Mrs. M and I are trying to watch as many horror movies as we can in October - here are the five we managed in the last few days.
1. Poltergeist (remake not original) - a perfectly competent movie from the hugely-overused 'family moves to new house, led by brave but sceptical dad and hard-working devoted mum, and suddenly strange things start happening to one or more of their kids' trope. Enjoyed it enough but it was rarely scary and also this whole plot device is overused as fuck by now.
2. Sinister (About 12 years old and very good IMO - it's about a true crime author whose ambition gets himself tangled up in a case that he isn't prepared for, and that could put his whole family in danger - Ethan Hawke stars and as ever he is excellent).
3. Ready or Not (We were lied to by Disney+ because this is not a horror at all, it's a black comedy. But I still enjoyed it so much - I love a good black comedy). It's about a bride who gets caught up in a sick family initiation ritual where either her rich new family find and kill her before dawn, or the whole family is killed by the devil.
4. Mr Crocket - this came out a couple of days ago. It is such a fantastic fucking concept! But I felt that the movie itself didn't live up to the standards of how good it could have been. Enjoyed it but it could have been on the creepy/unsettling level of It or Don't Hug Me I'm Scared and it wasn't.
5. Insidious Chapter 2 - Very few movies have ever scared me like the original Insidious and unfortunately the second one comes nowhere close. Still alright tho - nothing on the level of the scenes from the first one.
