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Well I just watched my secound Horror Fest moive, Penny Dreadful and it did not dissapoint. I love these movies, at least the first two have been genuis in thier own way. They are the essence of true horror in my opinion, there is something about them, the fact that you could not see them on the Big Screen, and they do not have any major actors in them, and they are not like big main stream cinnimae qualtity that makes them even better. There is something old school about them and they are like classic horror and what horror is suppose to be about.
Though there was nothing particular original or unique about the bassic theme/story behind Penny Dreadful that is too say that it emboided elements that can be found in varrious other horror stories and was a common tale, but that is part of the reason why it is one that shows up so much in horror, it is something that everyone could relate to in one way or another, it is taking something perfectly plausiable and then exgerating it and playing upon our fears, and Penny Dreadful truly made the subject its own.
The movie managed to really capture the element of terror and instill that feeling into the viewers, though one of the things which I liked about it, is that it did not go for the obvious, it set up the scene, a famillar scene, in which you are waiting for something to come, you know it is comming and it makes you belive it will at any moment, but then it does not, so you are susspended in this feeling and really put into the mind of the character being portrayed. It took horror to a pyschological level but without completely abdnoning those elements to classice horror. Melding both together.
11:46 PM - 5/5/2007 -
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