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Did a bit of a horror movie marathon today! Here's what I thought.

The Innkeepers

Really good! If you like ghosty movies and don't mind jump scares, I really recommend it. I actually came to really like the two main characters, which is unusual for me in a horror movie.

Don't Go In The Woods

I, uh, um, well. It's supposed to be a 'horror musical'. What it is is a typical teen slasher movie, except the victims are musicians, and they spend half the movie singing songs that are completely unrelated to the 'plot' or situation in general. Also, there's a twist at the end, but it's one that got old in this genre aaaages ago; I managed to guess it from the beginning, and you know if I get it it's pretty obvious.

Haunted Changi

This one is pretty good. For a bit I wasn't sure if it was just a sort of copycat of Grave Encounters, but it seems to be more like they're both in a reeeally specific sub-sub-genre. Genre: horror, sub-genre: paranormal investigations, sub-sub-genre: really big reality-bending malicious buildings. It didn't spook me often, but then again, neither did Grave Encounters, and I loved them both, although this one has a slightly different taste to it. And no, there's none of that...um...what's at the end of Grave Encounters (don't want to spoil anyone; it's a good movie) and in fact it doesn't play up the hospital theme at all, which makes sense since they're concentrating on the mass murder/genocide history of the location.


The Loner (in Korean, with really terrible subtitles)

Okay, I have to admit I only read like half the subtitles, so I was pretty much perpetually confused here. But the subtitles themselves are badly-written, with a lot of awkward and unclear translations, leaving out a lot of punctuation (and it seems sometimes leaving out a lot of words) and there are a lot of spelling errors/typos. Also, from what I do understand, it portrays otaku (or the Korean equivalent) in a really negative and stereotypical light. Also, the movie would probably be pretty triggering on the suicide/self-harm/mental illness end

For your entertainment, selections from my narration of this movie to beasts_and_men: ( cut for length and mentions of SUICIDE and SELF-HARM (somewhat explicit) and MENTAL ILLNESS )



So yeah, that's what I watched today. BTW, any recommendations? I'm running low on good, recent horror movies to see. I heard Megan is Missing has been really creeping people out, but...it's like...a crime-based horror right? That tends to bore me, unless it's got a really attractive killer, like the Hannibal movies. I prefer supernatural horror. I might end up digging through these Paranormal Activity copycats that are floating around, to see if there's any that are moderately good...