Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Raiderman (A) on April 06, 2015 at 12:16:09

In Reply to: RE: 'It Follows': 2/Lynch+4/Nostalgia+4/Blair Witch posted by Billy Wonka on March 27, 2015 at 14:52:58

I think it was a decent horror movie actually.
The idea was decent, and the acting was fine.
The special effects while sparse, were okay.

Part of the problem is that the people in the movie were not complete idiots, like they are in most horror movies.
(I kind of think that is why we like horror movies; so we, as the audience, can point out the stupid things that the victims do. In this movie, that was a bit harder to do, as what they did was not completely idiotic.)

The real problem was that there were just not enough scares in the movie. They only had two deaths, one of which was in the first few minutes, (and you did not even see the girl getting killed, just the aftermath).

The idea that the entity could be anybody was a good one, (which they did not take too much advantage of, IMHO).
(The fact that it could be naked people was neither good, nor bad, it just was.)

I don't think it was a great horror movie, but I enjoyed it, as did my daughter.
(And apparently 95% of the critics did too.
But then again, what do most critics know about good horror movies?!)

My two cents worth.