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Shout out to Netflix for at least not sexualizing children in Wednesday (2022). It would've been so easy with some of their characters and costume designs, but no. They always felt so carefully chosen.

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Text on picture: "just got back from a very interactive haunted house. So interactive that I got gooed in the face within the first ten minutes. These contacts should be clear. They are this color [yellow] two hours later."

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The Poltergiest Remake was sincerely just a major disappointed.

I watch a lot of shitty horror movies. I have a wide give for "potential," because that's all the vast majority of horror has.

This didn't even have that. It didn't have any jump scares to provide cheap thrills. The horror elements they added on were not good. They seemed like barely in the oven for a minute ideas. The tree crawling through the house? The first one's tree scene was simple and well done because of it. That was the beauty of the original. They used some simple ideas of things children and adults find scary and just did simple (though I suspect that actual process for filming was complicated). There was not crazy chase scenes for every single character. The only scene that had potential was the drone in the other world. It had the feels of Insidiuous that I appreciate with the potential for some really cool scenes with characters. But they didn't really go anywhere with it. The rest of the new additions were just plain dumb and the remake scenes were exaggerated to the point of being boring but not funny.

Furthermore, It didn't provide good modern interpretations of the characters. In fact, I absolutely hated every character. The "modern" rendition of a family moving because the dad lost the job was tackily portrayed. The scene of him buying presents after he just had a bunch of cards declined was probably supposed to show how much he loved his family but instead came off as misogynistic asshole who bury his pride to either let his wife earn money or get a job that can pay bills even if it's below him yet thinks he has some requirement to "provide" for his family without backing it with real money. Oh, and on top of that, he shows no redemption in the end for this myriad of bad qualities. It's just forgotten as though him buying the kids stuff they want is somehow his saving grace.

They are both bad parents who are terrible to their poor child, who doesn't necessarily need a shrink, just needs parents willing to listen and not put him in the fucking attic when he tends to get afraid easily. They both let him go into the other zone alone too!

The moms character feels all over the place on top of being a bad mom. They build her up to be a writer that doesn't have time but for what purpose? Why can't she just be a stay at home mom? They don't have her write a book in the end so why even build that in. Its awkward and weird. Maybe she was a writer but she doesnt seem even that convinced shes one right now. That's okay. Moming is a full time job.

The children just... I mean the teenage daughter got slightly more of an existence then the original,but I appreciated the way the original basically got rid of her character by saying she couldnt sleep in the house. Meanwhile the two youngest were just terrible. Either their directions for how to act were bad or they were not prepared for a A-level production. The little girl especially.. her delivery of lines was excruciating. I'm not blaming her, shes a child actress. But I do blame the director who letting the off tone get into the end product.

The little boys whole arch, on the other hand, was terrible. We get a little boy who is portrayed as easily frightened and stereotypically "weak" (e.g. him throwing up in the car). But then at the same time he is playing scary video games and playing with a closet with his sister that is doing strange things? Theres no consistency or reasoning for these inconsistencies. Him leaving his sister seemed less like potential for growth (HES A FUCKING CHILD HES ALLOWED TO BE SCARED AND NOT BE PPREPARED TO PROTECT ANOTHER CHILD. IT SHOULD NOT BE UP TO HIM TO BRING HIS SISTER BACK) and more just plain cruelty on the writers and directors part.

All around, I give this movie a 0 out of 5 stars and sentence it to the other zone.

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This weekend I learned the horrible mistake that is taking a nap during Halloween 4.

I got to the part where the "slutty girl" character dies.

All I know about what happens after that is that whatever it was, it happened ten times, all in the same way with the same loud noise that woke me up each time.

My fiance agreed with me, as he fell asleep even earlier in the movie.