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     Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
As Morpheus kept himself elusive to me last night, I vainly tried to seduce him by counting sheep, so I came up with making a mental list about movies having children, be they more or less protagonists, being evil or victimized or otherwise extending a shadowy influence on the story. Leaving aside the obvious, such as THE OMEN and THE EXORCIST, I came up with (not in a particular order): LeRoy's "THE BAD SEED", Wyler's "CHILDREN'S HOUR"(great Shirley Mc Laine), Laughton's "NIGHT OF THE HUNTER", Clayton's "THE INNOCENTS", Rilla's "MIDWICH CUCKOOS", Losey's "THE DAMNED", Leader's "CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED", Carpenter's (flop)"VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED", Holt's "THE NANNY" (perfidious Bette Davis), Cohen's "IT'S ALIVE" (has there been a sequel?), Bava's "KILL, BABY, KILL" and "SHOCK", L.Bava's "GHOST SON", Ruben's "THE GOOD SON", Balaguerò's "FRAGILE", Del Toro's "EL ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO" and "EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO", Polanski's "ROSEMARY'S BABY", Alfredson's "LET THE RIGHT ONE IN", Maury & Bustillo's "INSIDE", Ratcliff's "JOSHUA", Collet-Serra "ORPHAN", Serrador's "QUIEN PUEDE MATAR A UN NINO? (or about so)" End of exercise, just for the moment. I am sure there are a thousand more! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
The Sixth Sense, Identity (sort of), The Unborn...I'll have to go away and come up with something more respectable than the last two. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
Cardone's "WICKED LITTLE THINGS", Nakata's "RINGU"...but was Sadako really human? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Children shouldn't play with Dead things | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
...and, of course, Ji-Woon's "A TALE OF TWO SISTERS". Was "THE UNINVITED" its US remake? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Eden lake, This is England | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Yes. TALE OF TWO SISTERS is stunning. I love it so I haven't wanted to see the (probably awful) US remake. Don't forget THE OTHERS and indeed THE OTHER. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Depends how you're defining "children", Weber. At what age does a "child" become a "teenager"? LOL This could get confusing...  | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Weber - is Eden Lake any good? It has two brilliant actors in the leads, but I keep picking it up and then putting it down. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
It is very good. Tom Turgoose does seem to be a bit on a one trick pony in the acting stakes though - but the lad that played the lead in the last two series of Skins is stunning in it. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
'Germany, Year Zero' (1947) by Roberto Rossellini, 'Forbidden Games' (1952) by Réne Clément, 'The Spirit Of The Beehive' (1973) by Victor Erice & 'Au Revoir Les Enfants' (1987) by Louis Malle stand out as the finest and most haunting and powerfully moving films about childhood I have seen. Also 'Invaders From Mars' (1953) by William Cameron Menzies & 'Paperhouse' (1989) by Bernard Rose are great genre movies told from a child's point-of-view. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Oooh, great choices, Steve. Paperhouse. One of my fave all time British horror movies. I actually like the Tobe Hooper remake of Invaders From Mars. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Les Quatre Cents Coups and (less famously, but it deserves to be better known) L'Enfance Nue, which Truffaut supported. And, let's see - Ozu's Ohayu? How about Lionel Jeffries' first two films as director? A High Wind in Jamaica? Certainly Cave of the Yellow Dog... If we let animation in, certainly My Neighbour Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies and Kiki's Delivery Service. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
And - dear Lord, the old memory falters - Pather Panchali, for heaven's sake. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
'The 400 Blows' is an astonishing film I should have included! It's long been an ambition of mine to watch the entire Antoine Doinel series in sequence - one of the great achievements in cinema imo. But get this, Ramsey, of the other films you listed I haven't seen a single one!!  | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
You've treats in store, Stevie. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Son of Rambow, Le Guerre de boutons, Pelle the Conqueror, The Rocking horse winner (is that the right title?), ILS, Home alone and all the sequels... | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.181.87.92 |
'The Children'(Shankland, 2008) | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I liked that film quite a bit, Lincoln - what did you think? | ||
| Lincoln Brown (Lincoln_brown) Username: Lincoln_brown Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 124.181.87.92 |
Enjoyed it, Ramsey. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
How about Lionel Jeffries' first two films as director? I think Jeffries is one of this country's seriously underrated storytellers, who made great children's pictures that never patronised them. I love both The Railway Children & The Amazing Mr Blunden (part financed by Hemisphere Pictures who put money into Eddie Romero's Blood Island movies you know). Wombling Free & a poor version of The Water Babies are best forgotten, though. Horror-wise I have to mention Who Would Kill a Child by Narciso Ibanez Serrador, and for a future Profondo Probert column in Prism I'm going to be writing about Carlton J Albright's obscure 1980 zombie-kiddie picture The Children | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
