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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl
Must have missed your rantings about High Tenstion. And I completely agree with you. The ending invalidates that great suspense that was built up the entire film and it's INCREDIBLY cheap. It makes me feel more sane and validated to hear that.
We'll have to agree to disagree on Eden Lake - I would have just left and I don't think that their actions were particularly justified. Then again, it could have been that I know as a viewer that I'm watching all of this unfold in the context of a horror movie, so any retaliation would have serious consequences in that environment.
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I agree as well, it was cheap trick just to shock the audience, and for a film that was working reasonably well until then, there is no excuse to throw all that was good about the movie out the window, just to "trick" the viewer.
And I totally agree about Eden Lake. And its not just because I know I am watching a horror movie. Their actions were, in my opinion, ridiculous. And its because of the more realistic feel of the film that makes it impossible for me to give a damn about them after they do something so stupid (you already mentioned the scene I am talking about in your spoiler warning), and once I lose sympathy for the characters, I'm done. Same thing happened with The Strangers. I lost sympathy for the characters as soon as they started making the same mistakes that the characters in the campier horror movies make, they lost me. I didn't "believe" it, and I didn't believe Eden Lake. And for it to work for me, I have to.
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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher
I'd say [REC]or might turn you on. MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN was overlooked by many and I really liked it - not genius, but quite fun.
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Midnight Meat Train was a hell of a lot of fun, I really enjoyed it. And [REC] is excellent.