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Mar. 18th, 2019 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatTrying to write but getting distracted by media reviews..
1. Review of Jordan Peel's US -- which is getting interesting reviews and is possibly among the most innovative horror films to come out in a long while. I got to give Peel credit, he is playing with and turning upside down and sideways the horror genre in a way that I haven't really seen since well Rod Sterling.
But I'm not sure I can watch this film. Just the trailer plays with my head and not in a good way. There's another creepy film that played with my head Skeleton Key -- which has a lot to say.
I've seen a few horror flicks that have stuck with me long past the final credits and possibly months even years later. They are:
* Haunting of Hill House (Robert Wise version or rather the PBS remake of the Robert Wise version in color) and the Netflix television adaptation of it.
* Skeleton Key
* Nightmare on Elm Street
* Roman Polanski's The Tenant
* Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
* Jaws -- although not as scary now
2. Read up on The Passage Finale and S2 -- broken down by the head-writer. It's based on a trilogy of books, which explains the tighter plotting structure and characterization. Television series adapted from other mediums, books, comic books, plays, or even film -- tend to have a tighter structure and better characterization than television shows made up on the fly.
What's interesting about this one is the heroine, who has one foot in one world and one in the other -- and how the series sort of tells her origin then shifts.
I'm thinking this is for fans of The 100, Van Helsing, The Hunger Games, and The Walking Dead.
Curious to see if it gets renewed.
1. Review of Jordan Peel's US -- which is getting interesting reviews and is possibly among the most innovative horror films to come out in a long while. I got to give Peel credit, he is playing with and turning upside down and sideways the horror genre in a way that I haven't really seen since well Rod Sterling.
But I'm not sure I can watch this film. Just the trailer plays with my head and not in a good way. There's another creepy film that played with my head Skeleton Key -- which has a lot to say.
I've seen a few horror flicks that have stuck with me long past the final credits and possibly months even years later. They are:
* Haunting of Hill House (Robert Wise version or rather the PBS remake of the Robert Wise version in color) and the Netflix television adaptation of it.
* Skeleton Key
* Nightmare on Elm Street
* Roman Polanski's The Tenant
* Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
* Jaws -- although not as scary now
2. Read up on The Passage Finale and S2 -- broken down by the head-writer. It's based on a trilogy of books, which explains the tighter plotting structure and characterization. Television series adapted from other mediums, books, comic books, plays, or even film -- tend to have a tighter structure and better characterization than television shows made up on the fly.
What's interesting about this one is the heroine, who has one foot in one world and one in the other -- and how the series sort of tells her origin then shifts.
I'm thinking this is for fans of The 100, Van Helsing, The Hunger Games, and The Walking Dead.
Curious to see if it gets renewed.
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Date: 2019-03-20 03:49 pm (UTC)Sort of. She's also scared to see it alone. She keeps asking me if it's going to traumatize her if she does, and I keep telling her "that's your decision to make."
She's thinking about Saturday morning, for sufficient recovery time.
It's kinda sweet, in a weird way.
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:40 pm (UTC)Hee, I completely understand where you're with is coming from on this one. I sort of wanted to see it -- but unlike you're wife, I know it will traumatize me. Then I read the reviews complete with spoilers -- and yep, definitely will traumatize me. Get Out didn't. But neither did the Stepford Wives. This one's description reminds me a bit of The Skeleton Key, and that traumatized me. So...it all depends on whether she has pre-existing issues with mirrors...
How are you going to see "US' - if you are going camping? See it on Friday? Sounds like a packed weekend...
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Date: 2019-03-20 06:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-03-20 07:50 pm (UTC)Yeah, convince her to wait a week and see it with you.
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Date: 2019-03-20 05:41 pm (UTC)Dang it, that should be "wife" not "with".