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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Halloween (1978) in Movies

Oct 29, 2020 (Updated Oct 29, 2020)  
Halloween (1978)
Halloween (1978)
1978 | Horror
7
8.4 (83 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
I think this is so good that it actually sort of suffers because of it, if that makes any sense? Starts off phenomenally - exemplifies what the best of horror movies can be and quite honestly does continue most of the way through. The formal precision is just insane, Dean Cundey naturally makes sure this looks nothing short of remarkable and the music is some of the all-time best ever contributed to a horror movie. So simple yet so effective, so suspenseful all these decades later. It never really loses any sort of quality outside of waning some of its tightness near the middle, but despite the fact that it's objectively exemplary it still feels like it lacks something, that oomph that this by all means should have. A huge factor, I think, is that truthfully this overuses a lot of its tricks. I mean Michael Myers, mysterious and intimidating, often framed from below the neck or behind the head is a staggering image in horror history - him disappearing and suddenly reappearing outside of a window or doorway? Truly haunting the first couple times, even a time or two after that. But again, then again, then again? It starts to lose its luster fast and really flattens the eerie wavelength of not really knowing what's going on. Though I think even this movie's fans don't give enough credit to how it (quite obviously and vocally) portrays Laurie, Loomis, and Michael as being tied irreversibly by fate where each attempt at either one getting out is merely one of a never-ending amount of predetermined actions merely to mirror randomness.
  
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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Eleventh Grave in Moonlight (Charley Davidson, #11) in Books

Jan 12, 2021  
Eleventh Grave in Moonlight (Charley Davidson, #11)
Eleventh Grave in Moonlight (Charley Davidson, #11)
Darynda Jones | 2017
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I'll start by saying I LOVE THIS SERIES! Darynda Jones has written such an amazing likeable but slightly dumb, sometimes genius character in Charley Davidson. You can't help but like her.

This starts with Charley sitting in a psychiatrist's office as she equally does a job and confesses everything that she's learned about herself over the last ten books to the doctor in the chair. Turns out the shrink is dead and haunting the office. There is one big case that Charley is working on in this and it's the couple who kidnapped Reyes when he was a baby. There's a few other smaller things thrown in and we see Charley learn how to be who she was born to be with a little help from Reyes.

As I've already mentioned, I love this series. It is right up my street with it's snark, humour and romance. Characters that we've grown to love over the last ten books make reappearances, some new characters pop up and some that have been mentioned peripherally make themselves known. It's hard to give too many details without spoiling it for those who haven't got this far in the series.

If you've not at least started this series, then I can't recommend it enough, really. That is, if you like urban fantasy/paranormal romances. Or demons. Gods...

I have book 12 in paperback, too, and haven't decided whether to read it straight away yet - despite that bit of a cliff hanger that happened at the end! - as I feel I would immediately want to read book 13 to finish the series and I don't have it yet. It's on my to-buy list.