Misery (1990) Review

Day 21 is another of my favourite Stephen King movies. Warning: if you are disturbed by feet and sledgehammers, give this one a miss. Author Paul Sheldon (James Caan), is finishing his latest novel in a remote cabin in Colorado. Upon completion, he begins to drive home when he gets stuck in a blizzard and...

Coraline (2009) Review

Day 20 is a stop-motion 3D family film, which is based on the book of the same name. I've read the book and it's really good, just throwing that out there. 11-year-old Coraline Jones moves into a mansion that has been renovated into an apartment building, with her parents, who are working on a gardening...

Paranormal Activity (2007) Review

Day 19 will be the last haunting, for a week anyway... Everything Wrong With, Honest Trailer. After some supernatural goings-on, Katie and her boyfriend Micah begin filming their lives, hoping to catch some supernatural footage. Katie has been experiencing these things since she was a child, so moving won’t help. After some research they discover...

Silent Hill (2006) Review

Day 18 is based on a classic video game series. I have yet to play them, but am very interested in doing so. Ending Explained. 9-year-old Sharon, (Jodelle Ferland), has been having dreams about a place called “Silent Hill”. Her mother, Rose, does some research and finds that Silent Hill is in fact a real...

Insidious (2010) Review

Day 17 and this is the first of 4 (so far) movies in the Insidious series. Cinemassacre, Ending Explained, Everything Wrong With. A family of five move into a new house. Renai and her husband, Josh, and their three children Dalton, Foster and Cali. Dalton doesn’t wake up one morning, after falling off a ladder...

House at the End of the Street (2012) Review

Day 16 may make you question your neighbourhood and the people who live their. Warning: some paranoia may ensue. When 17-year-old Elissa moves into a new house with her mother, Sarah, their new neighbours immediately start bad-mouthing the house nearby. Four year ago, a young girl murdered her parents in the middle of the night...

The Possession (2012) Review *WARNING: MILD SPOILERS*

Day 15 is based on the supposed true events surrounding a Jewish dybbuk box. A divorced father of two takes his daughters to a yard sale, where his youngest, Emily, finds a box. After a few days she becomes obsessed with it and doesn’t want anyone else to touch it. When she opens up the...

Sinister (2012) Review

For Day 14 I have chosen the appropriately named, Sinister. Kill Count, Ending Explained, Everything Wrong With. The film stars Ethan Hawke as Ellison Oswalt, a true crime writer, who moves his family into a new home to write his next book based on a murder that took place nearby. While in the attic, he...

Friday the 13th (1980) Review

Day 13 is the reason I stay out of the woods. I deliberately picked today for this review, for obvious reasons. I'm just sad it's not Friday, but hey ho, here we go. We open in 1958 at the Summer camp at Crystal Lake. Two camp councellors sneak away from their group and start doing...

The Tall Man (2012) Review

Day 12 is a story that resembles the Creepy Pasta Slender Man, but with an interesting twist. In Cold Rock, Washington, several children have disappeared. A few people have claimed to have seen the culprit, and the town have called him “The Tall Man”. The FBI have been called in to help with the search....