Alright, so I'm still watching

( My prediction as to how Girl Number 9 will end... )

It's all a bit derivative, isn't it? I've mentioned SAW before, and the thing is, I really dislike the SAW series as well. Ever since the FUCKING FANTASTIC Cube, there's been a tendency in horror towards these long-distance missing-antagonist Rube Goldberg murders, and while Cube dealt with that brilliantly (seriously, if you've never seen Cube, I recommend it highly, yes, there's killings, but they're not really bloody and they're not really what the film's about, it's about paranoia and claustrophobia and it's brilliant on very many levels), everything thereafter has been a bit Doctor Evil, with that tendency towards [Doctor Evil voice]"Yes, I'm just going to put you in a glass box, fill it slowly with water, retreat to a safe distance to watch you drown on camera and assume everything goes according to plan. What?"[/Doctor Evil voice] I'm not really a huge fan of that inexplicable intricacy. I kind of prefer people just getting eaten by zombies or something. Though, to be fair, the Final Destination series has taken the Rube Goldberg Murder to hilarious extremes at times and can still ellicit a stifled giggle even from me. Fuck, they must be a breeze to write... oil drum falls over, oil comes out, wooden support slides thataway, knocks plug from plug socket, fridge goes off, water starts running out, something shorts out, door opens, knocks other support, cans roll, things fall, strategically placed REALLY HEAVY WEIGHT falls on yer head. Lol. But no, on the whole, I'm not a huge fan, and I think the thing with Girl Number 9 is mainly that when you actually INTRODUCE us to the antagonist in question, the one with the predilection for complicated killings, the whole thing kind of falls apart and I, personally, turn into Scott Evil and go "You've just going to leave them?!? I've got a gun in my room, Bang! Done."

You just don't get it, do you Scott?

(ETA: Also, that I KILL YOU WITH THE INTERNETS thing, it's the naughties version of all fifties horror films essentially being about the Cold War or nuclear radiation. It's a bit fucking old. Srsly.)

WAS THAT IT?

Fuck me, Moran, that was it? I GOT FUCKING ANONYMOUS FANS OF YOURS COMING ON TO THIS JOURNAL TELLING ME THERE WAS GOING TO BE A FUCKING TWIST. WHERE WAS THAT, THEN?

Sorry, did I miss something? That was unmitigated shit. And just like Children of Earth, it wasn't shit-because-I-don't-appreciate-srs-drama, it was shit because it reached a dramatic peak about 3/4 of the way in and then fizzled out into absolute bollocks. It's like you build something seemingly quite elaborate up and then suddenly you get bored and just kind of kick it for a bit until your mum tells you to clean the mess you made the fuck up.

I expected the ending to be unsatisfying and predictable, but even I, cynical as I am, did not expect it to be this bad. Well done. You've exceeded my expectations.

As I said in the comments earlier, how Moran thinks a prequel could ever be made into a series GIVEN THE FACT THAT WE KNOW IT ENDS WITH A GIRL WITH TWO FUCKING DEAD PARENTS, is absolutely beyond me. You talk shit, Moran, you really do.