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I love Guillermo del Toro, and I was excited about Crimson Peak (2015), but it was quite awful. The dialogue was unbearably stilted and the CGI was appalling. We turned it off halfway through, intending to pick it back up later, but honestly, life is too short.
Uzumaki / Spiral (2000) was pretty bad. Some of the scenes were neat, and it's a cool premise - a town driven mad by spirals - but weak acting, bad effects, and really bad editing doom this film. The way it's cut now, it ends up just feeling silly, but I think a clever editor could actually take this existing film and re-cut it to be more effective and actually frightening... or maybe it just needs a remake.
Thanks Megan for braving I Am Legend (2007) with me! I'd heard mixed reviews about this film and after watching I guess that makes sense. It's an interesting concept, but with really inconsistent attention to detail, terrible CGI zombies, and a ludicrous ending. Mark says the book is way better and [[insert book plot spoilers]] which sounds way more interesting and was apparently just totally omitted from this movie?? So that's lame. I guess there's an alternate ending to this movie which hews a little more closely to the book, anyone seen it? Thoughts? Also, Megan discovered this cool website: http://paintingsinmovies.com/m/view/id/127 gotta bookmark that for future reference! :)
Mark and I watched the 2011 remake of Fright Night, starring Colin Farrell as the vampire next door. I love the 1985 original (it's on my top 100 list!), so I was both excited and skeptical about watching the remake. This one was really a mixed bag. The pacing, action, dialogue, and atmosphere were great. But the CGI was frightful (not in a good way), and the portrayal of women was just maddening. As a human woman, I'm used to women being given the short end of the stick in cinema, and objectification of women is a real issue in horror as a genre, so I'm honestly pretty inured to it -- but this was just pathetic. Truly hard to watch 2 hours of damsels and bimbos. 🤮 Someone oughta remake the remake haha.
