Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018) s03e03 Episode Script

1
I see things.
And I sense things
that hadn't happened yet.
The most difficult thing
about being psychic
is speaking it.
We all have this second sense,
but we don't act on it.
When you talk about
psychic horror movies,
a lot of them are
gonna come from Stephen King.
- No!
- What about room 237?
When people talk about
exploding heads in cinema,
they usually go straight
to David Cronenberg's
"Scanners."
When you see "Scanners,"
it's like,
"Oh, yeah, well, it's good."
But if you've seen "The Fury,"
it's not John Cassavetes
being blown up
from head to toe
in slow motion good.
It's showtime.
I've always been drawn
to the idea
of psychic phenomenon.
I always wished
that I could be psychic.
We study the phenomena
of extra sensory perception.
We're enticed
by the idea that we could be
so much more powerful
if only we could read
other people's minds.
She's alive.
But in fact,
not being able to shut out
other people's thoughts
sounds pretty terrifying.
My granny told me that I
I had a gift.
Male Who wasn't dreamed
of having psychic powers?
Tell me what I'm thinking.
The ability to read someone's thoughts
You're wondering why
I'm wearing such a funny hat.
How'd you like
some ice cream, Doc?
See into the future
Talk to the dead
They haven't found us yet.
Light things on fire
Or move objects with your mind.
Horror stories bring
these fantasies to life.
And show how quickly
a blessing
can turn into a curse.
Since his first novel, "Carrie,"
Stephen King and psychics
have gone hand in hand.
King's third novel,
"The Shining," was the story
of an alcoholic writer
Here's Johnny!
His wife,
and their young son, Danny,
who's a powerful psychic.
Danny's not here,
Mrs. Torrance.
In "The Shining,"
Danny has no idea
how to control the shining
or what it does.
He's just sort of,
you know, a victim of it,
and he uses
this sort of Tony avatar
as a conduit for it.
Tony, tell me.
This is one of
King's most personal stories,
drawn from his fear
that his drinking
would destroy his family.
You've got a big surprise
coming to you.
Stanley Kubrick's
film adaptation
is justifiably famous,
but King was not pleased
the director changed
his redemptive ending
into a nihilistic sigh
of despair.
It's a gorgeous film to look at.
Absolutely gorgeous.
The soundtrack is gorgeous.
I can enjoy it on the same level
that you could enjoy
a beautifully restored Cadillac
without a motor in it.
In 2013,
King surprised the world
with a sequel
to "The Shining"
His novel, "Doctor Sleep."
Writer/director Mike Flanagan
took on the daunting task
of turning "Doctor Sleep"
into a feature film.
He did sort of a neat trick
of making the movie
"Doctor Sleep"
A sequel to both
the Kubrick picture
and my dad's novel,
which is not easy to do
since the Kubrick film
and the Stephen King novel
Are really fundamentally
different stories.
When I was a kid,
I didn't understand the shining.
I called it Tony.
"Doctor Sleep"
is about Dan Torrance,
the little boy from
"The Shining," now grown up
wrestling with
his own alcoholism,
his own propensity
for violence
Kind of wandering through
the world by himself,
doing everything he can
to suppress the shining,
to suppress
that incredible ability
that was so strong
with him as a child
that it attracted the attention
of the Overlook Hotel
and destroyed his family.
If you had that power,
it would up
your life because it would just
be a constant barrage of noise
that you could not stop.
I need help.
After hitting bottom, Dan,
played by Ewan McGregor,
gets sober
and rebuilds his life.
King is very upfront
in saying that "The Shining"
was a book about alcoholism.
Here's to five
miserable months on the wagon.
And it was alcoholism
that he experienced
and was experiencing at the time
he wrote the book itself.
And "Doctor Sleep"
is about recovery.
I told you.
I'm not a doctor.
Oh, I think you are.
Doctor Sleep.
The title, "Doctor Sleep,"
is really kind of beautiful
actually in its meaning.
Dan works as an orderly
in a hospice
and realizes that,
while he doesn't use
his shining abilities anymore,
he can use them to help
bring comfort to people
who are dying in
the last moments of their life.
Doc, I am so scared
it's gonna hurt or be dark
or be nothing at all.
And I don't want
Nothing to be scared of.
Just going to sleep.
You know, they say we all
need help coming into the world
and help going out of the world,
and there's something
really beautiful
that someone that tortured
takes his gifts
and use it to help people ease
into whatever happens next.
