As you may have guessed, we don’t go out to the picture theatre much, and watch most of our films on DVD. Thanks to the New Year clearance sales, members of the family have aquired a range of films that we haven’t seen before and amongst them was “The Covenant”. I have to say that I really enjoyed this movie but felt it really had the potential to go a bit deeper and even be a bit more scary. That said, the male eye candy was exceptionally fine in it’s various stages of dress or undress ;-).
Frivolity aside I did enjoy the concept of the film, especially that these powers were conferred on the male side of the family, and only one son in the family, when so often in books and films it is the women who hold it. It changed the dynamic considerably, from my point of view, and the thought that young men were coming into power at the age of 13 and ascending to full power at 18 is quite terrifying, especially when you learn how seductive the casual use of that power is and what the long term ramifictions of it are. I can’t say I know of many 13-18 year old males that I’d feel comfortable around with powers such as were exhibited in the movie :-).
The special effects were also excellent, in my opinion. The Darklings, though, I felt could have been explained in more depth and their fright factor used even more. Eeeuw, and don’t get me started on the spiders <shudder>! Guaranteed creep out material for me using something we all come across just about every day. And really, when you think about it, that really is scary. Something that’s as normal about your house and home or workplace as a spider… just think of the potential (sorry, I’m shuddering here again.)
Have you seen any good scary movies lately?
I don’t really like to watch scary movies. Of the few that I have watched I like Halloween (197
the best. I couldn’t sleep for fear Michael Meyers would appear in my room.
Comment by Crystal G — 15 January, 2008 @ 7:02 am
The scariest movies I have wathed have Beetlejuice, Men in Black and The Addams Family.
By the way, isn’t The Covenant directed by Renny Harlin? I wonder what Finnish stuff he put to the movie this time…
Comment by Minna — 16 January, 2008 @ 7:38 am
Oooh, Crystal, Halloween gave me shivers just thinking about it. Mind you, have you ever watched any of those old creepy movies again recently? Some of them don’t quite have that fear factor they used to in comparison to today’s rip ‘em up or bust 100% action thrillers.
Minna, yes, it is a Renny Harlin film. Can’t say I noticed anything Finnish but then again I probably wouldn’t know it even if it whacked me on the head. The first time I saw Beetlejuice I thought it was quite scary in a weirdish kind of way but I’ve watched it since and enjoyed the humour of it a great deal more. Day-Oh! Dayaaay-Oh! Love that dinner scene
Comment by yvonnelindsay — 27 January, 2008 @ 7:50 pm