by Gene Michael Stover
created Tuesday, 2025 November 11
updated Tuesday, 2025 November 25
original at cybertiggyr.com/oipvlcj.html
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In no special order...
The ends of Ringu (1998) & The Ring (2002), in which we learn that the way to save one's self from the curse is to pass it on to someone else, someone you don't even know.[see this] (And that reveal was after the delightfully creepy treasure-hunt ride that was the bulk of the movie.)
I like Event Horizon (1997), but overall, I find it disappointingly un-frightening, except for the scene in which a possessed Ensign Justin enters an air lock, locks the inner door & begins the evacuation process, then comes to his senses & begs for help.
All the while that I watched Deadgirl (2008), I felt unsettled but couldn't figure out why. Yeah, the movie is gruesome, but gore & jump-scares rarely work on me, so it wasn't that. Hours later, I figured out the horror of that movie: The young men in the movie don't view women as people. It's bad enough that they plan to create another zombie from a woman, but (& this is what took me a while to realize) they never, not once, not even when they first find the “deadgirl”, ask “Do you need help?”