Half in the Bag: Top 10 Horror Movies (2024) Part 1

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(00:00) Intro
(4:46) Trailers Montage/Opening Discussion
(14:36) MaXXXine
(17:12) Mike’s dishonorable mentions
(20:49) The Watchers
(21:07) Stopmotion
(27:06) Salem’s Lot
(31:34) The Coffee Table
(36:20) In a Violent Nature

Halloween. What is it? A celebration of all things spooky, scary, and macabre. Are all horror movies Halloween movies? No. Are all Halloween movies horror movies? Yes. Except for stupid kids movies. In America we celebrate Halloween on October 31st. In Canada they celebrate Halloween on May 11th the day after Queen’s Day and the day before Boxing Day. In England they called Halloween “Pumpkin Eve” and when little kids ring the doorbells they say, “Trick or Teeth”. Folks hand out a trick or toothpaste (called teethpaste north of Buckinghampshire not not as far south as Willhubsmanfeld upon Blumberston”. In North Korea Halloween is called Thursday.
But Americans invented the horror film. The first horror film ever made was 1997’s “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and since then it’s been an amazing journey of terror and screams for you to annoy your religious Grandparents with. Tell them you’re putting on The Last Temptation of Christ and play Terrorizer 3. When the film ends they had no idea they were pranked. Praise Jesus they say! Horror movies should be all released in October. But they aren’t. It’s too many films to jam into one month so they come out all year. This is why Mike and Jay have compiled this list since June. While planning for the years end 2024 recap, it was discovered that most films they’ve watched drifted into the disturbing and macabre. Not always a traditional “Halloween” movie, but often containing disturbing violence, spooky visuals, paranormal events, murders, and so forth. So why wait until the end of the year to talk about these movies? Why not talks about them now? Mike and Jay go hopelessly off-topic so much this video is split into two parts. Part 1 #10 – #6 or so. There’s some overlap and things out of order so get ready to be annoyed. But also get ready to laugh, as Jay and Mike present their witty inimitable banter with a healthy dose of lies, misleading information, incorrect facts, and jokes that aren’t funny in any way.
Please also be advised that these are not the top ten best horror films of 2024. For one, Jay and Mike have already talked about some horror movies already which they aren’t including. There is also many more months in 2024. It’s not over. These are the top ten recent horror films watching between roughly June and today. Not matter how many times we mention this most of you will say, “But what about…” and “You should have put this or that at number whatever.” It is a forgone conclusion 94% of you will still not understand what this video is. I’m so sorry. I know this is confusing and it is what it is.

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49 thoughts on “Half in the Bag: Top 10 Horror Movies (2024) Part 1”

  3. I actually like the ending of In a Violent Nature. I think it's true that it drags down at the end but the speech is to compare No-Jason with a wild animal/force of nature; it just existed and will take everything in his way for no reason (or at least for the protagonist). The final minutes it's not only that she's tramaumatize but that we, as audience, know that No-Jason could be walking behind the woods as we have seen him the whole movie. We were secure because we knew what he was about to do but now we have the perspective of the prey. So I think it was a brilliant ending, the movie would need more characters to be engaging but it's a nice experiment as it is.

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  8. Putting my In a Violent Nature defense here, the movie doesn’t cut to black, they cut back to where the final girl left the killer’s necklace and show that it’s missing. In the process of the movie, we see that the killer just wants the necklace back, and I’m assuming he went back to his hole after he got it. He wasn’t just a mindless killer, animal, or force of nature at the end of the day, even though every conversation about him throughout the movie tries to paint him that way (the campfire scene, the car ride, the Tommy Jarvis park ranger). Having him come back and pop out at the end of the movie would be in line with the characters’ conversations, but not in line with the killer’s actual actions (as we’ve seen from following him the whole movie).

    You can argue whether this made for a worse movie experience, but there’s definitely reasons behind the story choices being made. Also, I would really enjoy Mike’s version of the movie too

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  13. I feel if they're going to go all in on the POV 'gimmick' (Or anything similar, conceptually) it really does limit the film or make it repetitive where you're just asking "Is this it?" I had that experience with It Follows where you are just with these people and the demon is just following them constantly. There's gotta be some meat on the bones, whether it is character stuff/plot/themes/a mixture of that or it will just be hollow, and the only thing propping it up is everything else. Acting, direction, camerawork etc.

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  18. Wow the state of the movie industry just gets stranger and stranger the more you talk about it, I think that crossover film you spoke of could happen, all bets are off.😬
    I don't hate Blumhouse as much as you guys do, but then again I just watched the highlights and ignored like 75-80% of their factory output. I think they're bad at sequels, quite often just one movie is enough Eg. The Conjuring.
    That is funny listening to you talk about In a Violent Nature and thinking back to all those movies you hated about people walking in the woods, and here's a movie where the majority of the run time is that.😄 Idk..art is fine, vision is fine, but I don't disagree with the Mike-notes about having structure and a point to a movie.

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  28. For "A Violent Nature", the ild lady is telling you the story that her husband used as his cover story. Her husband originally killed and buried the demon boy (who spends a few minutes playing with his old toys at one point) and trapped him with his mother's love (the locket).

    The whole first murde in the house is the boy looking for the locket and seeing a locket in the window of the house but its the wrong one.

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  36. This is the most random episode I have ever seen. One minute they are talking about Popeye's Chicken, then it cuts to "Jay uses cocaine" for no reason. I haven't laughed this stupidly hard in awhile. Thanks for that.

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  39. Regarding the Spanish movie – that's just Spanish remake/rework of French movie from 1998, "Serial Lover". Except Serial Lover was a VERY black romantic comedy (yes, I know how this sounds) and this one is trying to take that concept and make it into a straight horror/thriller, with… varied results.
    But yeah, go watch Serial Lover, it's from 1998, it's really fucking good in what it is doing. Infinitely better than the Coffee Table.

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