MicShazam

You didn't ask me, but I thought Dan Simmons' Summer of Nights was scarier than it should have been. I don't really read or watch horror, so maybe that's why it got to me.

Chula Vista

I thought both Carrion Comfort and Song of Kali were better than Summer of Night's but ya, it's a great story.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

MicShazam

I've only read that one. My brother gave it to me because he'd bought a new copy in better condition, so I figured I might as well read it. That part where that kid gets run over by the combine haunted me for at least a week!

Goofle

Watched Suicide Squad yesterday. I thought it was pretty great, especially the scenes with music integrated into the action. If they went all out with an 18 rating I think it would have been incredible.

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The Batlord

I thought the music was cheesy as ****. Like the director was too lazy to properly pace the scenes (especially at the beginning of the movie) so he just stitched them together with random Top 40 hits from whenever.

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Coraline




Finally watched Coraline for the first time last night. OMG. So good. I have a slight phobia of Muppets, claymation, and stop motion. They look too close to real life yet not real enough, and it just kinda gives me the heeby jeebies.

Aside from the fact that the visuals were so jaw-dropping that I was drawn in despite that slight revulsion, that feeling made a movie that was supposed to be tense and creepy all that much more freaky. There were several entire scenes that actually made me involuntarily lean back for minutes on end.

Not just the Other World scenes either. That guy with the bad Russian accent and evil mustache was scary as **** doing pullups on a stair railing. And some **** would've just straight haunted my dreams if I were a young enough child. I love that this wasn't just a children's movie with a horror fantasy aesthetic, this was an honest-to-god horror fantasy children's movie.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

Coraline is pretty good, but tell me you've seen The Nightmare Before Christmas? That's an essential.

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The Batlord

Well yeah, but I've always been lukewarm to that movie. Like I said, I've got a thing about that kind of animation and The Nightmare Before Christmas doesn't grab me enough for that to go away. It's okay but had nowhere near the effect that Coraline did.

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Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

Really? Damn. It's one of my all-time fav's.

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The Batlord

I also have this weird prejudice from when I was like five or six, cause it was the movie that finally kicked Jurassic Park from its #1 box office spot. I was so all about Jurassic Park, so I took sides for no good reason.

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