Not all movies are created to be warm, fluffy, standardized and sedated Hollywood stereotypes. I for one found this movie almost completely different to everything else I have seen in, well, a long time. When was the last time you saw a horror movie that showed some seriously disturbing s***?
Instead of the Urban Legend-ish "ooh scary. An axe in the head for half a second", we got ourselves some scenes that really freak you out and make you feel sick (the point of these movies, perhaps?). My favourite including the good old slow-mo close up shot of someone's face screaming in agony as their intestines are pulled out by a crazy guy prancing, giggling, and clapping around him. Sick and crazy - as it should be.
The characters were simple, because most people are simple. Catherine and Peter never got together, because that's what normally happens. They knew each other for less than a day, were a bit attracted, fantasized a bit, and then left. It was better than some crappy-20-minute-emotional-outburst-where-the-two-lead-characters-reveal-the ir-deepest-secrets-and-fall-in-love-2/3-of-the-way-through-on-the-first-day- they've-ever-met (geez, like we don't have enough of that already). I know it did have a bit of this, but at least it was kept to a minimum.
And please, enough with the movie comparisons. You people praise stuff like The Green Mile, despite it being exactly the same as everything else, but the moment a serial killer movie comes out that's not a revelation in cinema, it's all "tries to be Seven" this, and "Silence of the Lambs wannabe" that. This movie is outstandingly different in that it had a simple goal - look good and freak people out, which it did, very well. I thought it was one of the most satisfying movies I've seen in a long time.
Instead of the Urban Legend-ish "ooh scary. An axe in the head for half a second", we got ourselves some scenes that really freak you out and make you feel sick (the point of these movies, perhaps?). My favourite including the good old slow-mo close up shot of someone's face screaming in agony as their intestines are pulled out by a crazy guy prancing, giggling, and clapping around him. Sick and crazy - as it should be.
The characters were simple, because most people are simple. Catherine and Peter never got together, because that's what normally happens. They knew each other for less than a day, were a bit attracted, fantasized a bit, and then left. It was better than some crappy-20-minute-emotional-outburst-where-the-two-lead-characters-reveal-the ir-deepest-secrets-and-fall-in-love-2/3-of-the-way-through-on-the-first-day- they've-ever-met (geez, like we don't have enough of that already). I know it did have a bit of this, but at least it was kept to a minimum.
And please, enough with the movie comparisons. You people praise stuff like The Green Mile, despite it being exactly the same as everything else, but the moment a serial killer movie comes out that's not a revelation in cinema, it's all "tries to be Seven" this, and "Silence of the Lambs wannabe" that. This movie is outstandingly different in that it had a simple goal - look good and freak people out, which it did, very well. I thought it was one of the most satisfying movies I've seen in a long time.
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