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Took me forever to get my hands on Ghost Stories and there was a fair bit of hype about it going in...color me disappointed.

Ghost Stories is an anthology disguised around a central story and all of it is like a collection of cliches that don't connect well. So the main plot is a lifelong skeptic who spent his career making a show that debunks supernatural stories is at the twilight of his career. His mentor meets him right at this closing point and hands him a folder of three files while essentially saying "we were wrong for our entire careers and these stories prove it." It's not a very original premise but using it to tie in a three story anthology is a creative new approach to it. Unfortunately, each story has that same recycled feeling. Overnight security horror? Check. Hit and run haunting? Right outta Creepshow. Haunted birth? We got you. They even throw in creepy dolls, dark woods and a late plot twist that you'll see coming a mile away. What works is that everyone is committed and having fun. Martin Freeman and Alex Lawther SLAY their roles and give the old storylines enough life that you'll be entertained. There's nostalgia about the whole thing where seeing the scares coming actually plays with the tension a bit. That said, the tension kinda fails you when the monsters look low budget instead of scary. The other thing killing that tension is that the "retelling a story I experienced" thing means you've got zero sense of real danger. I know the man isn't gonna stay locked in the room because he's alive and narrating the experience. This is REALLY obvious because they end all three plots abruptly and then sorta just want you to forget that we were in the middle of watching an interview. They just skip right along to the next story without much resolution for the last. It's not disorienting in the way that some movies manage to give you a dream-like feeling, it just removes you from the tension and puts you back on your couch.

If this was a horror I'd stumbled upon with no prior hype, I'd probably like it. They're having fun, it's a popcorn flick, it'd make a good date horror for a since it isn't too scary for newcomers...but this was getting a lot more love than I think it deserves. I'd give it the second most hype I've heard for a horror besides Hereditary (gotta see if the firestick update gets me a good copy of this jawn). For someone as jaded as I am, from the "I've seen everything" camp of horror snobs; I'd say if you want something predictable but well acted; Ghost Stories is cool, but I still got Southbound at the top of the recent anthology horror movie heap.
 

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I can see the think pieces about "predatory lesbian exploitation" being written the second this movie gains any traction i the mainstream. If ti gains any traction with mainstream media.

I'll def be checking it out though. And it looks like Britney Allen is the new horror movie scream queen. She is in this movie, Jigsaw, It Stains the Sands Red and she's got The Prodigy coming out next year.
 

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Any of y'all seen Hell House?

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just watched, best found footage since Paranormal Activity 1 :ehh:

dont watch the trailer, spoils fukking everything - but it was a great.
 
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