Sunday Spoop: Horror News and Reviews 9/1/19 Halloween in Theme Parks, Ready or Not and Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark Reviews
This week I mostly have reviews... but I do have a few older Halloween related news stories... so I'll post that for the news section and I'll save my movie reviews for the end!
First off- Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party opened in Walt Disney World and they have a new fireworks show that looks pretty fun! They have a puppet of Jack Skellington narrating the extravaganza and then a really cute Halloween Disney Short Projected onto the castle, which is really cool. It seems like a super cute and fun event. They are also offering a season pass if you're looking to go multiple nights of the parade- so that is really cool!
Speaking of Halloween at the Theme Parks, Universal is also getting ready for their Halloween Horror Nights. They have some original houses this year- Depths of Fear (water themed), Graveyard Games (teens awaken some scary spirits), Nightingales Blood Pit (gladiator themed) and the Yeti themed Yeti Terror of The Yukon.... so those all sound exciting and scary. They also have some Intellectual property houses based off of some more popular Horror and Halloween movies including Ghostbusters,Stranger Things, Us, House of 1000 Corpses, Killer Clowns from Outer Space and Universal Monsters. They also have some scare zones like Zombieland Double Tap, Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe, Anarch-cade (which is arcade themed) a Hollywood Plastic Surgery Themed Vanity Ball, and Vikings Undead. So all of those sound fun and scary! I've never been and I'm not going to Florida anytime soon... so I won't see it... but I am excited to see what people think of the houses. I really liked the movie Us... so I'd be interested in that house.
Also in Universal News they did announce that they're going to have a third theme park, which is exciting and that theme park is rumored to be having a Universal Monsters section... I think it's still unconfirmed but I'm positive it's going to happen. The Theme Park is called Epic Universe... it would be cool to see Dracula's Castle or Frankenstein's Lab... or something cool like that. It sounds like a cool land and I feel like this part is one of the more exciting parts!
Onto the reviews! I saw 2 scary movies recently... both very different, One is more of a fun movie that I think is more geared towards kids and the second is one of the most suspenseful and scary movies I've seen in theaters... so that's that!
First off Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark. This isn't actually too scary. It's maybe a little bit scary and a little bit sad if you have a kid that is scared or saddened very easily... the ending has some parts that I think would have made me sad as a kid more than something that had actually scared me. I didn't really think there were too many scary moments for kids... I was kind of a scaredy cat as a kid... and I don't think this would have scared me all that much. I went into watching this movie kind of stressed out because I went somewhere for lunch and I left my debit card there and I was freaking out about that (I called before the movie started... but I was still a bit in not the best mood...) and at the end of the movie I left thinking "Wow that was a lot of fun. I would love to watch this movie on halloween." Because it was just a fun halloween movie. I wish it wasn't released quite so early... but it was a good movie. A few boring parts maybe and not all the stories were done that well... but I liked the movie overall and I had fun watching it!
The next movie was Ready or Not... which I just saw the Saturday after it was released... this was actually really suspenseful, very funny...and just a really great movie over all. I just saw a commercial for it and I told my boyfriend "Ohh I want to see this movie! It looks like it could be really good!" And we were really impressed by it. The story was really good... It was about a family that had a tradition where they played a game after a wedding otherwise they would die, and they would draw a card to pick out the game... and if the game was Hide and Seek... the person that pulled the card would have to hide while the rest of the family tried to kill them... and they would have to do it before dawn otherwise everyone would die. It was very suspenseful... but there were also a lot of funny moments. The characters were all kind of detailed and layered... and some of the villains weren't really all bad, and you could see how they got the way they did... and then there were some characters that you just loved to hate. I would be interested in any other movies by the people that wrote and directed this. I don't even think it was a Blumhouse movie- so that was kind of surprising too.
That is it! Definitely recommend the movies... especially Ready or Not- see it in theaters for sure! Really good!
Bye!
-Shannon
First off- Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party opened in Walt Disney World and they have a new fireworks show that looks pretty fun! They have a puppet of Jack Skellington narrating the extravaganza and then a really cute Halloween Disney Short Projected onto the castle, which is really cool. It seems like a super cute and fun event. They are also offering a season pass if you're looking to go multiple nights of the parade- so that is really cool!
Speaking of Halloween at the Theme Parks, Universal is also getting ready for their Halloween Horror Nights. They have some original houses this year- Depths of Fear (water themed), Graveyard Games (teens awaken some scary spirits), Nightingales Blood Pit (gladiator themed) and the Yeti themed Yeti Terror of The Yukon.... so those all sound exciting and scary. They also have some Intellectual property houses based off of some more popular Horror and Halloween movies including Ghostbusters,Stranger Things, Us, House of 1000 Corpses, Killer Clowns from Outer Space and Universal Monsters. They also have some scare zones like Zombieland Double Tap, Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe, Anarch-cade (which is arcade themed) a Hollywood Plastic Surgery Themed Vanity Ball, and Vikings Undead. So all of those sound fun and scary! I've never been and I'm not going to Florida anytime soon... so I won't see it... but I am excited to see what people think of the houses. I really liked the movie Us... so I'd be interested in that house.
Also in Universal News they did announce that they're going to have a third theme park, which is exciting and that theme park is rumored to be having a Universal Monsters section... I think it's still unconfirmed but I'm positive it's going to happen. The Theme Park is called Epic Universe... it would be cool to see Dracula's Castle or Frankenstein's Lab... or something cool like that. It sounds like a cool land and I feel like this part is one of the more exciting parts!
Onto the reviews! I saw 2 scary movies recently... both very different, One is more of a fun movie that I think is more geared towards kids and the second is one of the most suspenseful and scary movies I've seen in theaters... so that's that!
First off Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark. This isn't actually too scary. It's maybe a little bit scary and a little bit sad if you have a kid that is scared or saddened very easily... the ending has some parts that I think would have made me sad as a kid more than something that had actually scared me. I didn't really think there were too many scary moments for kids... I was kind of a scaredy cat as a kid... and I don't think this would have scared me all that much. I went into watching this movie kind of stressed out because I went somewhere for lunch and I left my debit card there and I was freaking out about that (I called before the movie started... but I was still a bit in not the best mood...) and at the end of the movie I left thinking "Wow that was a lot of fun. I would love to watch this movie on halloween." Because it was just a fun halloween movie. I wish it wasn't released quite so early... but it was a good movie. A few boring parts maybe and not all the stories were done that well... but I liked the movie overall and I had fun watching it!
The next movie was Ready or Not... which I just saw the Saturday after it was released... this was actually really suspenseful, very funny...and just a really great movie over all. I just saw a commercial for it and I told my boyfriend "Ohh I want to see this movie! It looks like it could be really good!" And we were really impressed by it. The story was really good... It was about a family that had a tradition where they played a game after a wedding otherwise they would die, and they would draw a card to pick out the game... and if the game was Hide and Seek... the person that pulled the card would have to hide while the rest of the family tried to kill them... and they would have to do it before dawn otherwise everyone would die. It was very suspenseful... but there were also a lot of funny moments. The characters were all kind of detailed and layered... and some of the villains weren't really all bad, and you could see how they got the way they did... and then there were some characters that you just loved to hate. I would be interested in any other movies by the people that wrote and directed this. I don't even think it was a Blumhouse movie- so that was kind of surprising too.
That is it! Definitely recommend the movies... especially Ready or Not- see it in theaters for sure! Really good!
Bye!
-Shannon
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