The Gate

I'm not a big horror fan, but I am a big 80's movie fan. And not because they're cool and ironic and nostalgic, but because the special effects were actually special back then. They really found a way to make fire come out of the phone in this trailer. They REALLY melted the phone. He actually hit a plastic demon doll. I don't care if it "looks fake", it actually happened- it wasn't rendered in later by some jackass sitting in front of a huge computer monitor at a design studio. If I was still a psych major I would be able to recall the terminology, but I am pretty damn sure that there is some measurable difference in your brains reaction to something that physically exists and something that is perceived or mentally hurdled over to believe it's real, i.e. CGI stuff. We have to tell ourselves "wow" or "what if", and that alone is less significant in our brain than seeing a kid smack a plastic model, because when he smacks the model, we think (whether consciously or not), "Ew, he touched it!", but if it were CGI, we think (whether consciously or not), something more like "ew, that almost looked real!". I imagine that's how that new dream movie with Leo was, I can't remember the name of it, and I wanted to see it. This is also why those old Godzilla movies where two guys are dressed up in costumes are so great. It's almost literally an episode of Barney gone terribly wrong. Anyway, rant and a half, I wanna see this movie, because I haven't.