![]() ![]() Still, the special effects steal the show and are wonderful. One never feels like the two leads are in any danger and that drag it down. It just needed something more exciting and urgent in it's middle section to keep the audience interesting. This is not to say that The Prowler is a bad movie. ![]() ![]() But then she's saved and the rest of the film is spent with her and a policeman doing Scooby Doo-esque detective work in old houses with flashlights with brief interludes of death scenes during a graduation party. By the time its first act has wrapped up, it seems as if already a half-dozen people have been offed and our Final Girl to be has already had a fairly exciting chase sequence. The Presbyterian committee wants to change that phrase to the love of God was. The Prowler might be so wonderful in its first act, because it starts off like most slasher flicks end. According to a story in The Tennessean, a committee of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has dropped the popular hymn In Christ Alone from their hymnal because the publisher refuses to allow them to change the lyrics.The original lyrics say, on that cross, as Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied. The atmosphere is there, the characters aren't that bad, the killer is imposing, the kills are brutal and nasty.but then.(sigh) things just fall apart and don't get semi-exciting again until the last 10 minutes. I'll get this off my chest - the first 30 minutes of The Prowler are basically slasher heaven. ![]()
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