Yesterday I got home and found that I’d won a contest over at Pretty/Scary, and as a result I’d won a copy of the movie The Cry. It even came with a poster:

This is the second contest I’ve won over at that website (the first time, I won a copy of Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane, which is pretty much what you’d expect from the title). This time, though, I don’t even remember entering the contest. I’m all in favor of movies about killer ghosts from evil urban legends, and this one looks pretty cheesy (the 3.5/10 rating on IMDB is a bad sign), so I say, bring it on.

Of course, it is kind of an odd confluence of events. A contest I don’t remember entering. The arrival of a mysteriously awful movie. All at the same time that I’m re-reading Koji Suzuki’s Ring trilogy (you know, the novels on which the Ring movies were very loosely based). Coincidence? Conspiracy? Curse? Well, if I end up haunted by la llorona after watching this film, I’ll let you know, and I’ll try to survive long enough to warn everyone I know.