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"Witching & Bitching" 7/10

Damn, you need to read fast to follow everything that's being said in this spanish horror/comedy. Luckily it's a fairly easy story to follow even if you can't read, but all the "funny" lines will go over your head of course.
It takes the movie more than 50 minutes before all hell breaks lose, but then there's still an hour of craziness left.

"Ouija" 7-8/10

Yea, I thought it was pretty decent as well.

Sure, the last half of the story might have been a little cheesy and some of it didn't make much sense. But what the fuck, it had some good scares throughout the movie and the last 15 minutes were quite intense.

You're kidding right?

I thought the first 10 minutes were actually really scary, but everything after that just ended up being flickering lights, people appearing behind doors, and discussions about the ouija board.



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If the mother was trying to protect them from getting killed, and the daughter was trapped and needed to be freed by cutting the threads over her mouth, then who the fuck killed Isabelle, pushed the guy into the mirror, and kept writing "HI FREND" everywhere? It wouldn't make any sense with the context of the movie for it to be another spirit because there were no other spirits mentioned in the film.

I didn't care about all the plotholes as long as the movie was scary. And it was. I believe what really spoiled it for you was all the crying teens in the theater. ::wink::

Maybe... I just hated the story. I think a movie that isn't scary can be salvaged by a good plot and good atmosphere. Oculus wasn't very scary, but it's my second favorite horror film because it had an interesting story and a very disturbing atmosphere surrounding the mirror.

Dead Silence
 

All of James Wan's movies have different tones, but this one was by far the strangest. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this weird horror movie. It had a couple very effective jump scares and a lot of good tension. This plot was very weird and crazy, but it was simple and interesting. The twist at the end, though, was pretty unnecessary which I didn't particularly like. I recommend this one if you like Wan's other films; it's on Netflix too.

B

Roadkill; The Last Days of John Martin, 1994. 10/10

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Ricky 6, 2000. 7/10

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Red Room 2, 2000. 8/10

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Agreed. I thought this was well made and builds to some genuinely scary scenes. Story, characters & plot don't have much depth, but still manages to be engaging supernatural horror.

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Sanctum 2011 (on netflix)

6.5/10

If you like exploration & survival films, & the like: cave or underwater films, I think you'll enjoy this. It's what I'd call "reality horror", or just plain a personal disaster film (like your own personal Towering Inferno).

I think it was well shot & well made. Good cinematography, sets, sounds. The acting is solid when you accept the characters are a mix of hard-ass explorers, Xtreme sporters, survivalists & rich asshole types. Realizing that, I thought the stoicism was mildly realistic character development, enough for the type of film it's trying to be (it's not Terms of Endearment).

Most of the scenes are very real, and the rest plausible -- in that area of 'who knows unless you're in that extreme situation' plausibility.

Looking at the ratings & reviews at large, I think most are being awfully harsh; as if they were expecting 'James Cameron's Titanic' in a cave. Cameron didn't write or direct it, he just funded it.

The Borderlands (2013)

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A decent Britt found footage with one hell of a weird ending!

>>: B

Zombeavers (2014)

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>>: C-

Eliza Graves aka Stonehearst Asylum (2014)

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Fairly decent but a typical Hollywood treatment for an Edgar Allan Poe story. Jan Švankmajer's Lunacy (2005) was also loosely based on the same story which I think was a more interesting & better adaptation.

>>: B