Re: Movies - What have you been watching ?
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 8:56 pmAfter firstly reading Dan Wells superb novel I Am Not A Serial Killer I was looking forward to watching its adaptation to the big screen, I wasn't disappointed even though its largely shot on a low budget, it still has enough to intrigue and enthral in equal measure.
It's a macabre little tale that simply has Cult film written all over it, and I think the film has introduced us to a young actor who truly knows his art, Max Records delivers a performance as the clearly unhinged John Wayne Cleaver that is as powerful as it is eloquently subtle and Christopher Lloyd's performance ensures the disquiet continues unabated.
If you haven't read the books then I cant recommend them enough.
“I used to have a list of people I was going to kill one day. Its against my rules now, but sometimes I really miss that list.”
“The monster behind the wall stirred. I'd come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think it would be creepy to have a real monster hiding inside of you, but trust me - it's far, far worse when the monster is really just your own mind. Calling it a monster seemed to distance it a little, which made me feel better about it. Not much better, but I take what I can get.”
“I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak.”
“Even if I didn't have any empathy, she did, and that meant I could use it against her. Where logic failed, guilt might save the day.”
“Alone we were just one weird kid who talked to himself and one weird kid who never talked to anyone; together we were two weird kids having a semblance of a conversation. It wasn't much, but it made us look a little more normal. Two wrongs made a right.”
“When a clown kills somebody, that's new—that's something you've never seen before. Here's someone you thought was good, and he's doing something so terrible that normal human emotion can't even deal with it—and then he turns around and does something good again. That's fascinating. It's not weird to be obsessed with that, it's weird not to be.”
'The thing about boxes,' I said, 'is that you can open them up. Even though they're completely boring on the outside, there might be something interesting inside. So while you're saying all of these stupid, boring things I'm imagining what it would be like to cut you open and see what you've got in there.”
Dan Wells
It's a macabre little tale that simply has Cult film written all over it, and I think the film has introduced us to a young actor who truly knows his art, Max Records delivers a performance as the clearly unhinged John Wayne Cleaver that is as powerful as it is eloquently subtle and Christopher Lloyd's performance ensures the disquiet continues unabated.
If you haven't read the books then I cant recommend them enough.
“I used to have a list of people I was going to kill one day. Its against my rules now, but sometimes I really miss that list.”
“The monster behind the wall stirred. I'd come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think it would be creepy to have a real monster hiding inside of you, but trust me - it's far, far worse when the monster is really just your own mind. Calling it a monster seemed to distance it a little, which made me feel better about it. Not much better, but I take what I can get.”
“I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak.”
“Even if I didn't have any empathy, she did, and that meant I could use it against her. Where logic failed, guilt might save the day.”
“Alone we were just one weird kid who talked to himself and one weird kid who never talked to anyone; together we were two weird kids having a semblance of a conversation. It wasn't much, but it made us look a little more normal. Two wrongs made a right.”
“When a clown kills somebody, that's new—that's something you've never seen before. Here's someone you thought was good, and he's doing something so terrible that normal human emotion can't even deal with it—and then he turns around and does something good again. That's fascinating. It's not weird to be obsessed with that, it's weird not to be.”
'The thing about boxes,' I said, 'is that you can open them up. Even though they're completely boring on the outside, there might be something interesting inside. So while you're saying all of these stupid, boring things I'm imagining what it would be like to cut you open and see what you've got in there.”
Dan Wells
