The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It - But Tune Into It!

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Shirleon joins Melvin to summarize The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It, a late-2000s direct-to-video family-friendly horror movie based on R.L. Stine's short stories! Is it possible to be scary without being gory? How frightening can a PG-rated horror movie be, anyway? And does it even capture that spooky Halloween spirit?

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• Melvin gets excited when "Special Make-Up and Effects by Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger" pops up during the opening credits.
• Talking "school envy", where films and shows will not only make High School extremely cool but usually the environment is just all-around awesome.
• The licensed tracks in the film are extremely blunt and obvious about how our characters are feeling or the general setting, and Melvin wonders... what other movies have done this?
• The main trio of characters are distinct, lending to a decent-enough interplay needed for the film.
• The subtitle "Don't Think About It" doesn't really play into the story at all.
• When the horror stuff starts to kick in, the two agree: it's pretty decent for a family-accessible horror flick.
• So... how's the monster look?

Recommendations:

• I Found Puppets Living in my Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing (Book) (2024)
• Final Destination 2 (2003) (Movie)

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