The Innkeepers

What a promising poster!...

Claire and Luke work as innkeepers (hence the title!...), which is open for its last week end. Knowing this inn haunted, the two young people tried to find the ghost of one Madeline O'Malley... without success. Until the day where, during an EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) session, Claire starts to hear things in her headphones, whereas everything is perfectly quiet when she removes them! It is then that an deeper amateur investigation starts, with an uncertain issue...

--> I don't really know what to say about this movie, except that it is pretty slow but a certain humor and a sensation of "normality" emanate. The ghosts aren't really scary, their "cheap" side is even a bit funny, some scenes are tense but nothing really terrifying. The actors are however not bad, young but not "young American" (with the guy full of muscles and the girl very... "remade"), pretty funny without being extravagant. A good movie to watch between friends without having to follow it all!

I give to The Innkeepers a 6/10 and class it in the "... or not" and "Movie between friends" categories!

Absentia

How to make an ultra low budget movie more scary than a blockbuster.

Tricia and Callie are two sister meeting again after several years of separation. Tricia's husband being missing for seven years, it's time to end the endless researches and declare him dead. It's however when this decision is taken that she starts to see terrifying apparitions of her missing husband, her psychologist qualifiying those "lucid dreams". At the same time, Callie has a strange encounter in a tunnel she jogs in everyday...

--> This movie is a pretty good surprise. We can clearly percieve the "low budget" side but which stays secondary thanks to the actresses and the special effects. Actresses who aren't known by the general public, nor models, which makes the movie really realistic. The special effects are principally blurry, contrarily to all the other American movies where the tense atmosphere is carried by what is seen and not what we believe that we saw.

The only negative point in this movie is the audio. A single theme coming back incessantly buzzing at your ears, with a lot of bass occulting most of the dialogs at this moment. It's a pity, especially that it translates pretty well the "routine" of a normal life. But the sound is too high.

I give a 7/10 to Absentia, and class it in the tense good surprises!

It's open!

Hello everyone!

Welcome on this blog, where i review some of the horror movies that i watch.
I'd like to specify that the movies that i review are the reflection of my own taste in horror movies, also you won't find any zombies, horny teenagers and serial killers or giant crocodiles/flies. What i prefer are ghosts and unexplained/unexplainable phenomenons, movies that would make you look behind your shoulder to check if you are alone in your room and turn the light on to be sure that the shadow you saw was just a part of your imagination.

A previous version of this blog existed in French (because yes, i'm French, and that would explain the grammar mistakes incomming!), however i'm not going to translate all of them, simply listing the notes that i gave to them in this post!

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* Reincarnation (Rinne): Japanese horror movie. Scored 5/10 because it makes us want to watch it until the end. Otherwise it's not really scary.

* Chakushin Ari: another Japanese movie, which has an American remake called One Missed Call. Scored 7/10 because of some scenes pretty scary/disgusting!

* Paranormal Activity: at first i didn't want to watch it, everyone was talking about it and i know how horror blockbusters are... one word: lame! However i've been pretty surprised by this one, in a good way! I gave it a 7/10.

* Paranormal Activity 2: same thing, 7/10!

* The Dark Hour: a Spanish movie. Spanish people are generally good at horror movies, but this one was lame. 3/10

* The Haunting in Connecticut: one of my favourite of all time. This one is among the "Emotiorror", mixing emotion and horror, making you attached to the main characted and scared by what happens. I gave it a 9,5/10, because perfection doesn't exist, and highly recommend it!

* Km 31: a Mexican horror movie, deadly tacos attacking!...nah, kidding, a ghost movie but, sadly, badly directed. Good special effects, nice story, but annoying actress and everything is boring, except for the scary parts. I gave it a 6/10 and gave it the "too bad" title, because it's almost good.

* Fragiles: another spanish movie, realized by Jaume Balaguero, who realized several of my favourite horror movies. And another Emotiorror, really touching and creepy. A highly recommended 9,75/10!

* The Last Exorcism: ... well i hope it's the last. When a movie has such a low budget that the possessed girl has to be a gymnast to look like being possessed, it doesn't give anything good! I gave it a lame 4/10.

* EXTE - Hair extensions: yes, it's the real title. And another Japanese movie! If some of you are familiar with Japanese ghost stories, you should know that they love them with long black hair. Somehow they managed to make a movie with cursed hair! It's not an awesome but easy to watch, 6/10!

* The Unborn: at first it looks like a "horny teenager horror movie" but it's a bit more mature than expected. Plus Gary Oldman starring (what? he's a good actor!), there are a couple of scary/creepy scenes that made me give it at 8/10!

* Case 39: Bridget Jones meets scary things. A really nice movie, not that scary, but kinda intriguing. What happens in the beginning makes you wonder what can happen in the rest of the movie... 7/10!



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Alright that's all for the recap!

I wish you a nice reading and a nice watching if some of the movies i'll be talking about in this blog will interest you!