it was important to make this recording a conscious and focused effort. i'd heard lots of "halloween sounds" recordings over the years.
i worked the seasonal shift at party city for years- into my late twenties- surrounded by clueless 16 year old first-jobbers, just to be inundated with the spirit of the holiday. on the surface it sounds silly to feel stressed out over recording some weird sounds and then stringing them together, but for me it wasn't an easy process. there have been a couple times that i've started working on the idea but either got distracted with other musical things or just overwhelmed with the thought of actually finishing the project and being happy with it. Observer Reviews are regular assessments of new and noteworthy cinema.I've wanted to do a halloween themed, guitar-based ambient record for a long time now. Extrapolating an experimental Stephen King discard into something substantial might have made a better comic book-or best of all, left alone entirely. The special effects don’t raise a single goose bump, the acting is uniformly dreadful, and when the real monster finally shows up, it’s the kind of fire-breathing freak with multiple tongues dripping blood that only the most committed, die-hard horror-flick fan would find interesting. Is the creature a ghost of the suicidal wacko patient who invaded their home for no reason, or the spirit of their dead mother? Either way, what does the monster want? How does it manage to appear in so many places at the same time? Is there more than one? How is it that people scream but nobody hears them? (The clueless dad concludes his daughters’ obsession with the idea of a monster in their closet is the result of “smoking too much weed,” although one of them is eight years old.) No effort is made to validate or examine the horrors that occur.
The result is a horror film that makes no sense, leaving out the two most important requisites of any successful monster movie-an intriguing plot that gets you hooked and an “aha!” ending that leaves you satisfied-to make you feel you haven’t been wasting your time on nonsense.Įvery attempt to address the fears faced by the children in The Boogeyman invokes laughter instead of thrills. Inept director Rob Savage is more devoted to cataloguing as many contrived jump scares as possible than he is in explaining creepy phenomena or developing narrative logic.
#CREEPY SOUNDS MOVIE#
The rest of the movie is a collection of spooky sounds, creaking floors, imaginary heavy breathing, shadowy visions of things that go bump in the night, and other assorted cliches. Before the shrink can complete a call to alert the police, the man hangs himself, leaving the girls terrified that there’s a monster hiding in their closet. This one is based on a minor short story from the 1970s in which a sexy therapist (Chris Messina, famous for his many nude scenes in other films, including Digging For Fire and 28 Hotel Rooms) and his two daughters, already traumatized beyond control by the recent death of their mother in an unexplained car accident, are driven over the edge when the doctor is visited in his home office by a new patient suspected of murdering his own two children. Starring: Sophie Thatcher, Chris Messina, Vivien Lyra Blair, David Dastmalchian Written by: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, Mark Heyman
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