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The Doors songs...

posted 11 years ago by Digsys-Diner
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So i thought this was a decent movie, few scares and probably worth the trip to the movies. However, i have a few issues with it. I really didn't get the Doors references. I felt like it was really cliche and cheesy, that these demonic spirits are using Jim Morrison quotes to communicate.

Also, 2 other little things...who was the dude with the blood all over his face that kept popping up everywhere? When he was watching the security tapes it happened, and in his daughters room. Never got an explanation. They also never followed up with that girl escaping the mental asylum. She was crawling with the keys, indicating that she was gonna let out the other inmates, but nothing.

In a society that has destroyed all adventure, the only adventure left is to destroy that society.

[–] warrior_hire 11 years ago

The guy popping up was the gut he beat to death. Also the woman who feel from above and landed on his car was the woman who escaped the institution.

[–] raven1066 11 years ago

What w_h said. As for 'The Doors' I just assumed Sony got a great deal to use their songs.

"A true archer doesn't even need a bow or an arrow."

[–] horrorfreak423 11 years ago

The whole storyline of the songs from The Doors and The Clash went absolutely nowhere. A lot of stuff just went nowhere in this film.

[–] twobittehzb2 11 years ago

Maybe it was meant to go nowhere. Evil itself cannot be explained. Maybe that's why many components of the film had loose ends.

Eh, probably reading too much into it.

[–] lawandpsyc 11 years ago

thats dumb and a complete cop out, like the entire plot of Lost

[–] Hater_Is_Here 11 years ago

The whole storyline of the songs from The Doors and The Clash went absolutely nowhere

The songs didn't have their own storyline (wtf are you even saying?), they were used as plot points in the film.

That's like saying "The tapping on the walls storyline in the Conjuring went nowhere". *beep* stupid.

[–] evh999 10 years ago

Well "People are Strange"...

This kinda reminded me of Final Destination that played a John Denver song every time someone was going to die.

Cheesy for sure but funny. Not sure if they meant to make this cheesy or not.

[–] buddha920 11 years ago

You clearly were not paying attention to the movie if you missed all that. Maybe the Doors reference was to the bodies being possessed? As in they were doorways to this world? They pretty much wrapped up the whole movie.

[–] dacookielad 11 years ago

You clearly were not paying attention to the movie if you missed all that. Maybe the Doors reference was to the bodies being possessed? As in they were doorways to this world? They pretty much wrapped up the whole movie.

So just because the band's name is "The Doors" that makes them a satanic doorway? Jeez, so it wasn't the acid that I was seeing...Oh man, that blows.

[–] WhenUPlayTheGameOfThrones 11 years ago

I look at it this way. The Demon probably thought it was ironic to use The DOORS songs because he came from a DOORWAY and it's also something we meesly little humans (to him) know very well so it would easily be picked up. You're not supposed to tie up everything it every movie and ESPECIALLY horror films. Things that are unexplained are the basics of horror...therefore explaining them wouldn't bring much horror.

I believe The Doors was used because 1. The Doors can make creepy music (first and foremost) with their carnival sounding music. 2. To make the audience go "huh...that's interesting" which is certainly made me do. 3. The person that had some hand in making it probably liked the doors (welcome to creating anything, you like to do make stories with what you like...) 4. The actual story (I don't know it) might have involved the cop thinking there was a parallel between the demon and The Doors.

They also never outright say it...just kind of show it.

[–] myles325 11 years ago

So just because the band's name is "The Doors" that makes them a satanic doorway?

The Doors name came from the great visionary poet William BLake who wrote “If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

The idea that our own perception is muddied and dark until it is cleansed, was taken by author Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) as a key theme of his experiments with LSD and mescaline. From there, it was taken up by hippies in the 1960s who were interested in LSD and in spiritualism. And from THERE, it became the name of that rock band.

The ugly connotations given to these lovely and poetic ideas in this rather unpleasant and pointless movie is about the worst aspect of the whole thing. They must have paid whoever owns the rights to these songs a whole lot, becoz the movie trashes the whole idea of Doors being a gateway to the eternal world. In DUFE the whole notion of doors is nothing more than a portal to obscene and murderous insanity. I’m ok with horror movies, but did they have to degrade William Blake, Aldous Huxley, and the Doors themselves by perverting that lovely name?

I see things that never were and say WHAT THE..!.

[–] NeedysBoy 11 years ago

myles325 writes: "I’m ok with horror movies, but did they have to degrade William Blake, Aldous Huxley, and the Doors themselves by perverting that lovely name?"

Perhaps the intention was that Sarchie would be "cleansed."

