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this movie far excels over typical horror movies, as it a.) making at least some attempts to bring depth and reason to a monster killing people...morty scares people until they can face their fears, based on pseudo-psychological reasons; and b.) morty is pretty scary. both of those can't be said about some guy in a hockey mask.
because the human characters are so damn annoying, morty is truly the star of the show. the makeup is great (it lost the 1995 academy award to ed wood. why, i have no idea) and really is scary-looking...i was scared of statues and dolls when i was a kid, so morty struck a cord in me...when they were telling morty their fears, i was saying "im scared of YOU, morty!" it took me a couple minutes to realize morty was a human in makeup and not a real statue.
the diametric/matricide thing completely blindsided me. it made sense and was less predicable than "redrum/murder" from the shining.
yeah, there's plenty of things wrong with this movie, most of which was fully and long-windedly explained already, but no one noticed (or mentioned) the terrible soundtrack errors, especially with the guy with the dreadlocks. the last word of every other sentence he says is accidentally looped and repeated..."I can't believe you're really my mother, my mother!"
nonetheless it's top-rate. i just wish there was more morty. viva morty! cheers to the wooden soccer-ball retriever!
score 10/10
vlad1917 27 September 1999
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