Stoker Movie Review

Posted by Charmaine Blake on Feb 28th, 2013 in Horror, Mystery, New Releases, Suspense, Thriller | 0 comments

Stoker Movie Review

Stoker starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman and Matthew Goode is a psychological thriller directed by Chan-wook Park. There has been a lot of buzz with regards to this new horror film and the story that it will share to audiences. A lot of speculations have been coming out to whether this new film is about vampires or ghosts or simply a disturbing story between a family. There is no need for more speculation because Park’s Stoker definitely made its mark to critics and audiences as it gained 70% fresh ratings from Rotten Tomatoes and 63 out of 100 from Metacritic. Check out the latest movie review for this new film below:

“Stoker: A Chilling Creation From Chan-wook Park

Stoker: Sundance Review

The Bottom Line
Park offers one of the most artful chillers in ages.

Venue
Sundance Film Festival (Premieres) (Fox Searchlight)

Director
Park Chan-wook

With Spike Lee’s remake of his “Oldboy” coming this fall, Park Chan-wook makes his long-awaited English-language debut.

PARK CITY — Park Chan-wook leaves the expected streaks of blood across American screens inStoker, his English-language debut about a young woman whose coming of age takes place among the corpses of family members and neighbors. Fans who have followed the Korean auteur since 2003′sOldboy will not be disappointed, but a high creep-out factor and top-drawer cast also should attract genre fans who’ve never heard of him.

Mia Wasikowska plays India, an unusually serious girl whose father dies on her 18th birthday. At the wake she meets an uncle she never knew about, Charlie (Matthew Goode), just returned from unspecified work in Europe. She spends the day dodging his unsettling stare while noting an unsavory familiarity between Charlie and her normally distant mother, Evie (Nicole Kidman).

That unseemliness does not go unnoticed when Charlie decides to stay awhile — just the three of them (the longtime housekeeper having left abruptly) in a large house isolated from town by acres of woods. A rarely seen aunt (Jacki Weaver) comes for dinner, hoping to tactfully get Charlie out; she isn’t heard from again.

Park’s restless but exacting camera adds to the tension between these three characters, all of whom are so stiffly guarded with each other — clearly hiding some things but suspiciously open about others — that we spend the first half of the film waiting for something to crack, like the hard-boiled eggshell India slowly demolishes on the kitchen table. Sound cues like that eggshell are often exaggerated here, and much is made of parallel physical actions: the opening of a piano lid, say, whose keyboard son will witness a disturbingly erotic duet, with that of a deep freeze that holds more than ice cream.

As a connection forms between India and Charlie — a sexually skewed mirror, maybe, of the deep bond she had with her father — Park’s unsettling visuals and his handling of the cast make the occasional holes in Wentworth Miller’s script practically irrelevant. It’s hard to guess whether India is a heroine about to slay a dragon or a beast being born. In the world of Stoker, that seems like a perfect definition of adolescence.”

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Charmaine Blake loves movies, musical theater listening to music and taking pictures of anything that she finds interesting. She is a voracious reader and writer, and enjoys her time writing for New Movie Launches. Charmaine loves spending time with her pets and currently has a Siberian Husky, a toy poodle and a cat.