This was camp as fuuuuck
It would have been a vast improvement if the Sisu-man had been hot. In such a movie about spectacle, I coulda used some extra eye candy. Even better if he was a hot babe instead and the brothel girls were men in maid outfits
This movie peaked when Sisu-man explodes a dude with a land mine, then the exploded dude's leg fly's accross the screen and explodes yet another land mine.
The efficiency with which…
Editing was great, loved the splitscreen, etc.
Playing off old people's sexuality as horror isn't very nice, but at least these are sex repressed (and as a result, obsessed) religious freaks, so I'll give it a pass.
I've been watching a lotta Cronenberg, so something something knife is a penis, murder is the new sex.
I think it may have been better without making them serial murderers, not sure.
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Some review I read said this was the best Stephen King adaptation. That might be true if you mean that it's the most faithful to the book, but it's probably the worst film I've seen that was based on a SK novel. I've never read king, so I can't confirm or deny it's faithfulness.
Dialogue was really bad in places, just clunky and forced.
Sarah was a flat character but she coulda done better than Johnny, glad she got out…
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Yeah, this was fun. I actually liked a lot of the ambiguity and I'm still piecing together bits that I didn't take in entirely in watching.
The best unifying theory that I've come up with is that everything supernatural is the work of Morgan le Fay (his mother). Well, everything except for St. Winnie and the scavenger, which I could go either way on. The scavenger certainly seemed to have supernatural knowledge, but is that just me inserting Barry Keoghan…
