I mean there are more scenes of the heroine bashing the serial killer rather than the other way round, which kinda loses the sadistic element of his personality which the director clearly wanted to evoke and makes me kinda feel bad for him losing all the time. Anyone else agree?
shareNo, that was the whole point. The director wanted you to realize that ANYONE can be a sadistic killer. He's a normal human, that shouldn't take out the sadistic feel for you. All serial killers are human and therefore they can die, that doesn't make them any less crazed or psychopathic. This guy just happened to pick a victim that was too smart.
shareThis guy just happened to pick a victim that was too smart.
Get a gun then.
shareOr I can just continue to take reasonable precautions and not spend every minute in the proximity of a loaded weapon. What if someone breaks into your house while you are in the shower? Or they are between you and the room where you keep the gun?
I think that the odds of me hurting myself with a gun are much higher than the odds that I'll actually have a chance to use one in self-defense. My point to the previous poster was that (1) just being firm with someone doesn't always stop them from being aggressive and (2) there are real people out there who target people they perceive as being weaker or vulnerable.
You are certainly correct that gun safety is important. Therefore, attend a gun safety and marksmanship course. I doubt it will be that expensive.
I learned it during Basic and it is not that difficult. Getting marksman is, simply being competent is not.
I know basic gun safety and operation. I lived for many years on a farm where we kept a rifle due to a (small) risk of animal attacks but more because our area was a rabies vector and putting down rabid raccoons was sometimes necessary.
I really have no interest in having a gun in my house. I think that the odds of me using it to defend myself are much lower than the odds that I (or someone else) would get hurt by accident. For me to feel safe with a gun in my house it would have to be unloaded and locked very securely (ie in a safe or something). I feel like I'd basically have to make the gun inaccessible.
I feel much better about the fact that I have a good alarm system, I have neighbors I can trust who know who should and should not be around my home, and I have "emergency exit" plans for pretty much any place in my house. I'm a flighter, not a fighter.
If you abide by gun safety rules, you are very unlikely to hurt yourself.
Unless you are referring to young children, I see no reason why a full grown adult companion cannot understand a simple instruction as not touching your personal property (guns).
The director wanted you to realize that ANYONE can be a sadistic killer. He's a normal human, that shouldn't take out the sadistic feel for you. All serial killers are human and therefore they can die, that doesn't make them any less crazed or psychopathic.
How do you know? Did the director tell you that?
shareNo, obviously he didn't tell me. But it's very obvious that's what he was going for. If you've watched enough crime shows, they do the same thing. They show how the killer can be anyone, and how they like to toy around with their victims before killing them. It's how the genre works. Famous examples would be the Scream movies. The killers COULD be anyone, and they DO toy around with their victims first. This movie is no different when it comes to that formula. The killer is just a normal looking, lanky middle aged guy. The kind of guy you'd see on the street and probably not pay much attention to, aside from the tattoo on his neck. He's just your "average joe", so to speak, and it's obvious that because of these traits, the director did this deliberately to show how not everyone is as they seem.
shareYep, and if this is done well in a movie it is very effective. Supernatural invincible villains are scary, but the idea that the events you see in a horror movie could be done in real life by any of the random acquaintances you have is much scarier.
This movie also evokes a sense of frustration that many horror movies don't. The fact that the main villain isnt infallible means that they can be defeated, but its frustrating and suspenseful when the heroine is just out of reach of being able to accomplish that. When Freddy Krueger or Jason Vorhees show up, its just a matter of them toying with the victim before killing them. When Hush guy shows up, its a more supsenseful ride to figure out what will end up happening.
To be honest, Scream did a better job of trying to demonstrate that anyone could be a serial killer. The killers in Scream had no time to waste and were capable of being sadistic enough to make me want to see them get killed by the protagonists. The killer in Hush looked like such a doofus and he's like an adult toddler who can't vent his emotions properly. The only part where I could be motivated to say "he's such a sick *beep*" was when he crushed Maddie's hand with his feet. Ouch.
shareThe killer in Hush looked like such a doofus and he's like an adult toddler who can't vent his emotions properly.
Well I'm a guy so maybe my perspective doesn't resonate with you that much and its maybe why the director decided to make the main victim a female instead of a male (well there was a scene where the killer stabbed the protagonist's friend's boyfriend but that wasn't emphasised too much).
I view him as another coward who wants to get the attention of everyone else by doing extreme messed up *beep* Honestly, if the movie had the killer live and go to prison, the other inmates would bash him to death and call him a sissy etc.
Is he the type of guy who makes you uncomfortable and "unclean" and provokes you to say "this guy needs to shower"? Of course. Is he a guy that'll give you total nightmares that'll forever creep in the darkness of your mind? Not so much. He's a coward loser who thinks he's the next Jack the Ripper. He only managed to kill a man only because Maddie distracted him.
I view him as another coward who wants to get the attention of everyone else by doing extreme messed up *beep*
Honestly, if the movie had the killer live and go to prison, the other inmates would bash him to death and call him a sissy etc.
Is he the type of guy who makes you uncomfortable and "unclean" and provokes you to say "this guy needs to shower"? Of course. Is he a guy that'll give you total nightmares that'll forever creep in the darkness of your mind? Not so much. He's a coward loser.
Get some self-defense lessons and the killer won't think you are a weaker individual. Cowardly men like deserve scorn rather than fear. By fearing them, you give them the satisifaction they desire to have-to make others fear them. In the end, you'll realise that they're nothing and this is shown in the ending of the movie.
shareGet some self-defense lessons and the killer won't think you are a weaker individual.
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I actually agree with you for this point.
In terms of reality, yea, he looked more realistic , limited capabilities like a normal human.
But in terms of being a movie, he was really weak, it even made me wonder through out most of the show if there is a twist, like the girl being the psycho instead etc............or anything special...but it didnt happen.
It was just a simple plot.