Hi.
Dan meets Abra,
a child with even stronger
psychic abilities than his own.
As in many King stories,
Abra's gift is a metaphor
for being smart, sensitive,
and empathetic in a world
filled with amoral predators.
Well, hi there.
The threat to Abra
are actually a group
of just, I mean, classic
Stephen King antagonists
called the True Knot.
We are the True Knot.
We are the chosen ones.
They are
these quasi-immortal beings
Who literally feed
on the life force
of these special children,
children with the shining.
Dan realizes
that using his powers
and facing his past
may be the only thing
that can stop the death cult.
Doesn't matter
if he hates himself,
doesn't matter if he wants
the shining or not,
like, he has to step up.
He doesn't have a choice,
He has to suck it up
and be there
for this little girl.
In a King-approved
change from the book
Dan lures the leader
of the True Knot
back to the Overlook Hotel
Hoping its ghosts
will devour her.
This is where Dan
confronts his past
and the filmmakers confront
the looming ghost
of Stanley Kubrick.
The Overlook had aged,
and throughout that journey
into the Overlook
in "Doctor Sleep,"
it comes back to life
So as he's walking through,
we go from darkness
to this warm light
as the filaments
start to glow again,
and we're almost back
to a Kubrick version of it
at that point where the color
of the space is given back to us
for just a brief moment
before Dan does what Jack does
in the original "Shining" novel,
which is to sacrifice himself
for the child.
In the end, the film pays homage
to Kubrick's
unforgettable imagery,
but restores King's
original intent for the story.
Really, if you take
"The Shining"
and "Doctor Sleep" together,
the cycle of addiction
and recovery and alcoholism,
that's the story
that's being told.
And that's where "Doctor Sleep"
doesn't feel like
a sequel to me.
It feels like the conclusion
of one long conversation.
You might think
being psychic in a small town
wouldn't be very dramatic.
Unless you have the gift.
Male One of
the most beautifully crafted
psychic films ever made
isn't widely known today.
It's time for a reappraisal.
"The Gift"
has an amazing pedigree.
Directed by Sam Raimi
from a script
by Billy Bob Thornton
and Tom Epperson,
starring an A-list cast led
by one of the greatest actors
of her generation,
Cate Blanchett.
I remember
the first time we met,
you told me
you loved "Evil Dead."
Yes.
And that you grew up
on horror movies.
So you are
You are a horror fan.
Was that what made you want
to work with Raimi
on "The Gift?"
When I knew Sam was on board,
I just thought,
oh, my God, to work with
I can't
Well, yes, of course.
You know, the story
revolves around a woman
who's lost her husband,
who's in a profound state
of grief,
and she's earning
a living as a psychic.
Your daddy,
he took things away from you
when you were a little boy.
"The Gift" is set
in a small Georgia town
filled with secrets.
Few worse than the one
haunting the character
played by Giovanni Ribisi
who is repressing his memories
of childhood sexual abuse.
Why don't you tell me
why I hate him?
You're the damn psychic.
Buddy, you know,
is definitely disturbed,
and throughout the film
is struggling with,
I guess, his own past
that he doesn't want to look at,
that perhaps maybe she sees.
You think about these things
in your childhood home,
and you face up to them.
She has this gift,
and I think that there's irony
in that title
because I think it's more
of a burden than anything.
Think it's fun
seeing decomposing bodies
in my tree daily, sir?
You think that's fun?
And she's having these visions
that are usually
of a horrific nature.
And the things
that she's able to see,
you know,
are really the skeletons
that all these characters
keep in their closet.
So she starts getting these
premonitions of a murder
that actually does occur,
and she doesn't really
quite know who
because the visions
aren't quite clear.
She can't see who the killer is,
but she knows enough
to get her into trouble.
So the movie really becomes
a psychic detective film.
You saw all this in a dream?
It wasn't just a dream.
I don't investigate
somebody's dream.
I think she's dead, Sheriff.
You know, there is a rape
and murder that takes place
at the heart of this movie,
but it's teased out
in such
a suspenseful and careful
and intelligent way
that it's incredibly powerful,
and it's through these visions
that tantalize Cate Blanchett's
character as well.
She doesn't see everything
at once,
but she carries
the burden of seeing things
that she should never have seen.
Get out!
Boy, I asked you a question.
But the most
frightening thing in the film
may be the violent trucker
played by Keanu Reeves.
