I watched a movie today that I had 'hoped' would be good, but sadly it just left me confused. That movie was The Haunting of Molly Hartley. The only thing it probably succeeded in doing was ensuring that I'm a *tad* hesitant to close my eyes tonight out of fear that the parent who tried to kill the daughter won't jump out at me in my dream as they did in the movie, or that I may hear scary, devilish voices in my head...did I give the movie away?? Believe me I just saved you 90 minutes.
Okay, it's not that bad. However, they could have done a much better job. They had a great story idea, surprisingly good characters. Sadly, these characters and the actors portraying them didn't have anywhere to go because the screenplay writer and the director cut them short.
Spoiler -- so the film centers around this girl who died when she was born, but her parents were so struck with grief, that when this woman walked in on them during the childbirth (the mother gave birth prematuraly in a public washroom - i guess that could happen...) anyhow, so this strange woman offered to save their baby, give the parents 18 years with her, after which she would then belong to the darkness. I guess it's sort of a "sell your soul" sort of thing. The parents said "yeah watever" thinking the woman was weird and crazy. Turns out the baby started breathing again and is alive. Now, fast track to present day, the girl is about to turn 18.
So this reminded me of the fact that when I was born, I was pronounced dead by the physicians also... and then I started breathing again...I was alive. My mother assures me no one weird offered to save me. I just started breathing again and the heartbeat started back on its own. So today I looked back to my 18th bday...I can't really remember it. I dont know if that's a good thing or bad... lol. But I dont think anything weird happened, so sorry people I think I'm still "in the light". Then I realized how stupid I sounded and also that not only had I wasted 90 mins watching this film, I wasted another 30 mins pondering my survival, followed by another 10 mins kicking myself for even thinking "could this story be true".
But watching this film today just reinvigorated my belief that the best ever horror and exorcist film to have ever been made has to be one of my favourites, if not the favourite, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose".
Inspired by the true story of Anneliese Michel, portrayed by Jennifer Carpenter and the amazing performance of Laura Linney (who just won a SAG tonight by the way) as the skeptical, yet ruthless and tough lawyer -- The Exorcism of Emily Rose is a film that EVERYONE should watch at least once. I don't care if you're afraid of scary films, or if you don't believe in God or this whole exorcism stuff - even if it's fiction -- the film has a lot of different themes in it that are worth considering. If anything, just watch it for Laura Linney's performance or Jennifer Carpenter.
But just a word of caution: You may lose a lot of sleep after watching the film ;)
Anyhow -- as you can see...I wasn't in the mood to do much of anything today. Hey, even law students need a break once in a while.
:p
p.s. if you want another good horror movie, watch "Darkness Falls".
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