Gabe Reviews Horror

This review was originally written in 2021. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #3- We Are Still Here (2015) I watched this movie a few years ago, and I even wrote a review for it (I remember arguing with a friend on Facebook about some of the issues I had). I ultimately didn't like it, but I don't remember much beyond that negative reaction, and I've heard so many people praise this film in the years since, so this time around I made sure to pay better attention and give it another shot. Unfortunately, I still don't like this movie. I feel like it didn't do anything noteworthy, the characters' motivations don't make sense, and the plot feels like a half-baked episode of Supernatural (except the several episodes of Supernatural that dealt with this exact same plot still had more going for them than this feature-length movie). The premise is nothing new, yet incredibly muddled: a family moves into a new house, but unknown to them there are ghosts ...

This review was originally written in October 2016. Day 8: We Are Still Here My first substitute (since I don't have HBO Go, otherwise I'd be watching Deep Blue Sea) and I have to say, it really wasn't very good. With the exception of the special effects (which are actually very, very well done and creepy), this movie looked like it was made by someone who had to make a video for his Intro to Film class and was only taking the class because he needed two more credits to graduate. It has plenty of hallmarks of lazy/amateur filmmaking- establishing shots of scenery that are held for about ten seconds too long, dialogue scenes that break the 180 degree rule, an unnecessary plot dump between side characters halfway through the film, and (a popular trend among bad modern horror movies) plenty of poorly-executed jump scares. Now don't get me wrong, there's a good way to make a jump scare and a bad way to make one- as a rule of thumb, if you intend for your jump scare to s...