Messing with the devil
is going to get you burned.
It's a brutal portrait
of domestic violence.
Keanu is terrifying.
Like, you actually feel
your guts kind of seize up
every time
he comes up on camera.
You're just like, "Oh, God,
not him again," you know?
- Annie!
- Annie, it's him.
- No, calm down.
- No!
- I'll call the law.
- No, Annie, no!
That one shot where
Keanu grabs Hilary Swank
and drags her away.
I'll handle you later on,
you bitch.
Get your ass in the truck.
I mean, we had no money
making that film,
and they were about
to pull the plug on the day.
Keanu was on the outside.
He had to storm through
a room full of people,
and I was in the out room
doing a reading,
and he had one take.
- No, no!
- Damn it!
Let her go!
Come here!
That was his ability
that everybody is on the
Everyone's on board.
Everyone understands the shot
that he's trying to get,
so we luckily got it in one,
otherwise it
wouldn't be in the film.
At its heart,
"The Gift"
is an unflinching study
of the psychic scars
trauma and abuse
leave on a community.
Those scars may not be visible,
but they're always there.
But I think
that's what I really love
about "horror,"
is that there's
no sentimentality,
and so if you'd looked
at that story, you know,
there's another way
we could've turned it,
and it could've been
quite sentimental,
but there's something about
Sam's perspective on stuff
and putting the notion of genre
within that story
that allows you
to kind of Trojan horse
this really quite painful
family drama
without it ever veering off
into sort of mawkish territory,
which I think is great.
Psychics are,
by nature, sensitive.
No!
But some are explosive.
Now, I'd like you to think
of something specific,
something personal perhaps.
All right.
I guess I have something.
Do I have to close my eyes?
It doesn't matter.
Male It's one
of the most iconic scenes
in horror history.
The mind-blowing
telepathic assassination
that opens David Cronenberg's
"Scanners."
I remember watching "Scanners"
at my friend's house,
and we were eating pizza,
and my friend threw up,
and he didn't, like,
run to the bathroom.
It was the guy's head blew up,
and he just went "blech."
I know you're not
what you say you are.
Freak of nature,
born with a certain form of ESP.
"Scanners" is about a war
between rival telepaths
The super-powered children
of women
given an experimental drug
during pregnancy.
His children turned out
to be difficult.
You're a scanner.
That can be
a source of great power.
To some scanners,
telepathic powers are a gift.
To others, they're a curse.
The film's
strangely detached protagonist
is one of the cursed.
He's asked to track down
the leader
of a scanner rebellion.
In many ways, Cameron,
he's your enemy.
He discovers
it's his long-lost brother,
a powerful telepath
with a tenuous grasp on sanity.
This is a picture
full of chilly,
unfeeling, remote psychics,
and among all of them,
there is a serial killer
and sociopath played
by Michael Ironside
who is the most identifiably
human of all of them
because at least he feels things
like resentment, rage, victory.
You're not listening to me.
You're not cooperating, Cam.
And so it's strange
that the most
horrible character in the movie
should be the one that maybe
we identify with the most.
We're gonna to do it
the scanner way.
I'm gonna suck your brain dry.
The sibling rivalry culminates
in a psychic duel to the death.
No matter who wins,
it's clear the scanners
have left humanity behind.
The idea that someone
with those gifts
would no longer
really be human at all
is the underlying message
of "Scanners,"
and in some ways
is also kind of an on-running,
ongoing theme
with Cronenberg himself,
who seems to be interested
in what might be next
for humanity.
"Scanners" was one
of several films of the '70s
and early '80s
about government agencies
exploiting psychics
for sinister purposes.
You know, in the '70s
everybody was being exploited
for sinister purposes.
I mean, it was the Nixon era.
Everybody was a little paranoid
about the government.
Who are they?
FBI?
Really, the Department
of Scientific Intelligence,
DSI.
All these movies
that basically said
that you can't trust
the government,
it's up to something,
and it's spying on you,
and they're taking
these young kids
who have these abilities
and making sure
that they use them for ill.
Brian De Palma's 1978 adaptation
of the John Farris novel
"The Fury"
launched the paranoid
psychic trend.
Faster.
Faster!
Faster!
Turn!
Again!
Turn!
Faster!
Faster!
Andrew Stevens plays a young man
snatched by a government agency
that turns gifted teenagers
into living weapons.
Why, he's developing
the power of an atomic reactor.
Or an atomic bomb.
