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Rowan Morrison

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Is The Woman in Black any good? I've been tempted to watch it, due to the sequel coming out.

I think it has a few good atmospheric moments - it's The Woman in Black, you'd have to basically be Frank Spencer with a clapperboard not to end up with a few good atmospheric moments - but turns atrocious later on. The BBC / Nigel Kneale adaptation is much, much better and that's a heinous understatement - the Radcliffe version makes too many concessions to the big screen for my liking, and the ending is grotesque in all the wrong ways.

Then again I still think Paranormal Activity is a genuinely brilliant slice of scares and escalation.

I love PA, I think it's a modern classic. Diminishing returns, unavoidably, but I saw the first three films in the cinema and it was a great experience. Loads of kids jumping and screaming and going oooooooohhhh my god, WHAT?, which would normally be a very frustrating experience but, in the context of PA, worked brilliantly. What makes PA great is the confidence it has - plenty of other films would have lost their nerve early on and, eventually, the PA series does lose its nerve. But it holds out admirably.

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Chadruharazzeb

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PA films are an alright way of wasting 1.5hrs but there's really nothing going on in them. I stand by what I said in the PA thread

I had exactly the same confusion after watching 4 and really, those explanations are rather pathetic.

I wonder if anything is ever going to happen in these films? All you get is a demon slamming doors and throwing kitchen equipment around, and occasionally breaking someone's neck for no reason, and there's no consequence to any of it. Demon just carries on being little more than a nuisance with no opposition whatsoever. For that particular monster it's like playing GTA where everyone ignores your carnage.

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Rowan Morrison

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I don't really care for the longer story arc, I'm happy just watching a fan oscillate for ten minutes. Also I have trouble telling the films apart, which probably isn't a good sign. The cupboard explosion from 2 (I think) was probably my cinema highlight of that year, though. Bear in mind I don't get out much.

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Tofu

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Annabelle is proper bottom of the barrel horror junk,with the most standard clickes. Things turning on at night, slowwwly reaching towards something then BOOM loud jump scare, invisible demon drags person by their feet, etc. But the WORST, the ABSOLUTE WORST, is the exposition. Every freaking big-budget horror film these days has some expert come in and explain the entire plot and background of the movie, and practically explain how the movie must end. Every damn time. The detective comes in with bloody pictures, explain the whole cult and what they were trying to do, then the bookstore owner explains "No, it's not a ghost…ghosts are attached to houses, but what you have here is muchhh darrkerrr. It attaches itself to people and wants to consume a soul. It is a…DEMON dun dun dunnnn" Why do they have someone explain the difference in every movie?

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Jonzo

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Not sure if it's been mentioned in here yet or not, but I watched a movie called Banshee Chapter on US Netflix last night and it's haunted the fuck out of me.

I couldn't even go into the bin area in the dark tonight, had to just lob the bin near the door and leg it out.

Highly recommended.

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Not sure if it's been mentioned in here yet or not, but I watched a movie called Banshee Chapter on US Netflix last night and it's haunted the fuck out of me.

I couldn't even go into the bin area in the dark tonight, had to just lob the bin near the door and leg it out.

Highly recommended.

a rehash of From Beyond, with a blatant caricature of Hunter S. Thompson in it, blended with some Blair Witch Project and Evidence - with a sprinkling of Scanners

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Tofu

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Watched Woman in Black again the TV movie, still fantastic viewing and proper chills.

a rehash of From Beyond, with a blatant caricature of Hunter S. Thompson in it, blended with some Blair Witch Project and Evidence - with a sprinkling of Scanners

I found it a really messy film, it wasn't really coherent at all.

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Tofu

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I've heard good things about The Babadook so have added it to my Lovefilm. Any good?

Its good, its more psychological than horror I found. People love it, its definitely worth a watch regardless.

Anyway watched Jezabelle, proper rubbish.

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[REC] 4 is thankfully much better than the awful third, but cant stand up to the first two. The monkeys are great.

I watched this today...

I think they were overselling it somewhat with the tagline Apocalypse. It's just one boat and a few zombies and some monkeys. I just don't understand why they ever felt the need to go in the direction they did.

Overall... A bit meh.

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Scribblor

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Oculus is really a cut above most of the other horror films I've seen recently.

Although I do have a problem with it:

The ending feels very much like it's been set up for a sequel. I'd have preferred it if there'd been a 'final' ending.

I did like the way the mirror was never explained though.

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Scribblor

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I know what to expect from Tusk. I like Smith's films and listened to the Smodcasts where he developed it. I'm not expecting it to be scary.

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Camel, I don't post stuff to the internet while I'm watching films. Except Drag Me To Hell because it bored me so much. My son woke up, so after I put him back to sleep I made that post.

It's just finished. Thought it was great. The second half didn't quite work as well as the first, I didn't think, but then the first half was really really excellent. So the second half was still brilliant. Now to read some reviews of it.

This is definitely the sort of thing I want to watch more of.

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For some 80's style monster scares I'd recommend 'Late Phases'. I caught it the other evening and really enjoyed it.

Avoid the trailer if you can. It's one of those films that if you really want to enjoy it, you are better off going in blind.

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Really liked Tusk. Thought it was a great adaptation of the idea they came up with on the podcast, but as a mainstream film it's dreadful. It feels like one long in-joke. Luckily I got it, but if you're not a hardcore Smith fan I can definitely see it falling flat.

I read interviews where he seems to be rationalising it in some ways, saying things like "it's not a horror really, it's [whatever genre he's decided he wants it to be]". He did it with Red State too, and I wish he'd just say that he doesn't care what genre it is, it's the film he wanted to make at the time. And I liked it for what it was.

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