Her violent death seems to imply that no one is safe -women, least of all.Įxcept the monster ultimately plays with Jay instead of pulling her apart. Likewise, so does the mutilated corpse of Hugh's girlfriend, left on the beach, at the start of It Follows. Now, him doing so doesn't really make sense, unless that's all he cares about -and yet, the heads of his victims, found earlier by Rae's husband on the scuttled boat, would seem to say otherwise. More to the point, Hughie, in Dead Calm, had plenty of time to savor the kill, earlier. Is that, after a certain amount of waiting, it starts to feel ridiculous. Victim in danger for as long as possible). In their novels, the helpless Gothic "heroine" often lies supineīefore the tall, masculine killer (a naked attempt to place the intended These tropes -of killer hesitation, and the resultant ignominiousĭemise -go all the way back to Matthew Lewis or Ann Radcliffe. Said coup de grace causes the would-be-killer to stumble awkwardly back, spilling headlong over the guardrail while his cranium ignominiously detonates. right before John Ingram, played by Sam Neill, puts a In Dead Calm, one could argue that Hughie, played by Zane, was Yet, the killer in each situation hesitates for noĭiscernible reason. They're equally helpless, when the time comes. In the case of Jay from It Follows, or Rae from Dead Calm (1989), Loomis to swoop inĪt the last second and fill Myers with lead. As a result, she's able to last long enough for Dr. Each time he falls, she stays just a little bit more resourcefulĪnd clever than he, like a mouse evading a cat. I think it works in Halloween because Laurie isn't totally passive she's able to fight back, "wounding" the Shape.
More than props to instill a deeper state of already-mounting One-too-many times, almost seems to be a victim that is toyed with, by the Instead, it toys with her and I found myself feeling confused -pissed-off, even. No satisfying reason is given as to why the monster doesn't immediately eviscerate the clueless-and-therefore-helpless Jay. It doesn't, during the beach scene, in It Follows. Should add, it's entirely possible to have a killer hesitate in Instead, we're effectively seeing the goings-on behind theĬurtain, potentially breaking the whole illusion, should the screenplay get any "clever" ideas. But in the case of a monster standing directly inįront of someone, there's no door to conceal what's going on, thus no To imagine what's lurking behind if we're initially mistaken, it's Opaque, meaning we couldn't see through it. It's worth nothing that the door in the earlier example was However, it's one thing to toy with audience expectations in a way thatįeels clever -quite another to do it in a way that feels transparent, orĬheap. In effect, the monster is toying with its victim, much in the same sense that Billy Zane's villain did, with Nicole Kidman, in Philip Noyce's Dead Calm (1989). Implacable monster suddenly stop to play. This is the movie's first real misstep: the screenplay deliberately having a heretofore
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Until this moment, the movie is, in my opinion, absolute perfection -a perfection it maintains until the scene on the beach, where the Past her as Disasterpeace's music comes wonderfully alive, the monster resumes its chase, and we're Alas, this time, when the door is opened, the creature is standing behind Yara, on the other side! Lurking This process is repeated, with Yara eventually asking The film continues toying with our expectations.
"Where the hell is it?" we wonder out loud. The door is opened the creature isn't there. So when Jay opens the door we shout at the screen, "Don't!" But this is part In fact, it could be standing right next to him and he wouldn't have aĬlue. There's not much Paul can do about it should the creature come inside. Jay is in a room with no obvious or safe exit if she opens the door, And yet, we also know Paul can't see the creature, and that We relax the monster can't speak, so -for a microsecond, at least -we think She asks who it is, and isĪddressed by Paul. When Jay locks herself in herīedroom, she hears a knock at the door. Information, whilst keeping us in the dark. The film's credit, it maintains a good balance of feeding us Tell her about it, or why she didn't listen, is never explained. Shown later, in a picture of them, standing arm-in-arm. Don't know it, at the time, but this girl is Hugh's girlfriend -as
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