There's also the entire output of Shirley Temple. Every one of them a horror in itself! ...why are you all looking at me like that? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I have seen 'Railway Children' & 'Blunden' both of which are charming children's films. Top 10 Scary Children Films imo: 1. The Exorcist (1973) by William Friedkin 2. The Innocents (1961) by Jack Clayton 3. Village Of The Damned (1960) by Wolf Rilla - with Martin Stephens again, the scariest child of them all! 4. The Omen (1976) by Richard Donner 5. Kill, Baby, Kill (1966) by Mario Bava 6. The Bad Seed (1956) by Mervyn LeRoy 7. The Brood (1979) by David Cronenberg 8. The Children's Hour (1961) by William Wyler 9. Children Of The Damned (1963) by Tony Leader 10. Our Mother's House (1967) by Jack Clayton I wouldn't count "evil baby" films like 'Rosemary's Baby' & 'It's Alive'. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.228.143 |
Would DON'T LOOK NOW count? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Not without giving the twist away... for anyone who hasn't seen it. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Same goes for the quite brilliant 'Communion'... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.228.143 |
But Stevie, I mean more that it's a negatively child-driven movie... a child drives the story, a child's absence.... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Another great recent example was 'Frailty' (2002) directed by Bill Paxton. I believe it's the whole "wolf in sheep's clothing" thing that makes children and horror go so well together. Remember the evil little girls in 'The League Of Gentlemen'. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
'Don't Look Now' is more a film about the dislocating effect of grief than about childhood. The little girl is important as the focus of the story but the story isn't about her. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
No one's mentioned the Butcher Boy yet... possibly Neil Jordan's best film to date and equally as good as the fantastic book it's based on. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 142.179.1.109 |
Can't believe no one's mentioned SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, in which Clayton drew wonderful performances from the two lads playing Will and Jim. And while it's not genre, the plot of CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG is propelled by Dick van Dyke's children, and does have that wonderful creepy turn from Robert Helpmann as the Childcatcher. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.72 |
Lord Probert - The Amazing Mr Blunden will always be my favourite children's film. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Frank - From reading various reviews it seems to be a film that's brought a tear to the eye of many a hardened old movie veteran! We three kings of Orient are my dears!  | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.48.114 |
The Juon films have a strong child theme running through them. More recently there was the 'child' in The Orphan. The following also come to mind as films that feature children prominently: Dark Water Stand By Me The Orphanage Pan's Labyrinth Curse of the Cat People Fanny and Alexander White Mane The Wizard of Oz The Red Balloon Also, just about any Gamera film... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
The Child - a gloriously dodgy 1980s B movie directed by someone whose name Lord probert will remember but I can't. Produced by the same guy who produced Ax (again, my memory fails me on the name front). | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.203.69 |
Harry Novak. It came out in 1977. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
It did - on a double bill with Cathy's Curse - another possessed kiddie pic Let's Play Hide & Go Kill!!! | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Of course, 'Curse Of The Cat People'... the greatest horror film about childhood ever made! | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 82.2.68.27 |
Anyone mentioned Home Alone yet? I found that film truly horrifying. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Me | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Oh, the old cells are slow! How could I forget Les Dimanches de Ville d'Avray? I found it very moving, and it's available on DVD (as Sundays and Cybele). | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Can we count Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I'd consider that more of a Scary Old People film. I mean what is more disturbing than an old, old woman dressing and acting like a child. That's another one for the must-see list, Ramsey! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Bugsy malone Does Pennies from Heaven count? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Lord of the Flies!!!! no one mentioned it yet. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.229.37 |
Twitch of the Death Nerve may not be a child-driven movie... but boy, do those kids steal the show! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZs1Af1kbNw (spoilers) | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.203.69 |
