Scary Stories (from a Dark Allie)

So, I had mentioned before that there’s a Matthew McConaughey horror movie I knew I liked, and this is it.

When I was watching (and not totally enjoying) Jigsaw I was thinking a few of the actors looked really familiar (in addition to a barely recognizable Laura Vandervoort), and it turns out, yes, two of them are in THIS movie I’d seen before.

Okay, this isn’t the worst movie I’ve watched this year, but it might have the worst cinematography?

This is not a four-star movie. Honestly, it’s probably not really a three-star movie. But it was SO FUNNY, I have to give it extra credit for that.

This might be another nostalgia-driven rating. I think it’s also a “replay rating” of sorts…it’s really hard to put yourself into the same frame of mind as when you’re seeing something for the first time.

I’m going to try to avoid the “F” word here, but I liked this one about as much as yesterday’s. It’s about the same length, the same pacing, and (mostly) the same story.

I have to apologize to all of you. It seems my word of the year is “fine”. It’s only March, and I’ve already called 11 movies “fine” this year! Well, let’s make it 12, because…you can probably guess where I’m going here.

I feel like this movie had a lot of really interesting potential and visual effects, but didn’t quite land the “scary story” piece quite as well as it could have.

This is another movie that I heard a lot of hype about last year when it came out. People really liked it! I was surprised by how much I heard about this movie, particularly for a Spanish-language film.

I liked this movie! It was quiet, but not slow. Georgina Campbell (also excellent in Barbarian) was great, which is good because it’s just her we see through most of the film.

I like this movie, but it is hard to watch.

Yeah, this movie was also fine. It’s hard(er) to complain about a movie that’s less than an hour and twenty minutes long.

Okay, for all my prior complaints about long movies? THIS movie is long. THIS movie is the longest movie I have watched for this site (it beats the next longest, The Shining, by 8 minutes). THIS movie is OVER TWO AND A HALF HOURS LONG.