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Sinister Horror Clichs
Byjsomers| August 14, 2013 |0 Comments
Family Hanging Out in Sinister
Whenever The Duchess is out of town I do three things: I order a palette of cheeses, I
make sure I have several gallons of grain alcohol on hand, and I watch awful movies.
The cheese and the alcohol are for sustenance. The movies are to scratch the itch I havefor awesome terribleness, the kind you can only get from low-rent horror movies and
insane Sci-Fi epics. On a tangential note, my spellcheck is not complaining about
terribleness which just feels wrong. Really, thats a word? Holy shit.
Anyway
Just recently I watched Sinister, unexpectedly starring Ethan Hawke. Hard to believe
there was once a time when Hawke was considered a sex symbol and something of a
rising star in Hollywood, though he does have a natural presence on screen still, and as
he ages out of his epic self-regard phase he might have a future. To see him in a lowball
horror flick is kind of startling, though, but just like his character in the film hes gotbills to pay, I assume. His character is a writer, but at least the movie avoids many of
the odious writer clichs that other films give in to: While its imagined that his first
books was massive bestseller and that hes still living off of those proceeds, hes also a
writer whos second and third books were failures and hes got one last option book to
try and turn the ship around. And he cant afford the mortgage on his big house any
more. So its slightly more realistic than your average movie when it comes to writers.
Anyway, Im not here to really complain about that. Nor am I here to review the film,
except to say that it was entertaining, slightly more interesting and well-done than most,
and if it was riddled with boring pop-ups and cheesy horror-esque moments, the Super 8
home movies of family mass murders were incredibly frightening, and the whole film
does manage to generate an atmosphere of dread that few horror films manage. Hawkes
pretty good in it, and the sound editor should have won an Oscar.
But Im not here to praise Sinister. Im here to complain about the two mostgrating
movie stupid clichs currently in my wheelhouse: The Idiot Note and The Anti-Light
Sleeper.
The Idiot Note
Heres the scene youve seen it. Character is researching something. A crime, lets say
a murder. Character takes out a crisp legal pad and a nice pen, and starts
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reading/watching/examining something. Then they pause to jot a note. What do they
write? WHO IS THE MURDERER?
Seriously.
You see this all the time, characters making notes that no one, in the history of ever, haseven been stupid enough to actually write. When youre taking notes you dont jot down
wide-open rhetorical questions like that. You jot down details you want to remember,
and more complex thoughts as a way of organizing them. You dont write shit like
WHO HAD A MOTIVE??? as if its helpful in any way. Sinisterdidnt invent that shit,
but its the most recent movie Ive seen use it. The worst part is it doesnt even serve the
interests of the idiots in the audience, like a lot of these idiot clichs do. It literally
serves no purpose.
The Anti-Light Sleeper
The ALS is more of a horror-specific problem, and its simple: You have a family or agroup of people in a haunted or otherwise horrific place. They go to bed. The ghouls
come out and one of themthe protagonist, usually, but not alwaysspends fifteen
minutes stumbling around screaming, knocking shit over, and generally battling the
forces of evil.
And no oneNO ONEwakes up. At least not until the episode is over.
Sinisterhits this one hard. Hawke has several extended sequences where he screams,
runs around the house, knocks shit over, and generally makes more noise than an
elephant in gastrointestinal distress, but his wife and kids just sleep through it all. In my
house a kitten on the first floor wakes us up on the third floor when it jumps onto thekitchen table. If I was battling demons in the living room, friends, The Duchess would
be out of bed like a bat out of hell in seconds.
That felt good. Complaining always does. I enjoyed Sinister, to be honest, although it
wasnt anything revolutionary but sometimes solid craft and a few creepy ideas is all
it takes. I just hope it means Ethan Hawke will be able to pay his bills through horror
movies and wont have to resort to more novel-writin.
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