The first episode was pretty good, but… it only worked in spite of clichés. Please note that this series is called: MASTERS if Horror. These people are suppose to be furthering the genre from the success of their previous work. The twists were annoying; I’m not speaking of the ‘twist ending’ but the twist of all the clichés. Let’s see: most horrors have a girl screaming and running, let’s turn that on its ear and have her go Arnie vs. Predator on the baddie. Let’s put a twist on the ‘cabin full of horrors’ cliché too! Fuck, it got annoying how by the numbers the screenplay for this was. The director of cinematography far exceeded both the writing and directing. The look was excellent. Top notch. I’m curious to see what he’s done before.

What’s most sad about it though, is that even at its worse (which by no measure was it bad) it was better than 99% of the horror tripe that is making it to the big screen.

So, watch it. Its good TV, it’s better than the recent shit in Hollywood horror movies, but it only works in spite of what’s bad out there.

Watched Infernal Affairs (American Trailer). This is an Chinese movie I’ve been intending to watch for two years now. Martin Scorsese is making a ‘rip off’ of it currently, and now that I’ve seen it, I can fully understand why Martin (used to be good) Scorsese is dying to get some of this amazing movie’s mojo.

It’s a cop vs. drug dealer movie, but far more interesting. You see the drug dealer has a mole in the police HQ and the police have a mole in the drug dealers organization. So, The chief of police and the drug tsar both declare a war on each other to find the mole and destroy the other. So, you have two moles looking for each other while trying to best the other side, but look like they aren’t. Complex yet terse like most Chinese films.

I’m dying to watch it again. It’s not a big shoot-em-up bang bang of a picture, it does have some gun play, but this is more of a cat and mouse on the edge of your hips type of movie.

There are two sequels that is said to be as good, hmmm… guess I’ll be watching those this week!

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