Saturday, 3 November 2007

Pretty coo thriller

Watched a french thriller the other day called Harry, he's here to help to try and get a more independant and creative view on contemporary thrillers.

It made me think about ideas for our thriller so i 'll just summarise the plot.

SpOiLeR!!!!

Ok..

Mother + Father with 3 girls (2-6 yrs old) are driving in their old poorly air conditioned car to their messy 'holiday home' which they try to DIY every half term. At a service station father meets old schoolmate who suggests a drink but ends up coming, with his girlfriend to the holiday home. As the girls are too hot and crying etc. in the car they get into this new guys car with the mum as its a mercedes with air conditioning.

What i liked about this whole sequence was that you absolutely did not want the girls to get in the car, but knew that they would building up an incredible amount of suspense, but on the drive nothing out of the ordinary whatsoever happened building up even more tension.

When they arrived, over dinner the old schoolmate reminded the father aobut poetry and a short story that the father had written for the school journal. The schoolmate had it memorised in a slightly creepy kind of way and strongly tried to persuade the father to continue his work, even though it was years and years ago and about flying monkeys..

This old schoolmate realises that it is the father's children, wife and parents getting in the way of his writings so he kills the guys parents, and then tries to kill the children and wife.

The opening credits were really good, following both cars with an aerial helishot as they went along the motorway and actor names etc. running along in different lanes at similar speed to the cars and then dropping out of the shot to be replaced by another name but unfortunately no one has uplaoded this clip to youtube so i cannot show it here.

So, mainly what a liked aobut this film were the way they intergrated the credits into the film in an independant and creative way but also i liked the idea of the past coming back to haunt you, used in quite a few thrilelr films but i think timelessly effective.

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