I've never been a fan, as
a rule of horror movies, however, the trailer drew me to this one and i'm glad it did, the awful acting we usually get in horror movies wasn't there this time round, in fact, the whole cast were excellent, the special effects were really very good and the humorous, intelligent dialogue (another thing you don't usually get in horrors) was brilliant, loved the film, Chris Hemsworth, although with less to do in this than he does in Thor, was great in it too.
Not exact matches
Although, since I can only have 3 favorite
horror films (that's the official
rule from The Association
of What
Movies You Think Are Scary [AWMYTAS]-RRB-, it may get booted off by Tuesday when I go see
The Blair Witch Project.
This is daring and
rule - bending filmmaking at a minimalist scale, a personal, contemplative
horror movie, stripped
of observable fright but full
of unease.
In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love
horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure
of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the
rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion
of past classics.
As keeping with
horror remake month and the
rules set out by the Insomniac
Movie Theater blog that all
movies must be on Netflix Instant, late - night television, or from my personal collection, I got to rewatch one
of the all - time great
horror movies on a technicality.
The pacing, the decor, the LPs on the endlessly running old turntable (cliché alert), and especially the spooky nature
of the home invasion, all belong to an era when Stephen King and Brian De Palma
ruled and
movies such as Carrie, The Omen, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Jaws defined the
horror genre.
Here is a list
of the
horror movie «
rules»: Don't just stand there, never say «I'll be right back», never say «Who's there?»
Nicolas Roeg's The Witches, released just as Disney's renaissance restored the old
rules, was the last and darkest
of this bunch — the best and perhaps the only
horror movie made for children.
Summary Capsule: Someone has taken their love
of horror movies too far and is offing the teens
of a small town in accordance with «
horror movie rules».
In each Scream,
horror film buff Randy (Jamie Kennedy, Enemy
of the State) appears to tell the
rules of the
movie.
It benefits from new blood in the genre, thinking outside normal tropes, but adhering to the basic
rules of a good
horror movie.