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Silent Hill 2 (2001)
Silent Hill 2 is a dark, atmospheric tale... which is also quite overrated.
The scary vibe and creepy/disturbing atmosphere is a great thing about SH2. There are some iconic scenes and monsters which are sure to scare the pants off of you. However, the game lost me a quarter way through. What is with all the goddamn puzzles and riddles?! It became quite ridiculous sometimes, and instead of scared I was just frustrated. Sometimes, you spend too much time in one area (for example, hospital), and it just becomes boring and tiresome. The creepiness was wasted in puzzles which take up 85 percent of the game. The combat was okay... But the puzzles! They are too sustained, and I lost track of what I was even doing in Silent Hill in the first place! Also, the checkpoints are absurd. Definitely overrated!
Robert (2015)
A British horror film with great atmosphere, but horrendous acting and dialogue.
'Robert' is about a family who fires their maid for being too old and forgetful. Then, the maid gets revenge by giving the child of the family a possessed doll.
I will start with the positive side of Robert. It is a very tense and atmospheric psychological horror film. And the fact that it is based on true events makes it all more terrifying. It uses haunting cinematography and camera tricks to unnerve viewers, instead of throwing in bucket loads of gore or cheap jump scares. I respect this film a lot for not scaring the audience by never ending false scares.
Now to the negative parts. I don't understand why they can't just respect the source material. They changed the look of the doll - the real 'Robert' is nothing like the doll portrayed in the film. Also, the musical score in the film is quite scary first time, but gets repetitive... very, VERY REPETITIVE. They used the same music over and over again, and it got old very fast.
However, the very worst part of Robert is the atrocious acting and dialogue. The dialogue has very long, awkward pauses and you start to mutter to yourself, 'get to the point!'. The acting is very poor, especially the mother and child's acting. The father's acting was slightly better, bit still very poor. I thought the writer focused on the story too much, sometimes too an extent where you thought it was a soap opera. Some scenes were too depressing and the characters were boring and tasteless. The writer added too much background plots and the film became too slow paced at times.
Overall, I would give a four out of ten because they used the psychological aspect very well, using some great cinematography, but overall the acting and how the story was carried out was very poor and at times very boring.
The Last Exorcism (2010)
One of the most disappointing horror movies in a long time...
The Last Exorcism is well acted, and has a fairly good (but familiar) storyline. But everything else is just disappointing.
From reviews, I was expecting an original new horror film. However, it takes about 45 minutes to get into the actual exorcism. The twist at the end doesn't make any sense at all, because the camera is all shaky and you really can't tell what is going on.
There are also lots of random scary scenes, where the writer/director just thinks 'we will just put a scary scene there to make the movie interesting'. In fact, those scary scenes just make the movie pointless and boring. There are no particularly creepy shots, or atmosphere anywhere in the movie.
Now, lets talk about the 'documentary' style to the film. It would have worked well, but the director decides to put eerie music in there. People who make documentaries do not just add some music in a documentary for effect. Also, some shots look like they are made to look like a normal movie, not a documentary. These aspects just make the style tacky, and not scary.
I found Paranormal Activity quite boring, but that doesn't compare to this piece of crap.
Overall: 1 out of 5 OR 2 out of 10 OR D-