The Thrill is Gone
There’s mother standing in a nursery. Before her is a creepy ass doll with the intention to do bad to the resting baby who apparently sleeps through anything. Three words: Spaghetti Western Standoff. All I needed was a soundtrack from Ennio Morricone and a fight to death…ah, perfection. My kind of scary movie, a spaghetti western horror with a Black Mamba and Victorian doll too big to fit on that hutch so why are you putting it there?
I didn’t get that fantasy moment but what i did receive were some true instances where I felt actual shingles up my spine. I didn’t jump, well only once and that’s because I looked away and back again to a moment when some bad stuff happened to two very innocent people.
Before her is a creepy ass doll with the intention to do bad to the resting baby who apparently sleeps through anything. Three words: Spaghetti Western Standoff. JWGThey use the doll stare as a device to really freak you out. I must admit it’s somewhat uncomfortable and only made scarier with the silent whispers heard from the surrounding speakers inside the auditorium.
Now scary movies aren’t really films I enjoy and i often do not expect them to really terrify me as did some of those older films when I was a child. Nightmare on Elm Street and Hellraiser freaked me the fuck out and my father used to play a VHS of The Fly to get my brother and I out of the house. Maybe if I were of adolescence when I watched this movie it would indeed make me eek in sheer terror and leave my nightlight on for bedtime. However, I’m an old dog and these new tricks of fright bring very little to the horror genre. Annabelle has its appeal, The Conjuring, and it is a fair… thriller. Do not mistake this as a horror.
The past twenty years of horror movies lack two ingredients: fright and terror. Scary is just the benign terminology used to describe horror movies these days and thusly the greater population of young adults are being completely misled as to what is a horror movie. My advice: stick to the classics kids. Learn to appreciate this genre watching the films which upon the now building blocks have began to crumble
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