I was just thinking about tha - I want to call the genre Personal Space Invasion - so it can be anything from home invasion to abduction, those films really hit me on a gutteral level.

I found the film to be effective whenever it steered clear from CGI. Del Toro knows how to make beautiful scenery seem menacing and evil, and he just turned that up to 11 here, which I loved. He doesn't use violence often, but when he does, he makes it matter - he effectively shows the consequence of violence. Crimson…

To be fair, I think the film makes the comment on itself early, basically stating it isn't a horror film, but a gothic romance.

I don't remember being that impressed with it either.

I really do enjoy the score - it fit the film. And watching the film a second time, I can see why others really don't care for it. I have become less enamored with it, for sure, but I still find it to be watchable. If someone who's never seen it finds it on Netflix some time, it'd be worth a watch.

Thanks for the point on Goodnight Mommy. That film was beautiful in parts, but was so obvious, so ridiculously plotted, that I couldn't take it seriously. Is it a piece of shit? No, absolutely not. It's worse than that - it's boring.

DON'T INFLICT YOUR CURSE ON ME, TED! I DIDN'T MAKE THE RULES!

Yeah, but that tang…

Guess.

I made a weak argument earlier in the comments page, but alas, I must agree that Insidious is the better film.

Woah woah woah. Back to the Future up. You thought the others were shitty? I'll say the first one was merely good, and that Safe Haven was the best of the 4 shorts, but A Ride in the Park and Slumber Party Alien Abduction were so much fun.

Really? I find that film to be extremely overrated. My sister was pushing me to watch it for so long - and to quiet her squeals I agreed. Maybe it's my comedic preferences that prevented me from enjoying it, but I didn't appreciate it at all. It spent most of the time in the film going "I get it. I get it. I get it.…

The 1994 film "Clifford".

Yeah - gotta admit - this list does not bode well for my intellectual enjoyment of Horrors Week here at the AV Club.

I have been debating on watching it - I have no idea what it's about; I just keep hearing about it.

Apologies - I didn't mean to imply that Paranormal Activity really created the genre (even if we exclude earlier films like Cannibal Holocaust). I meant to say that between Blair Witch and PA1, there really weren't any notable (read: quality) found footage horror films, and it was because of the effectiveness, and…

It's a great found footage film that treats Alzheimer's like it's demonic possession. It's a lot more intelligent and heart-felt than I was expecting.

See - from my understanding, it wasn't jumping on any trend, it jumpstarted the found footage horror movies for the late 2000s until present. We can argue about whether that's a good or bad thing (I think good in most cases), but it didn't feel like a cash-in.

I got that vibe from the article as well - I mentioned "Paranormal Activity" earlier, which sadly received no mention.

I probably wouldn't argue too much for The Conjuring, either, now that you mention it. It did have a pretty meh ending as well - including a run-of-the-mill exorcism. I suppose it's the relationship between Farmiga and Wilson's characters that really impressed me. They make a great team.