This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry
Misery
I heard this was pretty famous for being torturous and hard to watch. The hard to watch part is mostly probably because of the "hobbling" scene. The hardest part for me to watch actually was when she made him burn his book. But otherwise I found the movie to be more exciting than frightening.
But I didn't find it that frightening overall. Actually it was a bit goofy at times. I almost thought some of the acting and especially the camera directing and choreography was inspired by Evil Dead II. Is was silly and I was laughing at times. And it was hard to tell if that was intentional or not. Yes Anne Wilkes is supposed to say and do silly stuff, but it's supposed to ultimately reveal how frightening she is. Certainly the silliness did contribute to the horror at times, but many other times it diffused it.
Then again, I think if you replaced the "Misery" novels with "Harry Potter" I could believe it a lot more. Yeah now that I think about it, there are a shitload of people out there like Anne. And they are pretty damn frightening.
Rating: 8/10