re: In the Spirit of October: The Horror Renaissance

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(And hopefully Crimson Peak is as good as it looks)

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God I want this to be good.

I agree that we've had some good ones lately. I will say that most Judeo-Christian horror flicks (in other words, any one that involves demons) in the modern era are shite. That genre peaked with The Exorcist. The Exorcist is smart and provides a theology that more or less works. So many of them now venture too far into amateur hour land. The last one of that genre that I saw that worked for me (until the end) was The Last Exorcism. But the ending was terribad. I seem to recall there being a possession flick with Anthony Hopkins a few years ago that was pretty solidly mediocre, but that's about the best I can say that for that genre at this point.

ETA: Insidious is awful

ETA2: The Hopkins film was The Rite, and I just fired it up to fall asleep to. I'll see if it maintains my mediocre view or if it's worse. Been a few years.