For my fellow skeptics, let me make it clear: gone are the West Virginian inbred cannibals and their hoard of corpse meat and car keys; the same goes for the dull predator vs. The culture clash here between "goddamn hipster freaks" and people of the woods is more complicated here, and the way it unfolds is brutal and shocking without being depraved itself.
This is a remake that has clearly moved on from the original, and now wants to be graded on its brains instead of its brawn—for the dialogue it adds to the tension between two civilizations, especially as McElroy evolves the slasher story to cult horror, like an Appalachian " Midsommar.
Nelson has a confidence that keeps this movie bolder than you expect. The batch includes Jen an incredibly game Charlotte Vega and her boyfriend Darius Adain Bradley , an out-and-out socialist who works for a non-profit and openly dreams about an equal society.
In general these hikers, who include a gay couple and also an interracial couple, are a liberal beacon for what they think the future of America should be.
They're also dead meat, starting with the rogue tree trunk that suddenly barrels down the hill in an excellent, frantic sequence, killing one of them.
The initial tension in the movie is between that of curdled Confederate dreams and Bernie Sanders-grade socialism, and while it can be a little on-the-nose, it does make for a strong foundation related to fear of the other. Which so happens to later manifest itself in the woods with a creepy cult known as The Foundation, who wear animal skulls as masks and moss as camouflage, and have created a secluded civilization the Appalachian mountains since Adam Dylan McTee , the hiking group's hothead, is dragged into one of the traps set by members of The Foundation, sending the hikers into panic mode.
Along with the figures Jen sees in the woods, and the traps that injure them around the mountain Darius takes a spiked ball to the chest, but recovers with help of med student Milla [ Emma Dumont ] , they're convinced it is they who are being hunted. When the hiking hipsters attack one of the Foundation members—without any outright violence committed beforehand—the act of killing becomes a divisive choice between the group.
He is deeply insulted when Jen, pleading for her life, accuses The Foundation of being barbaric. The kids' girlfriend insists on coming along. When they get to the pump, the ghouls start advancing and the torch accidentally sets the truck on fire. The Negro escapes, but the truck blows up and incinerates the teen-age couple. At this point, the mood of the audience seemed to change.
Horror movies were fun, sure, but this was pretty strong stuff. There wasn't a lot of screaming anymore; the place was pretty quiet. When the fire died down, the ghouls approached the truck and ripped apart the bodies and ate them. One ghoul ate a shoulder joint with great delight, occasionally stopping to wipe his face. Another ghoul dug into a nice mess of intestines. Back inside the farmhouse, the little girl dies and turns into a ghoul. She advances on her mother.
The mother tries to talk to her, but the girl takes a trowel and stabs her mother in the chest a couple of dozen times. On TV, the sheriff advises citizens to set the ghouls on fire: "They'll go right up. The ghouls break into the house and he barricades himself in the basement. The next scene takes place the next morning.
The sheriff's deputies are conducting a mopping-up operation, shooting ghouls and burning them. They approach the farmhouse. The sheriff looks casually into the charred wreck of the car, sees what's left of the two bodies, and says: "Somebody had himself a cook-out.
He is shot through the forehead by the deputies. End of movie. The kids in the audience were stunned. There was almost complete silence. The movie had stopped being delightfully scary about halfway through, and had become unexpectedly terrifying. There was a little girl across the aisle from me, maybe nine years old, who was sitting very still in her seat and crying. I don't think the younger kids really knew what hit them. They were used to going to movies, sure, and they'd seen some horror movies before, sure, but this was something else.
This was ghouls eating people up -- and you could actually see what they were eating. This was little girls killing their mothers. This was being set on fire. Worst of all, even the hero got killed. It's hard to remember what sort of effect this movie might have had on you when you were six or seven. Lynn Lowry Ruthie as Ruthie. Tessa Richarde Billie as Billie. Berry Berenson Sandra as Sandra. Fausto Barajas Otis as Otis. John H. Stephen Marshal Moonie as Moonie. Paul Schrader.
More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The Cat People originated way back in time, when humans sacrificed their women to leopards, who mated with them.
Cat People look similar to humans, but must mate with other Cat People before they transform into panthers. Irene Gallier was raised by adoptive parents and meets her older brother Paul for the first time since childhood. We follow brother and sister - who seem to be the only ones of their kind left. An erotic fantasy about the animal in us all. Did you know Edit. Trivia Director Paul Schrader and lead actress Nastassja Kinski had an affair during the production of this movie.
Schrader fell in love and planned to propose marriage to Kinski at the wrap party, but she didn't show up and cut off all communication with him. After three months Schrader finally tracked Kinski down in Paris, where she bluntly told him, "Paul, I always fuck my directors. And with you it was difficult". Goofs During the leopard autopsy scene, when Oliver is moving the "dead" cat from the wheeled cart to the autopsy table, he lets the cat's head bump down a little hard onto the metal table.
Off camera you can hear someone say, "Easy! Quotes Irena Gallier : I'm not like you. The alternate ending occurs when Oliver corners the panther that was Irena on the bridge. In the theatrical version the Irena panther jumps off the bridge and escapes. The panther kills a friend of Oliver's to become human again and hides out in Oliver's shack.
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