The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black
Daniel Radcliffe did a fairly decent job at making me forget he was Harry Potter, which means he can act more than one character. The movie also had a fantastic 19th century English setting and atmosphere. The plot was run-of-the-mill but interesting enough to keep you watching and the slow pace lends itself well to some great scares and a fairly well done ending.
Overall: 8/10

Screen at Kamchanod

oh you crazy Asian people, for a change I'm going to rate this movie on two different scales, one for how scary it is and one for how good it is.

Screen at Kamchanod
a very surreal Thai film about ghosts being captured by (and within) film, 6 people track down and watch a film that is said to have an audience of ghosts, after watching the film the 6 people begin to see ghosts everywhere and start to lose track of whats real leading to a final screening of the film in a nonexistant clearing of a haunted forest.
there are a lot of clashing ideas and film styles here, on one hand it wants to be a psychological thriller, on the other it wants to be a supernatural horror, and on some imaginary third hand it wants to be a love story, but the three ideas never quite fit together. the love story isn't very emotional, the psychological thriller is far too confusing and not explained nearly well enough, and the horror is... scary... very scary. the one thing this movie does right is horror, it adequately uses light, shadow, and blur to create ghosts. by only giving glimpses and turning the tension up to eleven the movie successfully creates a menacing atmosphere and environment where nowhere feels safe. the film also made excellent use of the idea of "ghosts from film" where the ghosts themselves seem to not entirely be in our world but rather reaching into it through the screen. it creates pop-out scares as well as a general level of uneasiness that often turns to an intense feeling of "something is not right" that only the uncanny valley can provide

Scare Level 8.5/10
Overall 6.5/10

(for reference i would give "Paranormal Activity" a scare level of 7.5/10 and "The Others" a scare level of 8/10)