670166, RE: Consider these following reasons Posted by SankofaII, Tue Jan-14-14 03:23 AM
>*It was a very obtuse screenplay. >*A cold female lead, a cold female supporting, a cold male >supporting - yet it works beautifully. >*You're in a world you instantly believe and don't question. >*This movie could have come out in the 1960s, the 1970s, the >1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s without any trouble translating. >The word for that is TIMELESS, and a lot of movies aren't. >*It would fit comfortably on the shelf of "good-to-great >horror films" of any of the above mentioned decades. > > >"Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which >has been given for you to understand." Saul Williams
co-sign on *ALL* this regarding Stoker and *THIS* is why I loved it so much.
Seriously, this movie *screams* atmospheric, european horror/thriller from the early to mid 1990s, i.e. something that Jim Jarmusch, Lars von Trier or even Kar Wai Wong would make.
Wentworth Miller wrote a solid movie in his first outing as a screenwriter. I can't wait to see what else he writes that's made into a movie next (and I already have. Shit is really damn good)...
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