Man, it's been a lonely day filled with writing articles that weren't my ideas, so they've felt like harder work. I try too hard for articles I know are skim-read by most, but I don't ever want to seem like I'm just coasting by. It's easier to avoid coasting when the topics are ones I'm passionate about, but the ones I get handed out... it can be hard. I don't know if human beings were built to write 1750+ pop-culture-related articles in the space of just over three years, especially when the human being in question keeps trying really hard. "Writers just don't get paid well," they say, like it's a universal fact. Screw that. I've seen bad writing. It's not mine.
So, Evil Heart looked like something to easy to watch and practice reviewing, because the skills keep needing to be exercised. It belongs to a genre or sub-genre I can now identify, but don't know the name of... these 30 to 40 minute-long low-budget Japanese horror movies that were clearly made for the home video market. Maybe they only sold a few hundred copies, but if they were thrown together over a weekend and didn't cost much to make, maybe they were profitable enough.
They're amateurish, almost charming, and then usually graphically violent in the last five minutes. This one was about a ghost story that might've turned real? It had some startling imagery near the end. I liked how weird it felt, but I am also zonked out. I do not know for sure whether it could be called good or bad, but I would like to give it the benefit of the doubt, because it's out there, it exists, and it was largely watchable.
