I absolutely love scary movies! Especially around Halloween time. And I wish I had some good recommendations of recent movies for you to rent, but I don’t. Redbox has really been letting me down lately. Here’s a few terrible scary movies for you to avoid:

• I remembered Silent House from the previews when it first came out, and I was looking forward to this one. At first when the movie started, it had a lot of potential. But then it just got kind of weird, a little boring, and worst of all – not very scary.

• Next I tried to sort the Redbox movies by reviews and go with the highest rated one. A B-movie by some independent company called the The Haunting of Whaley House was up there, so I decided to give it that one a shot. I should have turned it off at the previews. The company that had made this movie also released such other great titles as “Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies” (clearly a rip-off of “Abraham Lincoln – Vampire Hunter”), “Nazis at the Center of the Earth”, and – the best – “Bikini Spring Break”. Do I even need to tell you how the movie went …?

• Next I looked for something that would be a sure thing – Piranha 3DD. Yes, this was the sequel to the outrageously gory and over the top original Piranha movie. Unfortunately, this version was not nearly as creative as its predecessor. Like many other sequels, they sacrificed content to simply attempt to recreate the highlights of the first movie. The only redeeming quality of the movie was a fantastic cameo by David Hasselhoff, who plays a washed up actor who’s hit rock bottom – basically himself!

Someone, please save me! Does anyone have any decent, recent scary movie recommendations?

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