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Friday, May 30, 2003
I saw Wrong Turn last night (that's right, before anyone else could). I could have seen either Finding Nemo, or The Italian Job...but I felt like getting scared. Let me tell you a little about scary movies. In this day and age, it would seem that "jump behind the corner" screams in horror movies are a thing of the past now. The current trend in horror movies is this new psychological thing being done. First we saw this with The Sixth Sense; that movie raised moviegoers expectations for the thriller/horror genre. It didn't have too much gore...sure there was some "jump behind the corner" scares, but it was all done tastefully. The person watching was put inside that world in a way that was never done before. Not to mention there was a nice SHOCK at the end of the movie. Alright...people saw that, and then started watching that "jump behind the corner" movie - it was funny. People laughed at those "horror" movies because it was ridiculous, I know I did. Then the next mind blower, pschological, shock-at-end movie was The Ring. Next was They (which is overlooked by a lot of people...it actually scared the hell out of me). Next, Darkness Falls (I didn't get to see that). Meanwhile, movies like Jason X and House of a 1000 Corpses flop. People crave more than just "jump out behind the corner" horror now...we want to be mentally terrified long after the movie is over. Movies like these are fun, but not satisfying. That brings me to the subject of this post....and hopefully a new revival of the "jump out behind the corner" horror genre: Wrong Turn
I saw it last night, and two words: "Hell yes." It is about damn time a modern (meaning after the early 90s) "jump out behind the corner" horror film...SCARES the FUCK out OF you! Sure some people out there are fearless about everything, but I like to consider myself as someone with average fearlessness. You know, I'm not afraid to be afraid...so to speak. This movie reminds me of a good Stephen King novel; the audience feels so close to the main characters that it actually hurts to see one of them in danger (or worse). Wow...so this movie has that "jump behind the corner"' fear in full effect. Nothing's Jason x about this movie. Let's talk about another thing about it....GORE!!! THERE IS SO MUCH FUCKING GORE IN THIS MOVIE. And it all looks so fucking realistic. It was horrible to watch (as it should be). For example, a head doesn't just get cut off like that....it gets pounded off. I mean...REALLY POUNDED OFF. Very realistic. Arms and Legs get chopped off as well. Trust me, I'm not giving anything away here. When you see the trailer for the film, and you see the poster...you don't expect to see the kinds of things your gonna see. Surround Sound. There's one scene when your in ....whoops, the characters (the movie is great about putting the audience in there with the characters), are in a house and theres flies buzzing around (don't worry, I won't give anything away). The movie takes advantage of surround sound, and it actually sounds like there's flies flying around and around your head. You can "trace" each fly is you want to..it's that cool. More on the shock factor, These kinds of films don't usually make me jump. This generation already assumes they've seen and gotten scared at everything these movie makes can think of....wrong. Several times, you feel like everything is okay....but then *CHOP!, BANG!, SLASH!, SCREAM!*, something scares the hell out of you, and hope is gone. Yes this is a great horror film. Yes this movie will be succesful because it's the only one out now. Yes it scared the hell out of me. Unfortunately, the story isn't that original. I'm an X-Files fanatic...I've seen all the episodes. Fans of The X-Files will instinctively realize that this is merely a movie adaptation of classic episode. And episode that had a viewer discretion is advised warning because of the graphic violence (OH YES, IT WAS VERY VIOLENT), and sex. I don't have anything bad to say about copying someone's ideas to make a profit off of it...everybody doest that (Microsoft). Maybe they could have giving The X-Files credit or something. It's alright. Actually, I think making movie adaptations of X-Files' episodes is a great idea in reviving this lacking "jump out behind the corner" horror genre. We don't want retarded revisions of Jason and Micheal Myers (Halloween). We want fresh intriguing stories. We want to not only watch a movie with people getting chased by killer(s)...we want to KNOW AND FEEL FOR THE CHARACTERS. Great characterization, and then throwing those people into extreme situations will go a long way. In this movie, WRONG TURN...it did. Do you agree? Did you like it? Have you seen it? Write me and let me know some of your opinions. ¶3:22 PM e-mail me (0) comments (0) commentsBack To Blog top September 2002 / October 2002 / November 2002 / December 2002 / January 2003 / February 2003 / March 2003 / April 2003 / May 2003 / June 2003 / July 2003 / August 2003 / September 2003 / October 2003 / November 2003 / December 2003 / January 2004 / February 2004 / March 2004 / April 2004 / May 2004 / June 2004 / July 2004 / August 2004 / September 2004 / October 2004 / November 2004 / December 2004 / January 2005 / February 2005 / March 2005 / April 2005 / May 2005 / June 2005 / July 2005 / August 2005 / September 2005 / October 2005 / November 2005 / December 2005 / January 2006 / February 2006 / March 2006 / April 2006 / May 2006 / August 2006 / October 2006 / December 2006 / April 2007 / August 2007 / September 2007 / November 2007 / January 2008 / February 2008 / March 2008 / April 2008 /
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