Reviews for Similar Films
Drag Me To Hell:
"Drag Me to Hell is a sometimes funny and often startling horror movie. That is what it wants to be, and that is what it is."
"Drag Me to Hell is a sometimes funny and often startling horror movie. That is what it wants to be, and that is what it is."
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
"Raimi's Drag Me to Hell does everything we want a horror film to do: It is fearsomely scary, wickedly funny and diabolically gross, three stomach-churning states that argue for taking a pass on the $10 box of popcorn."
"Inspired by the tone of B-movie scare epics of the '50s, they've made a slick, mostly predictable homage-pastiche that itself rates about a B-."
"Not everything it might have been, then, but decent enough to have you tracking down the original."
"Raimi's Drag Me to Hell does everything we want a horror film to do: It is fearsomely scary, wickedly funny and diabolically gross, three stomach-churning states that argue for taking a pass on the $10 box of popcorn."
Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times
"The looseness Raimi allows himself here results in an especially joyous kind of filmmaking, the sort where the filmmaker's delight in scaring us (and making us laugh) becomes part of the movie's fabric."
Salon.com
"Inspired by the tone of B-movie scare epics of the '50s, they've made a slick, mostly predictable homage-pastiche that itself rates about a B-."
TIME Magazine
"A movie that is slickly accomplished in its own dark arts, and one that never once resorts to the recent nihilistic faddishness for torture-porn. It will be a huge hit. The re-invention of horror begins here."
Times [UK]
The Ring:
"Not everything it might have been, then, but decent enough to have you tracking down the original."
Time Out
"It's disappointing, losing most of the original's flavour, while retaining and amplifying what was muddled and unsatisfying about it in the first place."
Guardian [UK]
"It's a treasure hunt reduced to isolated jolts and more clues than you can shake a stick at (every fly on the wall and child's drawing bristles with unholy significance), and an utter waste of Watts."
Chicago Reader
The Shining:
"Deeply scary and strange."
Guardian [UK]
"Ostensibly a haunted house story, it manages to traverse a complex world of incipient madness, spectral murder and supernatural visions... and also makes you jump."
Empire Magazine
"With everything to work with, director Stanley Kubrick has teamed with jumpy Jack Nicholson to destroy all that was so terrifying about Stephen King's bestseller."
Variety
"A feeling of deep-rooted evil runs through every frame in mesmerising fashion. Hell, even the dizzyingly-patterned carpets are somewhat hypnotic."
Flix Capacitor
"As in 2001, Kubrick likes ghost stories more than I do. And he gives me enough else, in the way of acting and bizarrely beautiful surroundings, to keep me happy."
The Nation
The Eye (2008):
"With every twist of the second-hand plot telegraphed far in advance, you don't need to be clairvoyant to see where this is going."
BBC
"Alba simply isn't good enough to carry this kind of movie, and lacks the presence to counter the major deficiencies of a weak and feeble ghost story."
Film4
"There are a couple of effective scares, but this feels like a retread too far. Enough with J-horror already - let's do something new."
Empire Magazine
"It's all based on the creepy little Chinese film Gin gwai, an atmospheric spine-tingler that, we're sad to say, is considerably more frightening than this tame effort."
IGN Movies UK
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