This Steven King classic scares the bageebees out of me every time I watch this horror film. I was with one of my best friends and her boy friend in my upstairs TV room cozy with the lights off, not so cozy with the loud thunder and bright lightening coming through the windows, but still having a great night.
The beginning music always creeps me out too. I listen to it with my eyes wide open watching the camera go through the pet's "sematary".
Did you know that Steven King, himself, is in all of the movies from the books he writes!? In this particular horror film he is the priest at Gage's (the son) funeral. He always plays a very small part: a pizza guy, hick, priest, etc.
The Creed family had just moved to the country side from Chicago where Louis, the father, has a job as a doctor there in Maine. Their property is right on the side of a busy highway where the company, Orinco, had semi-trucks on a route.
One thing I have to say is that every time Ellie, the daughter, is frustrated or cries she sounds fake. She isn't a very good actress, in my opinion. When she runs to the couch and cries, she honestly sounds as if something painfully TERRIBLE is happening to her.
Jud Crandall has to be one of my favorite characters in this movie. Honestly, he gets everything he deserves after he tells Louis where the Indian Burial ground is. His death is pretty gruesome and bloody but it is funny that a "little tike", Gage, did all of it. Jud's knowledge of the burial ground and love of beer reminds me of a typical grandfather from the country: overalls, tall, the voice, etc.
Every time I watch this movie I cry. When Gage is hit by the truck, the second his shoe hits the ground I start to tear up. Then I realize that he turns ultimately evil very soon. His evil chuckle creeps me out. I also tear up when you hear his cry when his father puts the needle in his neck to have him "go to sleep".
"Rachel!" - ZELDA (Rachel's sister) *shivers* When she says this, I get goosebumps. I have a friend named Rachel and I remember when we were at Cheer practice sometimes I would say that and creep the others out as well. I think the director and actress did a good job with this character specifically.
Missy Dandridge was an interesting character, even though she was only in the movie for a few scenes. She was troubled and needed help. Funny thing is, she was the one helping the Creed family while they were moving in with laundry and such. She even taught Ellie a few obscene things. Of all the suicides she could do she did the one that would 1. leave a mark, 2. last almost the longest with the most pain. If she had slit her wrists or electricuted herself, I think it would of been less painful and lengthy. That, there, is the point though. I feel she WANTED the extra pain because the cancer she had would of only cause more pain then the "quick" way. Her stomach pains she explained she had were from the cancer she had.
Poor, poor Pascow. First he dies from being hit by a car when running, then dies in the hospital and miraculously wakes up and warns Louis about the Indian burial ground. Pascow says the ground is sour and that the "soil of a man's heart is stonier". If I were told what Pascow told Louis, I would stay FAR AWAY from that burial ground.
After Gage dies when hit by a semi-truck, Louis starts to go crazy. You can tell every time something happens to him: his eyes go wide, face looks tired, and he talks strange. When he digs up his son from the cemetery he holds him in his arm. He holds his DEAD CORPSE. Talk about gross. Even if my son had died I would never dig him up to try and resurrect him.
This is a great movie, again, because almost everyone dies. All of the main characters, besides Ellie, die. This makes this film amazing because you sit there thinking, "He wouldn't bury his son.....oh he does..." and then you say, "He wouldn't bury his wife after all of that!...... oh....." Ridiculous.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
8213: Gacy House
This 2010 serial killer horror film, even though seems like a B movie; had relatively good actors. None of them were well-known in the movie world but MOST of them seemed to know how to act, unlike some well-known actors that do NOT (won't mention any names). After I watched the movie I looked at reviews and boy did I feel dumb. The movie wasn't a reenactment of real footage it was suppose to BE real footage. Nope totally fake.
My brother and I were looking for a movie to watch on Netflix and he remembered this scary movie that he thought I would like. I indeed did like the movie, a lot.
Gacy House has a "Blair Witch Project" feel. The filming is all by hand and most of the time the only light is the light from the cameras they carry. I watched the movie Cloverfield and thought the handheld camera was too much for my head to handle. For this movie I thought the camera kept pretty steady for most of the part other then when the camera person ran up or down the stairs.
As I watched the movie, I looked up the background story about John Wayne Gacy Jr., the man who killed and raped 33 young men in the 70's. I read terrible things that had happened when he was younger; his father beating him, a family member molesting him, and when he was 11 was hit in the head with a swing and didn't know he had a blood clot in his brain until he was 16 (his dad always thought he was lying). Those tragic events led to his demonic ways. From my research most of his victims had been his employees at his self-owned construction company. Weird thing is, he was not only married once but twice! And before his first marriage he had gone to a business college and went up from a management-trainee position to the vice-president of the Springfield chapter for Jaycees. He had lived in Iowa for a while which is CRAZY to think about because I live in southern Minnesota. He got off early from his 10-year sentence to prison for sodomy and soon was engaged and married another woman with two daughters. The family moved into his home where in the basement, in a crawl space, he hid his victims' bodies. EW! Also one was under the floorboards in his dining room! It is sad though to think that 8 of the young boys' bodies were unidentified. I guess either the families didn't care or they didn't know.
