Movies have different purposes. Some aspire to tell you a great story, to make you think about your own life & purpose on earth parallel to it, to delve into the great questions of our existence — some are just terribly acted vehicles for titties, not just a single pair but lots & lots of titties.
This is a movie, a mood, an atmosphere — it's definitely confusing but in an artistic way that leaves you digging for symbols & meaning among intense imagery & genuinely unnerving moments.
The focus in this movie is off. It feels as if the writers room speed-listened to every episode of Coast to Coast AM in subliminal form while consuming an inhuman amount of drugs.
We continue last week’s theme of an absolutely insufferable main character with 1408, a psychological horror adapted from a Stephen King short story. & at least part of our disappointment with the film has to land on our expectations for King’s work & in some ways it’s typical of it.
Stef (@witchxpudding), L (@nocturnical), Matt, & Al (@maybmockingbird) kick off the fourth season of A Ghost in the Magazine with three movies that range from pretty bad to aight.
In theory this should be a good movie, it has all the right components — a compelling urban legend, a feasible found-footage scenario, and passable character motivations. But the characters themselves are inconsistent & fail to really compel the watcher to believe in their stakes.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if some cursed native stuff happened & everything was white-people demons & the ghost hunters on hand weren’t even the knock-off Zac Baggins crew but some hungry YouTubers with normal haircuts? Neither have we.