The agency also
has its eye on a young woman
played by Amy Irving,
who has psychic powers
she barely understands.
Cheryl!
Come on!
Tell me!
No, oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
- Oh, my God!
- Cheryl!
Cheryl!
Oh, my God!
For the first time
in his career,
De Palma was working
with a large budget.
He used it to create new ways
of showing psychic phenomena
on screen.
"The Fury"
is full of bits of De Palma
trying to figure out,
"How would I do this?
"How would I show
a hallucination?
"How would I pop back and forth
"between consciousnesses
that are aware of each other
in different location?"
So you get the bit
when he's scratching
on the side of the sofa,
and she's scratching
on the wall.
It's just a great moment.
You know, he had the scene
with Amy Irving
on the staircase
when she has a vision.
Oh.
And, you know, famously
De Palma has Amy Irving
in front of a green screen
and she's revolving one way,
and the action is being
projected behind her.
Brilliantly simple idea.
Stop!
Just relax, Robin, relax.
It's going to be okay.
There are things
that are in "The Fury"
that have been ripped off
in every film
about psychic powers,
including superhero movies,
ever since.
It's like the Rick Baker effect
of the throbbing veins
in the head.
That's first seen in "The Fury"
and like ripped off
in, like, films to this day.
In a movie
filled with great set pieces,
"The Fury"
saves the best for last.
Amy Irving's character
turns the full force
of her powers on the villain,
played by
legendary actor/director
John Cassavetes.
The ending of "The Fury"
is the single greatest ending
of any, you know,
Hollywood film of the 1970s.
You go to the hell.
Especially for someone
who doesn't particularly care
for Cassavetes movies
as I really don't,
watching him blow up like that
is oh, it's so delicious.
If you've seen "The Fury,"
when you see "Scanners,"
it's like,
"Oh, yeah, well, it's good.
"Not John Cassavetes
being blown up
from head to toe
in slow motion good."
Two years later,
David Cronenberg
made another movie
about psychic powers
A masterpiece
that trades exploding heads
for broken hearts.
I've had another episode.
What's happening to me?
It's your power of second sight.
The ice is gonna break!
Male Based on one of
Stephen King's finest novels,
David Cronenberg's 1983
adaptation of "The Dead Zone"
tells the story
of Johnny Smith
You're gonna like it.
It's about a school teacher
who gets chased
by a headless demon.
A man whose happy life
is ruined
by a serious car accident.
After spending
five years in a coma,
Johnny wakes up
with psychic powers
But not much else.
He's lost five years
of his life.
He's lost the woman he loved.
He's lost his career.
And, nevertheless,
he picks up
the shattered fragments
of his life
and begins to fit them
back together, and he goes on.
I think it's impossible not
to be a little moved by that.
It was
the first time, I believe,
that Cronenberg had access
to the best possible cast.
And Christopher Walken,
his most moving and emotional
and heartbreaking performance
I've ever seen.
David had described
Chris Walken's face
as the subject of the movie,
the arc of his character
carries the whole movie,
and really this is a man
who's filled
with regret and despair,
so a lot of his actions
tell the story,
but a lot of this
was really carrying the story
from beginning to end.
You're given this kind of gift
of being able to see the future,
which should be something
that's great
And yet it keeps leading him
into situations
whereby he's shown
some incredibly dark things.
And sometimes
he can save people,
and sometimes he can't.
With "The Dead Zone,"
Cronenberg swapped
the cold objectivity
of "Scanners"
for a much more intimate
approach to psychic phenomena.
Cronenberg solved the problem
of how do you show the actor
seeing the future
or reading someone's mind?
How do you visualize that?
And he did that by flinging
Christopher Walken
right into his own visions.
Amy!
And so when a house
is burning a few minutes
in the future,
Johnny Smith is right there
in the bed in the nursery
watching the fish tank boil
and explode.
He's a very
tortured protagonist,
and he still chooses
to do right in the movie
despite the fact that life
has just been dealing him
very poor cards.
When I woke up,
my girl was gone,
my job was gone,
my legs are just about useless.
I think of it
as a very emotional movie
because the very mechanism
that drives it forward
is tragic human experience.
The ultimate test
of Johnny's character
comes when he meets
up-and-coming politician,
Greg Stillson,
played by Martin Sheen.
You got to stay in better shape
in this country.
What the hell has happened
to this country?
