I heard this in Ralph Fiennes's "YOU'RE an inanimate fucking object" voice from In Bruges.

No- it's not about ridicule at all.  The loud teenagers aren't mocking the movie- they're invested 100%.  The experience is more intense with a crowd.  Everything's heightened.  You feel more anxious when the heroine's walking towards the creepy attic and everyone in the room is whispering "Don't do it!"  You get a…

Yeah, they've endorsed some real clunkers.  And canonized some that were fine but not all-time greats (House of the Devil, The Orphanage).

And much more tantalizing.

@avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus But plenty of genocide is against people/groups who aren't threats.  Anne Frank wasn't a guerrilla or a political opponent- the Nazis killed her because their racist vision of the thousand year Reich demanded it.  The Russian Revolution is chock full of these kinds of…

There was a really interesting discussion of some of this stuff on the My Amityville Horror review.  I don't know anything about the Warrens but the consensus there was "opportunistic con team".

Crowds- definitely.  Horror movies are the only ones I see at the super-crowded 8pm Friday slot.  And the only time I think "This theater's full of loud teenagers- great!!"

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who wants to read The Dissolve but is really put off by the crazy formatting.  It's almost illegible.  It feels weird to be looking forward to a website redesign for once.

Especially now that they've taken the B in Apt 23 from us.  Vitamin C for Careless (sobs)!!!

"If you ever drop your keys in a river of molten lava, let 'em go, cause man, they're gone."

Watching Homeland's title sequences, you can feel how hard they're trying.  They're trying so hard,  because it's a serious show with serious things to say.  (About CIA analysts and the terrorists they fall in love with?)  It probably doesn't help that I thought Homeland went off the rails about 9 episodes in.

Yes- posted this above before reading this.  That dead crippled ghost kid's a real jerk.  Why didn't he burn the house down while his parents were still alive and living there?  Why wait 70 years and then murder some poor orphan kid who had no involvement in anything?

You're out of line, Ghost!  Hand over your badge and gun immediately!

Scary's incredibly subjective.  Either you buy it and you're along for the ride, or George C Scott shouting in an empty house pulls you out and that's it.  The set design of the house also pulled me out of it a bit- it seemed a little too much like a horror story cliche.  Come live in this creepy old deserted mansion…

@avclub-b0dae075785888267fc19871f3e7dab7:disqus They play it on TCM every now and then.

Yeah, there's really not much of a comparison between this and The Shining.  The Shining is terrifying.  This is kinda slow, creaky, and ridiculous, with an occasional creepy moment.  This always seems to show up on underrated horror lists, but it seems pretty deservedly forgotten to me.

Don't worry- we'll take good care of him.  First a couple of Emmys for Hannibal, then he can be the generically-foreign villain in a couple of Michael Bay movies, then  the generically-foreign villain in whatever violence-fest Zach Snyder has in production, then a meerkat in Madagascar 12, and maybe someday even date…

I caught this at an advance screening and really enjoyed it.  It's definitely not a MPDG movie- the film makes it clear that Cera's a controlling asshole and Hoffman's hippy-dippy self-obsession can be unbearable.  The three Chilean brothers are the audience surrogate, for the most part- sitting back and watching…

Lean- exactly.  The Limey's fantastic, and I think one of its huge strengths is how lean and direct it is.  No digressions, no extraneous b stories that develop characters or add local color, just straight from point a to point b.  Relentless.  And Stamp's great in it.  (For the record, there are plenty of meandering,…

A new Almodovar movie?  You were very good all year and ate your vegetables.