One of those movies that announces its thesis early and proceeds to beat the audience over the head with it
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Vertigo 1958
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Gather round ye cineastes and allow me to regale you with the age-old trope I like to call the Gavin Ellster complex. SPOILERS hereinafter beware ⚠️⛔️☣️☢️
Named after the chief villain in Vertigo, those suffering from the rare cinematic condition of GEC are both maniacally dedicated to executing an impossibly idiosyncratic and insane evil plan while simultaneously, paradoxically, functioning like an average, everyday, one may even say, boring person.
Gavin Ellster’s plan, to be clear, is to hire a lookalike/con…
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Boogeyman 2005
Most of Boogeyman consists of 7th Heaven star Barry Watson walking around, thinking about opening doors. He has had a closet case of closet-a-phobia, you see, ever since his dad was eaten by a closet, or by the Boogeyman who lives in the closet and under the bed (or something). So, ever since that fateful day, Barry's been afraid of closets, as his incongruously well-adjusted girlfriend (Emily Deschanel) discovers when she asks him to get her coat and he becomes…
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