The Glade 4.0

I found drag me to hell to be one of the worst movies I had seen in a long time. I may have to try it again.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Yeah man, I found it to be kind of a Raimi return-to-evil-dead form. Don't get me wrong, it's no Citizen Kane. But I found it to be a pretty awesome B-horror flick.

Ditto, but alone in the dark it was creepy as heck too.

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Absentia - don't watch alone in a strange hotel room. Tension builds, builds and then the director squanders it. It seems he couldn't pick his theme.

Still creepy and I would recommend it.

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I found one of the best things to be that they did not fully show the critter.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

^ Agreed. It really built up the tension

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Do you like shakey cam? How about shakey cam in nightvision? How about shakey cam in nightvision filming stupid teens being stupid? Only in Spanish you say? Try Atrocious then!

It took forever to get going but it was decent for the ending sequence and gets bonus points for the random insult to injury scene!

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Wow do I hate shakey cam! It's always BAD!

There's been some great moments of shakey cam, it can really heighten tension and put you right in the action. The problem is that the great moments are 1%, and 99% of it is massively gimmicky overused badly shot crap.

I loved shakey cam in Cloverfield. That's about it.

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Speaking of shaky cam and scary movies...

I can dig shaky cam if it's done right. Some movies are better than others with that.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Feast - apparently the director won some SyFy contest that meant they had to foot the bill on this movie. It is a creature flick, not scary, purposefully cliche and at moments funny. I think they were aiming for Tremors but ended up with Critters.

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I love this sentence.

I think I own that one... it is the one where they introduce all of the characters in a stop screen and Jason Mewes has already exceeded life expectancy?

As for shaky cam... there is only one time when it is acceptable.... making homemade porn.

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

That's the one.

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Just finished Insidious which reminded me of a masculine version of Poltergeist. If I had seen this in theaters there are parts where the sound alone would have made me poop my pants. If you like supernatural ghost/demon movies you should see this. I will say the family/characters were complete throw aways so don't expect to feel too attached.

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Watched this one last night too and I was going to make a post on it. It's been in my queue for a month or two ever since I heard it was one to watch.

This movie definitely has some excellent strengths that other scary movies don't. For one thing: the buildup. This movie knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that subtlety, even with jump out scares, is extremely effective. I'm not normally a fan of jump out scares, but this movie put me on edge more than most because of the way they handled them.

The movie lost a little bit of steam during the third act, but I think that was pretty much unavoidable. When 2/3 of your strength is subtlety, you have to abandon that a little bit for a finale.

Still, I give it a high rating.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Insidious was very good. I very much enjoyed it. I hope the second one matches the first.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

Netflix kept presenting The Nameless as a scary movie. It is in Spanish and it is a whodunnit thriller about torture pr0n

Does have Nazis

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Pass for me. I have no desire to see movies like Saw and Hostel. I far more prefer a heavy dose of supernatural in my horror movies.

I did watch House 2 again for the first time in over 20 years. It was a little more cringeworthy than I remember (Bill Maher is in it!...... ?......!!!!) but it does have the best character John Ratzenberger has ever played.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

To be clear, I don't consider "The Nameless" to be a scary movie. It was more of a heads-up that Netflix is trying to pass it off as one.

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Not even then. There is never an acceptable time for shakeycam.

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Holy shitsnacks!

The Uninvited - saw the preview for this a few years back and decided I didn't want to see it. Watched it finally and I was right the first time. Has two jump out scares and is otherwise just plain terrible. I don't want to spoil it but it has a twist ending that completely negates the two scares.

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Anyone going to bother with Paranormal Activity 4? I never watched the first three (well.. half of the first) but IGN seemed to think it was worth a watch:

I will. I've seen all three in the theater and will go see this one. I've enjoyed all of them(would have enjoyed the third more but I went on the wrong night).

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."