Ghost Story, Waterworld-Style

Kytte rented Below and let me spectate upon it. Not a bad piece of work. Written by Darren Aronofsky (Pi), Below is basically a haunted house movie with a twist: it's set on a WWII submarine that has just picked up three survivors from a British hospital boat. Things start to get strange, and of course, all is not as it seems.

Belowmanaged to avoid a lot of the cliche it flirted with through the whole movie. It didn't tip its hand on the ghost too early, and at the end of the movie, it was totally plausible that the crew could have imagined the entire thing - there was almost always a rational explanation for what occured. It almost slid into horror-action at times, but didn't quite make it, thank goodness. All in all, not a bad way to scare myself for an evening.

I'm going to make some maintenance-related changes to the site, including adding a section on that right navbar about cool upcoming DVD releases, for the movie buffs out there. Of course, if you order those DVDs through Amazon.com, I will get a little in return, which will eventually help pay to upgrade this site. So if you want to buy one of the films I've listed, please do so through my links.