SJA: The Eternity Trap
Nov. 6th, 2009 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsSonic: lj user="neadods"> a href="http://neadods.livejournal.com/904224.html">squees over The Eternity Trap (Spoilers)
I do so love a proper ghost story/horror film. So many purveyors of horror get it wrong by assuming gore=terror.
No, gore=gross. A whole different concept. (I once reviewed a book that promised "psychological horror" and delivered torture porn. Oy!)
So I was thrilled that gets it right: a lot of shivers leavened with a little humor and no stooping to gore for a cheap grossout.
The thing in the corner of your eye, the misbehaving technology, the unexplained sounds, the person unexpectedly there or not there - *that* is scary, because *that* is just plausible enough to seem possible. And then you take that next step...
Besides, it's very cool to have the chief ghost say "There are no such things as ghosts." But not half as cool as Sarah Jane snapping "You don't have a ghost of a chance!"
(We know it's going to be an alien because it's always an alien; if there's one thing that's held true for Who for decades it's that there is no supernatural, it's always Clarke's Law in action.)
Taking Luke out of the equation let Clyde really shine; he had the web-in-the-face joke, but this week and last week show that he's finally broken out of the comic relief and into hero mode. A hero of the snarky Peter Venkman mode, but hey... I was always fond of Peter.
I do so love a proper ghost story/horror film. So many purveyors of horror get it wrong by assuming gore=terror.
No, gore=gross. A whole different concept. (I once reviewed a book that promised "psychological horror" and delivered torture porn. Oy!)
So I was thrilled that gets it right: a lot of shivers leavened with a little humor and no stooping to gore for a cheap grossout.
The thing in the corner of your eye, the misbehaving technology, the unexplained sounds, the person unexpectedly there or not there - *that* is scary, because *that* is just plausible enough to seem possible. And then you take that next step...
Besides, it's very cool to have the chief ghost say "There are no such things as ghosts." But not half as cool as Sarah Jane snapping "You don't have a ghost of a chance!"
(We know it's going to be an alien because it's always an alien; if there's one thing that's held true for Who for decades it's that there is no supernatural, it's always Clarke's Law in action.)
Taking Luke out of the equation let Clyde really shine; he had the web-in-the-face joke, but this week and last week show that he's finally broken out of the comic relief and into hero mode. A hero of the snarky Peter Venkman mode, but hey... I was always fond of Peter.
