This week in movies you missed: In honor of Halloween, I go looking for a scary movie that scares me.
First contender: The Conjuring (just released on video). The first hour was genuinely disturbing, and I wouldn’t give it one star. But once they started explaining everything with hokey backstory, my chills evaporated.
Second contender: a super-low-budget indie called Resolution about a dude who chains his buddy up in a Cabin in the Woods to force him to shake a meth addiction. The few critics who saw it, liked it. The concept was interesting, but I didn’t find it scary for a second and had trouble staying awake.
Luckily, the third time was the charm. Returning to the deep and indiscriminate well of Netflix Instant horror, I discovered The Pact.
What You Missed
Young mom Nichole (Agnes Bruckner) is alone in her childhood home preparing for her mother’s funeral. She’s Skyping with her kid when something odd happens. “Mommy,” the little girl asks, “who’s that person behind you?”
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