Scary Stories (from a Dark Allie)

There’s a lot to like about this film, but it didn’t quite land for me.

I guess I’m feeling slightly less impatient this week, since this was kind of a slow-burn movie, but I still enjoyed it.

So, this is M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter’s filmmaking review. She directed the film, and wrote the screenplay adaptation of the novel by A.M. Shine (which I haven’t read, but am considering it now). My immediate thought was, is this going to be any good, or is it Hollywood nepotism at work?

Okay, I did like this better than the first one. Not by much, but by enough to earn it an extra star.

I’m always so sad when a movie with a bunch of people I like is awful. (I mean, Dead Awake was obviously the WORST example of this, and this wasn’t THAT bad, at least?)

I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve given a truly nostalgia-driven rating, but this might be it. I remember watching (and rewatching) this movie around when it came out, and being creeped out by Macaulay Culkin back then.

Okay, so this is the third movie in “The Woman” collection, and definitely not my favorite. But it is Pollyanna McIntosh’s directorial debut, AND she reprises her role as “The Woman” here.

So, there were a lot of familiar faces in this one, and I really wanted to like it much more than I did. I mean, Leigh Whannell was in it! And Meredith Salenger! And Reid Ewing! And Sarah Bolger! And everyone was pretty good!

Okay, so this movie reminds me a LOT of The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Like, a LOT. But I really like that movie, so I wasn’t so mad about it.

There was some really interesting potential here, and I think Lily Sullivan did an excellent job, but I wasn’t really feeling this one for most of the film.

This movie has been on my watch list for so long and now I’m almost wishing it had just stayed there. I was so disappointed by it and I don’t even really have the words to explain why.

I was on the fence on how to rate this one, but ultimately decided on four stars over three because it was pretty entertaining. This one is maybe the least comedic of the Evil Dead movies? And yet also somehow still absurd?

So, I like this movie okay. It’s definitely more “comedy” than “horror-comedy” and definitely the most absurd of the Evil Dead movies.