!! Amusement Blu ray

Many reviewers here are missing one important point about Amusement: reminiscent atmosphere. The opening sequence screams of creepiness a-la Joy Ride and of course, tries to manage a surprise twist on the idea. (Anyone who knows horror movies will see it coming.) The clown scene is actually better, with some suspense, false jumps and eerie camera angles, making the clown doll/costume appear even scarier than the movie's cover pic. Our laugher's lair is a blend of the house from Psycho and a run down version of the overlook hotel from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. That dining room with it's board room style table and antique chairs had me wondering when we were going to begin seeing the laugher having conversations with a long dead mother or hallucinating over prior years' guests and chopping down doors with fire axes(didn't happen, as earlier in the movie during the clown scene, he was tearing down a door in a slightly new way)The ending actually wasn't as bad as what other reviewers said either, with some decent suspense, but a surprisingly lacking end to our villain due to his forgetfulness to put away his toys. (and a damn nice toy, from the earlier clown scene)Now normally, if a movie exhibited such a low level of ability to tell a new story I would be giving it one or no stars, but in spite of the fact that the filmmakers chose not to give a lot of back story to our villain to better explain his motives as to why he chooses to emulate horror movie scenes in real life, this film does work to a degree. Whether the people involved with the production are horror fans who were paying homage to their favorite scenes or trying to fix things they saw wrong with other movies (who didn't want to see that truck driver from Joy Ride get his skull bashed in by the end of the first movie?) they managed to do all of the scenes in Amusement with a great deal of style and attention to detail, often lacking in horror movies with a low budget. It somehow manages not to stink of unoriginal theft. It's as if they know all of the elements that make up the scares of a good horror movie, but are lacking in the character development department. I couldn't help thinking of The Dentist and Dr. Giggles every time our nutcase laugher let loose, but how did he gain access to the lair and the knowledge to create such a dark, foreboding place? Even Dr Giggles had a bit more of a history than a guy in a surgeon's mask slicing people to ribbons with his scalpel. So now the real question arises, if they made another, would I see a sequel to Amusement? If I'm in the right frame of mind that night, I might.... it could be quite.... amusing. 3.25 stars
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• ISBN13: 0794043124068
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.