What else happened this year? In 2003 I finished school. While some of my classmates are now grandparents, I still have time to work on things like this. As for global politics? Look it up yourself.
What is the plot - in one sentence? Two student friends head to one of their family's homes, where they are all set upon by a serial killer who looks a lot like Donald Trump.
I don't have time, just spoil it for me? It's not a Trump-look alike, it's the friend. She's a delusional psychotic with lusts after her friend, the Trump guy is merely a manifestation. After killing all of her family, some boring events happen that put the killer in a psychiatric hospital, and the girl is there, still shocked to see the woman who killed her entire family (and dog)
What is the meaning of the title? It sure is high tension.
This is from one of the interminable scenes at the end. As opposed to the interminable scenes elsewhere in the movie. For the record, left is the crazy, lesbian one, the one on the right is her pal. Anything that's not aged well? Does a woman get slapped around? I'd say the whole movie hasn't aged well. As for violence to women, one is tortured, one is sliced up and has her hand hacked off, and a dog and a kid are (introduced solely because they will be) killed.
This might also be one of the last movies to have a 'lesbians = crazy' as the gist of the whole movie.
Any thoughts? This was terrible. Any potential horror of the home invasion is removed when she continually makes the stupidest decisions ever seen in a horror movie. It takes her minutes to get to the kitchen to look for a weapon, and she stays silent to avoid the killer, unless she's moving a cupboard noisily and for no real reason.
The big reveal, that she's the killer!, means that even those dumb decisions were non-existent. When that reveal happens, we're left with a few interesting and violent killings, a bunch of plot holes, and an hour to kill.
The central reveal also opens up a million other questions - how did so many people sleep through a noisy murder in the house? where did the rape van that she drives come from- she got a lift down with her mate? We're shown 'the killer' masturbating with a disembodied head, which is lobbed out of a window and left there, did any of that happen? If not, then, what??
Would you recommend this? Nope. Unpleasant to begin with, exasperating afterwards, and then the stupidest reveal of all time. If this had been in English, it would be held as dreadful and rightfully forgotten, but because it's French it still makes lists of best horror movies of the 21st century. Disappointing, as I love horror movies.
Final thoughts? Scariest thing about it is the girl who is the object of her affections, she's the one on the right in the picture above, holding the knife. A brief Wiki search shows that in real life she met her husband, French director Luc Besson at age 12. He was 29.
By the time she was 20 she'd been left with a 4 year old child, ditched for a similarly aged but infinitely prettier Milla Jovovich. Poor kid.
I also discovered that she was that blue, singing alien in the Fifth Element that had important information in her stomach. Jeez I bet that movie hasn't aged well.
That's enough of this nonsense. 58 are done now, you can see the rest, in chronological order, here, and most of them aren't so disappointing.
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