Dark Remains (2005)

Antichrist-lite. A generally poor film about a sad couple but instead of delving into the meaning of loss, sexuality, and probing the danger of repression, it settles to be an average slasher with a few ghosts. Whereas Antichrist requires a full page to summarize the same story, Dark Remains takes a paragraph. Unfair2Compare? Perhaps, but like, screw it, Dark Remains is better than a lot of films ive watched for this blog. The ghosts had me watching the negative space more than the film and i dont know if that was intended or not but i liked it. Gives me an idea: Horror movie filmed in "letterbox" that, in the climax, breaks the frame and goes full 16:9. No, that's a terrible idea.
Dark Remains is not a bad horror movie. It makes me think, however, that maybe horror is a bad genre, but I'm sure a lot of that comes down to the dross that I watch. For every Friday the 13th there's a Jason Takes Manhattan and a Part 3D and a Jason Goes to Hell. I guess the payoff for watching the latter is finding the diamond in the rough that makes the Friday 1s and the Final Chapters and the Sleepaway Camps, and even the Antichrists that much sweeter.