Daydreamer's Film Talk

As a child, any kind of horror film can scare you, since you're naive and unsure of what's happening. Only when you get older do you realize  what's scary and what's stupid, because you're more intelligent than you used to be. Horror films these days are a hit and miss genre, because they constantly repeat the same tricks over and over, hoping that because it worked the first time, it should work again. As is the case for 2014's The Quiet Ones. The Quiet Ones stars Jared Harris as a college professor at Oxford in the 1970's who begins to conduct experiments with other students to try and heal the disturbed Jane Harper. The professor believes that Jane has telekinetic energy manifested as the entity she calls Evey that is causing her behavior and that he can remove it like a tumor and cure her. As the experiments continue, things more and more dangerous and supernatural for the disbelieving professor.  First off, the film has been marketed as being base...

Going to New York, I felt anxious, mostly because I was hoping that there would be no problems getting to the AMC Empire on time. Living in Union City has it's downsides when it comes to movies like Under the Skin. Limited releases make little to no money here, but luckily, New York always has space for the arts, especially one in a million beauties like this film.  Under the Skin was originally released in 2013 in private screenings and festivals, were the early releases were mixed, but more on the favorable spectrum. Now it's in limited release in April of 2014. The film is directed by Johnathan Glazer, responsible for other films like SexyBeast and Birth, the latter starring famed actress Nicole Kidman. This time, the focus is on Scarlett Johansson, as an alien in human form who picks up men in Scotland for harvesting.  The first portion of the film mostly follows her character from her beginnings of a human, who unemotionally carries out her duties. This part unnerved me, ...