Steve’s Mid Week Movie Spot

It is interesting when reading other peoples articles; it highlights how taste in films varies. Kirk for example who also writes on this blog doesn’t like horror movies, whereas I love a decent horror film, I think there is something addictive about being sat in your front room, cold, hard rain being driven into the windows, trees swooshing and making noise as the wind rips through them as you sit with the lights off getting treated to some scary, edge of the seat horror. But each to their own… my thing is I dislike musicals and romantic movies (except Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind for some reason).

But I would say that even within a genre my taste will vary, similar films are told in different ways and one your will think brilliant and the other mediocre. The Descent for example, oh my, fantastic, claustrophobic inducing horror, filmed fabulously and with style, a real scary film and on an estimated 3.5million (three point five million) budget. The Cave however which was out around the same time, with an estimated 30 (thirty) million budget was extremely mediocre. Both movies were of the same genre and yet the cheaper one was superb, the more expensive one not. It just goes to show that a massive budget does not a good movie make.

It is interesting to note that Kirk mentions Nightmare on Elm Street in his article, I found that film very scary back in the day, but I watched it again about 6 months ago and I found it shockingly bad, I guess tastes change.