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  No Tell Motel 2012

  ½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  This is a set-piece movie. It's a term I made up. It's where the filmmakers clearly had a pretty good set - in this case, a dilapidated, creepy motel - and decided to revolve the entire plot around it. No shame in that game, there's atmosphere and built-in dread to that particular locale. But maybe we want to create a plot that's creepy or ominous? Perhaps inhibited by characters that evoke sympathy or fear? No? Just gonna have a handful…

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  Graduation Day 1981

  ★★★ Watched 13 Mar 2025

  This movie came out right smack dab at the beginning of slasher's Golden Age and it is not one of the most well known ones, mainly because the kills aren't that fresh not is any of it very scary. But it does have a "fresh off the truck" Vanna White in a small role, some recognizable 80's character actors and some bonkers editing and needle drops. My favorite scene was the roller disco because many of the people on the…

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  Blood in the Water 2022

  ½ Watched 02 Nov 2022

  Have you ever watched "Saw" and thought "What if they removed all of the traps plus also the suspense and tension and instead had 4 people give poorly written drama class monologues chained to a pool?" No? Yeah, no one has except the maker of this bullshit.

  $1000 to anyone who can explain this convoluted plot to me or convince me that any of it was surprising or scary. We spent a good portion just guessing the real nationality of…

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  Robert 2015

  ½ Watched 13 Jan 2022

  For a haunted doll, Robert is not that riveting. Yes, he terrorizes the most dour English couple in all of England and yes he gets pretty stabby but all in all, where’s the Annabelle pizazz? Where’s the Chucky personality, Robert?  Listen, if the most frightening thing in the world to you is a husband who has the look of someone that has an entire folder of hentai tentacle porn hidden on his laptop and his loud, neurotic wife having looong,…

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