Lately, I've been trying to scare myself. I'm now reading Dracula and I'm almost a quarter in and a bit bored with it. I imagine it will pick up soon while I have visions of Keanu Reeves, Wynona Ryder and Gary Oldman running in my head. Otherwise, I have watched three flicks in search of some chills and thrills.
On Netflix instant I watched Heartless and The Stand.
Finally, at the multiplex, I went to see Insidious from the same filmmaker who made the original Saw. It's the story of a young family who move into an old house. When one of their sons falls into an unexplainable coma, they start experiencing strange phenomena leading them to believe the house is haunted. When they move to a new house and experience more of the same, they realize it's their comatose son who's haunted. This is where the originality of Insidious ends and the remake of Poltergeist begins complete with a ghost hunting team and a petite older white lady who can channel the dead and figure out what they "want." [However, I will say it was a little freaky watching the old lady channeling spirits through an old school gas mask. That didn't happen in Poltergeist.] So while the film served up real thrills and chills with well-placed images of ghosts and demons, about half way through, I could no longer buy into the back story of why the boy was haunted or how to save him and so I stopped caring that much about what happened next. The movie has gotten a lot of good reviews, but I think that's only because it's different from the torture porn that has become the mainstay of horror films--ironically because of Saw. But if you are older than 30, you've seen at least half this movie before. I would suggest skipping this at the multiplex and waiting for it to arrive for rent.
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