Scary Stories (from a Dark Allie)

I…kind of knew from the beginning of this movie that it wasn’t going to be my cup of tea. It felt overly artsy for a Halloween movie, and definitely too slow for my liking. But I kept going, particularly because I knew Jamie Lee Curtis was back in this one.

So, I had a lot to say about Rob Zombie’s original Halloween remake, particularly that I quite liked it. This…not so much. But I want to preface this by saying I’ve been in a bit of a mood lately, so it’s totally possible it’s just me?

Okay, this definitely wasn’t as bad as yesterday’s movie. This one is actually a direct sequel to Halloween H20, so we’ve graduated timelines, I guess?

Wow…this was a bad movie. And it has PAUL RUDD in it! And it was still bad.

I don’t have too much to say about this one, except that it feels like “a thing” that when a franchise reaches a certain number of films, it has to have a telepathic child connected with the antagonist somehow?

So I’m finding that on the whole these sequels are better than most of the Friday the 13th sequels, but that doesn’t really make them good. They’re just passable.

Okay, welcome to another round of “too many movies in a single franchise”! Probably similar to the Friday the 13th collection, I’m not going to watch these all back to back. Also, fair warning, some of this is going to be posted out of order. Like, I’m not watching Halloween 3 until next week, because it’s basically a standalone film unrelated to Laurie Strode and Michael Myers and it fits better with my schedule this way.

You know those movies that are set in the 1960s but you just don’t believe that anyone involved in the movie was even alive during that time? This is one of those movies. Everyone seems very 21st century.

Okay, I…have no explanation for this five-star rating. Genuinely I don’t, because when I think about it, there’s…not much of a real story to this film. It’s not truly scary. It doesn’t have a whole lot of familiar faces.

Yes, yes, this is another “wary of AI” movie like last night’s. And of course, especially given that it stars Megan Fox, this one has been called a sexy rehash of M3GAN (and it’s also just been called “M3gan Fox”, I guess).

Okay, so…this movie. I’m feeling a little funny about it, like I’m not entirely sure how I want to rate it. I honestly was on board for most of it, but the ending was a bit of a disappointment?

I don’t think I’ve actually watched any of the original Conjuring films since 2016, so maybe I was just too far from the franchise (and too disappointed by the Nun entries?) to enjoy this one as much as I could have. Also a bit too impatient, despite this one being the shortest of the three (though it’s only a minute shorter than the first).

So, I really like Tom Everett Scott, and I REALLY like Julie Delpy, but I don’t really think I liked this movie any more than the original. I wanted to! Especially since John Landis wasn’t involved with this one! But it didn’t land for me.