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• Top Notch — for Poltergeist
  Written by w3sker on 13.09.2014

  Spoilers!!!
  Poltergeist (1982) is a great supernatural horror film from Steven Spielberg & Tobe Hopper and was the dark flip side for Diane and Steve Freeling (Williams and Nelson) in the Cuesta Verde housing development of suburban California, with ordinary objects that turned threatening The famous poster reflected one of the more memorable, spookier moments of the film, with young 5 year-old Carole Anne (Heather O'Rourke) pressed against a television showing nothing but white noise, and saying, "They're here." Another tremendous trick scene was the one in which the camera slowly panned away from a kitchen table - and then returned to view a stack of chairs.

  There were two less successful sequels in subsequent years. The only actors to reprise their roles in all three films were Heather O'Rourke and Zelda Rubenstein (as psychic Tangina):

• Simple But Good — for Eden Lake
  Written by w3sker on 19.09.2014

  a British movie about a couple who goes camping in an old quarry-turned-resort area and meets up with danger in the form of a band of young ruffians.

  It's hard to know how to rate Eden Lake. On the one hand, it's a skillfully made movie that does what it sets out to do very well… On the other hand, I kind of hate rewarding such an unremittingly hopeless view of life and of one's fellow man as this film depicts. In one way, it seems so over-the-top that one doubts whether any such animals as these kids could exist. But on the other hand, the characterizations are very well-done and convincing, which makes me say, ‘well, maybe there actually are such creatures running around out there’. I Give it a 9 outta 10!