fights for both characters'. Jason is brought back to lake while the protagonists ride off in a boat, and Freddy is dragged out of his dream world into reality.

There's also clever play on Fire vs Water; and one of the more likeable casts of victims in any of the movies from either franchise. This shyt was a home run imo, and it's a damned shame that it didn't start a trend of versus movies.
Hell yeah this is a Freddy v Jason fan thread.
 

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If I do a 12-days of Christmas Horror movies marathon this year, I'm definitely putting Scrooged on.

This is from the last time I did it a few years back


The list:
1. Black Christmas (original)
2. Better Watch Out
3. I Trapped the Devil
4. A Christmas Horror Story
5. Silent Night (2012)
6. Dead End
7. Rare Exports
8. El Dia de la Bestia aka Day of the Beast
9. Christmas Bloody Christmas
10. Krampus
11. Anna and the Apocalypse
12. Gremlins
 
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I finished watching Dream Eater and ehhhhh...
Found-footage gang, a new one just dropped



I’ll peep it soon and give thoughts.


If you haven't seen the Korean horror movie Sleep, skip Dream Eater and watch Sleep instead (it even has a quality dubbed version). The two movies have a really similar premise. A couple is dealing with the husband's sleepwalking which gets increasingly more threatening to the wife. It's a decent premise to make a found footage movie out of, since the wife uses the footage to show her husband his creepy behavior periodically throughout the movie.

There are also a couple of nice scares here. But they're fairly common in the found footage genre. The lights go out and a new voice sounds in the room, a person is filming and as they turn you see a threatening presence behind them. There are plenty of little jumpscare setups, though only two stood out as being any good. The performances are also passable, which sounds like a backhanded compliment but this is found footage, so that's actually a genuine compliment.

But there's a lot more bad than good here. The scares get redundant, and characters are way too conveniently dumb about the situation as it gets increasingly more dangerous. The narrative has good ideas but executes them poorly because of bad writing. There's a lot of straight ripping off better horror movies (like discussions with a professor over zoom aka the Sinister scenes). The guy seems like an a-hole even when he's not sleepwalking, and the girl is passive at the worst possible moments.

Worst of all, but the main reason I wanted to write an extended review, this movie breaks all the rules of Found Footage. The camera quality is insanely good, and even when characters put the camera down, the scenes are perfectly framed and captured. That's explained by the wife being a documentary filmmaker but it still takes away from the found footage vibes. Some of the footage is taken by cameras that the AirBnB owner must have set up, which allows for third-person POV but who would stay at an AirBnB that's surveilling you!? Worst of all, there are music drops...not like "the radio turned on," but rather, "she's running outside and they needed ominous music to try and make it more scary."

If you love found footage, this movie will annoy you. If you want to see the premise done to much better effect, in a horror movie that made my top-5 for the year it dropped...watch Sleep instead.
 
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