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Apr 20, 2012 - 04:04 PM |
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I read the stupidest thing today: |
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It's two years old, but:
Monster House Screenwriter Apologizes for the movie
Basically, he apologizes for the movie being "confusing" and therefore extra scary for his friend's 7-year-old child, giving the child nightmares. Motherfucker, please. The best part about the confusing thing is that he comments that all the story elements are even confusing to adults. What? The movie was fairly easy to follow, and yes, it's fucked up that the woman was killed in the foundation to the house, by why is it so confusing for an adult to understand (WHEN THEY TELL YOU IN THE DAMN MOVIE) that that's why the woman hates children and has possessed the house so she can eat them. It's a horror movie premise, for fuck's sake.
Secondly: you're surprised that your kid got scared by (and then had nightmares from) a kiddie horror/comedy? REALLY!? Hey, lady: name any Disney animated feature. Name any Don Bluth animated feature. Name practically any animated feature that's intended for children/families. Name various kid's shows. What do they all have in common? Something in them has given more than one child nightmares. Fuck, Fraggle Rock had a couple episodes that scared the shit out of me when I was a child. Doesn't mean it's not family/child friendly. The same elements haven't bothered many other children, so, what the fucking hell.
But what really got me was this bit:
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Because even a scary story, if it's a good scary story, takes us into strange, dark places that don't make sense at first, and helps us see that they do make sense, and are therefore not so scary.
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WHAT?
THAT IS NOT HOW HORROR WORKS. Fuck. The best scary stories/movies/whatever are the ones that stick with you afterwards and bother you when you're not expecting it. Or the ones that make you think about them when you're trying to fall asleep. And again, different stuff scares different people, but when you don't get an explanation for WHY the things in the movie/story are happening to these specific people who the author chooses to show, it can generally be much more effective than not.
Ugh, I hate people. I mean, he blames Spielberg for the "confusing elements." Yeah, sorry, but the why and the how was pretty well spelled out by the script, so.
What the fuck ever. I'm done ranting now.
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