Horror is
hard. You want to scare the audience,
and you don’t want to go the torture porn/slasher route. Judging by the trailer, “Dark Skies”goes for
the haunted house/possession subgenre.
But don’t expect “Dark Skies” to
be the next Shining or Exorcist. I saw the following trailer in theaters yesterday:
You know
your horror movie is broken when the audience laughs at the previews as much as they did at the screening I attended. What starts out as a standard (if a bit cliché)
horror movie set up quickly takes a turn for the comic when Mrs. Barret (played
by Felicity star Keri Russel) finds her husband (played by 1992 daytime emmy
winner Josh Hamilton) standing unresponsive in the family’s backyard at
night. She approaches as J. K. Simmons’s voice-over warns them about strange behavior
and loss of control. She places her hand
on her husband’s shoulder, turns to face him and sees…
It only
gets sillier from there, as moments later we see Keri Russel banging her head
against a glass window with complete disinterest.
On the bright side, it will probably be funnier than A Haunted House.
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