"There are people on-line - you could give them a million-dollar check while they're getting a blowjob and they'd find something to complain about." -- Frank Darabont on The Mist
NIGHTSCARES opens with long pans of the exterior of an apartment building inter-cut with long holds on the faces of people sleeping. This sequence is followed immediately by Craig Fairbrass as the worst cop ever (which makes him the best movie cop ever) staring at a suspect in an interrogation room. And when I type staring, I mean glowering in silence like a rapist. Eons go by without a single word said between the two and then WHAM! Fairbrass springs into action like a tranquilized sloth and calmly exits the room. Cut to a long shot in an endless hallway with a non-emotive cop way back of the frame. He walks down the hallway, which is as bland as a hallway can be, straight towards the static camera. Walks the whole damn way. Just as he reaches us, he turns around.
He turns around and walks all the way back down the hallway. Vadim Jean lets us experience every agonizing second of that fucking pointless piece of script. I love it when low(er) budget films and low(er) talent filmmakers pad their run time, as if their movie about dreams that kill people is legit at 89 minutes, but a clown act at 75. At (what felt like) ten minutes in with not a single worthwhile thing happening, I knew writing this review of NIGHTSCARES was going to be fun.
Now here we go. The early reviews of “FEAR ITSELF” all indicated that the show failed to kick off until episode three. The early reviews were right. FAMILY MAN, written by “CARNIVALE” creator and scribe Daniel Knauf, has an excellent script tailored specifically for the rise and fall pacing of network television. Ronny Yu, of all people, has a steady, refrained vision for how to ground the unbelievable premise to terra firma.
Colin Ferguson plays Dennis Mahoney, a church going family man who leaves his body following a car crash and wakes up in the bullet ridden, handcuffed body of Brautigan (Clifton Collins Jr.), a serial killer with jollies for picking off whole families. Yes, it is a FREAKY FRIDAY, VICE-VERSA scenario, but with a serial killer, but Knauf is a smart man with a tapped pulse on building tension. Brautigan, the switched man we’re pulling for, is stuck in jail, beaten on a regular basis by his guards, treated like scum by his public defender and to top it all off, visited regularly by the newly emancipated killer currently occupying his life.
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