Scary Stories (from a Dark Allie)

It’s New Year’s Eve, everyone! The last day and my last movie of the year. I don’t know whether to find it fitting or disappointing that I mostly think this movie is fine.

Wow, it’s been almost another full year. Just this movie and tomorrow’s, and then it’s 2025! I’m glad I mostly liked this movie, and we’ll see how tomorrow’s goes…

For better or worse (mostly better, I think), it’s been a while since I’ve watched an endlessly dark and bleak film. This movie ends that streak with a bang (umm… apologizes in spoiler).

This is a bad movie. There’s an argument to be made that it’s so bad it’s good, but…you’d have to do a LOT of arguing. So why am I rating it three full stars? Jeffrey Combs. Literally the third star is just for Jeffrey Combs.

I’m a little frustrated because I feel like this film was SO CLOSE to being a five-star film, but its pacing was way off. They saved the interesting and action-packed parts for the last 20 minutes while dragging some of the other themes on too long? And I think that was a mistake.

Okay, I know it’s not yet the new year, but it’s the last Throwback Thursday of the year so I felt this was fitting.

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! This was a seasonally-appropriate film, but it wasn’t as good as I’d have liked.

It’s Christmas Eve! I should have picked something a little scarier or a little more relevant, but I started this and was too lazy to swap it out for something else, so we’re all stuck with this.

Ok, so this isn’t technically a “Christmas” movie. And I think most of it takes place in February (an alternative title for the film, actually). But it feels quite…Christmas-y. Or at least wintery.

I’d never seen this one before, so it was finally time to get around to it. Honestly I knew it was going to be good from the start, with the fake kid’s voice and the ridiculous narration and the hilarious camera angles…I knew this was going to be a ride for sure.

It’s been a while since I’ve watched an anthology movie, and…I was not impressed with this. I thought it was going to be better.

This movie is just weird. I’m not sure it deserves four stars, but it kept me entertained, which is more than I can say for some other movies lately.

It is cold and dry when I’m watching this, and honestly that’s kind of how I feel about this movie? My eyes are tearing up trying to hold on to some moisture but this movie kind of makes me want to cry…from boredom?