Hello!
Welcome to the twenty-seventh day of October! I hope that your year has been going well. If you have been with me a while, you will know that every year I attempt to watch a lot of scary movies for October mostly to cure myself of my wariness of scary movies. When I started this series several years ago, I could barely sit through a scary movie to save my life. Now since doing this series I can say that I am much better. Last year, I decided to attempt to add books to this series. Unfortunately, I didn’t end up completing this series last year, but I have high hopes for this year 😉

Today’s movie was Carrie. This reimagining was done in 2002, if you are interested in hearing my thought on Carrie 1976, you can read it here. While I enjoyed the original movie it is always interesting to see how another generation sees the movie and does its own interpretation of it. I am also interested in seeing the 2013 version of the movie starring Chloe Grace Moretz.

The main story of Carrie is the same as before with Carrie being the strange outcast girl in high school with an overly strict religious mom. I won’t go through the whole story since you can read about it in my original review if you haven’t already seen the movie. The ending of this movie was quite a bit different from the first, which I think was meant to make the movie more of a feel good movie instead of a horror movie. There are still very horrible parts to the movie, but certain elements of this ending were considerably different than the original.

While I still enjoyed the story of Carrie and appreciated some of the pyrotechnics in the movie and other special effects. I found that the movie lost element of scariness when it was translated into color, since the original movie was in black and white also since the ending was considerably different I did think that took away from the horror factor of the movie. Overall it was good.

I hope that you are enjoyed this post. If you have seen this movie feel free to leave your thoughts on how it stacks up to the original. If you like scary movies feel free to check out some of the other movie reviews in this series and stay tuned for more in the last few days of October. See you soon!

Hello!
Welcome to the twenty-fourth day of October! I hope that your year has been going well. If you have been with me a while, you will know that every year I attempt to watch a lot of scary movies for October mostly to cure myself of my wariness of scary movies. When I started this series several years ago, I could barely sit through a scary movie to save my life. Now since doing this series I can say that I am much better. Last year, I decided to attempt to add books to this series. Unfortunately, I didn’t end up completing this series last year, but I have high hopes for this year 😉

On this 25th day of October we are going to be reviewing the movie Cam. This is a 2018 horror, thriller that came as a recommendation of Netflix. If you have been with me a while you know that I have quite the sordid history with Netflix recommendations but here we are again.

The premise of the story is that a girl named Alice works as cam girl on a website under the alias Lola. As Alice popularity increases slowly to her dismay and definitely not fast enough for her. One night Alice breaks into the top 50 on the site and the next day her account gets hacked and begins broadcasting without her actually doing so. All the while this is happening she has taken on this gig and not told her mother the truth about how she makes her money and when her secret comes out at her brother’s birthday party Alice is embarassed.

I won’t spoil the whole movie for you, but i will tell you that as intriguing as this movie was. It wasn’t scary and I think I’m finally done with taking recommendations from Netflix regarding scary movies.

Let me know if you have seen this movie or heard about it and what you thought of it. I would love to hear your thoughts. Stay tuned for more posts as we wind down the final days until Halloween. See you soon!

Hello!
Welcome to the twenty-fourth day of October! I hope that your year has been going well. If you have been with me a while, you will know that every year I attempt to watch a lot of scary movies for October mostly to cure myself of my wariness of scary movies. When I started this series several years ago, I could barely sit through a scary movie to save my life. Now since doing this series I can say that I am much better. Last year, I decided to attempt to add books to this series. Unfortunately, I didn’t end up completing this series last year, but I have high hopes for this year 😉

On the twenty fourth day, today’s movie is The Ring.  This movie came highly recommended by people as one of the scariest movies they saw in the early 2000s and it should definitely be on my watch list. Several people even recommended that watch the original Japanese version, which is on my list for possibly another year.

Here’s a quick rundown of the movie in case you haven’t heard of it:At the beginning of the movie 2 high school girls are sitting in a bedroom on a dark and stormy night discussion the urban legend about a video tape that after you see it you die in 7 days. One of the girls , Katie, admits to having watched the tape a week ago on a camping trip with her boyfriend. For a minute she laughs it off, but in the next few moments she is dead. A few weeks later at Katie’s funeral , Katie’s mom asks her sister, Rachel the reporter to investigate Katie’s death because it doesn’t make sense. While doing her research Katie comes across the video tape and also watches it and then begins to get worried that the urban legend is true.

As promised I won’t spoil the ending for the movie for you in case you want to watch it. There were parts of the movie that was creepy and definitely scary, but it wasn’t as creepy as it could have been. I’m told that there was a sequel as well as a book that the movie was based on. I would also be interested in seeing the original Japanese version to see how it compares.

Let me know if you have seen this movie and what you thought of it. I hope that you have been enjoying this series even though some of the movies have been bad. I hope that you will continue to stay tuned throughout the month to see what other posts I have planned. See you again soon!