Feb 07 2009
DARK CORNERS
Ooooh.
PLOT
So there’s two Thora Birch peeps in this movie; one a blond girl and one a dark haired girl. Susan is a nice, sweet blond who’s about to go in for fertility treatments because she and her husband want to have a baby. Susan goes to sleep and the movie jumps to Karen, the other Thora. Confused yet? Karen is actually a brunette girl who works in a mortician’s office and when she goes to sleep, the movie jumps back to Susan. Susan starts to remember Karen as some kind of dream and goes to a hypnotherapist for help. Under hypnosis, she sees weird creatures that have been chasing her other self, but after the session she’s suddenly fine again. Then it jumps back between the two of them (frequently, way too frequently) with each one thinking the other is a dream. Um and at some point there’s a serial killer, but it’s not really a big part of the movie.
TRIVIA
Birch told interviewers that she signed on for the movie because she thought the script was “confusing”.
THOUGHTS
Let me admit something here. It’s now February and I bought this movie in October, but didn’t watch it until this week. Somehow in the confusion of moving, it ended up stuck in a box somewhere and I just found it. Well this and about 8-9 other horror movies I bought back then. This seemed like the best choice to watch, especially since I like Thora Birch and loved Ghost World. That said, this movie kind of sucks. It’s too hard to follow the two different stories and it seems like there’s too much going on at one time. It kind of seems like the director and writer was trying to make something different and they tried just a little too hard.
