October 13th: Pernicious (2014, Netflix)

Pernicious is actually a very refreshing movie.  When I watch these I try to go in as clean as possible and when I saw two skinny blondes and a skinny brunnette on their way to a home that's not theirs it just screams classic slasher.

Pernicious is a slow burn.  It took turns I didn't expect and took longer than I expected to make those turns.  And I liked it.  Where I expected a teen slasher, I found a much more chilling asian style ghost story that was Americanized.

The story telling in the film was actually done fairly well, generally using action and dialogue.  The monologues used as exposition in the story did very well and the classic flashback sequence was actually one of the cooler ones I've seen in a while.

This was a huge trend in the late 1990's and early 2000's with films like The Ring and The Grudge and The Eye and then switched to Spain with Quarentine.... you can see where I'm going with this.

With its original screenplay and a twist on Kumari, the film actually leaves you second guessing what's going on for the first couple acts.  By the time the third act starts, you know the basic gist of how it's going to end but you're still thrilled to see exactly how it will end.

I found the film very tasteful about it's protrayal of Thailand, something that a lot of American horror films tend to do poorly regarding foreign cultures.

I'd suggest this one day in and day out.

PS: A quick wiki search shows that a power ranger is in this movie!