the involvement of R.L. Stine and him being known for targeting a younger audience.
I've got them but haven't watched them yet. R.L. Stine, so I expect them to be similar to his other works. I'm not expecting anything too horror.
Frankly, there isn't much horror that impresses me anymore. Most of the stuff I see anymore is terrible (from a movie production standards point of view) and most of them try to gross you out or show how sadistic or demented they can be without the talent a good movie needs.
I've seens some interesting Russian movies lately which capture horror far better than anything out of Hollyweird. Stine's movies are candy horror suitable for kids during Halloween.
I recently picked up 116 dvds and blurays at a flea market ($80). Lots of older films which includes science fiction and horror. I'm converting them to mp3s in hi-def then donating the discs to the local library. These films were made before the genres became gimmicky.
Every once in awhile you come across a gem nowdays but those are too few and far apart.
I loves me some monsters. I like to imagine them as aliens from alien worlds, the weirder the better. The Universe is so huge and is populated with so many different worlds, I imagine some really weird creatures might actually exist. I also study effects and how they look, not so much how they are acheived (unless they are so bad it distracts from the effect).
Some people are very passionate about their horror. Some people are very passionate about their movies. I watch so many bad movies, when a good one comes along I get excited. When I forget I am watching a movie and feel ike I;m in it, that's a good movie. I don't care who made it or who likes it.
My first choice is science fiction, then action, then horror but monster movies,... no matter the genre, get my highest vote. But, they need to make sense.
