Day 2 and 3

Day 2 was horror movie free, unfortunately.  The niece and nephews were over, so I didn’t have a chance.  They’re 3, 5 and 8.  I don’t think either of them would have been able to handle very much scare or blood.  My other niece, also 3, on the other hand, can watch ANYTHING.  She LOVES scary movies.  It’s awesome to watch her looking at the Netflix horror category and wanting to watch them all!  I need a good list of horror movies that won’t make her parents too uncomfortable to know she’s watched.

In the previous post, I had a list of movies I would choose for my next viewing.  I kinda strayed from that today.  This morning, when the kids left, I turned on Netflix and saw Apartment 143, and decided to try it.

APARTMENT 143

Meh.  Another Paranormal Entity knock off.  That being said, the premise was unique..ish.  I was unimpressed, though, with the “ghost”.  Or whatever it was supposed to be.  A couple of unveiling scenes were just too ridiculous to take this movie seriously.  I don’t scare easily, and this movie doesn’t make it easy.

After that went off, I turned on the tv and saw SyFy was showing Ghost Voyage.  I thought I’d seen it before, so I tuned in the last 30 minutes to check.  I had seen it before, but coming up next was Haunted High, which I hadn’t seen.  So I stuck around.  Seems there’s a marathon today.  Too bad my horror loving niece wasn’t here today.

HAUNTED HIGH

It wasn’t bad.  There were some good acting, some mediocre acting, and some terrible acting.  But that’s to be expected.  But, it still felt more Disney channel than HBO.  I don’t know, maybe it was because it was set in a high school and the villain was, yet again, ridiculous.

I really should stop expecting SyFy movies to be anything less than ridiculous, if today has taught me anything.

HOUSE OF BONES

The final SyFy movie was something similar to Apartment 143..but..different.  Ok, let me explain.  The crew of a Ghost Hunters-type television show goes to a house that turns out to be haunted.  By what?  Search me.  I couldn’t really get into it enough to follow exactly what was going on. 

Both Haunted High and House of Bones probably would have had a good amount of gore if they hadn’t been on SyFy, but we all know that gore does not a good movie make.  On that note, I’ve read some reviews and decided to not watch Bordello of Blood at this time.  I’ve got other titles that make precedence.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN VS. ZOMBIES

I saw Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in theaters, and wanted to check out Asylum’s mockbuster.  It actually wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be; Vampire Hunter was better, there’s no doubt about it, but for once The Asylum didn’t ruin it.  And they only had one God-awful one-liner, as opposed to having one every 2 seconds.  Nothing new was brought to the genre, but clichés weren’t rampant, either.  All in all, it wasn’t a bad way to spend an evening.

WISMASTER 2

The first Wishmaster had a lot going for it.  Wishmaster 2 doesn’t do it any favors.  It tends to get boring a lot and doesn’t have the cool kills the first one had.  A couple of O-O scenes are good for fast forwarding to, but not much else makes it anything less than something to pop in when you just want white noise.