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Bad Horror Films Top 5

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I’ve always loved horror movies. Although I watch pretty much anything, horror has been my favorite genre since I was about 10. However, most horror films are crap and most of this crap comes from the US. No offense, but I’ve never seen a bad horror film from France, for instance. I watch a lot of bad horror films anyway, it’s relaxing when the film doesn’t evoke too much emotions and you don’t have to think how talented and intelligent some filmmakers are. And to me, choosing the movies to watch based on their IMDB rating (watching only the ones with high rating) is like eating the same food everyday, it gets boring after a while. Here are the five worst films that came to my mind when I thought of it.

One Missed Call ⭐️/5

A J-horror remake, the poster looked promising though. People (college students) receive phone calls where they hear themselves being murdered and try to solve the mystery.

Insidious ⭐️⭐️/5

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Very typical American horror. A family moving into a new house and starting to hear noises, then demonologists (some kind of scientists) try to solve the situation. Towards the end the film becomes rather amusing, not sure if it’s like that on purpose though.

Green Inferno ⭐️⭐️/5

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A modern (bad) version of Cannibal Holocaust.

House of Wax ⭐️/5

I think I’ve seen the original in my early teenage years. Kind of typical American style with college kids getting killed. Starring Paris Hilton.

Philosophy of a Knife 0/5

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Can’t really say that I’ve seen this, as I stopped watching after an hour of so and fast-forwarded the rest of the film. It was all about bad torture scenes, it was difficult to follow and overall didn’t make any sense. At least not for myself. But if you’re into artistic stuff you might like it. I’m planning to watch some other productions of Andrey Iskanov soon, maybe they make more sense.

Jigsaw puzzles 💞

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I’ve spent the Holidays in Finland with my books, friends and puzzles. I bought this one maybe five years ago and now did it again, it was just 1500 pieces and took way longer than I thought it would. People often ask me how long time my puzzles take. It’s impossible to give an answer, as it depends on the number of pieces, the shape of the pieces and the picture itself. Very symmetrical pictures with few colors are more difficult than ones with a lot of color and detail.

I’ve been trying to avoid buying new puzzles, as I have many and at the moment don’t have a place to keep them in, but it’s also nice to get back to the old ones.

My TOP 7 Horror Films

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I love movies. I named this blog after two of my favorite things: pink stuff and horror films. My love for horror started when I was about 10 years old. I watched a lot of horror until I was about 15, saw Poltergeist and got nightmares. I had enough and stopped watching horror until I was 19 and worked at a video rental. One night a man walked in and asked if we had Cannibal Holocaust and some other old horror films. I checked on the computer, but we had none of the films he had asked for. He then said he had seen some new horror film on our website but couldn’t recall the name. So we checked the website and found the film he was looking for. I asked if the movie was something similar to the ones he had first asked for and the answer was “Yes.” So I became curious and took another copy of it home. It was a French film called Frontier(s). I tried to watch it alone but couldn’t, I had never seen anything like it before. It was sick in my opinion, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre^100. Despite shocking me it made me curious, what else had I missed during the years I hadn’t seen any horror films?

So I started watching horror again. I listed my favorite ones here in a random order.

1. It

I think this was one of the first horror films I saw. I’ve never been afraid of clowns, but for many, Pennywise might have given nightmares.

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2. Braindead

This is splatter and not scary, but hilarious, one of my favorite comedies as well.

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3. Martyrs

The French one, not the remake. Martyrs really shocked me. I had read a review on it when it was running on theaters and really wanted to see it. I moved to the US soon after and forgot about it, until a year later when I returned to Finland and started working at the video rental again. Martyrs was on DVD. I made my sister watch it with me and couldn’t believe how sick the whole idea was. It took me about two weeks to be able to sleep and eat properly again. Extremely well done movie though, and very different from the typical American horror films, where it’s dark and someone around the corner is trying to kill you.

4. The Conjuring

Very much a typical American horror film, but still really good. I like supernatural stuff and this one had it!960

5. Ils

French people know how to make good stuff. Although it was really dark and kind of resembled the “Americal style” to scare people, it really worked. I also appreciate that despite the lack of gore the film maintained its intensity from beginning till the end.

6. Låt den rätte komma in 

Not sure if this counts as horror, but a great film based on a great book. I saw the American version first by coincidence, thought it was good and googled it. Of course the original wasn’t American and I liked it even more.

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7. The Shining

This is actually where it all started from. My parents used to have a lot of VCR cassettes with movies recorded from TV. The Shining was on the same cassette with Indiana Jones. I think I was 10 years old, home alone and wanted to watch Indiana Jones. I was going back and forth on the cassette, trying to find the beginning of the film. I hit play at a random spot and it was the elevator scene… I thought: “this must be a really good movie”. And it was, probably the best.

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More Jigsaw Puzzles

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I visited Finland for the holidays and took the advantage of my old room at my parents’ being empty. Most of my puzzles are at my dad’s storage room in Helsinki and I was too lazy to go there and get some more interesting ones, so I did this colorful one once again (it was probably the third time).

I wanted to make more time-lapse videos of my puzzles since here in Sweden I haven’t been able to do so. I left my Canon EOS 6D here since I had my 550D at my parents and that’s good enough for making simple videos. However, when I started I realized I had forgotten the quick release plate of my tripod on my 6D. I had brought my tripod to Finland just for this purpose and now I’d have to buy a new quick release plate, which I didn’t really need. They also cost like 20 € in Finland, which is 10 times more than it costs on Ebay. The same day my mom told me she had won some competition and had gotten a tripod and a bunch of other phone accessories and asked if I wanted to have them. I gladly accepted her offer! The tripod was designed for smartphones, it was made of plastic and was really light, so I wouldn’t put my 6D on that, but for the 550D it was fine.

The film turned out pretty well, though it has a different angle than the other films I have done, since the tripod was about 40 cm tall I couldn’t shoot from above as I normally would do. Check it out from below!

Before heading home I visited a really cool store here in Umeå that sells board games and jigsaw puzzles. To be honest I have never seen such a selection of puzzles anywhere else! I’ve lived abroad and traveled a lot and mostly in cities that are way bigger than Umeå, but always bought most of my puzzles from www.puzzle-portal.com because of lack of variety in retail stores. But now I know where to go when I feel like puzzling. Though my roommate just returned from his one-month trip and I won’t be able to spread my puzzles allover the living room anymore…

I buy my puzzles based on the number of pieces, as well the design. 1000 pieces is usually not enough. I prefer puzzles that have between 1500 and 4000 pieces, since it won’t be over in four hours, but it won’t take several months either. Unfortunately 1000 pieces is the most common number.Star Wars jigsaw puzzle 3000I bought a 3000-pieces Star Wars puzzle from the store here, the dark parts were a bit too hard, or at least in the light we have here. But otherwise it was perfect! Star Wars jigsaw puzzle 3000Star Wars jigsaw puzzle 3000Puzzles are too much of fun to be shared with Finns only, so I wrote this one in English.