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- The science and policework in Doctor X is a little hokey, but the movie sure does look great.
- A House of Dynamite does everything it sets out to do, and does it fairly well, it’s just kind of a shame it doesn’t try to do anything more. The movie is very tense but a little hollow.
- I think the NYT‘s Roger Greenspun summed And Soon the Darkness up well when he wrote, “Until the disappearance and for a while afterward everything goes very well toward building tension with understated effects. But eventually, by mere repetition, the understated effects begin to look like poverty of the imagination.”
Red Rooms is not what I would call an enjoyable film—as it stares long and hard into the abyss—but Juliette Gariépy’s inscrutably calculated performance is never short of riveting.
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- The problem isn’t that I find Jim Varney’s schtick in Ernest Scared Stupid annoying, it’s that I don’t find it remotely funny.
- The Bat is a little silly, a little oddly convoluted, but Vincent Price is a lot of fun.
- Like a lot of good horror, Together does the very simple thing of taking a metaphor to its extreme and gory conclusion.
I also re-watched Doctor Sleep, though this time around the slightly longer director’s cut. I’m too far removed from my original watch of the theatrical cut to say if it’s any better, but it felt much the same: a lot that’s really good, particularly the performances, but also a rushed plot and a fetishizing of Kubrick’s Shining that for obvious reasons isn’t in King’s novel.