NOT Scared!

I only had 4 hours sleep today - I woke up at about 5am - which is a real pity since I was desperately tired after the previous two nights. I also have a hangover from Friday night. I'd go get some hangover tablets but I'm too afraid to go into the kitchen by myself. Coming downstairs was SCARY enough. Not that I'm afraid or anything...

I watched this really weird movie at the cinema last night. I couldn't make much sense of it. It was scary (although it didn't scare ME!!!) and not-very-funny at the same time:

It was about this reporter who moved into a new town with her son Aidan (which is Nadia backwards!). They even bought a new sofa. They were trying to rebuild their lives after the events of the first film. Then she was told about a nearby homicide, where the guys face had apparently gone all weird. She figured it would be related to what had happened to her in the previous film, so she went along to investigate and she opened the bodybag. Sure enough, this guys' face was really colourless, and then he yawned. That was pretty scary!

So then she burnt a videotape (it makes sense if you know the backstory), but when she did that the ghost of this dead girl visited her home, where it took up lodgings inside her son. So Aidan was kinda weird the next day, and his mother soon realised what had happened. He had hypothermia, and her colleague Jamie Oliver was convinced that this was because of the poor nutritional content of his school meals. She decided to stay at Jamie's house, but then (and this is the part I don't understand) she was told to go to Las Vegas to make Press Releases for the FBI.

So now she's sparring with her vicious bodyguard on the one hand, and trying to save her demonically-possessed son on the other. Luckily she had an extremely camp stylist with her to ease the burden. Then she decides to disobey her employers and also single-handedly rescue Miss United States, who had been kidnapped.

So she takes her son to the hospital, and he sleeps some. When he sleeps is the only time that he's safe from the evil ghost. The mother begs him to tell her what to do to save him, and he does this by showing her a vision. He also makes a reference to his 'booty', which really puzzles her at first.

Then along comes this psychiatrist, who pretty much accuses her of violently abusing Dolly Parton (which did happen, but it was Dolly's fault for not cooperating with the FBI), and tells her that she can't be alone with her son.

So she heads off to this old house, which is about to be auctioned off, and finds the suitcase from the vision in the basement. She reads this scrapbook which tells her where the dead girl was born. So she visits the maternity unit, and meets with the nun who talks to her about that particular child, and how her mother tried to drown her in a fountain. She told her where to find the mother.

So she goes to this mental health institute, where she asks to see this woman. The guard tells her that she recieves visitors every few years, who always come for the same reason that she did. Anyhow, the woman is really frail and scary, and she is muttering all this rather cryptic stuff. The mother asks her why she tried to kill her baby and she replies, hauntingly,
"My baby liked the sluts!"

"He loved the sluts. He was addicted to the sluts. Couldn't keep his hands off them." And the mother couldn't believe her ears, and she asked her to elaborate. Turns out that this woman had a bit of a slur, and was referring to the slot machines. She urges her visitor to kill Aidan also, or else he'll end up riddled with debt.

By now, Aidan and his ghostly inhabitor have murdered the psychiatrist and escaped to Jamie Oliver's house, where they murder him. So when the mother gets back, she finds him all dead in the truck. And his face is all weird like the guy from earlier on, and lo-and-behold, he yawns too. I was very scared by that (even though we knew for ages beforehand that this was about to happen. It was literally the least shocking thing that ever happened in a Horror movie. Like anyone was really seeing his silouette through the window and thinking "I bet he's alive in there, and he's just drinking some coffee!" He didn't even come to life and try to grab her like the other one did. It was about as shocking aa discovering that the woman who LOOKED like Dolly Parton, really was Dolly Parton)!

She's pretty offended by the yawn, of course. So she asks him, "Is it the sex? If it's the sex then I can get a manual." But he doesn't awnser, so she decides to go to a drag club

After that ordeal, she comes home and sleeps, and her son tells her, in this really transcient dream, to take him to the bathtub and drown the evil spirit away. So she did. She could have saved time if she'd drowned him in the sinking pirate ship, because that's where she had to go to save the Beauty queen, but she apparently knew better than that.

Then she was fired anyway, and her boss went crazy. She wasn't allowed to say goodbye to her friends, but as she was leaving, they started singing and throwing paper aeroplanes out of the window which all had goodbye messages written on them. One boy wanted to go with her (because it was a Saturday), but she said 'No'. Except by now they were speaking in French. Then she said 'Yes' - but still in French.

Overall, I give the movie 9/17, but only because it had William Shatner in it.