Stillson's
straight-talking populism
conceals his true nature,
he's a bullying egomaniac
who will stop at nothing
to gain power.
I have had a vision
that I am going to be president
of the United States someday,
and I have accepted
that responsibility,
and nobody, I mean nobody,
is gonna stop me.
When Johnny
shakes hands with Stillson,
he has a premonition of him
starting World War III.
Stillson, Stillson, Stillson!
Stillson, Stillson!
The missiles are flying.
Hallelujah.
If you knew somebody
was going to be a mass murderer,
is gonna commit genocide
on a major level,
but haven't done it yet,
would you take him out?
That's basically what
the end of the movie is,
is that Christopher Walken
decides that he has
to assassinate Greg Stillson
to save the world.
Johnny!
At the tense finale,
we find ourselves
rooting for an assassin.
- Give me him!
- Don't!
Johnny is doomed,
but he does save the world.
Evil finds a way
of devouring itself.
You see that in the movie.
You see that
in the book as well.
Most really evil people
have a self-destruct button
built in.
It's over.
And sooner or later,
they put their fist down on it
without realizing
what they've done.
That movie is so heartbreaking,
and every time I watch it,
I'm more enamored
with Cronenberg as a filmmaker
and what he has done.
Not every story
about a psychic is a tragedy.
For some, it opens up
a world of demented fun.
It's showtime.
Male In 1985, a young director
named Tim Burton
made his first
feature-length film,
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure."
It looked like this.
It was an unlikely hit.
Burton's next project
was a horror comedy
about two ghosts
and the psychic girl
who becomes
their surrogate daughter.
It was called
Beetlejuice,
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!
Oh, no!
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure"
is one of my favorite films,
and so then,
when "Beetlejuice" came out,
everyone knew this
was something special.
It was gonna be like the guy
who made
"Pee-wee's Big Adventure"
had made
some kind of horror movie.
Right from the opening shot
with the Danny Elfman music,
you are 100%
in a Tim Burton film.
"Beetlejuice" begins
with a demise of a sweet,
but not terribly bright
young couple
Played by
Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin.
What I loved about it
from just
even reading the script
was they were
very matter-of-fact
about it, you know?
It's rather, "You know,
we're simple folks
and we seem to be dead."
I've been reading that book,
and there's a word
for people in our situation.
Ghosts.
You know, everything is
kind of taken for granted,
you know,
there's nothing too shocking
about any of it to us.
I don't think we have very much
to worry about anymore.
I find that very amusing.
Life isn't that different
till their home is sold
to Charles and Delia Deetz
who turn it
into a post-modern hell.
I loved that dynamic,
in the Beetlejuice family,
that it's the ghosts
that were the friendly ones.
They're the ones
being terrorized by the humans.
Oh!
You can see us
without the sheets?
Of course I can see you.
Well, how is it that
you see us and nobody else can?
The ghosts' sole ally
is young Lydia Deetz,
who has the psychic gift
of being able to see
and communicate with the dead.
I wanted to be Winona Ryder
as Lydia.
Live people ignore
the strange and usual.
I, myself,
am strange and unusual.
She was just the coolest.
She had the coolest lines.
I plan to have a stroke
from the amount of MSG
that's in this food.
And her costumes
and how she wasn't
that happy-go-lucky kid.
She could see more.
She was "spiritually woke,"
and she was
unapologetically herself.
God!
You guys really are dead.
This is amazing.
Lydia's sensitivity lets her see
what her parents cannot.
Careful, that's my sculpture.
A world beyond themselves.
If you don't let me gut out
this house and make it my own,
I will go insane,
and I will take you with me!
Lydia tries to act as the medium
between the living and the dead,
but it's no use.
But they were trying
to scare you away,
and you didn't get scared.
Please, they're dead.
It's a little late
to be neurotic.
In desperation, the ghosts
summon a bio-exorcist,
the demon Beetlejuice,
played in a performance
for the ages
by Michael Keaton.
Yeah!
Michael Keaton
was amazing as Beetlejuice.
You know, we got to get closer.
Move in with you for a while.
Get to be real pals.
You know what I'm saying?
And
- Ugh.
- Save that guy for later.
So funny.
I really loved, loved him,
and he so much was ad-libbed
and just made up on the fly.
I'm feeling a little anxious,
if you know what I mean.
Beetlejuice is
an incarnation of corruption.
He cannot be trusted.
Humans and ghosts
must come together
to save Lydia from his clutches.
