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Drag Me To Hell 5/10 Maybe it's because I watched it after Paranormal Activity, but the film felt completely throwaway. It's not particularly scary, besides a few obvious jolts (which are almost always pre-empted by a sudden and very predictable silence). But I doubt it's going for true scares anywa...

Paranormal Activity Not sure how to rate this- it's similar to Blair Witch Project in that it's essentially a gimmick, an endeavour to creep you out as opposed to telling a story. But it's pretty effective at creeping you out. It slowly builds tension through the multiple nighttime encounter that st...

Rewatched The Thing What an absolute classic, for three reasons. 1- The production design is out of this world. I've never seen a film like this, the creature is a brilliant idea, an amalgamation of things it previously contacted. Horrific and very creative 2- John Carpenter takes his scenarios seri...

24 The Shining- Jack Nicholson

Both great films, and $69K is a lot of money. Makes you wonder why did Aronofsky come up with his own way of expressing the scene. Nevertheless, I think Requiem's budget was 3 or 4 million, so in the context 69K was just another expense.

I like SS's one, and NSpan's strip of celluloid.

The last Saw dropped 68% in its second week and each one has had a bigger second week drop than the last (the first dropped 39%, the second dropped 47%, the third dropped 57% and the fourth dropped 67% in their second weeks). Yes but this time Saw 6 opened up before Halloween weekend, so it may not...

Just watched The Last Broadcast. At first I hated it, the acting was awful, and it stank on an amateur graduate film. But I gradually began buying it as it progressed, absorbed in the crapness of it all, and after seeing Blair Witch Project, expecting something crepy to happen, which is what the fil...

He likes to offer them candy

1 Michael Jackson's This Is It $46.4 OVER 2 Paranormal Activity $17.2 OVER 3 Where the Wild Things Are $7.6 OVER 4 Law Abiding Citizen $7.4 UNDER 5 Saw VI $6.7 UNDER 6 Couples Retreat $6.3 UNDER 7 Astro Boy $4.1 UNDER 8 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs $3.6 UNDER 9 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's As...

14 The Exorcist- Linda Blair

Why do you think that, Geez?

After trying (and failing) to watch Prince of Darkness in its entirety three times in the last five or so years, we FINALLY sat down and watched it from start to finish. And, I gotta say, that movie was CRAP. I love Carpenter. Even his lesser movies are still fun to watch. This one was just such a ...

W, that's depressing. Funny, but depressing Donte, I've heard interesting things about Bug (apparently it's an allegory relating to the situatin in Iraq???), so might check that out. Thanks for the comprehensive list, NSpan, I'll look into some of those. I've seen REC and I found it pretty stupid (r...

Well, folks, it's the one week of the year in which I give a crap about horror flicks. So far the other-half and I have watched Thirst, the Korean vampire flick, as well as Lost Highway (although that's a purely psychological film). On our list is The Thing (82 version of course), The Last Broadcast...