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Post by Trever T on 8 minutes ago

I was recommended this as a very unusual and offbeat horror flick, and damn, yes, I thought it was a lot of fun. Reviews are all 1/10 or 8/10 so that interested me alone. First up, a good trailer that shows you exactly what you're getting without spoilering a single thing ^

It's a very nonconventional movie that's really about writing and creativity as much as anything else. The whole movie is essentially the two leads telling each other scary stories. But let's rewind -

Dude, a wannabe horror writer who WANTS to be a writer but has few ideas, is staying in a remote cabin to write his masterpiece about werewolves with guns. He encounters the girl staying down the road, who turns out to be a real, published, famous horror writer. When weather hits and the power goes out, she turns up at his door and the two pass the night by telling each other scary stories.

That's it, that's the whole plot. What's fun is what a great job they do in telling these stories on camera, as they come up with them spontaneously and keep trying to top each other. There are no real FX to speak of, though the stories are "embellished" with the occasional vampire fang here and sound effect there. Really, it's a celebration of spooky storytelling by crackling firelight.

The main demerits for me were the two characters themselves - She is abrasive beyond belief and is the sort of angry feminist who can't speak a line without referring to the patriarchy and/or "white men", while he is such an angry loser that you just want to smack him for the massive inferiority complex he's carrying around about trying to "prove" himself to this "real author". For about the first third of the movie I was like, I would not tolerate either of these two in my cabin so forget the whole idea of the storytelling. However, they do become a bit more tolerable as you learn more about them and the whole situation becomes a lot more fun just about the time it starts to also get genuinely uneasy.