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We Summon the Darkness 3/10
Retarded story, dislikable characters and cringy dialogue. Awful movie. An English Haunting 6/10 What worked was the setting, the score, the atmosphere and the performance by the young man in the lead. What didn’t work so well was the execution of the story, the weird dialogue, the performances by anyone else than the young man and the grandpa who didn’t look creepy, just indian. All in all the whole thing felt like a young directors first attempt to make a horror movie. Some things he knew how to do well, like setting up a creepy atmosphere, but then sadly ruin it with jump scares instead of continue the slow creepiness. But he got the right ingredients, the huge castle, the unsetteling music throughout and some good ideas for scary scenes and overall story. But what the director obviously hasn’t learned yet is transforming a script into a movie, as the story just wasn’t told very well. Also the dialogue wasn’t very convincing either. Very unnatural. Also the characters actions was equally unconvincing. Nobody would’ve stayed in that castle more than a night, but somehow both the mom and son took it like champs.
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THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (2001). Quirky Coen Brothers film that is a Noir film (in gorgeous Black and White) that throws in X FILES elements. Billy Bob Thornton is probably the biggest blank slate imaginable ("I just cut the Hair") and must smoke about 200 cigarettes before the film is over. In true Noir fashion, he tries to improve his lot and it all goes wrong. Good film, but just a little too languid and I found the ending unsatisfying. Worth seeing anddecent performances by BBT, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini, a young Scarlett Johansen ("Heavens to Betsy, Birdie!") and Tony Shaloub as an incredibly rude conceited lawyer who seems to be making it up as He goes along. ***
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Evidence (2013), directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi.
It's more like a thriller than a horror, although I found it on the list of recommended found footage horrors. It's quite a mess, but still entertaining (possibly because of some nice twists in the end). Quote:
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Hell House LLC (2015), directed by Stephen Cognetti. Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire (2019), directed by Stephen Cognetti. Unfortunately, I didn't have an opportunity to watch the second part but I like the other two. Even more, I loved the first one. ![]() |
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I just put a big Galaxy of Terror review in the 70s / 80s topic. I don't review here that often anymore since there isn't much discussion. Just watched movie posts. But just in case people don't check over there.
http://horror.com/forum/showpost.php...ostcount=41519 I'm more a fan of just having an overall last seen horror movie topic. But I think that was discussed before a few years ago when people were posting normal movies. Last edited by ImmortalSlasher; 04-15-2020 at 01:19 AM. |
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