My expectations weren't high on this one, since we've been buying some bad cheap movies lately - but I shouldn't have doubted Stephen King's ability to deliver!

Amazon summarizes the plot with simply "a mysterious mist, thick with blood-thirsty creatures, descends on a small town, where a group of people holes up in a grocery store to fight for their lives", and I'm not gonna go more into it than that either, cause that would spoil the surprise.

There was a few times, especially during the first half, where the dialogue was a bit slow and you figured "right, it's that kind of movie, doesn't seem too interesting". However, I'm glad we didn't give up on it, because there was always a new turn with new horrors to be brought.

If you've read my reviews you know I love nothing better than an excellent ending, happy or heart-breaking, as long as it's surprising. Even if you've read the Stephen King novella, this movie adaptation ends dramatically different, so it would be worth watching it just for that. Click the picture to find the DVD on Amazon.com or click here (The Mist) for the novella on paperback.

Rewatched the first of the Final Destination movies yesterday.

Even if the theory the storyline rests on is a bit cheesy, it still makes for quite an original horror if you ignore asking too many questions. Basically, an american school class are bording a plane to go on a school trip when one of the students have a very realistic vision. He experiences a massive air accident, and is then brought back to the present and manages to get off the plane before it takes off, taking a few people with him. All the passengers who stayed on the plane are killed in the accident, and the survivors are in shock. But then, the survivors start dying in strange accidents of their own...

The theory the teens come up with about "cheating death's plan" is kind of annoying, I find it hard to buy into it. Apart from that, there's some pretty cool gruesome death scenes, which is basically what makes this any good. There are three more movies sequelling this, with different people reliving similar events. Out of them, I think the second movie had the best deaths. So if you're into all that, this is right for you.

Saw some movies on sale that I've bought as well, so we're soon gonna be watching The Mist, Chapter 27 and Death of a President.

If there is ever a movie you'll regret you ever started watching...
it's this one. In fact, The Human Centipede is not much like any other "normal" horror movie. With no soundtrack at all, just the cries and screams, this is nothing but someone's sick, sick fantasy.

According to Wikipedia, the creator of this movie didn't even tell the financiers about certain aspects of the plot until it was finished. He probably didn't think they'd give him the money if he did, so that tells you a bit about what we're dealing with. To be honest, I don't even want to talk about the plot. Why don't you read Wiki, it's all covered there lol.

This movie is not yet available on DVD, but you can sign up to be notified when it's released on amazon.com.

Also worth a read is the article British newspaper The Sun wrote about the movie, entitled "Is this sickest film ever made?"

Yeah... after this, I think we're done with horror movies for a while. With The Haunting in Conneticut, it's as if no one ever realised that adding more and more slamming doors at one point goes past scary and into plain ridiculous.

At the start, I thought it seemed to be a pretty good movie. Classic story, family has a son with cancer and since they need to live closer to the hospital, they rent a cheap house which turns out to have a history as a morgue. I love those little moments when the unknowing victims wander around the house and you catch a glimpse of someone moving in the background, or a dead face in a mirror, and you jump in fright and think "phew, that was a good scary one". There was plenty of those, straight to the point, getting started with the freaky images long before the inhabitants realise what's going on.

But soon, the tempo had to pick up. And that's when it got really bad. When you start off too early you just have to go worse and worse until I, as a viewer, didn't even care. Less is more, people! When you have no sense of reality left, why would you care about the story anymore?

By two thirds of the movie Allen had officially placed this in his "at least top 5 Worst Movies Ever". Not good. We were mostly bored waiting for it to end, if we hadn't paid good money to rent it we might not even have watched it all. Weak ending. Kind of bad acting, most of all from the mother. So yeah... not my favourite.

More horror, yay!

The Ring is a proper horror classic, and not many good movies like that get sequels that are actually well thought through, entertaining, make sense and even add to the story of the original in a natural way.

The Ring Two is a better sequel than most. I feel closer to the story with this than with the first movie, to be honest. When you're too occupied being confused with all the weird plot, there's not a lot of time left to be scared. In this second movie, we already know what the background is and can focus on what's important.

Aidan becoming "possessed" might seem a bit Exorcist-rip off at first, but it turns out very good and creepy. There's nothing more evil than when it infests the one you love, right? The mother soon gets declared crazy for her behaviour towards her son, which is excellent, very realistic and makes it more scary. Anything that brings you back to reality a little bit is a good thing for a story like this, where the plot could otherwise spiral away so far into unbelieveable that all credibility is lost.

Definitely worth a watch for anyone who ever enjoyed a horror.

 Sunday night we watched The Others. I've only been watching horrors for the past couple of years really, so I'm catching up on a lot of old movies.

I liked this one cause it's a lot like a ghost story you'd tell around a camp fire, but without the cheesiness and the bad ending. Many horrors just go too far, throw in some dead bodies and plenty of pouring blood and maggots and gore and you've got it good and scary... I say nah. This movie has no blood, nothing visually revolting and still made it good.

Instead, it's a pretty beautiful visual experience, great story with a perfect twist, and I loved the performance by Nicole Kidman and Fionnula Flanagan who made it very believeable. This one is great for the slightly squeamish type who feels sick from blood but still wants a good scare. Chick-flick horror, I guess. :)