This is one I saw against my better judgment and the person who dragged me to the screening apologized profusely. It has all the gruesome elements of a horror film (NOT something I want to see) but unfortunately done realistically, due to new, improved special effects in film. There will be:
- Soft lighting, mostly candles, which is to say, everything is dim and vague.
- A gray/black/tan monochromatic production design.
- NOTHING in color but the blood!
- "Don't go in the basement! ...or the woods! ...or the crypt!"
- Lots of dimly lit scenes of horrific bloodletting: Beheadings, dismemberments, disembowelments, ...you know... a horror film!
- Startling sound effects: Each swipe of the werewolf's paw is accompanied by a blast that sounds like a shotgun.
- Windswept moors, sooty rooftops, mossy forests and musty old mansions.
- A really brutal mental asylum.
- Benicio Del Toro ("Che") is our anti-hero
- Emily Blunt ("Young Victoria") is his sister-in-law
- Anthony Hopkins ("Fracture") is his father
- Hugo Weaving (the "Matrix" franchise) represents Scotland Yard
- Geraldine Chaplin ("Cousin Bette") is a gypsy healer.
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