INSIDION'S MOVIE REVIEW PAGE

The Sixth Sense- PG-13: (Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osmont)

    Set in Philadelphia, this film portrays life through the eyes of a young child who can see dead people. Not the usual dead people, lying in they're graves, but walking, talking, angry ghosts. The movie opens with Dr. Malcom Crowe celebrating his recieveing an award from the Mayor for his work in the feild of child psychology. The celebration with his wife is abrubtly interrupted by one of his old patients, Vincent Gray, who Crowe was not able to sufficiently help. The scene ends with Crowe taking a gunshot wound to the stomach, and the gunmen turning his weapon on himself, at which point the movie skips ahead to next fall. At this point, Crowe observes a young child by the name of Cole Sear, who shares the same charictaristics as Gray. Crowe makes it his mission to help Cole, in order to make amends to Gray. The movie starts out slow, but very involving. Unlike other horror movies, this one waits until the plot is fully developed before giving you the eye-candy you so depearately crave. The film is littered with scares, and is realistic enough to make anybody think "they might not be alone". With an all-star cast, and some excellent acting, both by Crowe (Willis) and Cole (Osmont) this film is sure to give everyone the heebie-jeebies. The plot twisting ending is sure to give you a shock as well. I give it an A.

The Blair Witch Project- R:

    You've all seen the comercials. Three student film-makers dissapear while shooting a documentary on the Blair Witch in Burkettsville, Maryland. Sounds creepy huh? The movie is shot from a unique perspective. The footage seems all to real, as it is shot froma a home-movie camara. The actors are real. Their fear is real. It's almost hard to believe you are watching a movie after a while. This movie scores high on the creep factor. It's not visually frightening, and lacks the special effects most movies have nowadays (due to the fact that the movie was done on an extremely low budget). However, the film doesn't need high budget scare tactics. The thing that gets you most worked up in this movie is the acting. It's hard to believe it isn't a live feed. The actors seem so real, so genuine with their screams of fright. Most of the movie you don't even see anything scary. It's all done with sound. You hear, to a degree, exactly what the actors hear. The lack of anything substantial to be making the noises in the night adds to the fear. The reviews say, This movie is scary as Hell, and they're right. This movie is not for the faint of heart. The thing that creeps you out the most about the movie, is that you never know what IS real. My grade? A-