Horror movies
Those of you who know me know I have a shameless addiction to horror movies. All of them. The grizzliest, the scariest, the stupidest, the sexistest, the campiest, and the most realistic. So you won't be surprised to know that I was with Ezra here:
Saw the new Stephen King/John Cusack horror flick this weekend, which was quite fun. But it suffered from the same problem a lot of these movies do: Why is evil so circuitous? Early in the film, we learn that the Evil Hotel Room has killed not just the 20-some folks whose grisly deaths were carried in the newspapers, but another couple dozen who died "naturally": Strokes, heart attacks, drowned in their soup. And yet, the Evil Hotel Room spends the next hour and change trying to convince Cusack to kill himself. It's bizarre. Just give the guy a stroke!
One thing's for certain: It took Ezra two full days to write this post because he was still terrified that room 1408 might come and find him. Seriously. He lost all the color in his usually swarthy skin. It's quite possible that Ezra would like to see some simplicity built into horror movies so that he'd be less scared to watch them, but that would ruin the whole genre for somebody like me, and so I want you all to rest assured that I do not endorse his Occam's Razor policy. Stroke! Who would enjoy anything that boring.
Comments
Would it be a spoiler to say why stupid f'ing people continue to use the room? Seems like a no-brainer (a bad comment, considering the horror-film topic) to me.
And besides, killing yourself, even if pushed to do it, is sooo much less satisfying that being tied down and seeing in advance the tools that will work you over to slooooowly bring your end.
It sounds even less plausible than most of this genre.
I liked 1408, but I understand what your saying though. But I think the entire movie was about this guy dealing with his personal demons--namely his cynicism and selfish--which was brought on by his daughter's death. The room is a purgatory for the main character, which is why he was there to begin with. His cynicism and selfishness led him to it, and although the room was evil it made him confront these two traits he was nurturing. Anyway, I could go on and on about this, and this is just my two cents about the movie.
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