Scary Stories (from a Dark Allie)

I’m still not caught up on sleep, and now I’ve got a literal pain in the neck bothering me, so this likely won’t be as verbose as it could be. But I’ll start off by saying that I really love this movie.

I’ve seen it several times and every damn time it ends I’m crying. Sure, it’s not quite as terrifying or mysterious after the first watch – but if you’ve never seen this movie before, it’s very much terrifying and mysterious.

This was pretty good. The acting is believable and the story interesting (if not original).

The found footage/fake documentary format is a bit tired but it works here for the most part.

It gets weirdly heavy handed with its message at the very end but otherwise it’s a very watchable, creepy horror movie. I approve!

I was a bit skeptical of this one at first as I wasn’t sure Leigh Whannell could pull off a horror comedy, but I really liked it.

It didn’t dwell too much on the cutesy side of things and the comedy was reasonably smart.

I loved the cast and the special effects were great.

Basically this is a really fun movie to watch. I’m still sleepy today so I’m still leaving this short, but I definitely recommend this one if you’re into, umm…zombie comedies? Zomedies?

Well, we’re finally at the end. I wish I were a little less sleepy tonight because this one actually wasn’t bad.

I felt like the story was a bit truer to the intent of the original movie. I was happy that mostly everyone got what was coming to them. And I was happy to see (spoiler ahead) Dr. Gordon make his appearance.

I’d definitely give this one four out of five stars, and for more than just Sean Patrick Flannery! Oh yeah – he’s in this too.

I was about to ask myself (or rather, ask you) where I find these movies, but this one I got straight from Milo Ventimiglia’s IMDb page, so I suppose I already know the answer.

To perhaps no one’s shock or amazement, this movie was about family, love, and loss – and I liked it quite a bit.

I’ll admit, this one was better than I was expecting it to be. It wasn’t great, but it had enough going for it that I felt it deserved a four out of five.

The cast worked well together and there didn’t seem to be any out-of-place terrible actors in the bunch.  The story made sense for the most part and the tension definitely built up throughout the movie.

Where it falls apart is in its exposition. I felt like the cards were shown too early and there wasn’t much payoff from the “twist” at the very end. Like, you already know who’s holding them captive…no one does anything surprising…and it ends basically as you’d expect.

I know this is one of those iconic ’80s horror movies, but I’m admitting to you all right now that tonight was the first time I’d ever seen it.

Sure, I knew most of what it was about but I don’t think I’d ever realized that Catherine Hicks (whom I know from 7th Heaven which I totally never ever watched) and Chris Sarandon were in it. In fact, I may have been confusing Child’s Play with Problem Child because I kept expecting John Ritter to pop up on screen (he never did).

I wasn’t expecting too much out of this one so it was a pleasant surprise to find that I rather liked it. Sure, it could just be the British accents. I do love a British accent.

But really, this was a horror comedy that did pretty well on both fronts. After a few bad attempts at this genre I’m happy to have found a new one to recommend.

The music is a bit much at times and there are definitely parts that drag on, but for the most part this is a cute, clever little black comedy that I really enjoyed.

Having seen all of Degrassi: The Next Generation, I had a pretty good idea of what Kevin Smith thinks about Canada going into this. And yep, that’s essentially what this movie is about: what Kevin Smith thinks about Canada.

Sadly this was another mediocre film. At best.

But it did have Kevin Pollack and Katheryn Winnick so it had that going for it?

The music is overbearing, the pacing excruciatingly slow, and the story altogether a bit boring.

I’d skip this one unless you can’t avoid it. It’s good background noise. At best.