12/27/2023 0 Comments Darkness falls toothfairy![]() That wears out its welcome within the first scene. Instead, a lot of the scares of the film rely heavily on the generic audio mix of eerie old woman moans, piercing animal screeches, and slobbery monster roars. ![]() These scenes fail thanks to the fleeting cover-up maneuvers and the inevitable lack of visibility from a film that-by necessity of the script's plot-has to mostly take place in pitch blackness. The car attack that sees poor Larry carried off like a field mouse by the world's largest screech owl could have had a great surreal, inhuman quality to it, but nope. Kyle watching in horror as the Tooth Fairy zooms around a darkened police station bullpen, tossing deputies to and fro and screeching like a wild beast could have been a real dolly-zooming, off-the-rails sequence. There are scenes that, on paper, could totally work if the creature was as creative and inherently terrifying as the plot purports it to be. But if literally every appearance of your creature has to have a cheat to make it work.perhaps your creature design is a bit crap, yes? Ever watch that deleted scene where the xenomorph crab-walks, and you can actually see how rudimentary the suit was and how plainly the creature is being played by a wiry dude with a lot of foam rubber? Yeah, so I get it. When Ridley Scott made Alien, similar problems existed. I sympathize with Director Jonathan Liebesman and DP Dan Laustsen. When that fails to inspire any fear, the editing team went to work, making her every appearance a series of swooping pans and jump-cuts, along with a strobe light effect so we can't get too clear a view. Later on, in her final incarnation, she's essentially a gooey Freddy Kruger witch, and that is evidently the design that necessitated the Stan Winston workshop. The design of the Mathilda/Tooth Fairy creature is very flat and uninspired, a porcelain mask and hood that could stand in for just about anything. It's a shabby work of setup and payoff, especially in a movie where the plot proper practically takes place in real-time, covering only a few hours of events with no time for rising action at all. Every supporting character is introduced just in time to be summarily carried off or mauled to death in the very next scene, too. Thanks, movie! I think I'm following your labyrinthine saga. Next scene, said girl sneaks into his room and.he asks her to the dance.Though twelve years and a lifetime of trauma and unspoken regret passes, our two leads have their first adult conversation over the phone and still feel it necessary to talk about that G-D dance that they never attended from seventh grade. Protagonist Kyle's first scene with dialogue features his mother asking about his plans to ask a girl to the school dance. Every scene has to call back to the scene immediately before it, as if the plot would float away if we weren't reminded directly of a line of dialogue from two minutes ago. This is also a real goldfish-brain movie. Almost like this was two different horror movies grafted onto each other. Teeth don't play a large part in anything, the secret to killing the beast is not divined from her wrathful search for teeth or revenge, and she is never referred to as the Tooth Fairy again. It's really weird, especially since most of the Tooth Fairy narrative is abandoned completely after the monster's initial motive is established. Pacing issues aren't present because of ineptitude, they are present to cover the lack of a feature-length plot. Did we need both the stock footage history lesson prologue and the cold open prologue with the first scare? And did that cold open need to last over ten minutes? At that point, your prologue is close to eating up a third of the entire movie! Reasoning for this becomes clear when you reach the hour mark, the plot is finally in full swing, and you realize you're already at the big final conflict with the monster and there's only fifteen minutes left. This movie is seventy-five minutes long, with ten minutes of end credits. The actual plot of the movie is delayed by almost twenty minutes, when the entire film is only eighty-five minutes long. This horror monster's origin is all at once a dark re-imagining of the Tooth Fairy lore, a stock New England witch origin left over from a discarded Blair Witch Project sequel, and also a small-town horror version of Pitch Black's literal light vs. This might be the most 2003 movie I've ever seen, right down to the nu-metal. Middle school boys are a really tough sell on any horror movie that fails to appeal to their more basic fixations, but even going by adjusted standards the universal consensus was "don't watch, it's a waste of your time." I don't often say this, but the two morons who sat behind me in geometry were totally correct. I remember very distinctly how much derision flew at this film when it first released.
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