I didn't think this movie was half as bad as the review that's posted. It was certainly no masterpiece, but I've seen a lot worse, and this was the first time I've seen Odette Yustman (that I'm aware of). She's rather easy on the eyes.
I have to say the character of her best friend was a complete idiot -- and written WAY too idiotic for my tastes. Certainly, there's always a friend in this sort of movie who's trying to tell you everything's OK, and that it's all just your imagination, but this gal was already superstitious and just blew off anything and everything that happened to her -- even when she ran over that creepy kid and he was fine, and THEN he told her "he doesn't want you to help her. If you help her, you will DIE." She didn't even bother to REPEAT what the kid said. What an idiot! She deserved to die, lol.
As for the list of good and bad Horror movies, I've seen most of those listed and generally agree for the ones I've seen. I saw ONE MAJOR omission, however -- the FIRST "Friday the 13th" movie -- not all the corny "Jason" sequels, but the very first one. I'd never seen anything like that before, and saw it at a midnight showing... was maybe 23 -- came home and went out on our patio to have a few drinks with my brother and our buddy we went to see it with... The driveway comes up alongside the patio, and it's a blind spot alongside the house where the driveway hits the patio (in other words, if someone were walking right beside the house, they could be right at the gate where you come in the patio before you knew it, if they were "stealthy."
Well, for the ONLY time in my adult life, I kept catching myself JUMPING and looking over my shoulder to make sure there was nobody sneaking up on us that night. I was REALLY creeped out, lol... I finally just said I wanted to GO INSIDE, lol.
Oh, and the first "Nightmare on Elm Street..." Brilliant! To me, that movie was a groundbreaker in the same way "Psycho" and "Night of the Living Dead" were groundbreakers, except even better as far as shock factor goes.
Jeff
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