While Hiram is perfectly walking the line between good and evil, Hermione (Marisol Nichols) can't even find the line. That's where one of this episode's biggest missteps comes in. When she's not looking though, the scheming doesn't end. To Veronica's face, he's a loving and caring father that is attempting to recover from past misdeeds. After his season premiere introduction fizzled, the show has done very well in building this particular character up and showing him as the two-faced man he is. It's a lesson Veronica is learning as well, with Hiram (Mark Consuelos) being further integrated into her life. He's a Serpent by blood and while Archie (KJ Apa), Betty (Lili Reinhart) and Veronica (Camila Mendes) may not want that for him, he has to find out for himself just how bad it can be. While there's no doubt Jughead will eventually side with good, the unspoken tension between he and his friends is good fuel for his journey. In the end, his efforts earned him a beating by the Ghoulies and a seat at the Serpents' table. What's more, despite repeated warnings, he was driven to expose the gang. Still, regardless of how good a journalist he may be, Jughead figured out the Ghoulies were responsible for the uptick in jingle jangle - and seriously, the names for things on this show are ridiculous - far too quickly. He found a creative outlet at his old school's Blue and Gold. It’s a little frustrating because with just a few changes it could have been special but it’s an okay watch.Attempting to get Southside High's newspaper going again makes sense.
#THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS 2017 MOVIE#
It’s a pretty bland movie but it does have good performances and some scary sequences. Oh well.Īll that said, if you are looking for a family friendly horror movie you could do worse than the new Watcher in the Woods. This new version has family friendly scares but it’s not as thoughtful a narrative as the original. It doesn’t leave you as the viewer asking questions which is part of what makes the original scary. This is more interesting than writing it on the window 30 minutes in and then waking up and screaming the the name once the investigation has started. In the original the little girl randomly writes Nerak backwards before anyone knows about Karen and names her dog Nerak. Another example is the ‘Nerak’ scenes aren’t as interesting. What does a triangle mean? Where it is obvious what a cross means. This is probably a nitpick but to me a triangle is more unusual. Like when the glass shatters it is a cross instead of a triangle. There were other little things that were less interesting. She’s just an innocent girl who was taken by a monster. There is no sense of mystery at why the students had the seance and what Karen was all about.
This is less interesting because it is a monster movie. Now he stalks the forest waiting for the townspeople to recognize him and the work he did. In this new version the Watcher is a puritan doctor who was killed by townspeople because they feared he had the plague. It’s hard for Jan and crew to figure out what happened to Karen when it is shrouded in an eclipse with the occult. Even though the acting is hokey this is interesting because it was their choice to become involved. Then Karen is taken by an alien known as the Watcher. For example, in the original the teens make a conscious choice to hold a seance and experiment with the occult. Where the original made strange choices, that added mystery in this version you see everything coming a mile away.
The problem with the remake is it takes this basic premise and makes it very conventional. As the family lives in the house, the mystery of the daughter starts to unfold putting them all at risk.
#THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS 2017 FULL#
Years before the woman’s daughter Karen went missing and ever since the woods nearby are full of creepy goings-on. The story of Watcher in the Woods focuses on a family that moves into an old house with a weird old woman living in the guest house. You feel for her as this wounded mother and yet those big eyes are terrifying. Still she makes good work of the scenes she is in and elevates the film just as Davis did. I wonder if they only had her for a few days of shooting? It feels that way. Unfortunately she’s not in the movie near as much. You get the idea.Īnjelica Huston is about as good a replacement for Bette Davis as you could cast. I honestly thought all the acting was better in this new version.
She also looks like she could be Britt Robertson’s doppleganger. She is beautiful, expressive and a much better actress than Lynn-Holly Johnson. Tallulah Evans is a serious step up as Jan. The biggest improvement the new film makes is in the acting.
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