i'm kael's ghost

When I'm not watching movies, I'm reading about movies. I stumble across all kinds of articles, blog posts, book excerpts, etc. in my quest to absorb as much movie knowledge as possible. Now, I'm snotty and loud-mouthed and opinionated but I'd never begrudge another human their opinion. Seriously. You're absolutely welcome to have any opinion about any thing you want. However, I must warn you, if I think your opinion is stupid, I'm absolutely going to say so. I've recently stumbled on an article completely  brimming with so many idiotic opinions that I'm actually compelled to craft a response. Here's the gist of the original article: there are some horror movies out there that are so disturbing , you'll only ever want to watch them once. I've have taken her original list and refuted her claims without pulling her entire article over. You can read the original article here . Let's start at the beginning, with her opening statement...

Because I am the most diligent of movie bloggers, I subject myself to a wealth of movies that literally no other human on Earth would (or should) subject themselves to. This past weekend I actually found myself in a most unusual situation: I started two movies that were so bad  I turned them off before finishing them. And I sat through Room 237 ! When I can't make it through a movie, you know it's bad. Really, really bad. I'd love to write a warning about each so that you, my devoted readers, don't accidentally waste your time on them but  they were so bad  that I can only remember one of them. Well, part of a warning is better than no warning, right? Man oh man is that bad horror film logic!  Black Forest The $.25 Version: Made for / by the SyFy Channel , which I didn't know before I tried to watch it. You've got to have some trepidation about a movie that is genre classified as mystery & suspense, horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. Talk about n...

I'll be honest here and say that I never saw the first movie ( The Collector ) and was only (moderately) aware that it was a thing when I opted to watch this movie the other night. That said, I was able to watch The Collection without needing whatever "back story" or set up the first one may have set up. (Possibly a mark in the plus column?) Throughout, I actually had less of the feeling, "I'm missing something from the first movie" and more of the feeling, "They're leading up to the movie that will come after this." So, about the movie. If I'd paid to see this movie in the theatre, I'd be annoyed. Having watched it on Netflix, at least I can be comforted knowing that I only wasted my time not my time and  my money. The acting is (sort of) over-the-top but not more than I expected for the movie from a cast that is generic but acceptable. There are a few token "movie stars" in there: Chris McDonald  & Lee Tergese...