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

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)

The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It is Rated PG for scary content and thematic elements. It features Emily Osment, Brittany Curran, Cody Linley, Alex Winzenread, Eileen Keller, John Hawkinson, and Tobin Bell. Directed by Alex Zamm. The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It is available here.

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Melvin Benson is the Founder, Editor-In-Chief, and Lead Host of Cinematic Doctrine. Whether it’s a movie, show, game, comic, or novel, it doesn’t matter. As long as it’s rich, he’s ready and willing to give it a try! His hope is to see King Jesus glorified as far as the east is from the west!

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