The Pact (2012)

Caity Lotz stars in this odd movie alongside Casper Van Dien and other unknown actors, to me at least. I honestly wouldn't call this a horror movie, it's more along the lines of a supernatural thriller & that's only because there's like ghostly shit happening every now and then but..shh okay I won't ruin that. Annie (Caity Lotz) walks barefoot all the time & doesn't learn from her mistakes & even though she says in the beginning of the movie that everyone in her family leaves during difficult situations, well I thought she was joking. Bitch bolted out the door way too many times. The camera pauses a lot around the house where all the action takes place. To build suspense? I kept thinking the movie had frozen, got annoying, it happens throughout the whole thing. Not often but once too many times.

Casper Van Dien has a small role as a police officer, maybe detective since he's in regular clothes all the time. He also has a Clint Eastwood thing going on vocally. One too many cigarettes. Watch it once because it's not very noteworthy. Not bad, but just..whatever.

~Salinger

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2011)

This "horror" movie is one for the kids, ages 10+ imo. It's rated R but, c'mon, these kids watch crazier things (Netflix has a ages 16+ advisory notice). There are a handful of moments when your heart skips a beat from an unexpected scare, but with rat sized creatures (a quick Google Image search will show you what I mean) that are fully shown from early on in the movie, there is little to be scared over. There are an exact two scenes of any actual bloody violence and the first is left a bit more to the imagination.

I'm at the 11 minute countdown to being done and well,  I really stuck with this movie only because it's not completely terrible and I wanted to see the ending. The acting is ok, it's the script that hams things up. And really, the "monsters" are shown too often and are too visible for any sort of suspense. Then there's the child vs adult theme happening, and that's always annoying.

Kid: Daddy, there's monsters here.

Father: It's just your imagination.

You know, that type of thing & no one believes her until it's too late. Also there's a very obvious spin to the Tooth Fairy stories.

Ok, the ending is interesting, it leaves the possibility of a second movie option or just tries to lead the viewer into thinking about how these creatures might increase in numbers. Worth watching if you're into soft "horror" movies.

~Salinger