10-20-2003, 12:16 AM
Quote:The director certainly knows how to use the basic elements of fear to scare the living daylights out of people. From the grainy, black-and-white videotape, to the eerie, spooky disposition of the little boy, every scene of the movie glistens with a shiny gloss of scare-paint.
It was certainly better than most fright flicks they put out, but it wasn't quite enough for me. People die after looking at a waterlogged lass whose biggest problem is lack of soap and a scrub brush? Please. The "Creep Factor" was there, but it didn't plunge me over the edge.
It was fun using the pause and slow buttons on the DVD remote to closely inspect each of the "creepy" scenes, though.
Quote:But the real fear also had to do with the females in the audience at the time.
Just as a comedy becomes funnier when people laugh with you, a horror becomes more creepy when others jump and shiver with you.
Quote:... as I sit here at my computer, desperately trying not think of the twisted expressions of the victims to the gruesomeness of the tape. So, if anyone knows a good cure to the common case of insomnia, feel free to share!
Ah, I've the perfect thriller/horror to cure insomnia: rent "The Mothman Prophecies." From that point in your life onward whenever somebody repeats the phrase "Anyone want to see 'The Mothman Prophecies?'" you'll run screaming from the room, if you take my meaning.
[o: *LEMMING* :o]