I love horror but this was just too demented for me
937389
I love horror but this was just too demented for me. I turned it off half way through episode 3 and wanted to take a shower. Horror should be done with some taste.
4757870
Way too over the top for me. I like a good dracula story but this one was a little too gory for me.
421733
I love real horror and B horror.  This went from boring to incoherent nonsense over 90 minutes.  Don't waste your time.
668838
I could not get past half of this book. It zipped back and forth so much I felt like I was missing important details. I kept trying to remember what these characters were supposed to be in a paranormal aspect but it just didn't move very smoothly for me.
4094731
2.5 Stars
I wasn't sure about this one going in to it but that darn cover and synopsis drew me in and before I knew it, I had this downloaded on my kindle and ready to go. I knew it was an adventure that I needed to take simply out of curiosity if nothing more.

And my first initial reaction to it was....this is so very strange, but in a really good way strange. Like, make me think and need to reread strange because, okay, yeah, that was just weird and I liked it, strange.

Hmmm, where do I start?

This wasn't at all what I thought it would be. This was a strange new world. A whole other dark side of Savannah and it was bizarre and eerie and completely drew you in. I had to keep turning the pages simply because I had to know what in the world was going on with Carly and her strange little town. The town that the tourists and even some of the residents didn't know existed, or at least weren't telling you about.

The dark almost New Orleans creepy hocus pocus feel to it, I got all of that and then a little more darkness thrown in for good measure.

I really need another adjective because I keep wanting to say it was strange but that really isn't telling you enough. It was unique. It was slightly macabre feeling. It was so very enthralling that even though I wasn't loving it, I was still turning the pages. I think it put a spell on me. One that didn't let up until the book was completed.

It was quite the wild ride into a horror house of demons and ghosts and spells and magic. One that was terrifying to behold and like a car wreck that you see on the side of the road, one you couldn't look away from as you flew through the town.

It was about finding answers and helping friends and loss and love and facing your problems head on and not hiding in the darkness anymore, even when it is so much easier sometimes than facing the light.

Like I mentioned before, I didn't love this read but I have to give the author credit for how imaginative it was and how it kept me guessing right up until the very end about whether anything Carly was seeing and hearing was even happening. To be honest, I am still not 100% sure that it wasn't all in her head but...it is the unsurity that kept me thinking about it long after I was done reading.
2865006
I thought there might be something redeeming about this remake (I like to be optimisitc when there's negativity surrounding a movie). But really this just s***'s all over what made the original so suspensful and shocking. I will say there there were moments that actually stood out in a good way and it involved characters stepping into flashbacks of backstory being told. I thought it was neat but not enough to watch this again.
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"Ghosts are real. This much I know." Edith (Wasikowska) has been haunted by the death of her mother since a young age. She still sees her every once in a while as well as other ghostly images. Wanting to be more than just a woman waiting to get married she attempts to write and catches the eye of Thomas Sharpe (Hiddleston). After the death of her father she marries Thomas and returns with him to a mysterious house that holds secrets of the past. I am not a huge horror movie fan, but I was looking forward to this one because I do like Guillermo del Toro movies. That said, I was a little disappointed in this one. The movie was just a little too slow moving for me. I loved Pan's Labyrinth and the horror movies he has produced like Mama and Splice but I really just couldn't get into this one. I'm not saying this was a bad movie because it was good and the acting was great. The movie relied on psychological horror rather than jump scares or gore, but there was just something missing for me to be able to get fully involved in. Overall, not a bad movie at all, but disappointing after my high expectations based on the directors previous work. I give this a B-.
3040507
This is an interesting world and I really wanted to like it but even this early on it's a bit too gory/horror for me. Which is silly because I think it would pair really well with The Diviners. But there you go. I wish this had gotten a bigger push near its release. Will definitely be recommending.
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*Book source ~ A review copy was provided in exchange for an honest review.

Nell finds some really weird status updates on her Facebook wall that she doesnt remember writing. But there are other weird things happening around town, too. What the hell is going on?

This whole book had me perplexed. I wandered around the pages lost and confused like a redneck in a modern art museum. When I say, Its not you, its me. I truly mean it because I think this story just wasn't for me, but I believe there are others who will think its fantastic. Theyll get it and appreciate it. They will name it George and they will hug it and pet it and squeeze itwait. Lets just say theyll enjoy it and stop there. Psychopomp and Circumstance is a well-written, creepy, horror-filled psychological walk through the madness park. If horror is your thing then I recommend giving this one a go. Horror is just a side thing for me, so I think I miss some of the finer nuances. And now Im starting to sound creepy. Ill just go, ok?
3323630
I picked this book up for the Halloween season along with another and was looking forward to reading about ghosts, paranormal activities, and hellish demons coming from Hell House.