'I'd consider that more of a Scary Old People film. I mean what is more disturbing than an old, old woman dressing and acting like a child.' I still feel like a kid. We're all kids, really, with suits we can't patch up or change. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.203.69 |
Zed mentioned one recently ; Who Could Kill A Child? or something. Sounded good. Anyone see The Children? I found it overly arty. Horror for Guardian readers - or people who say they are. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
I'm a Guardian reader! | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.78.35.185 |
Spy Kids ! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
"Anyone see The Children? I found it overly arty. Horror for Guardian readers - or people who say they are." See my exchange with Lincoln above, on 22 June. I may write the film up for Video Watchdog. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
My italics button seems to be buggered again >Zed mentioned one recently ; Who Could Kill A Child? or something. Sounded good. It IS good Tony! I mentioned it as well. Serious stuff >Anyone see The Children? I found it overly arty. Horror for Guardian readers - or people who say they are. Lady P & I liked it a lot, & I for one enjoyed it immensely because of its anarchistic 'let's kill them all' attitude to the very types of Guardian readers to which you may be referring! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Running Scared, all the more so in the context of the final credit sequence. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.154.208 |
You guys must live in a cinema. There's no other explanation for it. Like, you pay rent and pitch a tent in the auditorium or whatever. You live on a diet of ice cream and popcorn. You avail yourselves freely of the only necessity other than filmwatching: the sprinkling lavatories. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I watch at least one film a day while I'm at home, Gary, though generally now on DVD. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.234.38 |
I don't think The Cement Garden has been mentioned yet. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
You guys must live in a cinema. I grew up watching movies rather than reading books, Gary, which means I have a head start where horror is concerned (and Spaghetti Westerns thanks to my mum and Will Hay, George Formby, Laurel & Hardy, Marx Brothers and any and all other comedies of that era thanks to my Dad) and Kate & I easily get through 5 movies a week now | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
I'm a film-a-day man, too. It's how I relax, late at night. I grew up watching movies, too, as well as reading: films punctuate the great moments of my life, much like songs do for others. The soundtrack of my life is a visual one. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.74.5 |
>>films punctuate the great moments of my life, much like songs do for others. The soundtrack of my life is a visual one. Does that mean the film of your life is a musical? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Yeah, a really, really camp one. Like Glee. | ||
| Stu (Stu) Username: Stu Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 86.29.74.5 |
Not a macho one like Streets of Fire? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
More like a weird combination of the two: camp yet butch, like West Side Story. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.154.208 |
But hold on, guys, I watch a film a day, too (well, I did before the World Cup and will do so after it), but I never seem to see as much as you lot. Weird temporal tricks, man. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.248.163 |
The trick is to watch a different film a day, Gare.... | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
The White Ribbon- or has that already been mentioned? If so, my apologies. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.154.208 |
>>>The trick is to watch a different film a day, Gare.... Ahhhhhhhh. OK, The Smokey and the Bandit will be consigned to its Betamax box once and for all, then. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 64.180.64.74 |
May one suggest this? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081529/ Plus, Amazon UK has all three on DVD for eight quid, or just the 2nd and 3rd movies for just a bit more than a fiver (all prices do not include P&P; time-limited discount; all offers void where prohibited by laws of good taste). | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.26.154.208 |
Works of unparalleled genius. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
I saw 3 "Devil children" films over the last couple of days - The Children - I thought this was brilliant. I can't disagree more with Tony's comments above. This was one of the most disturbing films I've seen for a long while. Normally in a horror film it only seems right to kill the thing that's attacking you but in this it's more disturbing to see the attackers die than their victims. The true nature of whats happening is cleverly kept hidden from most of the adult protagonists to ensure that those who are trying to defend themselves look as bad as it's possible to be. Well worth a look Hansel and Gretel - a very very good Korean film. In this the threat doesn't come from the fact that the lead character might die as he's rarely under threat. It comes from the fact that he can't get away from this fairytale cottage in the middle of the woods. It's fantastically creepy and we actually feel for the children as much as the lead adult. One missed Call - all right this is a spoiler including this here. This is virtually a remake of the Ring but using mobile phones instead of videos.. It's so similar in plot and tone they should have just called it the Ring-tone. That's not saying it's a bad film, it's not, it does manage to get the same kind of atmosphere as the Ring which has to be a good thing. derivative but good. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Weber, did you see the original One missed Call? I couldn't get past the first five minutes of the US remake, but Takeshi Miike's film is very entertaining. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Original of course. I said it was good didn't I. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
