{"id":1314,"date":"2006-10-29T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2006-10-29T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T17:15:12","slug":"the-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"The Horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">Y<\/span>esterday, we watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0118884\/\">&#8216;Contact&#8217; (1997) <\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0384537\/\">&#8216;Silent Hill&#8217; (2006)<\/a>. Quite the combination to watch on a stormy Fall night.\n<\/p>\n<p>Contact, starring Jodie Foster, is an adaption of a novel by astronomer Carl Sagan and features good effects and a compelling storyline about the struggle between faith and science (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Contact_%28film%29\">Wikipedia synopsis + trivia<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>Silent Hill apparently is an adoption of a horror <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silent_Hill\">videogame<\/a> (I&#8217;m joking) and features an almost all-female cast. I hear that many Silent Hill fans were disappointed about how the movie strayed from the games. As someone who hasn&#8217;t played any of the Silent Hill games, I was surprised about the movie: it&#8217;s actually well-shot (colourful) and has a fairly good storyline for a horror movie (without too much gore). Some &#8216;monster stuff&#8217; was overdone and probably could have been left out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we watched &#8216;Contact&#8217; (1997) and &#8216;Silent Hill&#8217; (2006). Quite the combination to watch on a stormy Fall night. Contact, starring Jodie Foster, is an adaption of a novel by astronomer Carl Sagan and features good effects and a compelling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1314\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}