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Old 7th October 2024, 09:11 AM
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Wrong Turn. 2003.

A horror that actually does work, it involves six young people being hunted by a family of cannibalistic mountain men, is very straightforward and offers no real surprises, a mix of The Hills Have Eyes and the country side. The mountain men prove to be some of the scariest movie killers that I've seen in a long time, probably because the film wastes no time in showing us exactly what they plan to do with their victims.The main characters behave just like anyone else would in that situation, and they're likable enough and believable enough to make us root for them, aside from having a few jokes and a character mentioning Deliverence, everything else i taken seriously.

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Pin. 1988.

A interesting but slow psychological horror involving a medical dummy named Pin who is a comfort for two children then as they get older the young son develops more twist to confiding in the dummy.The first half hour or so is sort of awkward to watch due to some of the children's experiences. The latter half of the film doesn't focus on Leon's psychology as much as one would expect, though it is clear that the kid has a warped idea of sexuality based on his twisted parental guidance and a sexual encounter he witnessed involving his beloved Pin and his father's nursing assistant. The acting is interesting especially from Terry O' Quinn as the strict father.

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