All the world is gasoline, and
Eli Roth is the guy who just can't stop
flicking his cigarettes...So it's
FUNNY GAMES if
FUNNY GAMES wasn't pretentious self-fellating bullshit - color me onboard.
The hook this time is that Roth is (supposedly) dialing back on the gore in favor psychological torment, which I don't think the radical prospect it'll likely be treated as by mainstream critics: Roth's secret has never been his willingness to spill blood, but his willingness to spill it in defiance of audiences' expectations of narrative "rightness." The notorious blood-bathing sequence in
HOSTEL II isn't just horrifying because of what's happening, but because it's happening completely without reason to the most likable/vulnerable character in the film without even the fig-leaf of "the naughty kids die first" perverse cosmic justice of the
FRIDAY THE 13TH or
NIGHTMARE cycles. Which, unfortunately, means that French bulldog is probably toast :(
He's also insidiously skilled at breaking movie-taboos you don't realize
are taboos until you see them broken: the shots showing the girls' (apparently?) destroying his wife and childrens' belongings just to fuck with him are for some reason
so much more distrubing conceptually than the torture shots. He's also delightfully unafraid to follow the story to a logical point without caring if there's a "bad" message you could take away - it's easy to imagine a version of this premise framing the home-invaders' as sort-of righteous ("angy angels of vengeance punishing a suburban patriarch for adulterous Skinemax-fantasy indulgence") but you can likely count on Roth to stick with his favorite themes of innate human shittiness and evil existing for its own sake.
Either way, we'll find out whenever Lionsgate decides to release this. I imagine it's going to be a limited-theatrical/VOD thing like most semi-indie horror these days, but I'd hope the studio who knew a phenomenon when they saw it in the original
SAW would understand what they've potentially got here. Keanu is very much "back" in the wake of
JOHN WICK, and even if Roth's name doesn't carry the cache with mainstream audiences it does with horror fans the "Every dude's fantasy goes
baaaaaad!" hook in the trailers could easily turn this into "see it to discuss it" phenomenon like
FATAL ATTRACTION (or, more recently,
GONE GIRL.)
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