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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 9487227" data-attributes="member: 7808">One of the reasons I like these threads is to find new movies.  I just watched this last night.  For a spoiler-free review, I will say that this was much better than I expected.  Personally, it's nowhere near my top 10 list; the movie has some fundamental flaws (mainly related to pacing and editing choices that were very likely made for budget reasons).  But much like Mimic that I discussed earlier, you can really see really see the good ideas and solid work that are just under the surface.  I was also pleasantly surprised by Kristin Stewart.  Overall, a very fun watch.  And if you don't mind spoilers: This may actually be the best movie version of [ISPOILER]The Call of Cthulhu[/ISPOILER] that I've seen so far.  But I don't know if that was intended.Sorry, but no.  First, the Lego movie is not a horror movie, it's a comedy.  A horror movie isn't a comedy because it has one joke in it; a non-horrror movie doesn't become horror just because it has one triggering scene.  Second, the basis of Lovecraftian horror is the idea that the unknowable Old Ones are too far removed from our reality to be understood in our reference frame, and that they have no care about what happens to humanity (on either a personal or large scale).  The Lego Movie fails on both.  The Boy and the Man Upstairs are both completely relatable to the movie's protagonist and antagonist (they're literally alegorical).  And they both have a direct interest in the world, characters, and plot being played out; the Boy even directly intervenes to save the hero/world.I'm a big Junji Ito fan, but I have yet to see a good movie based on his works.  I do have Uzumaki (the new show, not the very blah movie) waiting for me on DVR right now.Coraline is a great movie.  The list of great animated horror is tragically short; too many people write off cartoons as being for kids.  Perfect Blue was almost on my list, it just got pushed off by too many other great movies."The Brain that Wouldn't Die" is the first one of these that comes to my mind.  Absolutely silly, terrible effects, clearly B-movie.  But the concept of being forced to live as a disembodied head is a classic.</blockquote>

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