It pains my heart to give this a low score as I had been eagerly anticipating watching it for quite some time. It has a lot going for it on the technical side of things--the settings are exceptional (aeration plant, Water Therapy Clinic, pools), the coloring, music, and costuming all add to the strange mysterious aesthetic, the camera work is engaging. But while the film "looks the part" it falters completely from its lack of substance. The writing and plot…
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The House at the End of Time 2013
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Look at my face. Listen carefully to my voice.
Haunted houses where the family is haunting themselves across time is one of my favorite concepts, and I wish for once that a film would do the premise justice. This was certainly an attempt, but I just couldn't enjoy it. Aside from a slow moving and bland plot, poorly written characters, a sluggish pace, and lackluster acting performances, this was also extremely ugly to look at. The lighting, coloring, camera work,…
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The Dead Thing 2024
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Absolutely abysmal. Plot, writing, characters, score, soundtrack, color grading were all trash.
How do you make ghost fucking this boring? How do you make toxic abuse so shallow? Do we really need a ghastly aggressive incel ghost? Do we?
No merit whatsoever. The score was intrusive. The color grading was that trendy gaudy "artistic" bullshit that just looks unpolished and god awful. The soundtrack choices were dull. There's no horror, no romance, no eroticism. Just a boring, monotonous slog.
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Taste of Fear 1961
This surprised me in the sense that it was much more enjoyable than I anticipated and even once I thought I had it figured out, it still managed to surprise me with further twists and reveals.
I would say this is more of a thriller-mystery than horror. There is very little to put this in the horror genre other than the (very well preserved) corpse of the protagonist's father. The acting and sound/score was mediocre-to-decent, but the cinematography and lighting…
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