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Chelsea (449 KP) rated Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children in Books

Sep 7, 2017  
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs | 2013 | Children, Young Adult (YA)
7
7.9 (128 Ratings)
Book Rating
This book was not what I expected it to be, but I don't think that makes it deserve the many negative reviews.

 This book is not a "horror" book, with the exception of the "evil" characters who created the reasons for the plot to go where it went. It IS a weird book. I love weird, or should I say "peculiar".

The best thing about the book (and why so many thought it was different than what it was) is that the story was written completely around these found vintage, sometimes creepy, photographs. None of the images were altered with "modern" photoshop, but no one actually knows the real stories behind them or how much they were actually a trick of the camera.

This is Young Adult and so a fairly quick read, but it's also a different kind of fantasy story that is worth the read. Beware, however, the ending does NOT allow you to leave this book without needing to read the sequel.
  
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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) in Movies

Dec 4, 2019  
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
2016 | International, Horror
8
7.8 (11 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Jane Doe
The Autopsy of Jane Doe- is anethor very good horror movie that hardly no one talks about and knows about. It came in 2016, and i forgot that this movie came out in 2016 cause 2016 was a big year for movies.

The Plot: When father and son coroners investigate the death of a beautiful `Jane Doe', they find increasingly bizarre clues.

It was directed by Andre Overdal, who you may say, well he directed this film called "Trollhunter" in 2010 which was a dark fantasy and was made in the form of a "found footage" mouckumently, highly reccordmend.

Than he went on to direct "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark", which came out early this year and i really liked it.

This film is scary, terrorfying, horrorfying, creepy and overall really good. Also it starred Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox. Their were both really good in it.

This film is a must see.
  
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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Turning (Blood Ties, #1) in Books

Jan 7, 2021  
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The Turning (Blood Ties, #1)
Jennifer Armintrout | 2006
9
7.0 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
4.5 stars.

I really enjoyed this.

I wasn't sure what to expect when I saw the amount of 1 and 2 star reviews for this, but I have to say I liked it. Okay, so it wasn't a typical paranormal romance. It has several gory scenes and some scary characters but there's still romance in it. And it's probably leaning more toward Urban Fantasy with a splash of Horror mixed in. I'll say it isn't for the squeamish because there are some detailed scenes of deformity and injuries and it isn't always pretty reading.

I really liked the two main characters, Nathan and Carrie, and some of the lesser seen ones; Ziggy, Max and the butler that I've currently forgotten the name of :S.

The progression of Carrie from concerned Doctor to kick-arse vampire hunter was an interesting journey and I loved her relationship with Nathan. They are so good together.
  
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Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Wildling (2018) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019  
Wildling (2018)
Wildling (2018)
2018 | Fantasy, Horror
6
6.4 (9 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
A child who has been protected from the Wildlings by her Daddy finds out that her life isn't what she thought it was.



Not quite as horror as I was expecting, the fantasy nature of this one made it much more enjoyable.

A good story with a nice progression to it. It was nice to see Liv Tyler in something after what seems like such a long time. I was also pleased to see Brad Dourif, he's the face you always see in things, and he's always just a little creepy.

The audio effects were good in this one, the extra little grumbles and noises as she's becoming less human, and the enhanced hearing. Each bit comes together to add something to the scenes. I didn't feel like the visual effects quite met up to their standards though.

Still though, this was an enjoyable watch, and although there were some predictable bits everything was genuinely entertaining.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Curse of the Cat People (1944) in Movies

Jun 4, 2020  
The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
1944 | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
7
6.3 (4 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Odd, dreamy follow-up to Cat People; not really a sequel in the conventional sense at all, barely qualifies as a horror movie, either. Picks up the story a few years later; the couple from the original film are now married with a child, who has a problematically rich fantasy life. Given a 'wishing ring' by a lonely old woman, she wishes for a friend - and what appears to be the ghost of her father's first wife (Irena the Cat Woman) materialises...

Much, much gentler than it might sound; there's virtually no reference to Irena's supposedly cursed blood (she turns into a cat in moments of passion), the 'curse' mentioned in the title is the shadow her death still casts over the family. But here Irena seems entirely benign and the story is about the relationship between parents and a child struggling to fit in. Nicely made and performed, but very hard to categorise.