One of these days, I'll post *before* the deadline

Speaking of deadlines, as I write this, the clock's counting down to Portal 2:

http://aperturescience.com/glados@home/

Yes, it's 2011 and I'm still using XP. My Linux machine's taking a nap, and I didn't want to wake it.

I thought that was a pretty clever way of supporting the indie games industry. Major credit to Valve for this.

Onto the main body of the post: Scream 4 (Scre4m).

I ended up seeing Scream 4 on Saturday along with a group of friends. The film is centred around a masked, robed attacker with a fondness for large, sharp knives and the illicit use thereof. Several threatening phone calls, gratuitous stabbings, murders, worryingly-open windows and chases later, the film reaches a clever-but-not-entirely-unexpected-and-somewhat-but-not-entirely-predictable conclusion of sorts.

My feelings about the film were mixed - it felt well-made and genuinely entertaining, with a decent storyline and pacing, and some fairly amusing moments. It was pretty gore-heavy, but not un-watchably so. On the negative side, there weren't any moments which stood out as particularly tense or suspenseful either, and at no moment was I truly scared (unlike how I felt playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The first bit with the water. Seriously.) .

I can't comment on how it compares to the originals, since I haven't seen them, but can certainly recommend the film, not as an amazing or deep one, but as an entertaining one.

That's all for now folks. Expect more terrible pseudo-reviews and Portal 2 raving soon...

What's your favourite scary movie?
Charlie