i'm kael's ghost

Once upon a time, there was a Mexican director with a passion for mythology and a knack for writing a very particular type of emotionally charged, supernatural horror that burrows into your brain and chews its way into your subconscious. If someone had mentioned his name to you in the early 90's, you'd have turned to them, blank-faced, and asked, "Who?" Now, a decade later, you'd say, "Oh!  Guillermo del Toro , he directed Hellboy ! I love him." Jump across the ocean to Spain and you'll hear a nearly identical tale - one that ends with, "Oh!  Jaume Balaguero , he directed the [REC] series! I love him." Granted, if we're being honest here, the [REC] movies may be popular  but, they aren't even close to being on the same globally successful (or globally known) level as any  of del Toro's movies. Which is a shame because Balaguero can be as good a writer and  a director as del Toro. Here's my $.25 on the handful o...

The supernatural is often the focus of horror movies; from ghosts, to psychics, to demons, to vampires, and so on - people are simply fascinated by that which may be real. Typically, these stories are set up in one of two ways: everyone except the main character believes in the supernatural OR only the main character believes in the supernatural. That means one crucial element of the story is always someone struggling to come to grips with the existence of something they don't believe in. Today we'll be looking at 3 examples from the past few years of people grappling with the supernatural: Red Lights, The Awakening, and The Skeptic. If you're a jaded skeptic, like myself, you'll naturally gravitate to each of the leading roles in today's movies as they fall into the category of, "staunch non-believers." Red Lights - 2012 The $.25 plot overview: a professor and a physicist try to debunk a famous psychic. Turns out the psychic is a fake but the...