Recently, my roommate and our boyfriends have been a scary-movie binge in our free time. We've been trying to find some good, jumpy movies that are only PG-13, and we've honestly been pretty disappointed.
After the first couple that we watched, we decided to always look new movies up to find reviews and ratings. Someone had an edited version of "Cabin in the Woods," and the online ratings were great! It scored a 7/10 on IMDB and a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes (which is about as high as I've ever seen them rate a movie)! So we decided to give it a try on Friday night. Bad idea. It was terrible. I fell asleep about half an hour in, which is never supposed to happen during a truly scary movie. Every time I opened my eyes, I was completely confused. The next day, they couldn't stop talking about how awful the movie was and how shocking the ratings online were - though, it could be that some of the best parts were edited out. Really though, the movie was just bizarre and not scary at all.
The next night we decided to try to new version of The Poltergeist. Another bad choice. Movie after movie, we've been let down, and now we can't even trust online ratings! If you have any good thriller suggestions, please give them to me!
I remember Disturbia being a good thriller, but I can't speak for anything that has come out recently. What you mentioned about movie ratings intrigued me though. Over the years I have come to the conclusion that Rotten Tomatoes is really hit and miss for me. Seems like most of the movies they give high ratings to end up being movies that disappoint me, and movies that score really low on the Tomato-meter end up being movies that I love!
ReplyDeleteMegan, it's so true about movie ratings! I think movie critics must have really boring tastes sometimes because I've found that some of the best movies aren't even always he ones with the highest ratings. I tend to look at user ratings now more than critics' ratings. A good scary movie I'd recommend for you is "What Lies Beneath". It has Harrison Ford in it and it was one of my family's favorites.
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