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The Hole by Joe Dante
Oh, there's going to be a lot of bad jokes about this movie title, but Joe Dante, director of what I call family horror movies like Piranha and Gremlins, is back with tale about something in the basement.
ShockTillYouDrop.com talked to Dante and he described his new picture as "It's more in the line of The Others or The Devil's Backbone." Or rather, it is more of a ghost story than a horror story.
Hopefully, Joe Dante doesn't go the PG13 route of Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell which was too tame for horror fans and too scary for the family crowds (even though I'd consider it another family horror film).
Joe Dante falls into the Spielberg category of horror which usually attacks white suburbia--think Poltergeist and the previously mentioned Gremlins. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I'm getting a premonition of a not quite so satisfying ending because it was trying to be too clever. I'd settle for a good adventure horror story with plenty of twists along the way instead of one big build up to a startling climax.
If you're unsure of what I'm saying about Spielberg horror, here's the synopsis from MovieSet.com: "Life couldn’t possibly get worse, or so thought 17 year old Dane and his 10 year old brother Lucas, when their single mother Susan uproots them from New York City to the sleepy little town of Bensonville."
It's small town horror with white people as far as I can tell from that description.
Slated for 2010, The Hole will be in 3D because both animation and horror are going to be released in 3D as much as possible in the coming years. I'm thinking Joe Dante could pull this one off if he turns it into a ride film instead of trying to spook us with noise effects and the inevitable cat. Ghost stories are hard to do, I'm not easily scared by them. Possibly one of the reasons is because we have all those idiot ghost hunters on TV now scaring themselves and always disappointing us with the supposed evidence.
When we watch a ghost movie we want to see the dead come alive...
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