Unfortunately, it didn't quite deliver the fright that I was expecting. Although it did contain some ghosts and paranormal stuff, and an especially gruesome scene of a skeleton climbing on top of a woman, this wasn't scary for me in the slightest. A lot of the interesting things that happened in the Hell House, were told in expository format by one of the characters, rather than us being taken through these events. From what the character said I kept thinking to myself, "Okay when am I going to get to read about this and experience it?" Alas, it never happened.

The creepy ghostly stuff did start coming at the end, but it felt weak in the terror department. It was certainly disturbing and depraved but it wasn't quite 'frightening.'

However, despite all of that, this was an enjoyable read. I liked the characters and enjoyed the writing style. I wanted to see this book through all the way to the end and devoured every last bit of it.
2304630
I really enjoyed reading the Twinborn stories, and eagerly purchased this next series.  But the complete lack of morality and unending gore made this a very different set of stories.  Despite Mr. Morin's assurances that you don't need to read the Twinborn books first, I feel a reader would be truly lost if they read this one first; the characters and story carry over.
I found this to be disturbing and depressing, and honestly had a hard time getting through it.  I found that I'd read a few pages, then get distracted and go look for other things to occupy my time.
3163130
I like scary, horror flicks, but this one just had all the elements of Darkness Falls and Mirrors, with the entity not liking the lights, just like on Darkness Falls and Diana's vicious demenor like the psychos trapped in the mirrors at the department store. It was all too perdictable. And right if you grew up with this entity,and know what it's like why not arm yourself to the hilt with LIGHTS.I'll watch it again just to see what I missed the first time around.
1366369
I still remember the first time I read Shirley Jackson's amazing "The Haunting of Hill House" - it's one of those stories that echoes in your mind for years.  While the author attempts to acknowledge Jackson's work in his opening sentences, 'The Haunted' sadly cannot be considered worthy to stand even in the shadow of the truly great horror tales.

Collings' writing, in and of itself, isn't bad - I do believe he has the potential to write solidly entertaining books, and maybe even scary ones.  But as someone who's loved good horror stories throughout my life, this one seemed forced and trite.  I think 'overkill' is a fair term to use...it's as though the author tried to summon up every type of ghost, telekinetic event, 'scary' noise, and haunting image you may have seen/read in other stories, and crammed them all together in this short book.

The entire burden of the threadbare plot is carried by a couple whose characters are so obscured by the avalanche of apparitions inflicted upon them that they cease to be even mildly interesting or compelling.  I just stopped caring about what was happening to them...I was too busy giggling as I wondered what type of ghost would come next in the endless procession.

I regret being a negative reviewer, as  I believe this author has significant potential.  But even as a super-inexpensive Kindle 'special', this one wasn't worth it.
685710
I am only on page 47 of this book, and I have to say I am pretty repulsed by it.  It is difficult to read.  I find myself cringing at what is going to happen next.  Very dark, and most definitely disturbing.  True feelings almost always give a book a great deal of depth, but this was over the top.
225864
And they mean different things. Sweet god it was hard to get past that. However, if you can get past the garbage editing and buy in, the story is pretty creepy... I had to read it in one sleepless night, hoping the new house I just moved into wasn't on an old Cherokee burial ground... but too and to seriously weakened the experience. It really takes away from the horror aspect when you have to constantly correct the author in your head.
1538115
It is supposed to be a great horror flick I heard so Much so i went and rented it they had the second one but I thought I would only watch the first since i hear so much and man i don't know why this movie gets so much hype i mean i am a huge horror fan I have seen good and bad ,but this is terrible I kept falling asleep during it even when it is the best parts because those sucked! My advice is do what you want but beware of pumkinhead the movie suck!
438383
I think the first thing that grabs people about this book is the terrifying cover image, which is reminiscent of The Ring.  Sophie is a girl who has lost her sister and deals with the aftermath that Nell's death has wrought on her family.  Her mother has spiraled down into alcoholism and she mainly just tries to get through every day.  When Sophie teams up with an acquaintance at school to try to unravel the truth behind Nell's suicide, it looked like this book would become a mystery with paranormal elements.  The setting in a sketchy mental hospital had great potential and this book certainly had its creepy moments.  (Anything involving mirrors always freaks me out.)  However, it never quite became the either a mystery or a convincing paranormal story for me.  There wasn't enough depth of world building to make me care about hat was happening in the book.  It is one thing to keep things a mystery, but it is another to obscure the truth and then reveal it in a way that is entirely too convenient.  That's kind of how I felt about this story.

I was expecting this book to be scary, but I just found it to be more puzzling.  The set-up for the situation that Sophie finds herself in was too vague to give me a sense of what to be afraid of, exactly.  Sophie's own development into someone who also hears voices seemed to distract from what I thought was the focus of the book, which was finding out what exactly happened to her sister.  Pair that with a lukewarm love interest and an out-of-place former friend of Nell's who hold all of the answers and it became a book that just didn't work for me.  It was not without its moments and I did like the interaction between Sophie and her mother, who is still grieving, but the book just didn't come together for me, in the end.