Don't Be Afraid of the Dark? Movie Review

Anyone else hear the title of this movie and think it was going to be an adaptation of the Nickelodean show Are You Afraid of the Dark? I did too and once I saw the trailer I realized it was something completely different.

Yes, I haven't seen or reviewed a movie for a while. I apologize for that I have been preparing for our trip to Viva Las Vegas, which I hope I get to meet Elvira and I am also job hunting for a better job.

Synopsis: Sally is forced to live with her dad who lives in an old historic house in Rhode Island that he and his girlfriend are restoring. Sally starts having this creatures calling to her and wanting to play with her. They are ancient creatures who want to do more than just play with her.

Review: The movie wasn't too bad of a movie. While there was some intense scenes where you are waiting for something to happen, it wasn't as scary as I had heard other people say it was. I did notice that the creatures and the special features were done very well. It didn't look computerize and fake at all.

I think the best part of the movie was the end. It was intense and you did not see it happening at all. It's not up there with the great horror movies where everyone or mostly everyone is dead. Overall the movie was just okay. It's one that I am glad I waited until it was on Netflix to watch. I think I would have felt like I wasted money if I saw it in the theater.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter One Sheet Premiere

I have not read this book. I have read one similar called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, that I hated. Want to know my thoughts, check out my book review blog. I'll probably post it here as well.

Since I have not read the book here is the synopsis via GoodReads:

Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." 

"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. 

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. 

When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. 

While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.

Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation.

Sounds interesting. I am not sure if I will read the book, but it seems interesting. The movie is staring Benjamin Walker and will be in theater June 22,2012