This 2014 horror movie (now on Netflix) has a few magic tricks performed in it, one of which happens to be crucial in turning the plot around (not a spoiler).
More significantly, however, this movie scared me badly. And it will scare you, too. You've been warned.
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I found it very good on the first viewing, but it didn't hold up well on the second go round. An incredibly brave performance by the lead actress.
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Shouldn't horror movies only be judged on the first viewing because subsequent viewings lose the suspense aspect?
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Nope. Some horror movies hold up really well to repeated viewings. Reanimator and From Beyond, Dusk Till Dawn, Lost Boys, Alien,The Thing Either version, Invasion of the Body Snatchers original. Many others. If all you are doing is counting scares the movie is wasted.
Kinda like watching a magic routine just for the sleights.
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Kinda like watching a magic routine just for the sleights.
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Magic routines (like movies) rely on the assumption that the spectator/viewer has not yet seen what is being presented to them. No one creates a movie or magic trick thinking about 2nd viewings. It is the first viewing that matters.
"Alien" is good on repeated viewings precisely because you appreciate all the great things it did to make you love it the first time you saw it - when you didn't know what was going to happen. Different experiences entirely.
There's a reason for the saying, "Never repeat a trick."
"Alien" is good on repeated viewings precisely because you appreciate all the great things it did to make you love it the first time you saw it - when you didn't know what was going to happen. Different experiences entirely.
There's a reason for the saying, "Never repeat a trick."
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You can't make overgeneralized statements covering all types of anything, including horror films.
Some stand up to repeated viewings, others do not.
Some people find The Exorcist (for example) frightening, while others laugh. Personally, I find it one of the most terrifying films ever made.
Everyone's opinion will differ on the first viewing, and ditto for the subsequent viewings.
Some stand up to repeated viewings, others do not.
Some people find The Exorcist (for example) frightening, while others laugh. Personally, I find it one of the most terrifying films ever made.
Everyone's opinion will differ on the first viewing, and ditto for the subsequent viewings.
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The Babadook looks like Jerry Sadowitz.
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Like many I could probably spend forever listing films that make want to say “Next!” And there would be more than several horror films on the list. Including “The Exorcist”.
I could also list more than several that had me yelling for me Mam and Dad first time around, but second and subsequent viewings make me think, “Why?” Age makes a difference, of course, probably as much as familiarity.
The film that shook me to my socks on first viewing was “The Haunting” from 1963. Black and white and dated, most people I know think it’s slow and boring and dull and so what. But for me it retains its power.
I could also list more than several that had me yelling for me Mam and Dad first time around, but second and subsequent viewings make me think, “Why?” Age makes a difference, of course, probably as much as familiarity.
The film that shook me to my socks on first viewing was “The Haunting” from 1963. Black and white and dated, most people I know think it’s slow and boring and dull and so what. But for me it retains its power.
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Richard Kaufman wrote:Everyone's opinion will differ on the first viewing, and ditto for the subsequent viewings.
That is true, but I am also saying movies are like magic routines in that it is the first viewing that ultimately counts in terms of the creator's intentions and expectations.
I will definitely say this: Babadook is the scariest movie ever...to have a Dove Pan in it.
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The film that scared the bejeebers out of me was George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead.
I was a member of a youth club during my formative years and occasionally they would screen movies on a projector.
For whatever reason they screened this one evening and, of course, yours truly had to pass the local graveyard on the way home. I never did recover from the experience.
I have the DVD in my collection although I have never had the balls to watch it.
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I was a member of a youth club during my formative years and occasionally they would screen movies on a projector.
For whatever reason they screened this one evening and, of course, yours truly had to pass the local graveyard on the way home. I never did recover from the experience.
I have the DVD in my collection although I have never had the balls to watch it.
Do you like scary movies?
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Robert Wise's film The Haunting is a classic and still considered so.
Ditto for Romero's original Night of the Living Dead, which I find more terrifying.
Of course I like scary movies! Why else would one watch them?
Andrew, we're going to have a special showing of Night of the Living Dead at the Genii Convention just for your ... in your hotel room, late at night, with the lights out.
Ditto for Romero's original Night of the Living Dead, which I find more terrifying.
Of course I like scary movies! Why else would one watch them?
Andrew, we're going to have a special showing of Night of the Living Dead at the Genii Convention just for your ... in your hotel room, late at night, with the lights out.
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I enjoy watching horror movies, although the truly great ones are few and far between.
For me the most terrifying film I ever saw as a child was not precisely a horror film, it was the original version of The Andromeda Strain. My parents took me and my brother to see it when I was about 9 years old. Over the years I have probably watched it 20 times, and still find it scary. It's a pity the new version is so poor, it lost the very thing that made the original so great ... the feeling of isolation.
For me the most terrifying film I ever saw as a child was not precisely a horror film, it was the original version of The Andromeda Strain. My parents took me and my brother to see it when I was about 9 years old. Over the years I have probably watched it 20 times, and still find it scary. It's a pity the new version is so poor, it lost the very thing that made the original so great ... the feeling of isolation.
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As it happens Mrs AJM and I were planning to get tickets for Universal's Halloween Horror Night while we're in the vicinity.
Don't think I could handle a private screening of NOTLD too...
Don't think I could handle a private screening of NOTLD too...