repulsive or scary?

I watched "Black

Swan" on DVD last night - too enthralled to turn it off and too horrified to react.

Not a horror movie - but a repulsive one with a curious resemblance to "Human Centipede".

Then there was Barbara Hershey as the scariest mother in any movie ever.

I find myself comparing this to "Insidious". A haunted house movie with no sex, no gore, no modern special effects, only one death - and lots of fear.

I wasn't the only one screaming screaming out loud at the showing of "Insidious". The feeling afterwards was mostly pleasure, having worked out the sympathetic nervous system and flooded ourselves with catecholamines - all for a minor but well crafted, honest scary movie.

Evan is ready

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article1160186.ece

high class zombie essay

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/our-zombies-ourselves/8401/

Jody said I should see The Collector

And it is pretty good. Something of a "Saw" imitation, but with a few elegant touches that won me over.

The best of the traps, literally a trap, a room full of bear traps. Reminded me of a routine Penn and Teller do with animal traps.

And (unless I was out admiring the super moon), we never see more of the monster than this. Few horror movies can manage such restraint.

not a good idea

I fell asleep watching a DVD of Inception. Dreaming...

Netflix understands me

Today Netflix told me that, based on my movie ratings, they had created a special category for recomendations for me.

GORY VIRAL PLAGUE HORROR MOVIES

That's right.