Someone forgot to check IMDB……. Carey did a film called “The Number 23″ in 2007.

It sounded as if you were saying that in the list of movies, I thought he directed them all. Not so. On one he was a writer, the other, producer. I’m just saying he’s had some experience in the genre. Maybe not Texas Chainsaw Massacre, gory horror but still horror in one of it’s many forms.

I probably won’t even see this in the movies anyhow. I only have two reasons that I go to the movies anymore. It’s either something I’m dying to see or I wound up at the movies by accident. That last one is rare. Most times I wait for the movies to become available at iTunes or PPV.

You don’t have bad taste for liking Zemeckis. He’s an outstanding director with a great list of movies to his credit (except Death Becomes Her). I honestly hope I’m found to be incorrect here and the movie is more of a Scooby Doo creepy ghost story than a Poltergiest type ghost story. But his running around to the interviewers and such making sure people understand he went major ghost story with the adaptation gives me reason for pause.

But, you don’t get asked back time and time again to direct films in this industry if everything you do is crap…wait…Uwe Bolle throws off the bell curve on that doesn’t he. Oh well.

So he’s been involved with a bunch of campy horror movies. I loved The Frighteners and What Lies Beneath. And really, A Christmas Carol revolves around a jerk and three ghosts. I’m thinking that ghost story is a good description.

I don’t care how many times A Christmas Carol is remade. It’s like a tradition. At least once every decade, someone makes it again, if not just changing the name. My favorite version is Scrooged. I know, it’s a comedy but it’s so clever.

I don’t know if liking most Zemeckis films means that I have bad taste. I just like his work. It ain’t all gold but some of it is pretty darn good.

If he had said “Horror Film”, that would have been surprising and something to ponder, but that wasn’t the quote.

I confess the little I have seen do far has not impressed me as something special – and it sounds like a vehicle for Jim Carrey go nuts and chew up the scenery while being mo-capped, which may or may not be a good thing.

His last two efforts along these lines have been disappointing; “Polar Express” and “Beowulf”. The first has some nice visuals (based on a book by noted illustrator), and the latter looked and felt like a really long cut scene from a video game. Both seemed really lacking in any kind of “soul” or “heart” or whatever you want to call that intangible something that raises a movie about just being a bunch of moving images on a screen.

I hope I am proven wrong, as I have always enjoyed the story itself.

How about “The Number 23.” Not really my cup of tea but a suspenseful thriller nonetheless.

Aw shucks…