For way to long i thought this movie was written by Stephenie Meyer of twilight fame, but thankfully Stephanie Perkins is a totally different person. Maybe this would have actually been a better movie if Stephenie Meyer was at the helm.
maybe we would get more baseball and less football
Makani Young has moved from Hawaii to quiet, small-town Nebraska to live with her grandmother and finish high school, but as the countdown to graduation begins, her classmates are stalked by a killer intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past of her own, Makani and her friends must discover the killer's identity before they become victims themselves.
There's Someone Inside Your House is an adaptation of the 2017 novel of the same name by Stephanie Perkins. The project was announced in March 2018, when Deadline Hollywood revealed Netflix had partnered with Shawn Levy and James Wan to produce the film. At the time, the film was described as an amalgamation of genres, in the vein of quintessential slasher films such as Friday the 13th and Scream as well as coming-of-age dramas such as John Hughes' The Breakfast Club and George Lucas' American Graffiti.
i was primed and ready to hate this movie. the opening kill is shit, the high school is completely unbelievable, and the acting sucks. but this movie occasionally skirts the so bad its good line. it feels like a bunch of old white dudes in suits trying to be relatable to the RIVERDALE crowd. There are a thousand I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER clones out there that are far more interesting and deserving of your time, so i beg of you to watch anything else to satisfy your teen slasher cravings.
But since we are both still here, lets talk about the few things worth talking about.
Patrick Brice directed the fuck out of this movie. the whole movie looks great, and its a shame Pats directing is drowned out by such a shitty movie
The killers mask being the face of his future victim is an awesome inclusion to this movie. i didn't fully get it until our second kill of the movie, but it looks great.
Darby feels a little shoved in for no reason, but they are adorable and i love them. nice to see an actual gender fluid person playing a gender fluid person. kind of blows to see it flouted as a novelty more than a human being though.
the soundtrack is wonderfully synthy and occasionally feels perfect. only sometimes though
thus ends the nice things i have to say about this gong show of a movie
no please i would rather listen to my dad yell at me for throwing a secret party where a dude pulls a gun out and makes everyone think he is going to kill himself while hitting the gun shaped vape from one of the largest Nazi memorabilia collections on earth/10
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