The film seems to be the story of how is faith was restored.

"Maybe it's another dimension. Or, you know, just really deep." --Needy

[–] noman-khanx 10 years ago

For those who want to know why The Doors songs were playing in the movie below is the truth about Jim Morrison.

"Jim Morrison, superstar of The Doors, died mysteriously on the 3rd July, 1971. He was deeply involved in the occult. Morrison married his wife in a Wicca ceremony, where they stood inside a pentagram and drank one another’s blood" (The Illuminati, Satanism, Drugs, and the Music Industry).

Morrison said: “I met the Spirit of Music, an appearance of the devil in a Venice canal. Running, I saw Satan, or Satyr [Pan], moving beside me, a fleshly shadow of my secret mind...” - The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, p. 36-38.

Ray Manzarek of The Doors says of Morrison: “He was not a performer. He was not an entertainer. He was not a showman. He was a shaman. He was possessed”

Since he was a worshipper of Satan so i think the director of the movie connected him with the movie and played his music in the movie as some of his lyrics are so occult......

[–] ropipgi-581-487166 10 years ago

" Since he was a worshipper of Satan "

Where did you get that from ? Sights of Satan was something he shared with Jesus. Pentagrams have been used as a good luck symbol for thousand of years and Wiccans is not the same as satanists.

Hedonistic lifestyle we can agree on , also " deeply involved in the occult " - but to draw the conclusion that he were a Satanist is a little based in pure speculation.

" Jim Morrison, superstar of The Doors, died mysteriously on the 3rd July, 1971 "

Not really, as in all cases when people dies of obvious or natural causes in France, they didnt even bother with any autopsy - his heart stopped, that is it. Might be alcohol and pills or just prolonged use of drugs.

Anyway, several scary movies in the last years ( this one included ) have a clear suggestion - nothing good will come of messing with dark forces - and i really like that.
It might be supernatural, spiritual or just a state of mind but it usually makes every problem worse.

If you liked this movie i really recommend the tv show Constantine. More or less same premise and moral of the story, but with higher budget and better effects.

[–] dddboy29 11 years ago

That was the only aspect of the movie I dug. Everything else was *beep* to me and very luckwarm.

[–] chris-kenyon 11 years ago

Sure there was an explanation. Watch the film again, you'll get it

[–] FecalPeanut 11 years ago

Because is was about Santiago(or whoever the main possessed guy was) opening "doors" for evil to pass through. I thought it was pretty much explained in the movie. That's also why the chick who threw her baby was quoting Doors' songs.

"I had my time where I wondered if this was all in my head. That time passed." - Rustin Cohle

[–] MsLadybird99 11 years ago

I was expecting 'The End' to pipe in too, but they didn't go there.

The Doors thing reminded me of the John Denver usage in Final Destination.

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[–] jasmin-xoxo 11 years ago

Yeah I also didn't really understand The Doors reference. I get that they were using it as "break on through to the other side" which I'm assuming was nodding to what someone else already mentioned which was that Mick Santino was opening "doorways" allowing these demons to "break on through to the other side" and possess people.

Although, the meaning of the song I'm not sure has anything to do with demonic possession. I know the song was used in acid rituals during the 1960s, and now in this movie they were trying to pass it off as something evil and demonic. Groundbreaking, right? Using rock music as a sign of the devil. (Not)

I suppose it just all depends on the setup. In the 1960s acid tests were a big deal so this song was subliminally about the acid tests and liminal rituals. Now using it in a movie about possession leaves it open to more interpretation. I just didn't understand why there was so much emphasis on that song because I didn't understand it to have anything to do with possession.

[–] ehaas-3 11 years ago

It reminded me of the use of the Rolling Stones "Time is on My Side" in Fallen--another demonic possession movie. I'll support putting either band's songs in movies for virtually any reason.

[–] shlone3 11 years ago

Jim Morrison was a satanist.

[–] all-english-society 11 years ago

...which, incidentally, has nothing whatsoever to do with anything.

[–] vettefreak90 11 years ago

Personally, I thought the Doors songs were a nice touch. Some of the songs show a vague glimpse into the disturbed mind of Jim Morrison, but if you really want to know how fitting it was that they used them, go read some of his poetry.

[–] activista 11 years ago

I thought the Doors songs were a very nice touch, since I've always liked their songs (I thought maybe a Doors fan--maybe the director--insisted that they be used in the film.) Each song basically stood for a plot point--especially "Break On Through"--which obviously was a reference to the demons trying to break out through the doorway. Loved the graphics at the end with that same particular song playing over them.