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Dean (6925 KP) rated Open House (2010) in Movies

Dec 24, 2018  
Open House (2010)
Open House (2010)
2010 |
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Well I spotted this was directed by Anna Paquin's brother and also had Stephen Moyer from True Blood on the cover, unfortunately they are not the main stars of the film. Rachel Blanchard of the TV series Clueless is the main lead.
This falls into the category of weird films, there isn't a lot of back story or explanation really into the why or what of what is going on. Reminded me a lot of Funny Games. Quite bloody and brutal, ok for a low budget film but a bit more plot would have be nice....and Anna Paquin!
  
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Logan (76 KP) rated Lisey's Story in Books

Jan 22, 2019  
Lisey's Story
Lisey's Story
Stephen King | 2006 | Fiction & Poetry
5
6.9 (9 Ratings)
Book Rating
Interesting take on self harm (0 more)
Bad gunky (1 more)
Very slow for the first half of the book
Dumb little Lisey(?)
I'm a longtime Stephen King reader and this one was a chore to finish. If I could rate sections separately, I'd give the first half 2/10 and the second half 8/10. It's structured with lots of flashbacks throughout the story, and those do add to the story once you've reached a certain point, but it felt pretty tedious getting there. Lisey is often described as unintelligent, but I never really saw that - she was usually competent and sometimes clever.
  
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Reiko LJ (126 KP) rated It Calls From The Forest: An Anthology of Terrifying Tales from the Woods Volume 1 in Books

Apr 30, 2020  
It Calls From The Forest: An Anthology of Terrifying Tales from the Woods Volume 1
It Calls From The Forest: An Anthology of Terrifying Tales from the Woods Volume 1
Mark Towse, M.A. Smith, Greg Hunter, Craig Crawford, N.M Brown, T.S. Hurt, Michael Subjack, Emma K. Leadley, E.E.W. Christman, Clint Foster, Dale Drake, C.W. Blackwell, G. Allen Wilbanks, Michael D. Nadeau, Tim Mendees, Elizabeth Nettleton, Matthew A. St. Cyr, Jason Holden, Evan M. Elgin, Thomas Wake, Brian Duncan | 2020 | Horror, Thriller
9
6.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Refreshingly different voices (1 more)
Short, easy to digest stories
Listen to the call!
A solid anthology, there were some weaker tales in there but no more than a Stephen King short story collection.

Really interesting mix of different perspectives and writing styles. I was impressed at how they were all given the same prompt and yet did such vastly different things with it.

Some of them really stuck with me. 'Forest Man' definitely got me the most. It drew me in wonderfully and successfully creeped me out.

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Thank you to Book Sirens and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.
  
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