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Showed it to my Dad for the first time. He was quiet for most of it… and then the last 20 minutes scared the crap out of him (he enjoyed it the whole way through, but you can’t beat the last 20 minutes).
So yeah… still the scariest found footage movie ever made.
It’s on Tubi for the next 4 days. Watch it.
This was my introduction to Salem’s Lot and… I can’t lie and say it wasn’t at least entertaining and very well cast. But man… WB really took the hatchet to this film in the two years since it was finished and just stripped it of practically everything except plot.
Frankly, Luke Ciarrocchi deserves credit for somehow keeping this film both comprehensible and remarkably well paced despite how incomplete the story clearly is.
Hope one day we’ll get a Director’s Cut…
Had a few days to think more on this. Bed rest too coz of either hay fever or a cold that I’m working through.
The inevitable conclusion of this film hits hard in general coz of how well-crafted and engrossing the doomed relationship at the heart of it all is.
But it hits harder if you’ve experienced those doomed friendships yourself.
You don’t need to be two mining Transformers united and ultimately separated by their shared desire for self-actualization.
You…
While it inevitably becomes more cinematic by way of being a sequel and it suffers from from the introduction of certain characters who only seem there to introduce new stylistic elements, REC 2 is a vastly underrated sequel if you ask me.
If you’re gonna make a sequel to the peak of found footage horror, this is how you do it.
It naturally expands on the original in unique ways without pushing anything overboard, and its refreshing new perspective allows…
