Kay, so not too long ago, I just finished watching a pretty good B-movie whose major sponsor is the WWE. Weird, I know. Usually, these B-movies are nothing but sex, screwing, bobbies, and bum. But this on actually had some pretty decent horror scenes in them as well as just enough of the actual psychopathic stuff to make it seem quite believable.
So, the movie was called See No Evil, and the biggest star in the flick was Kane, the wrestler from the WWE. If he ever wanted to give up wrestling, I think that he could have a pretty decent career as a horror movie actor. (Ok, so generally, he'd have to play either the huge monster slayer or the huge monster, but whatever; he was really great in the movie.)
The basic plot of the flick was that this co-ed group of juvies agree to help out at this run-down hotel so that they can get time off of their sentences. The cop who viewers think killed this crazy axe-murderer guy about four years ago is one of the guards on the trip. Viewers also get a sneak peak at why each of the teens are in jail, everything from possession to aggravated assault. One by one, they all begin to get picked off at this hotel that they're fixing up to be a homeless shelter. And it's all by this guy that the cop-cum-guard thought he killed four years ago. Who survives? Who dies? What's this guy's MO? And what is the twist?
I'm not going to give that away. I don't like spoilers that much, and I don't like ruining it for people to actually want to watch this movie. (For those of who who don't, I suggest Google or Yahoo or something. Ruin it for yourselves.)
Anyhow, I thought that the movie stayed pretty true to the who psychological and psychopathic elements of the creation of a serial killer -- or kind of just a killer in general. If I had to pick a place for this guy on the Most Evil scale, it would probably be somewhere between level 17 and 22. I'm not sure how sexually motivated his killings are, but if I had to say, sex -- and sin in general -- definitely play a major role in his motivation.
Not to mention, there's just enough show of abuse to turn your stomach. It's the general killer MO -- if that makes any sense. It's like it could be any person who turned into a killer. It's the nitty-gritty stuff that no one wants to talk about because you know someone, somewhere is going through something like that. It's actually the birth of a killer. So, whoot to the script writers or directors or whoever on that aspect. Great job staying true to form.
And the murder scenes were great. There was a great amount of blood and gore and whatnot. And it looked pretty real -- real enough, at any rate, to give my father nightmares. (Although that's not saying much, but still...) It wasn't like you could tell that the blood was fake -- it wasn't too runny or too thick or too red or not red enough. But I really think what I liked the most was the film distortion -- think about the music video for "Closer" by NIN (seen below):
Or even parts of Rihanna's video "Disturbia" :
I don't know, but I really think that that's the most interesting and, daresay, beautiful part. It's beautiful because it's disturbing and so artfully placed in the movie that it makes you want to turn your head away. (I'm not your normal female: I won't coddle into your shoulder at the scary parts. I'd be there munching on popcorn and totally engrossed in the movie.) You want to turn your head away, but you can't because there's something there that won't let you. And it doesn't matter what that thing is -- just that it's there. And you watch. And you're slightly ill to your stomach and sickened by the fact that you know there are really people in the world like that, but you still watch because something compels you to.
Am I making sense? Or am I just babbling? Who knows, but I thought that this movie was great for a B-lister. That, and Kane was awesome in it too... the best actor in the whole movie, and I can count the number of lines he had on one hand. So, it wasn't his speaking ability -- rather, it was his presence and his size and his ability. Pretty cool, ne?
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