Scary Stories (from a Dark Allie)

I chose this in honor of my favorite ex-husband’s birthday today. It has been a long time since I watched this movie. I’m glad to see it mostly holds up! As a horror-comedy that has a decent bit of both horror AND comedy!

I forgot that this being a Martin Scorsese film meant it was going to be looooong. And it was long, but it wasn’t quite the slow burn of the original. And it was definitely much darker.

So many old movies feel SO SLOW. Like everything is a slow burn telling of a story. And I find old acting performances so strange. Everything feels somehow stilted and overacted at the same time. And that’s kind of how I felt throughout this movie.

This is a long movie, and it’s not all that scary, but it’s not terrible. I think if you’re into old-fashioned (like turn of the 20th century “old”) cults and period pieces, you might be really into this movie? It also seems very British.

I heard a lot about this movie while it was in production and as it was released, but I only just got around to watching it. I really wanted to like it! It’s got a lot of familiar faces! And yet…

As I was watching this rather long movie, I was thinking about why it hits so hard and feels so terrifying. I think it’s because it’s a film about the possible horrors of being a young woman…directed and written by women. So it’s more chilling and feels more real than either Men or A Thousand Little Cuts.

So…this movie had a lot going for it, but it really failed to live up to any of those things.

I have some mixed feelings on this one. My biggest question, I guess, is why some of the cover art is a bit of a spoiler on its own? I guess not terribly so, but somewhat.

Okay, so I said before that I like Lochlyn Munro, and I enjoy his performances and would love to see more of him. Well, I’m not sure this is quite the “more of him” I was looking for, but it wasn’t all bad.

In honor of the fact that I’m being eaten alive by mosquitoes this month, I watched yet another “eco-horror” movie.

Sadly, it doesn’t seem like eco-horror is quite my cup of tea. I liked this one about as much as Long Weekend and Day of the Animals, which is to say…not very much.