My commentary on Fear Itself
This was the ep I watched the whole series to see. It was worth the wait. It's easily the best of the series.
Summary: Grad student moves into big old house and begins to suspect he's a reincarnated killer.
Bits and bobs: Lesbian kissage at a 1920s party. Gay and Lesbian kissage at modern party...how did they get the boy smoochies past the censors?
Nice use of light and color, of parallel framing between the parties.
Interesting bit when hero is talking to shrink: "I go to touch her hand or kiss her and I can't breathe. My chest feels all tight."(explaining why he's never been intimate with his girl)
Nice work on making his knuckles look bruised too.
Commentary:
It's not holding my attention. This is me, being distractable and watching on a computer, which can do all sorts of fun stuff, rather than on a TV where I am stuck. The last ten minutes really picked up, very tense.
It's better plotted than the others. I'm not having nearly as many WTFBBQ? moments at dead giveaways, stupid world building etc.
Aaron Stanford is one scary little dude.
The whole set up is nicely creepy. It's also very sexy.
Okay, yeah, saw the big finish coming. I thought "no, they can't possibly go for something THAT obvious." Then I remembered: This is Lowest Common Denominator horror, so of course they'll go for the obvious twist.
So as general horror 5/10. Nothing I haven't seen half a dozen times before and better. (this is typical of the series)
As a Fear Itself ep: 10/10 Best of the series.
Summary: Grad student moves into big old house and begins to suspect he's a reincarnated killer.
Bits and bobs: Lesbian kissage at a 1920s party. Gay and Lesbian kissage at modern party...how did they get the boy smoochies past the censors?
Nice use of light and color, of parallel framing between the parties.
Interesting bit when hero is talking to shrink: "I go to touch her hand or kiss her and I can't breathe. My chest feels all tight."(explaining why he's never been intimate with his girl)
Nice work on making his knuckles look bruised too.
Commentary:
It's not holding my attention. This is me, being distractable and watching on a computer, which can do all sorts of fun stuff, rather than on a TV where I am stuck. The last ten minutes really picked up, very tense.
It's better plotted than the others. I'm not having nearly as many WTFBBQ? moments at dead giveaways, stupid world building etc.
Aaron Stanford is one scary little dude.
The whole set up is nicely creepy. It's also very sexy.
Okay, yeah, saw the big finish coming. I thought "no, they can't possibly go for something THAT obvious." Then I remembered: This is Lowest Common Denominator horror, so of course they'll go for the obvious twist.
So as general horror 5/10. Nothing I haven't seen half a dozen times before and better. (this is typical of the series)
As a Fear Itself ep: 10/10 Best of the series.