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In Bruges and Prom Night
Apr. 30th, 2008 10:18 amI haven't done any movie reviews for some time due to traveling, but here are a couple of late ones.
While in Waterford, I saw In Bruges, a dark comedy starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Ralph Fiennes. When an assassination goes terribly wrong, gunmen Farrell and Gleeson are sent by their boss to stay in Bruges, Belgium to await further instruction. While Gleeson loves the quaint town and sees the sights, Farrell is going crazy being stuck in the boring area. Farrell falls for a local girl who is helping to make a movie staring a dwarf and the call from the boss comes in with some disturbing instructions. It's very much a British comedy so it's not for everyone and there is a great amount of gore at the end. Still, it was a very enjoyable flick, not the everyday stuff out now. I can't say I'd buy it, but I'd enjoy watching it again.
This past weekend, I caught a matinee of Prom Night. On the night of her prom, a young blonde chick is stalked by her crazed high school teacher, whom she helped put in jail. At the prom, held in a swank hotel, the killer offs several of her friends and a few members of the hotel staff.
While I love a bad horror movie, even I have limits. I kept thinking that there was a potentially good movie in this somewhere, but it never appeared. The writing is weak, the characters are uninteresting, and the gore is nearly nonexistent. While I don't need gore to be happy, it has to be realistic at least. You can't slit a throat and leave the body on the bed and it NOT be covered in blood. You can't leave a stabbed girl on the bathroom floor and then it be clean after you move the body. Has the director never watched CSI?
It seems the makers of this movie took the Prom Night name, but nothing else from the original movie and tailored this thing to make sure it got a PG-13 rating (heck, it could have gotten PG in my opinion). Save your money and rent The Orphanage on DVD if you want a really good scary movie.
While in Waterford, I saw In Bruges, a dark comedy starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Ralph Fiennes. When an assassination goes terribly wrong, gunmen Farrell and Gleeson are sent by their boss to stay in Bruges, Belgium to await further instruction. While Gleeson loves the quaint town and sees the sights, Farrell is going crazy being stuck in the boring area. Farrell falls for a local girl who is helping to make a movie staring a dwarf and the call from the boss comes in with some disturbing instructions. It's very much a British comedy so it's not for everyone and there is a great amount of gore at the end. Still, it was a very enjoyable flick, not the everyday stuff out now. I can't say I'd buy it, but I'd enjoy watching it again.
This past weekend, I caught a matinee of Prom Night. On the night of her prom, a young blonde chick is stalked by her crazed high school teacher, whom she helped put in jail. At the prom, held in a swank hotel, the killer offs several of her friends and a few members of the hotel staff.
While I love a bad horror movie, even I have limits. I kept thinking that there was a potentially good movie in this somewhere, but it never appeared. The writing is weak, the characters are uninteresting, and the gore is nearly nonexistent. While I don't need gore to be happy, it has to be realistic at least. You can't slit a throat and leave the body on the bed and it NOT be covered in blood. You can't leave a stabbed girl on the bathroom floor and then it be clean after you move the body. Has the director never watched CSI?
It seems the makers of this movie took the Prom Night name, but nothing else from the original movie and tailored this thing to make sure it got a PG-13 rating (heck, it could have gotten PG in my opinion). Save your money and rent The Orphanage on DVD if you want a really good scary movie.
