I have some very odd coping mechanisms. Apparently, in times of stress, I watch a lot of comedy; when I'm subjected to additional stress, it seems I go for horror-movie review sites. A few observations here:
--Horrorwatch.com , which I'd really liked, is apparently no more. Or else you have to solve a cryptic puzzle-box to get to the reviews, and I'm fresh out. :-)
--There's an apparent correlation between writing horror reviews and being likely to have bad grammar. Which seems odd, though I recall the last horror novel I read, Wither, had similar problems.
--An awful lot of people have seen the same seven or eight movies and are very anxious to share this information.
-Is it too much to ask that a review contain some sort of plot synopsis? Even an amateur review? During my three-plus hours of review-reading yesterday I kept coming across reviews like "I expected this movie to suck but it really defied my expectations. The pacing was good and the effects were realistic. Definitely worth a rental." This is fine if the movie is called something specific like The Hillbilly Hand-Drill Massacre; less so when the film has a name like Evil.
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