A gem amid dross: The Gathering

[stillsostrange]

I will always keep watching B horror movies, because amid all the Forests of the Damned, there are few scattered gems. In this case, The Gathering starring Christina Ricci. This film isn't without flaws--a somewhat scattered narrative, too many characters for the story, and some slipshod motivations/profiling--but over all I was remarkably pleased. Steven and I caught the big reveal early on, and spent the rest of the movie hoping and praying that we were right. I was so relieved when the story followed through that I wanted to send the writers a gift basket. I'm not sure if that says more about a prevalence of bad writing in Hollywood, or my tendency to watch a lot of bad movies.

And it supports cmpriest's thesis on Corn: The Devil's Crop.

The downside of this movie? Story eels. Deadly story eels. It wasn't a broken story, but just flawed enough that my brain piped up immediately with well, this is how I'd fix that problem, and that other one, and this one too.

I may have to cash in my once-per-writing career Amnesia Plot Coupon.

Now I need a big file for these serial numbers...

Comments

[everyonesakitty.livejournal.com]

Dude, I liked that movie, too! It's like you said... plot flaws, easy ones to fix even, but as a whole, it was a diamond among, er, all the shitty movies. Yep.

[cmpriest.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm right! No one ever gets assaulted by monsters in a strawberry patch.
(Uh oh. Writer brain-wheels begin to turn ...)

Well, they'd have to be very short monsters ...