Oh this? This is my "I'd rather be spelunking" face.
And my summer movie project continues with ... THE ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE FUEL. No, really, NIGHTMARES 4EVER. And I brought it on myself. This movie came highly ... whatever the horror movie equivalent of "recommended" is? Basically it was a spooky, abandoned, rumoured-to-be-haunted, old mental hospital and I walked right in with my highschool boyfriend because he said "come on, it'll be fun!". I just had to see if it'd live up to all that hype! Really, what is it about humans and curiosity? It was the same in the movie - a group of ladies goes spelunking (or "caving" which sounds more like the horrible pasttime it actually is, because who voluntarily DOES THAT??) only to get trapped in some deep-ass, remote caves with scary monsters, and the first third of the movie they were all "this'll be fun!". (Of course, that was when they thought they were in a touristy type cave where people knew where they were, rather than some unnamed super-secret off-the-map cave, thanks to some idiot in the group who thought it would be more fun to explore unexplored caves, but still.) Humans are duuuumb.
Anyway, you know how basically all horror movies ever are in the dark, mostly because of the obvious hope that it'll end up being more scary than annoying and hard to see? Weeeeell, in this case it worked. There was no shaky camera for the most part, and the occassional use of handheld footage was EFFECTIVE to say the least, and the darkness just worked and it was scary as hell even though I tried to focus on playing games on my phone to make it less so. As always though I take solace in the simple fact that, while I'd definitely be curious/stupid enough to go poking my nose where I shouldn't, I am much, MUCH too lazy to actually do so. Like, the most likely horror movie scenario for me, outside of straight-up apocalypses, is something coming at me through the TV/computer, Poltergeist/Pulse style. As far as having to worry about getting trapped in a cave (let alone one with mutant batlike humanoids that feast on human flesh) goes .... Yeah, I think I'm good. Can you tell I'm reassuring myself? It was scary, okay!
(Also, the truth is that I would totally go exploring if we had a spooky abandoned mental hospital and I wouldn't even have a boyfriend that could be killed first thus buying me a few seconds to run like hell.)
Yeah so, anyway, that's my nightmares refreshed and repopulated for the year. It was, scaryness aside, a well-made horror movie that did *exactly* what it said on the tin, which is something not a lot of horror movies can actually say without being lying liars. Couple of weak actors and it struggled a bit to get going, but once it did ... hooboy. I watched the unrated version because people said it was better, which I really should know better than to listen to at this point, but I really am not kidding about the humans being dumb. Case and point. *Points to self*
I would recommend it only if your goal is to be actually truly scared, or if you are considering going spelunking because the word sounds fun (it does, it really does!) and need to be talked out of it. It truly is the LEAST ACCURATELY SOUNDING WORD EVER. In the history of language.
In other news: it's hot in here, but crap weather's a-coming so problem being solved soon. Yay, Sweden!