It's hard to call something as generic as a pale, dirty lady with long-ass fingers and matted hair a ripoff of anything in particular. It's just… one of those things people are generally scared of.

I think "inspired by" is the generally accepted term. It definitely owes a lot to the atmosphere in the book.

It would have been so much better with physical effects instead of that cartoony CGI. Here's an early makeup test: http://www.youtube.com/watc…
And here's how they looked in the movie: http://youtu.be/-7LsxKkh0zg…

It would have been so much better with physical effects instead of that cartoony CGI. Here's an early makeup test: http://www.youtube.com/watc…
And here's how they looked in the movie: http://youtu.be/-7LsxKkh0zg…

The movie was pretty good until the dog died. After that, lousy.

The movie was pretty good until the dog died. After that, lousy.

The Magical Jews in Fanny and Alexander were awesome. I love that they had a living mummy in their house, it's like a big "fuck you" to Pharaoh.

The Magical Jews in Fanny and Alexander were awesome. I love that they had a living mummy in their house, it's like a big "fuck you" to Pharaoh.

Might have been overhyped. That's what happened to me, too, though I still liked a lot of it. I feel like it's too dependent on voiceover, that technique was probably more effective in the book.

It was gory when that lady got hit by the car, and then you see her jaw hanging off and she grabs the protagonist. Totally out of left field, and totally inconsequential to the central story. Should have left it out.

Heh. "Shudders."

Heh. "Shudders."

Is it "porn," though? I felt like it was just exploring that event the way horror and scifi movies generally reflect ideas that haunt our zeitgeist. After all, Godzilla was a metaphor for the Japanese horror of Nuclear devastation. Does that mean it was "Hiroshima porn?"

Is it "porn," though? I felt like it was just exploring that event the way horror and scifi movies generally reflect ideas that haunt our zeitgeist. After all, Godzilla was a metaphor for the Japanese horror of Nuclear devastation. Does that mean it was "Hiroshima porn?"

Is it "porn," though? I felt like it was just exploring that event the way horror and scifi movies generally reflect ideas that haunt our zeitgeist. After all, Godzilla was a metaphor for the Japanese horror of Nuclear devastation. Does that mean it was "Hiroshima porn?"

Definitely scary, but it was such a different type of horror than the "giant monster will crush me" type, that I felt like it belonged in a different movie. Reminded me of the sequence in Aliens when Ripley is watching the footage from the marines' cameras.

Definitely scary, but it was such a different type of horror than the "giant monster will crush me" type, that I felt like it belonged in a different movie. Reminded me of the sequence in Aliens when Ripley is watching the footage from the marines' cameras.

Definitely scary, but it was such a different type of horror than the "giant monster will crush me" type, that I felt like it belonged in a different movie. Reminded me of the sequence in Aliens when Ripley is watching the footage from the marines' cameras.

CHARACTERS!

CHARACTERS!