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Scary Movie 4

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  • Title: Scary Movie 4
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Scary Movie 4

Okay, I went to see the first Scary Movie back in 2000 and I laughed, groaned, and winced my way through.  In the end I had a fine time but didn’t feel the need to see the next two sequels.  In watching the fourth film of the “trilogy,” which hits theaters today, I experienced a very strong deja vu reaction.  The parts that work still work and the parts that don’t…. well, still don’t.  Even with it’s flaws, the film does have just enough to offer for me to recommend it.  What, you ask?  Well…

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The Ninth Gate

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  • Title: The Ninth Gate
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The Ninth Gate

Roman Polanski at his best gave us Chinatown and at his worst gave us Pirates.  The Ninth Gate is a great suspenseful mystery as Johnny Depp is thrust into the world of the occult and dark knowledge.  One of Polanski’s, and Depp’s, best films.

The film opens with an older gentleman, Andrew Telfer (Willy Holt), just finishing his affairs one evening.  He then gets up from his desk and very matter of fact manner hangs himself from the chandelier of his study.  The camera pans to the books of his study for in this film knowledge can bring both power and death.

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose

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  • Title: The Exorcism of Emily Rose
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I am hard to please when it comes to horror movies.  I demand them to actually be creepy, scary and suspenseful which 98% of horror movies released these days sadly are not.  My curiosity was aroused from the plot blurb for The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and the actual experience I had viewing the movie was shocking.  Instead of relying on big budget special effects and buckets of blood as so many horror movies try today this film relies on suspense, character, plot, story, lighting, tone, and some of the simplest but most effective special effects I have ever seen in a horror film.  This film is gripping; I wasn’t able to take my eyes off the screen.  Nothing prepared me for what I was about to see.

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