Tag: Horror
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Strange Houses
Creepy moments aside, Strange Houses leans on absurd logic, flat characters, and clunky style—never awful, just underwhelming. 3.5/10.
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Strange Pictures
A brisk, Japanese mystery that starts strong with eerie visuals but loses steam. Still a fun, quick read—just don’t expect Poirot-level twists.
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Black Mirror
Black Mirror season 7 is a mixed bag with some standout grim tech tales but mostly forgettable. Not the show’s best, but not its worst. 5/10
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The Luminous Dead
The Luminous Dead squanders strong claustrophobic tension and unsettling hallucinations on padded pacing, baffling tech, and a flat, mismatched romance. 3/10.
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Bunny
Bunny is more of a puzzle than a book and I don’t know how to rate that. I spent more time confused than anything else whilst reading and yet I wanted to keep reading it. It’s a book best experienced blindly and not one that can or cannot be recommended based on any standard criteria.
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Pines (Wayward Pines #1)
Whilst it doesn’t reach the heights of Blake Crouch’s other books, Pines is still a solid mystery thriller. It feels a bit more cliché and the ending whilst it is a solid twist isn’t a particularly strong motivator to read the sequels.