Exactly, more movies should shift genre like in your suggestion. It's bizarre how conventional most of them are, given the endless possibilities. It's one of the reasons I really enjoyed This Is the End.

I thought Kill List was absolutely fantastic, and I agree that it helps to know as little as possible about it before you see it. I have seen few films with such a gradually developing air of sinister possibility, and the climax was both shocking and apt.

They made the same mistake when adapting Hating Alison Ashley - a
beloved Australian children's book - for the screen. The characters in
the book are pre-teens but in the movie the actors are pushing 20. The
book was too well-known to allow the filmmakers to change the story much
but the casting makes all the youthful…

100% agreed. FWIW, Pauline Kael also said as much in her review of Dune.

It's a very well made B-movie. Definitely worth watching.

Strangely, no mention of Angela Lansbury's outstanding, Oscar-nominated performance.

Sounds like Zombie Honeymoon. Endless shots of the female lead aimlessly wandering around the beach in her bikini. Rock bottom was a lengthy profile shot of her driving home. No cuts, just her listening to a song and pouting for what felt like hours. Great concept, ahead of its time even, but the worst directed movie…