It's a metaphor for the rescue
of a neglected child
from loneliness and despair.
You're probably supposed
to interpret the movie
through Lydia's perspective,
and she is very much an outsider
who comes to belong
through very unusual means
by having ghost parents
who are better parents
to her than her real parents.
How'd you do
on that science test?
It was gross.
They wanted me
to dissect a frog.
Traditionally, movie psychics
are cursed by their gifts.
Beetlejuice is the rare film
about a psychic
that has a happy ending
For Lydia and for the people
in her life,
living and dead.
Sometimes,
if somebody recognizes me,
they'll say,
"I like your movie."
And I'm like, "Okay."
And so I finally started
asking people,
"What movie?"
Oh!
95% of the time
they mean "Beetlejuice."
They think that's
the only movie I've made,
and they like my movie.
Which I'm perfectly happy with.
I love that.
I can communicate
with the other side.
The ability to see the dead
is a miraculous gift.
It was cold-blooded murder.
Unless you're the tortured hero
of "The Frighteners."
male When you think
of filmmaker Peter Jackson,
this is probably
what comes to mind.
But horror fans
know he started out
making some of
the most outrageous
splatter films
ever to hit the screen.
The bridge between
the two Peter Jacksons
is "The Frighteners."
I can see spirits.
A film that takes
some very surprising turns.
"The Frighteners"
is such a classic comedy horror
where it starts off so goofy
And then gets
genuinely frightening.
This one really has a build,
I think, that no other
comedy horror has ever had.
Michael J. Fox stars
as Frank Bannister,
who gains the power
to communicate with ghosts
after he's in a car accident
that kills his wife.
Feeling responsible
for her death,
he's literally a haunted man,
so lost in self-loathing,
that he prostitutes his gift
using the ghosts
to scam the living.
We're so used to, you know,
seeing all these psychics
use their powers
in certain ways
To find evil
or to find more answers,
but in this case,
Michael J. Fox,
he's a con artist.
Well, folks,
I can do a clearance,
but it's not gonna be cheap.
Sure, he's a psychic.
He can see ghosts.
But this is him using his power
to make that extra buck.
This could be the worst case
I have ever seen.
Where are you going?
Things get worse
when a demonic spirit appears
and begins killing people
Frank comes into contact with.
Frank's psychic gift
lets him see who's next to die.
But he's powerless to save them.
The murders attract
the attention
of a very peculiar FBI agent,
played by
horror legend Jeffrey Combs.
You're a very dangerous man,
Mr. Bannister.
I sort of approached him
like what happens
when your patriotism
takes you to a point
where you will do anything
for your country,
to the point
where you don't even know
how damaged you are anymore.
My body is roadmap of pain.
Jeffrey Combs
made "Frighteners."
Look at his haircut
and the way he speaks
and his eyes for everything.
Well, the haircut
was my idea, I'm afraid.
I was thinking about
what is the prime example
of that kind of nationalism?
Oh, wait a minute.
And I found
a book of young Hitler.
I took it back to Peter,
and I said,
"Peter, what do you think
my hair would look like that?"
And I thought he would say,
"No, are you crazy?"
But he looked at it
and just took a beat,
and he went,
"Yeah, yes, that'll be good."
In the film's dark finale,
Frank discovers his wife
was one of many victims
of a pair of thrill killers
played by Dee Wallace
and Jake Busey.
- You killed her.
- You're next, pal.
I think it's the first movie
that has a homicidal couple
where one is a ghost
and one is not.
I can't think
of one before that.
But it's a cool idea
that it's also this
really dark romance of sorts,
that they get off on this fact,
that they keep killing
more and more people,
that they get
more and more in love
with each other
the more bodies they pile up.
It's a really nutty idea.
With the mystery solved,
Frank is finally able
to move on with his life.
Be happy.
"The Frighteners"
turns out to be a study
of trauma,
depression, and forgiveness.
It corkscrews into something
that you're
not even prepared for,
and that's the genius of it.
It's a movie
that you can't quite categorize
'cause it's many things.
After setting you up
thinking this is just gonna be
some pleasant,
safe little ride
It takes you down
a rabbit hole of true horror.
Isn't that what a movie
is supposed to do
is take you
on an unexpected journey?
We don't fully understand
how our brains work
The derangement of the synapses.
Nor can we prove
or disprove
psychic powers are real.
But as long as we can think
and dream
We'll have psychics
on our minds.