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JBurroughs	Aug 31 2007, 09:38:33 PM
ALYSSA! I've become a Subordinate! Posts: 404 Group: Newspaper Reporter Member #28 Joined: 12/17/06 Gender: Female ♀	Five points I find essential: 1. No occurrences whatsoever of Expendable Meat wandering aimlessly around a house/forest, pausing at various shadowy "hot spots" to "build suspense," all the while yelling, "Stop it, [Insert Character Here]. this isn't funny!" In fact, all cliches (ie, foolish kids picking a blatantly dangerous/secluded place to perform an evil ritual "for fun", characters in danger inexplicably split up, BADF) should be avoided. They can do better than that. 2. Don't pansy out on the gore. If the game can get away with showing chopped-up little kid ghosts dancing a circle around a wounded police officer, so can the movie. On the other hand, it shouldn't be tasteless just for the sake of being tasteless. May's and the Rand Family's brutal deaths had a reason beyond "Pbbbth! Eat that, Lieberman!" On top of showing that Entities must cause pain, not just death, in order to "feed" properly on their victims' spirits, they showed that Alyssa was up against villains who didn't even have mercy on the blind or very young. They made her danger look real. 3. The chase scenes must be excellent. It's Clock Tower. It's about chase scenes. 4. No tongue-in-cheek humor. I know there's a mentality going around Hollywood that an adaption (especially a video game adaption) can't be a "serious" film, but that doesn't give filmmakers an excuse to make this "Naked Gun 4:4: Super Serial Norweigan Bloodbath." 5. It has to be scary, and it has to be genuinely scary. That means it can't lean solely on jump scares and gross outs (though, as this is Clock Tower, the occasional rotting critter bursting out of its preservation jar is perfectly welcome) . The most horrifying things in Clock Tower come from the characters, whether it's ten-year-old Dan's total lack of innocence or the willingness of a seemingly-loving grandparent to murder his own granddaughter to save himself. Five points I'd really love, but could still enjoy the movie without: 1. Giallo-style attention to color and composition. 2. Duology continuity. I don't necessarily mean an adaption, though that would be spectacular; I'd be just fine with a film that continued the plot of CT/2. 3. Jennifer Connolly. If she can't play the Jennifer she inspired, at least give her a cameo appearance as a Granite tutor or something (so we'll be able to find other CT fans in the theater when they give her a standing ovation ;)). 4. A strong, creepy soundtrack. 5. Nods to the game (perhaps a dead body trussed up in the shower, or a scene where the heroine hurls a violin at her attacker).


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