It actually held off the countdown on its own during the song on my tv.

I'm not much of a horror fan, and they rarely were scary to me even when I was younger, but I'll fully admit that there are incredibly rare effective films that do get to me. Not I'm going to have nightmares after scary, but in the moment from time to time. Only unnerving films though, not jump/slash/gore movies.

Has he actually talked about doing a sequel?

I haven't seen The Sacrement yet, but West is usually a cut above the rest in the genre. Then again if you're looking for movies with a "point" he might not be your go to guy as his movies can try the patience of audiences. He's definitely love it or hate it.

Seriously, it's a shame Ti West's only mention in this article is about his cameo in a different film.

Amen. Tis a shame that about 50 times as many people watched The Conjuring.

Talented people aren't always A-listers, and certainly vis versa. It is possible to make short runtime films that have effective character development. The real issue is that the audience for most studio horror films is the lowest common denominator, the type of audience that filmmakers insist need exposition and…

the Jaws principle

Did it really get flack for that? It's an exorcism movie that treats possession as real, how the hell else would the movie work? Only a movie about a skeptic disproving possession could take on a similar genre and not have such undertones.

I don't think anyone is looking to James Wan as their purveyor of truth anyway.

It was a very effectively done rehash of the greatest hits of the genre it was playing in, which is why they included it here, it's the competent mainstream example here, but yeah I don't see why anyone that's actually seen the types of films it mined would be impressed.

You can make a trope-based movie and still push it in a subtler/more unsettling way. Ti West's movies mostly take on horror tropes but feel like something else until everything escalates. House of the Devil feels like a forgotten brat pack movie to begin with until it starts getting weirder and weirder and all of a…

Really? He's slightly more filled out than he was as a skinny Brat Pack member but he looks largely unchanged.

Agreed, I was hesitant to use Evans as my example if only for his Steve Rogers.

Hopefully it'll be more like Tron 3: Actually Featuring Tron again.

It was a rather filmsy writing job, I mean as hard as it is to come up with pathos against this back drop, the kid's story of losing his father like he did could have at least been mined better than it was.

It wasn't like Kosinski forced them to work with Trapaneze, they were inspired by leitmotif orchestral film composers like Max Steiner (shudder), and needed him to fill out their skill set.

Don't blame Hedlund, though he didn't have to take the part. He can be a pretty great actor given the right material, see the movie version of Friday Night Lights. Though he probably suffers from the Chris Evans syndrome of having skills better suited to being a character actor and the looks that Hollywood wants to…

She was fine in Her, but honestly? She's in one sequence. I did like her on House though. Bruce Boxleitner brought some heart to the live action world of Legacy, unfortunately they sidelined him in the rest of the movie, despite being the title character.

And just like the previously thrown out expanded canon, 99.5% of the film audience won't care about or acknowledge the exist of any of the rest of this stuff.