Horror Movie Month - The Killer Inside Me

The Killer Inside Me (2010)
The Stars - Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Elias Koteas, Simon Baker, Bill Pullman
The Gist - First off, this isn't a horror movie, per se, but there is tons of violence and a pretty big body count, and it is a HORRIBLE movie, so it counts. Affleck plays Lou Ford, a polite, mild-mannered deputy sherrif in a small Texas town. He has a steady girlfriend (Hudson) and is liked by everyone. Soon, however, he becomes involved in a sadomasichistic relationship with a prostitute (Alba) which sparks some sort of inner sickness. The two of them plot to blackmail a local tycoon but things backfire and Ford ends up murdering Joyce and the tycoons dumb son Elmer (I get why he murdered Elmer but I still really don't know why he murders Joyce... it just seems all kinds of stupid). Anyway, he thinks he's getting away with murder but, really, he's insane so people begin to suspect him and then he starts killing more and more people while slowly going more and more insane. Listen, this movie is completely unnecessary and I'm not just saying that because it's insanely violent. It's just an exercise in disappointment. Everyone is saying the book on which its based is a classic and I have no doubt that's true but this movie is, I guess, not adapted well at all. Alba and Hudson (two actresses who I don't normally care for) are both rather impressive. Affleck's performance is extraordinary and I can't say a bad thing about that but the movie just did nothing for me at all. It's messy and incoherent and just plain bad.
The Scares - None.
THe Body Count - Six, maybe seven. Still not sure if the ending was real or all in his head (leaning towards the latter).
The Grade - D+ (and it's only getting that high because, like I said, Affleck is excellent).

Horror Movie Month - Let Me In

Let Me In (2010)
The Stars - Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz, Richard Jenkins, Elias Koteas with a pretty righteous mustache.
The Gist - Director Matt Reeves remakes the beloved (by everyone but me, apparently) Swedish Let the Right One, a story of a bullied 12 year old boy who befriends his new neighbor, a girl who only comes out at night. I may be in the minority here, but I think the remake is even better the original. The original was all, "Look, it's snowy and dark in Sweden and life sucks and this movie is just a moody, long, boring take on friendship and loneliness with a really great ending." Well, Reeves took the best parts of the original and made it even better. And guess what? Things actually happen in this version! There's action and I didn't even almost fall asleep like I did with the original (and this is coming from someone who loves nothing more than a good 4 hour movie... that's how boring I felt the original was).
The Scares - There is one scene in particular (involving Elias Koteas with his brilliant mustache going into a bathroom looking for Chloe Moretz's Abby) that is pretty freaking intense.
The Body Count - 10!
The Grade - B