Monday, July 13, 2009

Masters of Horror season 1

Many horror television shows in the past have missed being actually scary. Some went for gore, some suspense, but too often it was just a twist in the plot hoping to be scare the audience. Masters of Horror managed to have made a few genuinely terrifying episodes. Some are just macabre stories that leave the viewer with a question, but a few were scary in the best kind of way.
The season finale, Imprint, was hard to watch and also morbidly fascinating. The story focuses on a Japanese prostitute with a horrible secret. truly a horrible thing to watch.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Drag me to Hell

Another failure. I'm almost sure the movie was intended as a comedy. Every cheap scare was attempted which only added to an overall seizure like quality to the film. I love in older movies when the camera would swing to something frightening and screeching violins would sound to let the audience know this was the climax. Drag me to Hell took a less traveled road and attempted that maneuver every 5 minutes or so.
This movie came complete with a toothless old woman gumming a young woman's face, animal sacrifice and a talking goat. Horrible.

"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"

Horrible. I expected gore, adventure and Jane Austin-style drama. What I read was boring, verbose and aggravatingly slow. The book really should have focused more on zombies eating the whiny main characters.