The Horror Thread - Part 4

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Watched The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)...which is being hailed in Horror circles as one of the best movies of the year.

Found footage. Haunted House/Possession. I had to really fight to press play on this thing. But if there's a chance that it'll be in my top 10 for the year, I feel obligated to watch it.

It was certainly better than a lot of films in this genre, thanks to having the Alzheimer's concept and a pretty daring performance by the actress playing Deborah. Growing old is scary and watching her deteriorate was better than watching the paint dry while we wait for a ghost to drop some car keys like in most of these types of films. But I couldn't keep my interest up because it's found footage haunted house/possession...and I'm just so bored of both.

It's not bad...not near my top 10 though.

 

[Heretic]

Let me ask all you horror buffs out there - Can a vampire still be scary? How can vampires still be scary? Or has pop culture de-fanged the movie monster?

It can be...it's just a matter of whether Hollywood wants to make them scary. There is too much of a pull to make it an action movie or something that is sexy or cool (even one of my favorite films this year, Only Lovers Left Alive is guilty of basically existing to show how cool these vampires are).

If they can just say screw it and go for a Horror vibe, then it can be done.

 

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