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Originally Posted by neverending
Most of the free stuff on Comcast on demand is there because it's cheap junk nobody wants to watch. I have found a few gems there, though. Unlike Return I enjoyed Blood Trails. Not innovative or anything, but I thought it was suspenseful- there was plenty of blood- and the pacing was fast. It's good for one watch, IMO.
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I agree with you about fearnet. I find it infinitely frustrating that there is nothing but crap to offer, especially since I was so excited when I heard that there was an On Demand horror channel... O, how I was deceived...
Interesting that you brought up Blood Trails... I actually started to watch it because it was the only fearnet movie that was appealing (and I had recently taken advantage of Evil Dead II and was in the mood for watching something
new tonight).
I honestly didn't get that far into it. I thought that the movie started out really well, found it building creepy suspense (when she wanders into the cave on her bike, I was reminded of how I felt the first time I saw The Descent - claustrophobic, chilled, helpless), but as soon as the Big Bad enters (though it was a ridiculously wonderful and bloody entrance, which was pleasing), I felt as though it would turn into a just plain Stalker/Slasher film and, I don't know, I just didn't feel like watching a two-dimensional character ("She belongs to me") hunting down another two-dimensional character (she bothered me as a character so I didn't mind the prospect of seeing her go). I don't have a problem with derivative films, as long as their well-done... But I didn't feel as though this one was particularly well done.
And I don't get it - Why would a policeman stop her in the first place?
Then again, I am feverish with very little attention span, so that could have a lot to do with it.
...
What I
did manage to get through was
Jacob's Ladder. I had never seen this movie and had borrowed it some time ago from a coworker. Looking for something to watch, I decided that I might as well pop this one in so that I could finally return it...
and... wow.
Great psychological thriller (though I HATE the term "psychological thriller")... Sufficiently and effectively creepy, builds suspense, character, and pathos, not to mention you actually
feel his alienation and confusion, which takes a lot of talent from a directorial and acting standpoint.
I was impressed and will have to own it one day. A/A+