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You may have missed these fine details in The Skeleton Key (2005)
The plot twist in The Skeleton Key (2005) is a proper plot twist. It entirely changes your understanding of the plot up to that point. So you need to watch this movie at least twice to properly appreciate its story. Even then, you are going to miss some small details hidden in the plain sight.
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Who is the deadliest corpse: Jane Doe, Hannah Grace, or Gramma?
Instead of resting in peace, these three corpses have chosen violence. They have different motives, different powers, and different danger levels. There are survivors from one of them, one is 100% lethal, and the remaining one is debatable. Read the article and decide whether you agree with me or not.
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How a single word can change the meaning of a movie | The Skeleton Key (2005)
Don’t underestimate The Skeleton Key (2005). It looks like a typical horror movie, but it is not. It has a well written plot and a massive plot twist. Single watch-through is not enough to fully appreciate and untangle its plot because characters are not who you think they are.
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Witches in Stephen King’s “Gramma” and “The Skeleton Key” have similar motives
These are two stories where the evil is going to win at the end. They are about two creepy old witches who are praying on young innocent people to prolong their lifespans. One is Stephen King’s short story Gramma and the other one is a movie named The Skeleton Key.
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Mercy (2014) has failed Stephen King’s short story, “Gramma”
Gramma is not an easy story to adapt as a movie because most of it unfolds through a little child’s internal monologues. Instead of finding a clever way to translate the original story onto the screen, Mercy chose to cram new, unnecessary horror elements into the movie.
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It is not possible to escape her curse | The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Many characters in horror movies act like idiots and get killed because of their stupidity. But protagonists in the movie The Autopsy of Jane Doe act logically, and try their best to survive. But the way Jane Doe operates, make it impossible to break away from her hold.
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A new test to identify sentient robots | Vanishing Point No. 04
There are a few proposed thought experiments to test the intelligence of a machine, like the Turing Test and the Chinese Room Argument. Those test are old and outdated. Robot X610Z has to face the latest test which is the Gun Test.
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A promising aliens vs humans story with plot twists and dead ends.
I wish this 3rd issue of the Vanishing Point story is bit longer. “Cell Structure” story ends at an unexpected point leaving behind few unanswered questions. Story only captures a snippet from a greater story arc. A lot had happened before the starting point of the story and it is going to continue on…
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Capitalist dystopia vs socialist utopia
Art style in Vanishing Point second issue remind me of The Flintstones. I was ready to enjoy a story in similar vibe. A light hearted, comedic story about a family who lives in a sky home. Basically a Flintstones in the sky story. How wrong I was. This one is far from a lighthearted cartoon.
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Risks in future asteroid mining.
There are two ways to look at the story of the 1st issue of Vanishing Point comic book. First, it’s a story about an astronaut discovering a whole new lifeform out there in the space, or that said astronaut slowly losing his mind over time while working in extreme isolation.
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Heart Eyes Killer has a long way to go to become a slasher icon.
Heart Eyes (2025) movie creators are hoping that their creation, Heart Eyes Killer is going to be an iconic character in slasher subgenre. My two cents is that this one movie isn’t enough to lift HEK up to slasher icons like Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and Freddy Krueger.
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White Noise by Andrew Santino was a letdown.
During “Bad Friends” podcast both Bobby Lee and Andrew Santino are not afraid to push jokes into borderline offensive territory. But in White Noise comedy special I did not see that flame in Andrew Santino.
