First Impressions: "The Devil Inside" + "Wrath of the Titans" (2012)

   Happy Halloween, everyone! :D
   I was meaning to rent two horror movies to mark the occasion: The Devil Inside and The Woman in Black. But The Woman in Black wasn't available to rent, even though Xtra-vision did have it to buy. It just makes no sense! So I had to make do with The Devil Inside and Wrath of the Titans.

   So, The Devil Inside. I actually only watched this because of how awful I'd heard it was. It scores 7% on Rotten Tomatoes and 4.0 on IMDb. I didn't even give it a second thought at first; I just figured it was some lame horror movie that I was probably never going to see. But to hear that it was that bad? I just had to see for myself!
   So yeah, I knew going in that it was probably going to be bad. But what I saw… Oh, God!!!
   The first half is aggravating, with atrocious acting and the worst abuse of the "found footage" gimmick I've ever seen. It's a perfect example of, "Dude, just put the camera away!"
   The second half, though, is just dull and uninteresting – probably the only time that's actually preferable!
   Simply put, this is the worst fucking horror movie I've seen since The Fourth Kind, not to mention the absolute worst movie I've seen so far this year!
   I give it my only turkey rating of the year so far!

   And as for Wrath of the Titans… Now, I'm really scraping the bottom of the shit barrel with this one! It's an unnecessary sequel to an unnecessary remake! The amount of… unnecessary-ness here is just overwhelming!
   But, just like its predecessor, the stuff that's good is good, but the stuff that's bad (which is the majority) is just dull and unremarkable.
   I think the characters of Agenor and Hephaestus really sum it up best. When they're first introduced, they're both played very comedically and I don't like them at all. But when they do serve a purpose in the plot, they're wonderful.
   Some of the elements of Greek mythology they throw in really work, but some, like the Minotaur, are just really unnecessary.
   In conclusion, while it's not as dull as its predecessor, on the whole it's really no better.
   My rating: 40%.