EVILNess
09-30-2009, 05:36 AM
It's no secret that I was born on Halloween (Even though you probably didn't know that :D), and because of that I have always been a bit of a scary movie buff. Since it is almost that time of year again, a time for ghouly delights I thought I would do a bit of something to help build up to my birthday and put everyone into a Halloween mood...
A thread about scary movies!
My plans are to watch every scary movie we get in at my work (I work at a Blockbuster Video) and hopefully talk about it here. There will be no spoilers, but I will give a hey or a nay on whether it was a good watch.
Now, the last few years have been, in my opinion of course, very barren in the area of quality scares. Cheap thrills, where Hollywood thinks gore=scary and half assed slasher remakes have been the name of the game.
Now imagine my surprise when I saw http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Trick_r_treat.jpg
Hands down a 10/10-omgwtfbbq-you-gotta-watch-every-year-like-it's-suddenly-the-It's-A-Wonderful-Life-of-Halloween.
I won't talk about its plot other than to say its a masterfully done piece of horror cinema with a complex look at a single night gone screwy from 4 perspectives with one major thing tying them all together, the ever present and sinisterly cute Sam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain).
I also am not ashamed to say that I hunger for a Sam plushie to put on my desk.
Excellent production values, recognizable actors, pleasantly competent acting, and very little CG that I could detect this movie isn't B grade at all in the least.
I would have watched this movie in a theater and walked out feeling like I had just gotten more than my money's worth, even with the overpriced candy.
So this movie comes out on the 6th, and you should totally watch it.
A thread about scary movies!
My plans are to watch every scary movie we get in at my work (I work at a Blockbuster Video) and hopefully talk about it here. There will be no spoilers, but I will give a hey or a nay on whether it was a good watch.
Now, the last few years have been, in my opinion of course, very barren in the area of quality scares. Cheap thrills, where Hollywood thinks gore=scary and half assed slasher remakes have been the name of the game.
Now imagine my surprise when I saw http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Trick_r_treat.jpg
Hands down a 10/10-omgwtfbbq-you-gotta-watch-every-year-like-it's-suddenly-the-It's-A-Wonderful-Life-of-Halloween.
I won't talk about its plot other than to say its a masterfully done piece of horror cinema with a complex look at a single night gone screwy from 4 perspectives with one major thing tying them all together, the ever present and sinisterly cute Sam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain).
I also am not ashamed to say that I hunger for a Sam plushie to put on my desk.
Excellent production values, recognizable actors, pleasantly competent acting, and very little CG that I could detect this movie isn't B grade at all in the least.
I would have watched this movie in a theater and walked out feeling like I had just gotten more than my money's worth, even with the overpriced candy.
So this movie comes out on the 6th, and you should totally watch it.