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Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) rated Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy in TV

Apr 22, 2021 (Updated Apr 22, 2021)  
Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy
Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy
2004 | Comedy, Reality-TV
3
3.7 (3 Ratings)
TV Show Rating
Exploitation
Exploitation at its worst. It's terrible to subject children to some of these people chosen for this show. They may have the adults would make good tv but at what cost to the children who have to live with that stranger for a week. Parents who sign their families up for this should be visited by child protective services to determine what other poor decisions they have made involving their child's care because some of this stuff is borderline abuse.
  
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Darren Fisher (2465 KP) rated The Room Upstairs in Books

Dec 10, 2020 (Updated Dec 10, 2020)  
The Room Upstairs
The Room Upstairs
Iain Rob Wright | 2020 | Horror, Mystery, Paranormal
7
7.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Wright on!
I have now read a few of Iain Rob Wright's books (which I will get round to reviewing soon). The Room Upstairs was the latest read and I have to say that, like all his books so far, it was a rollicking good read. Wright delivers a good balance of horror and dark humour. I have often been reminded of the old tv show Hammer House of Horror whilst reading his books (a good thing for me at least). Recommended reading
  
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David McK (3623 KP) rated Loki - Season 2 in TV

Nov 24, 2023  
Loki - Season 2
Loki - Season 2
2023 | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Second season of Marvel's timey-wimey TV show (yes, I stole that straight from Dr Who), picking up after the events of the first season and still starring Tom Hiddleston as Loki, who here is now 'time-slipping' between different periods of time within the Time Variance Authority (the TVA) as the Temporal Loom comes closer and closet to overloading leading to the destruction of the multiverse.

What's the Temporal Loom, you say?

You need to watch to find out!
  
The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House
2018 | Horror
Genuinely creepy (2 more)
The tall man
The amazing 6th episode
Horror done right
What is the chance that I would watch the original "The Haunting" movie, only to see that the following day, a TV show based on the book that spawned the original movie, would appear on Netflix? Well, this is what happened to me. I'll start by saying I love the original movie. I love the psychological aspect of the horror. Sounds & shapes can be so much more terrifying that gore & jump-scares. When I saw the show under my recommendations, I couldn't wait, so I just jumped in.
I am not one to binge watch shows. My time is limited & I watch lots of stuff. But I was immediately hooked on this show. I watched half the season in one day & the rest the following.

The show does a very good job in taking the original movie's plot, changing things around & creating a terrifying tale that takes the psychological horror of the original, mixes it with some minor jump-scares & a compelling story of a family dealing with it's own demons as well as the spirits that live within Hell House. Yes, that was a very long sentence, which reminds me of the 6th episode, which is filled with long shots. The camera spins around, while things change around them. in fact, throughout the series, things change all the time. Sometimes statues turn their heads, ghosts appear in the background, faces appear in the furniture. Once I noticed one of these faces, just there, staring at the family. My fiance didn't even notice. I backed it up to show her. She went "Ooh! How did I not see that?"

The story does jump around in time, showing when the family first moved into the house, with 5 children & their parents & then in current day, still being haunted & compelled by the house. Every actor in the show is fantastic. Even the children really pull it off.

The ghosts in the show are creepy as all hell. My favorite is the tall man. I haven't been freaked out by a movie or TV show in decades, but I held my breath & stared as he...well, just watch.

I have recommended this to all my friends & those who watched it all got back to me to thank me. So, I'm recommending it to all of you too.