Ghosts, Demons, and Paranormal Movies
This movie starts out pointing out problems in horror movies, kind of the way Scream was self-referencial. This continues throughout the movie and I like it. The screenwriting is pretty good. I loved the dialog. The way in which the teenage boys spoke with each other was believable and entertaining. I love how realistic some of…
Don’t Knock Twice We meet a teen girl Chloe, her friend/boyfriend Danny and her mother. I believe they are in Wales. Danny tells her the legend about the witch and if you knock twice on her door, how she’ll come for you, but he believes it’s just an urban legend. The movie has some great creepy imagery.…
My notes on Voodoo Movie opens with a POV that looks to be filmed on VHS for some reason. The actress who seems possessed at the beginning was creepy. Even in the kind of cheapie looking VHS. She did a good job. The main actress is trying to do a New Orleans accent, but it’s not so…
As a fan of Ringu and Ju-On (aka The Ring and The Grudge), I was super excited about this movie. In 2016 Ju-On and the Ring may seem predictable and not so scary after so many sequels and common knowledge of what both Sadako and Kayako were capable of. However Ringu was released 18 years…
My Disjointed Thoughts (Get it? Disjointed, like knucklebones) This looks low-budget, but that’s OK. It starts with some excitement in Nazi Germany, then some supernatural seeming murders at a dry cleaning facility in Texas? Then a girl’s gay boyfriend breaks up with her. That actor was pinging the hell out of my gaydar. So she…
(Quick Amityville scenes. I guess to explain why, in the timeline they are skipping to this story. How were the kids still sleeping after shotgun blasts of parents death. We meet the family in England. There are 4 children and their mother. By making the mother single, they don’t have the everything happens when dad’s…
