Nah. With a book, your imagination, can make things much more sinister, and to what strikes fear into you personally. Same way with the movie, being mostly that of someone's personal vision of fear.

My parents never allowed it in the house. My dad hates horror films, and my mom said it scared her really bad, so I never got to see it.

How much better than Order Of The Phoenix, was it? OOTP, seemed a little too long and stretched out. I need to see it again, before seeing the new one.

Martyrs (2008)

Review Here

Franklyn (2008)

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In modern day London, a confused young man hooks up with an old flame, a man searches for his sick son and a young female art student expresses her art in an extreme manner. Meanwhile, in the Gothic, sprawling metropolis of Meanwhile City, a vigilante by the name of Jonathan Preest makes plans to kill the cult leader "Individual" responsible for the death of a young girl.

Starts with four seemingly unconnected story threads. But they finally connects at the end. Not a bad effort but first half was kinda dull except the set up of the Meanwhile city was atmospheric & fairly made.

>>: B-

Hitch-Hike (1978)

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Pretty entertaining road thriller with a nice touch of exploitation. Features three engaging performances from it's three main leads including 70's infamous on screen rapist David Hess!:cool:

>>: B

I agree. The first half started tense and nerve wracking, the second half was tedious.

The Haunting in Connecticut ~ not great by any means, very uneven, and some of the dialogue was pretty bad, but I actually enjoyed it overall.

It was too much of the same, over and over during the second half.

I think it's substantially little better than OOTP. The character interactions were great, Slughorn is hilarious, but the action falls flat and it also feels overlong.

I would rate the franchise like this:

1. Prisoner of Azkaban
2. The Half Blood Prince
3. Goblet of Fire
4. Order of the Pheonix
5. Sorcerer's Stone
6. Camber of Secrets

Excellent. Definitely post some thoughts (since it's not really a movie to actually review, I think).

Will do. I agree, I think that's why there isn't a commentary on the DVD, or any kind of analysis. It just isn't possible, and frankly would seem pompous. You just kind of let the film absorb you.

The Usual Suspects (1994)

Enjoyed it. Unfortunately I already knew the twist ending so that detracted a little bit, but there were lots of little surprises throughout that made it worthwhile, and it still has an excellent script and great cast.

Wish I could have been surprised at the end, but I was still impressed watching such a well crafted and complex plot tie itself together.