bilgeboybob

I keep telling myself that if I just went to see good movies, how can I judge a truly bad one? Even so, "Nightmare 2010" stretched my patience to the very limits.

It's fundamental problem as one shared by many modern horror movies - it just wasn't scary. In fact it was dull, dull, dull! the only reason I sat through it was because I couldn't honestly write a review without having done so.

Like a lot of the pointless remakes of the last few years (Wicker Man, Omen, The Fog) it's a visually and technically slick production with almost no substance whatsoever.

It has 2 minor redeeming features 1) Jackie Earl-Hayley's creepy voice 2)a genuinely chilling reveal involving the main characters digging up their personal past.

Save yourself the trouble, don't bother with this hum drum piece of rubbish.

I've only seen about half the series so far because there is annoyingly little anime airing in the UK currently, DVD being the most accessible media for it.

What I've seen, I like. WHR is a dark and atmospheric series. A nice simple idea, a sort of modern inquisition hunts the supernatural "bad guys" with some very dirty grey morality underpinning the story (Are there really any "good guys"?) It's got a quite a few of the usual anime themes and devices, but has a wonderfully subdued and underplayed pace to it.

A welcome change!