Reply #68: i agree in part.

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i liked sixth sense, because for the most part the story and characters were interesting. i loathed everything else m. night shamalan has made thereafter though.

hated blair witch project. gave me motion sickness, was thoroughly trite (dude, if you really were that freaked light the whole fucking forest on fire. *someone* will come into the forest and get you out), and the last scene left me confused, because i felt insulted and robbed of my money, and then i laughed that this pile of shite was bilking so much money and was considered 'novel'.

the remake of 'dawn of the dead' was ... gory? boring. mildly humorous. the latest trend in horror is the "lightning fast zombies from hell!" which is really disappointing. and it's weird how western zombies are contagious, instoppable mobs, harbringers of apocalypse. when i was reading zora neal hurston's journal on haiti and voudoun she mentioned zombies and the ritual, culture, interpretation behind them and *that* was some scary shit. a bocor (sorceror) riding backwards on a slowly walking horse speaking in tongues with eyes rolled back in his head? shit, i have no idea what it meant before and that image alone would've scared me back into the house. now knowing that it was the sign of the bocor coming to steal someone's soul and turn them into a zombie i'd definitely run screaming back into the house.

last great horror movie i saw in the theater was the director's cut rerelease of Exorcist. that was more exhausting than the original. all the scenes of normalcy and medical confusion contrasted so beautifully with the horrifying downward spiral i knew was coming. they don't make them like that anymore.