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So... all the ghost does is... produce mould?

posted 12 years ago by gottfrid
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Come on... I have watched half of it, and so far it had some noises and... mould... with a small statue inside.

Very frightening, isnt it?

I will give you kids that: the girl is definitely hot.

Will watch the final parts of it tonight. But I feel sorry for the Twilight generation, that has these types of actors and writers. When I was a teen I had much better stuff available as mainstream.

"It doesn't matter what Bram Stoker has told you... dead people don't come back from their graves"

[–] fiatlux-1 12 years ago

*spoiler*

Its not a ghost. And it doesn't just produce mold.

The entity's nature was to destroy the humans' spirit, to destroy their hope, and feed on their fear. To break them down.
Everything the entity did was to accomplish this, including showing her her boyfriend being consumed by the evil.

Another example, the dog died because it mattered in a way to the Ashley Greene character. She was a vet tech and loved animals, and the dog was visiting her.
That's why the cactus died too, because the female character liked it.
The entity did everything it could to destroy their spirits, break them apart & down.
At the end of the film, her mind was all but gone, her spirit completely broken. She went to Costco's tents because it was a good memory of when she went camping with her dad, felt safe. And she had a recent good memory of discussing camping with her now-lost boyfriend.
We see that she finally did give up, they broke her spirit at last. And it/they took her.

The film implies this is only the beginning. Now that they're here, they will continue to take more and more humans. The film needed a tighter script, and more action, but the premise of it was very good and very chilling.
The ending and its IMPLICATIONS (see ending of: 'In the Mouth of Madness') is hair-raising.

"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."

[–] gottfrid 12 years ago

I watched the final part.

The whole film is a disaster in terms of writing, acting, everything.

But, like you said, the overall premise of not being a ghost, but yet an energy entity that feeds(putting the whole story more in the sci-fi genre than anything) from fear is a good one, even though it was terribly used. In "Legend of Hell House" it is used to a much better result, and it somewhat has more in common with this film than Mouth of Madness, even though I see the Resemblance. Director also copied a lot from Silent Hill, in the final 15 minutes.

"It doesn't matter what Bram Stoker has told you... dead people don't come back from their graves"

[–] odddnightmare 12 years ago

The scariest part is how bad the entity is at using superglue, the repair job on that little statue was very shoddy haha

[–] genevaporter 11 years ago

Wouldn't help. Ghost (or entity or whatever) is already out.

My question is when Ben sees that moldy corner in the kitchen, why does he poke at it? If I were him, I wouldn't go anywhere near that thing without wearing a Hazmat suit.

[–] odddnightmare 11 years ago

Sorry i think you misunderstood, i wasn't saying they should have glued the statue back together i was just making a silly joke that the "ghost" had glued the statue and it was scary how much of a shoddy job it had done, -={ 8~) )

[–] laymonite-2 11 years ago

Why bother posting your opinion of the film halfway through?

And I guess in your world a huge pile of sudden mould with a statue appearing in it (this is the culmination at that point of other occurrences) in your kitchen is an everyday occurrence rather than proof of the supernatural?

In Paranormal Activity a woman just stood looking at a sleeping man for hours - that was creepy as hell when considered realistically, I guess you thought that happening would be boring in your exciting world.

[–] fluffchop 11 years ago

Come on... I have watched half of it, and so far it had some noises and... mould... with a small statue inside.

Very frightening, isnt it?

If you're at the bit with the statue then you saw how the dog died. That was terrible. And where the dog got ill was the cracked linoleum and under that the mould.

It was pretty scary mould.

Also all the clothes were tied up in knots and there was a broken wooden coat hanger that had clawed all the wall in the closet. That would freak the *beep* out of you if that happened.

Ok so it's not a blood and guts film with cheap jump scare tactics. That's actually a good thing.

I found it quite creepy more than scary. Not that I watch horror movies to be scared I just like the impending doom unleashed on unsuspecting characters as these sorts of movies unfold. I wish this sort of thing would happen to my ex sometime lol.