Monthly Archive: August 2019

My Dog The Space Traveler (2013)

Yes, that background is a drowning child.

My Dog The Space Traveler
Directed by Robin Christian

Sometimes it can be difficult to figure out what a movie will be about until you’ve watched it, case in point My Dog The Space Traveler. That sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Like the movie is this big space adventure where a kid’s dog visits all these alien worlds, and maybe the kid has to find him and get him home! Sounds like it could be fun, and so does the description of the movie, which reads “Aliens have invaded Earth…And they want your dogs!!” Let me break it to you: this is not fun. This made me want to stop watching movies. Not just this movie. Not just dog movies. All movies.

This screenshot represents about half the runtime.
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Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (2019)

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark (2019)

Directed by André Øvredal

Before we get into the film I need to lay my cards on the table, I was pumped for this movie. Some of the first horror stories I ever read were from the Scary Stories book series and boy did they scare the hell out of me. The illustrations, the campfire story approach, the sometimes gruesome and gritty endings to the stories all worked so perfectly to appeal to my budding horror fascination. I like the books so much that my wife recently bought me a reproduction set as a gift that I now cherish. Please take that all into consideration when I say that liked the Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark movie.

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