Do you know how long I took getting that Ring-Tone joke properly phrased? And not even an emoticon titter...  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I just watched The Children and have to agree with Weber, Ramsey, Lincoln and Lord P. Bloody hell, what a truly disturbing film. It creeped me out much more than last night's Eden Lake, and because it came on like an exploitation film as if made by an arthouse director the horrors held a weird edge. Yep, liked this a lot. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Tony, I've just seen your comments above regarding The Children. What does this even mean? "I found it overly arty. Horror for Guardian readers - or people who say they are." | ||
| Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey) Username: Darren_o_godfrey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 207.200.116.133 |
Perhaps THE HAUNTING OF JULIA (aka FULL CIRCLE), based on Straub's Julia would qualify? | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.161.156 |
I would say so, Darren! That film gave me nightmares when I saw it at the cinema in the '70s (I sneaked in to see it - it was part of a double bill along with Blue Sunshine). Weber, I'm glad someone else here has seen Hansel and Gretel! I thought it was very good indeed. The same director (Yim Pil-sung) made Antarctic Journal, another film with an eerie atmosphere. The original One Missed Call is great fun, despite being unashamedly derivative. The sequels were not so good, although the first follow-up (set in Japan and Taiwan) had its moments. The US remake is one of the worst Asian horror film remakes ever. Another Korean film with a child in a central role is Acacia. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
I don't know if this may belong to the thread, I chanced upon the "Hard Candy" DVD where the story is told about a fourteen age girl subtly victimizing her perspective abuser during a rendez-vous in the latter's home after a chat encounter. She reveals herself to be a real avenging spider, though some of the psycopath type going beyond her reasonable motives for seducing/torturing her victim. Ellen Page's age, both as the player and the heroine, seems to over around twenty, but her acting's very good albeit in a not very good movie, imho. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
I thought "Hard Candy" was a very good film...provocative and superbly acted. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
"She reveals herself to be a real avenging spider, though some of the psycopath type going beyond her reasonable motives for seducing/torturing her victim." I think it's a supernatural story: the girl is a ghost and the man is her killer. That would explain both her powers and her motivation. There's no direct evidence for that but I'm convinced of it. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
On second thought, Zed, "Hard Candy" is good. I suppose I was led astray by the impossibility to empathize with any of the characters. But that's in the movie's favour, after all! | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
...and Joel's reading makes sense! What about the meaning of the red anorak the girl was wearing when leaving her "killer"'s house? I don't remember having seen it before in the movie, I should watch it again. | ||
| James Armstrong (James_armstrong) Username: James_armstrong Registered: 10-2010 Posted From: 86.185.184.209 |
I wondered if the red hoody was perhaps drawing attention to how the film is a subversion of Little Red Riding Hood. The Wolf in disguise is seduced by the girl (reminiscent of Angela Carter's fairy tales). It was actually the film poster that brought this to my mind: http://www.atoww.com/wallpapers/2006/hard-candy/awp_2_800.jpg | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
...btw I've watched the trailer of "Red Riding Hood", a forthcoming would-be horror. Is it already out in UK? By the look of it, it's too reminiscent of Twilight Saga style, all slick-haired and darkly beautiful characters, a teen-targeted love story steeped in CGI monstruosity. I am not looking forward to it, decisively, unless I'm proved wrong by critical reviews. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.131.51.196 |
I enjoyed Hard Candy despite not thinking it was terribly good. Ellen Page's performance was superb and she was truly excellent, but some of the implausibilities in the script really let her down. But now I'll have to watch it again with Joel's interpretation! Oh, and the red hoodie was supposedly pure accident. They shot the picture in what she happened to be wearing and then said, "OMG, it's Red Riding Hood!" | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
I've yet to see a chicken driven movie other than Chicken Run. I'd no idea there was one in Hard Candy. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.144.35 |
Sigh - talk about mis-reading thread titles... |