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1 Dec 2010

My soul to take

Wes Craven’s warm-up film looks like death warmed up.

Director: Wes Craven

Screenplay: Wes Craven

Cast: Max Thieriot , Henry Lee Hopper, Zena Grey, Frank Grillo, Denzel Whitaker, Shareeka Epps, Emily Meade, Nick Lashaway, John Magaro, Paulina Olszynski 

Rating: NC 16 (Violence and Coarse Language)

Release: 2 December 2010

The notties has been a bad decade for the American king of horror, who previously terrorised two generations of audiences with bogeymen like Freddy Krueger and a cloaked slasher wearing a Halloween mask. The big news this year is that after years of declining output and then inactivity, Wes Craven has started to film a new Scream trilogy starring the original cast. The new trilogy will most probably continue the writer-director’s penchant for self-aware, meta-textual horror films.

But first, Wes Craven needs to get in shape, flex his horror writing and directing muscles and My soul to take is his warm up to next year’s Scream 4. The premise is decidedly familiar and safe territory for the director. 20 years after a spate of serial killings, the presumably dead killer has become the stuff of a local legend which predicts that he will return to claim the souls of seven children born in the same town on the exact moment on night of his death. And on their 17th birthday, someone or something has indeed returned to hunt the seven children down, one by one. Who will be the last one standing and who will be unmasked as the serial killer?

One thing I’ll admit about Wes Craven in the age of the modern horror film – he never needs scare tactics to convey horror or schlocky soundtracks to send up the thrillers. My soul to take just simply works, even though you can play a party game during this film called “Identify which Wes Craven movie this scary moment or trope comes from”.

Even when it borrows and quotes so much from his previous works, this film does not cross the line into self-parody. Instead, it feels more like a mid-career summary and showcase of Wes Craven’s ideas about horror films. My soul to take is hardly original and does not try to be original – although it sure is pretty clever to turn a Marx Brothers/Woody Allen comedy routine into something far more sinister.

讀者回應

1. 2010-12-01 23:49  
Please don't watch this movie.. it is a waste of time.
2. 2010-12-02 15:25  
LOL, You watch that b4?
3. 2010-12-02 20:11  
I'm a horror fan and I intend to see it but it's only shown in 3D here - which I can't see because of my eyes. I'll wait for the 2D DVD...
4. 2010-12-03 06:35  
Wow is this guy cute or what?
Hope he doesn't end up dead. Seeing that the film's by Wes Craven, I'll surely watch it.

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