I hope to never run into director Zelda Robin Williams. She seems like a very unfriendly person, and most likely blames you for her unhappiness.
This story is of a goth 80's girl who has been re-located to a different school due to her Mother being brutally murdered and her Dad remarrying a psyche ward step-Mom (poor Carla Gugino). By the way, were they alluding that step-Mom axed the Mother or Dad did? Was there a missing scene somewhere?
Any way -- She pines for a guy who existed in the 1800's. Due to a headstone. None of this really explained other than...she's sad.
A few things would've elevated the movie. Have the monster speak sooner. A few words is enough. He seems to understand modern vernacular fairly quickly. This seems really lazy. The second is to not make Lisa such a mean person. Yes, she is going through trauma, but none of the people she dispenses with to gain body parts remotely deserve their fate. MAYBE the nerd who attempts to grope her at a party. The rest...it's hard to support her menace. Trying to remember if there were characters like this in the 1980s.
Another thing is writer Diablo Cody's "look at what we remember" references. If you're going to do that, study Quentin Tarantino on how to bury that. She and Zelda seem to hit this note so hard it gave me a headache. To stop a movie to do an REO Speedwagon tune is cringe.
This movie was a bore. The pacing is really off. And not bad-80s off, just off.
Structure notes: Lisa re-locates to new home. She's sad. She has moments where she remembers her mother fondly. She goes to her frequented graveyard where lighting strikes and Sparky is un-Earthed. She is infatuated with the guy. We learn of his lost love. She falls more in love with him. Then he begins to kill for parts. At first she goes along with it. But then her conscience gets the better of her. And she has to find a way to kill the monster she created. In the end, he assists her in doing that. Closing out his story of true love.
None of this happens. Because that's too conventional...I guess.
As it is, Kathryn Newton, who plays Lisa, is just a heartless animal. Here's an idea, the bubbly kind step-sister Taffy (Liza Sobrano) should've been the person in that role. The script actually has TWO goth girls fighting it out. Lisa and some other obese one.
Oof. And to throw in a Wish list Brad Pitt was too much to endure.
Just plain garbage.
This story is of a goth 80's girl who has been re-located to a different school due to her Mother being brutally murdered and her Dad remarrying a psyche ward step-Mom (poor Carla Gugino). By the way, were they alluding that step-Mom axed the Mother or Dad did? Was there a missing scene somewhere?
Any way -- She pines for a guy who existed in the 1800's. Due to a headstone. None of this really explained other than...she's sad.
A few things would've elevated the movie. Have the monster speak sooner. A few words is enough. He seems to understand modern vernacular fairly quickly. This seems really lazy. The second is to not make Lisa such a mean person. Yes, she is going through trauma, but none of the people she dispenses with to gain body parts remotely deserve their fate. MAYBE the nerd who attempts to grope her at a party. The rest...it's hard to support her menace. Trying to remember if there were characters like this in the 1980s.
Another thing is writer Diablo Cody's "look at what we remember" references. If you're going to do that, study Quentin Tarantino on how to bury that. She and Zelda seem to hit this note so hard it gave me a headache. To stop a movie to do an REO Speedwagon tune is cringe.
This movie was a bore. The pacing is really off. And not bad-80s off, just off.
Structure notes: Lisa re-locates to new home. She's sad. She has moments where she remembers her mother fondly. She goes to her frequented graveyard where lighting strikes and Sparky is un-Earthed. She is infatuated with the guy. We learn of his lost love. She falls more in love with him. Then he begins to kill for parts. At first she goes along with it. But then her conscience gets the better of her. And she has to find a way to kill the monster she created. In the end, he assists her in doing that. Closing out his story of true love.
None of this happens. Because that's too conventional...I guess.
As it is, Kathryn Newton, who plays Lisa, is just a heartless animal. Here's an idea, the bubbly kind step-sister Taffy (Liza Sobrano) should've been the person in that role. The script actually has TWO goth girls fighting it out. Lisa and some other obese one.
Oof. And to throw in a Wish list Brad Pitt was too much to endure.
Just plain garbage.