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Feb. 23rd, 2013 08:15 pmI think the problem with Grave Encounters 2--you know, aside from the hyperdimensional feedback loop of meta self-congratulatory nonsense--was the genre-savviness. You can totally make genre-savvy horror characters work. I mean, I'm genre-savvy, but I don't go around following horror-movie rules because, as far as I know, I'm not actually in a horror movie. If your characters don't know they're in a horror movie until it's too late, they can be as familiar with the tropes as they want and it won't matter.
Not so much here. The whole premise of Grave Encounters 2 is that the first one is a movie, and then the sequel's main character becomes convinced that it's real. And if you become convinced that time-manipulating ghostmonsters who can trap your ass forever in an asylum of gibbering ghouls and hands growing out of ceilings and ectoplasmic sucker punches are REAL, you STAY AWAY FROM THAT ASYLUM. If you're working on the assumption that it's real, the movie shows you a primer of all the various ways you are irrevocably doomed if you get anywhere near that place. So you don't go near it. That's logic.
Still love the first one, though. Gotta give me my love of good solid silly horror.
Although the main character looked enough like Robert Pattinson that I spent most of the time entertaining myself imagining Edward Cullen gibbering and screaming as demonghosts chase him around. That would've been a fun addition to Twilight.
Not so much here. The whole premise of Grave Encounters 2 is that the first one is a movie, and then the sequel's main character becomes convinced that it's real. And if you become convinced that time-manipulating ghostmonsters who can trap your ass forever in an asylum of gibbering ghouls and hands growing out of ceilings and ectoplasmic sucker punches are REAL, you STAY AWAY FROM THAT ASYLUM. If you're working on the assumption that it's real, the movie shows you a primer of all the various ways you are irrevocably doomed if you get anywhere near that place. So you don't go near it. That's logic.
Still love the first one, though. Gotta give me my love of good solid silly horror.
Although the main character looked enough like Robert Pattinson that I spent most of the time entertaining myself imagining Edward Cullen gibbering and screaming as demonghosts chase him around. That would've been a fun addition to Twilight.
