Didn't this feel like giving what the fans wanted? The ending with them all working together to fire the golden arrow made me giddy. I don't think anyone wanted Robin Hood or The Doctor to outdo each other.

Do we really need another shot of his yellow teeth? :/

I absolutely loved this episode. The Doctor was a lovable dick, there was a good villain for a change, and swashbuckling! It had such an old fashioned feel to it. The thing I noticed most was that the pacing felt right. The last Doctor's episodes drove me nuts with how spastic it could get.

That's his porno name.

Well that explains Walter White's pissy temper.

There are things the book does well, and that the movie does well. They're also very different in tone. I think you guys aren't giving the book version of Hammond much credit. In the book he's not so much reckless, but cynical and cold. The whole part about him tricking investors with a dwarfed elephant sums his…

Interesting. I like these speculations. The little girl's self destruction malfunctioned, and now the "other" psyche is in charge. The 9 card could mean so many things, but I like the idea that it could be the cutoff time. I decided to look up the number's meaning, and there are a bunch, but this one seems interesting:

So far both women and men have been victims of home invasion, and are all dispatched quickly through gunfire. As for the possessions, it's more like grotesque empowerment from beyond the grave. There was the suicide, the wife who vanishes, and the murderous little girl. It's too early to tell if only men are…

What this show has that a lot of shows do not, is tone. It was far from a perfect pilot, but the tone was solid. I felt mostly dread and unease throughout the episode. The only things that bugged me were some cheesy, cryptic dialogue, but a lot of shows have that and completely fail on the tone. As for the mystery,…

I'm on board for the slow building tension and bursts of sudden violence. This show might be holding back the mystery for later, but it sure as hell isn't holding back the punches. Some of the dialogue was clunky, but hot damn were the [possessed?] people creepy.

You forget Dick Dale, the king of surf rock, now at the age of 77, and still touring. I saw him this year, and was floored at how hard he still plays.

I just want to say thanks to all for discussing and arguing this movie with me. I love critiquing and hearing other peoples opinions. I may not agree with everything that was discussed, but I do respect these well thought out views and arguments.

I wouldn't go so far as compare it to The Yellow Wallpaper. There is a huge gap in quality between those two. And yes, The Yellow Wallpaper is one of the earliest feminist horror stories, but much of its power comes from the telling and POV. The horror comes from a sexist society reducing a woman to madness. It also…

There's a lot of dreck in the genre, much like all genres do, but there are plenty of well crafted horror films out there too.

I think a lot of the issue is from directors and writers forgetting to remove the chafe from the wheat. A lot of directors and writers will go on about their love of slasher and exploitation movies, and embrace all of it. I do think a lot of horror flicks have moments of brilliance and art tucked-in, but the gross…

But isn't that a very cynical attitude? To just portray just about everyone in a negative light? I'm not foolish enough to not see that there are very awful people in the world, but it bugs me when the motivation was so slight. There are many factors that go into what constitutes a human being. I can understand…

I disagree. They could have portrayed the characters as loathsome without showing any nudity at all. They could have drawn the camera away from anything sexual and implied what was about to happen. Instead we got a lot of gratuitous nudity. And it doesn't help that it was all male directors. You'd think you'd want to…

Thanks for responding. I agree with much of what you have stated. It did bother me that they used sexual exploitation to make the male characters worthy of punishment. It's an old trope that goes back to exploitation movies that used rape in much the same way. It makes me cringe, not because it's showing me that men…

I really don't get the love for VHS. I thought the whole thing had a lot of potential, but was ruined by some lazy writing and sexism. And for something that was about critiquing the male gaze, it felt more like an embrace thereof. It also bothered me that to have such a conceit they didn't even bother to have a woman…

Or get the goodies from the survival guide quest first. I felt very little sadness after murdering them all. And besides, Tenpenny is the tops!