Curse of Chucky.
Hm, pretty whatever.
Doll now looks strange.
Lacking in Charles dialogue.

Insidious -

This is the real deal. Very welcoming compared to all the torture porn stuff that's coming out these days. It's almost perfect. My only slight problem were a few comic relief characters. But then a serious character shows up. I watched this movie during the daytime and it gave me chills a few times. Very similar to when I was young watching the original Nightmare on Elm Street. And even close to when I think I encountered ghosts in real life. I really want to see Part 2 now. But I hesitate to see horror movies in theaters these days. I really like the experience which can be easily ruined by a bad audience.

I enjoyed Insidious a lot, but I think I enjoyed The Conjuring more. I felt the two separate stories tied nicely together, the scares were mostly natural in their implementation (not just loud sounds and jump cuts) and the characters were easy to identify with and sympathize for. The acting was excellent and the cinematography and editing drew you in more than pulled you out of the story.

WORLD GONE WILD

Super low budget post-apocalyptic world where it hasn't rained in 50 years. Bruce Dern stars as the sort of guru/leader of a settlement called Lost Wells, which has a source for water. A violent dictatorial cult wants the water and Dern must rally a motley crew of mercinaries to protect his town. Cast includes Michael Pare and Adam Ant. According to IMDB the original script stated the cult was based on one of the worlds few remaining books- Dianetics. The L. Ron Hubbard Foundation found out while the film was still in production and threatened to sue, so all references to Dianetics were removed. Still a fun, cheesey little scifi action film from the 80s.

Satan's Little Helper and The Theatre Bizarre. I liked SLH more but they were both essentially what I was looking for today which was a couple horror flicks I hadn't watched that were decent. Theatre was uninspired and disjointed while SLH was a bit drawn out and some parts just didn't seem to fit in. All in all, not a terrible couple of Monday morning flicks.

Completely 100% agree with you. I loved the first 'Insidious', but something about the atmosphere and editing in 'The Conjuring' made it that much better. I genuinely felt like I cared about the characters (something too many horror movies fail to achieve), and I totally agree about the scares.

My biggest problem with 'Insidious 2' was that there were way too many "scares" that were just loud noises. 'Insidious' had these too, but to a much lesser extent. At times, there was nothing particularly scary happening on screen, but just loud noises that seemed to exist purely to assault the senses. Don't get me wrong, parts of 'Insidious 2' were terrifying (something about James Wan + old women ghosts + closets = holy s***, and the dice were a nice touch), but by about halfway through the movie, I just wanted it to end. The soundtrack just got way too loud and unpleasant.

'The Conjuring' wasn't like that at all. The scares in it were extremely well thought out and executed, and at no time did I feel like the soundtrack was being overused. The movie didn't need a loud soundtrack because the stuff happening on screen was legitimately terrifying and didn't need to be elevated by anything. Even though I felt scared throughout the entire movie, I remember not wanting it to end because it was just so well done and so engrossing.

"Am I still dead" -- The Monkey's Paw -- http://monkeyspawthemovie.com/

*giggles* "Super-hero" movie, huh? o.O

Aren't the majority of horror films getting cinema releases in the spooky house/posessed house or person genre.

Ie The PA series/Insidious/Mama/Woman in Black/Last Exorcist/Sinister etc etc. I can't remember the last film that you might refer to as 'Torture Porn' released here.

Captifs (2010) aka Caged.

French flick about Serbians kidnapping foreign aid workers and harvesting their organs.

Pretty bland stuff lacking even the visual enjoyment that I associate with continental cinema. The usual lack of suspense, of character/relationship development that's the hallmark of so much torture porn, but even as a fan of the genre I found this a rather naff film.

Piranhaconda (2012)

Brilliant. I don't get why people lay into these films for being childish, badly acted and scripted, and with crappy fx. It's like you're missing the point somewhere along the line.

Yea, it's about a dude who saves the world with his 3 inches penis. What?