No, clowns are just creepy. Its the uncanny valley effect. The perpetual smiles makes it harder to trust them, since we rely on facial cues to tell what a person’s moods and intentions are. Something with static facial features is always going to unnerve most people. Whether it’s the Michael Myer’s mask, or the…

Gambon was good, but the scripts never did him any justice. Goblet of Fire failed on all accounts, and did Dumbledoor the most disservice. I find it kind of frustrating that Gambon wasn’t given a good script for his part that felt genuinely Dumbledoor till The Half Blood Prince, where he got that perfect mix of…

Gambon was good, but the scripts never did him any justice. Goblet of Fire failed on all accounts, and did Dumbledoor the most disservice. I find it kind of frustrating that Gambon wasn’t given a good script for his part that felt genuinely Dumbledoor till The Half Blood Prince, where he got that perfect mix of…

There are rules to good cinema; If you’re going to do something big, set it up early, or in act two at the very least if it’s a surprise that’s going to pop up in the climax. So what people are saying is that it should have shown some sentience somewhere along the lines, rather than having it be the punchline of the…

No, everyine was just really bored and decided to watch the IT trailer that many times on a lark. : /

I’m getting a little bored with Hollywood and other media using lesbians as the “Safe” LGBT option. It’s the most palatable orientation to try and win over straight guys with, and it feels less and less progressive and more cynical every time this is the option they go to instead of a gay/bisexual man, a transgender…

No, I mean literaly impossible. Parental complainst rose up constantly about what the actors would have been required to do using Fukunaga’s script. If you can’t get the parents of your leads to cooperate on the script, you’re kinda fucked. It’s why Fukunaga ultimately left the project, save as a writing credit for…

The Last House on the Left was a pretty bleak and chilling movie.

If they’re clever, we won’t see much of it, ala The Mist.

Eeeehn. Sinister 2 says hi, sheepishly behind its terrible reviews. If a script is bad enough, child endangerment won’t save it.

It’s debatable. This version has the same creepy/cute appeal of a Good Guy doll. The rounded cheeks, and the buck teeth can be viewed as child-like. We have to see what he’s actually like when he actually talks to Georgie.

There’s no way his ideas would have been useable.

Sounds more like self fulfiling prophesy rather than a fair opinion. What would have elevated this to your standards?

Uh, what? No, they’re not, in any way. They share a few scenes because those scenes are in the book. Its kinda hard not to draw some compairsons. But the scenes that are shared are handled very differently.

Not to mention it’s a big ol menstruation metaphor.

“SHIT AND SHINOLA!”

I’m not done with the book yet, but I get the impression the hands sticking out of the meat locker is new, and that may be the replacement for The Bird.

Thats your own problem that you’re just going to have to live with.

Nobody sane likes clowns in the first place.

Having read The Shining, the book doesn’t hold up as movie material. Kubrick tossed King’s script out because well, you can see why with the adaptation, which was more or less an expanded version of the script King wanted Kubrick to use.