Most of Mike Flanagan's work has some sort of reflection on death, be it accepting it in HILL HOUSE, finding comfort it in in MIDNIGHT MASS, struggling against it in HOUSE OF USHER, and so on. If HUSH is said to fit into that pattern, it is a reflection on our animal fight-or-flight response in the face of it, and how we has human beings process it in the face of the senseless.
A tight little thriller. Edge of your seat stuff. Loved it.
Too few ideas in the story, too many ideas in the film making, push and pull, yin and yang. David Koepp, the king of mediocre scripts, is more or less doing a stripped down take on his film STIR OF ECHOES, with dialogue and Hollywood third act twists that feel straight out of the early 2000s, sharing shelf space at Target with WRONG TURN and GHOST SHIP.
No one would give it the time of day without Steven Soderbergh's gimmicks…
Michelle Trachtenberg died today, and the news completely knocked me on my ass. Very close to my age, tragically young, and someone that had been a frequent presence on my television screen from the second season THE ADVENTURES OF PETE & PETE to the last season of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Felt like finding out a classmate you really liked back in the day had died. So, in tribute, I decided to watch the biggest movie of hers that I hadn't…
Of all the things we've lost, maybe in the grand scheme of things this isn't that important, but it feels important to me, of all the things we've lost, I miss our ability to randomly stumble onto fucking weird movies in the wild. You can't just be up at two in the morning and find FANTASTIC PLANET or PINK FLAMINGOS or THE FORBIDDEN ZONE playing on Night Flight on the USA Network. You can't walk to the dusty corners of…
