lets get 4bia!!! (phobia)
>> Thursday, August 28, 2008
To make matters worse, though, it seems this very same kid had gotten sick of being pushed around before this incident and conjured up some pretty sick black magic in the form of a picture. As soon as you look into the eyes of the image, you’ll find yourself on the receiving end of a pretty spectacular death such as being impaled on a flagpole or crushed by an air conditioner.
“In the Middle” : was the clear-cut best of the bunch and one of the most crowd-pleasing shorts I’ve seen in a long time. Four friends are telling one another ghost stories while camping out in the jungle, and one of them promises that if he were to die, he would haunt whoever is sleeping in the middle that night. They all have a good nervous laugh and eventually fall asleep without incident.
The next day they’re out white water rafting and something terrible happens, causing the boat to flip and them to lose one of their own. They ultimately have to give up looking and make camp, hoping their friend makes it back to them. Sure enough he shows up soaking wet later that night, but he’s acting very, very strange. And before you know it, they’re all asking one another if he really did survive the accident.
What works so well in “In the Middle” are the characters; each one is unique and their quirkiness make them instantly memorable. The dialogue they have is natural and more often than not laugh-out-loud funny, especially when they take modern day horror movies to task for their tired conventions, even calling out Shutter, which two of the directors in this anthology made. “In the Middle” is genuinely funny and does have some pretty good boo-scares; plus it boasts the best ending of any of the shorts herein
Most memorable tagline: "I swear if I die, I'd come back and haunt the person who sleeps in the middle."
“Last Fright”, : Well this one really made me flinched in my seat lots of times. It tells about an air-stewardess who had to be called in for duty on a flight with a princess. Unfortunately for her, she has to be the Princess' personal flight attendant.
What the audience doesn’t know right away is that the stewardess on this flight is the reason for the princess’ marital difficulties, having carried on an affair with the prince since they met on the last flight. What the stewardess doesn’t know right away is that the princess knows this and is the sole reason she requested her to serve her on the flight. But the princess has an allergy to shrimp, you see, and the stewardess wants to see her suffer a bit once she starts treating her like shit, so she makes very little effort to remove it from her in-flight dinner. Before you know it the princess is violently ill and when they land has to be immediately hospitalized.
Of course, the attendant doesn’t expect the princess to die because of her little prank, so imagine her surprise when she drops dead in the hospital the very next day. Now they have to take the exact same flight to transport the princess’ body home with the stewardess now in charge of making sure the corpse, tightly wrapped like a traditional mummy, isn’t damaged on the flight. I bet you can figure out where it goes from here, and you’d be pretty much on the nose with any standard scenario that has a person trapped in a place with something out to get her and no hope of escape.
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