User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/Emp's Halloween Horr-tacular (2017)/@comment-26399604-20171008174654

Can't say I'm too surprised about Rings. Some movies fall flat from the starting line and that one did in the trailers for me. It's a rare exception for a misleading trailer to hide the gem that is a movie.

I agree on the jumpscares 100%. I'm happy that horror movies can be made on low budgets and reel swarms of audiences but it's all for the wrong reasons -- for the fact that they're going for the jumpscares (often spoiled in the trailer) instead of the creepiness of the premise. I don't like putting the majority in a box but I seen it enough times with people that it's hard not to. In end, they come out talking about how the movie "sucked" or "wasn't really scary". Hmmm... I wonder why, maybe because all the "scares" weren't real: bottle knocked over by a friend, prank-scares, zero plot and no characters audiences are rooting for.

Congrats on the 100th day! I need to check out all those Lovecraft links.