On a better note, sort of, the scary parts of the movies were typical but sometimes drawn out. They do a seance to communicate with John Gacy and all of a sudden BOOM!, something scary happens. It was great. I was pretty scared a few times; yelling at them to get out, curling up in a ball, and squealing a few times.
My favorite character was the man in charge of the paranormal investigation at Gacy's house, Mike Lewis. His facial expressions and in-charge attitude made me laugh quite a bit.
One scene I felt not necessary was when two of the investigators "got it going" in Gacy's bedroom. I thought the scene was not needed and quite awkward especially because they thought the camera in that room was broken, but instead, it started working when their shirts were off and things were becoming heated in the bedroom. Who can get in the mood in a dead pedophile's house!?
They use many cameras in all different rooms. Hmm I recall another film by The Global Asylum, Paranormal Activity, used cameras in all rooms and every so often a scene would be of all the shots of what the placed cameras had shown at the time.
Another strange part was when the psychic, Janina Peslo, was casting a protection spell, paranormal activity started occurring and her blouse opened and her bra was gone and there they were, her BARE breasts. They were so big they almost took up the whole screen (sarcasm). I always wondered what really happened to her.
Funny fact: they did not actually go to Gacy's house to "investigate". They also say that it is real footage all of the time... when it truly is not. Although it was fake, still it was a mostly well done paranormal movie.
A great reason why I love this movie is because NO ONE MAKES IT! Well, one girl was never found, but most are DEAD! It is great. I love movies like this. Mike dies from hypothermia and all the others die from asphyxiation or cardiac - pulmonary sarcoidosis.
One last note. The clown thing at the end was stupid.
My brother and I were looking for a movie to watch on Netflix and he remembered this scary movie that he thought I would like. I indeed did like the movie, a lot.
Gacy House has a "Blair Witch Project" feel. The filming is all by hand and most of the time the only light is the light from the cameras they carry. I watched the movie Cloverfield and thought the handheld camera was too much for my head to handle. For this movie I thought the camera kept pretty steady for most of the part other then when the camera person ran up or down the stairs.
As I watched the movie, I looked up the background story about John Wayne Gacy Jr., the man who killed and raped 33 young men in the 70's. I read terrible things that had happened when he was younger; his father beating him, a family member molesting him, and when he was 11 was hit in the head with a swing and didn't know he had a blood clot in his brain until he was 16 (his dad always thought he was lying). Those tragic events led to his demonic ways. From my research most of his victims had been his employees at his self-owned construction company. Weird thing is, he was not only married once but twice! And before his first marriage he had gone to a business college and went up from a management-trainee position to the vice-president of the Springfield chapter for Jaycees. He had lived in Iowa for a while which is CRAZY to think about because I live in southern Minnesota. He got off early from his 10-year sentence to prison for sodomy and soon was engaged and married another woman with two daughters. The family moved into his home where in the basement, in a crawl space, he hid his victims' bodies. EW! Also one was under the floorboards in his dining room! It is sad though to think that 8 of the young boys' bodies were unidentified. I guess either the families didn't care or they didn't know.
On a better note, sort of, the scary parts of the movies were typical but sometimes drawn out. They do a seance to communicate with John Gacy and all of a sudden BOOM!, something scary happens. It was great. I was pretty scared a few times; yelling at them to get out, curling up in a ball, and squealing a few times.
My favorite character was the man in charge of the paranormal investigation at Gacy's house, Mike Lewis. His facial expressions and in-charge attitude made me laugh quite a bit.
One scene I felt not necessary was when two of the investigators "got it going" in Gacy's bedroom. I thought the scene was not needed and quite awkward especially because they thought the camera in that room was broken, but instead, it started working when their shirts were off and things were becoming heated in the bedroom. Who can get in the mood in a dead pedophile's house!?
They use many cameras in all different rooms. Hmm I recall another film by The Global Asylum, Paranormal Activity, used cameras in all rooms and every so often a scene would be of all the shots of what the placed cameras had shown at the time.
Another strange part was when the psychic, Janina Peslo, was casting a protection spell, paranormal activity started occurring and her blouse opened and her bra was gone and there they were, her BARE breasts. They were so big they almost took up the whole screen (sarcasm). I always wondered what really happened to her.
Funny fact: they did not actually go to Gacy's house to "investigate". They also say that it is real footage all of the time... when it truly is not. Although it was fake, still it was a mostly well done paranormal movie.
A great reason why I love this movie is because NO ONE MAKES IT! Well, one girl was never found, but most are DEAD! It is great. I love movies like this. Mike dies from hypothermia and all the others die from asphyxiation or cardiac - pulmonary sarcoidosis.
One last note. The clown thing at the end was stupid.
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