Send Help And Morally Gray Vs Evil
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Send Help and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this Survival Horror Movie, you might wish to skip this post.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I watched Send Help. It had some entertaining moments but we had to force ourselves to finish it, hoping it would improve.
The biggest issue, for us, was…
The two main (often sole) characters were absolutely terrible people.
At first, they were morally gray. Yes, people died. But the people weren’t nice and the main characters had reason to…well…not kill them but not help them survive.
That held our attention.
We cared if the main characters lived or died.
Then first one, and then the other character did things that were downright evil.
(They intentionally killed or attempted to kill innocent people.)
Once this happened, we no longer cared if they lived or died. We weren’t cheering for anyone. The movie was over for us at that point.
There’s a difference between morally gray and evil. Don’t unintentionally cross that line.
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Abigail And Cheering For The Vampire
Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about the movie Abigail and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this delightful vampire horror movie, you might wish to skip this post.
I am NOT a horror fan. I get a little too scared for my enjoyment. But I AM a vampire fan so, with the Dear Wonderful Hubby to protect me, I summoned my courage and watched Abigail.
We both really enjoyed it.
Yes, it had a lot of jump scares. And there was quite a bit of gore.
But I was more intrigued about the mystery involved in this movie and enthralled by the child vampire to be terrified out of my mind.
I was cheering for this child vampire.
She was originally framed as the baddie but EVERYONE involved were baddies.
There were no innocents or truly good characters in the bunch. Heck, they kidnapped a CHILD. That’s how terrible these people were.
And that Abigail was a child meant we naturally wanted to protect her.
She was also the victim of a crime (kidnapping).
And she was alone.
All of this created a baddie I could cheer for.
Which REALLY worked for the plot. And with the happy-for-a-horror-movie ending.
Abigail is a master class in creating a sympathetic villain.
And it is dang good vampire movie.
(smiles)
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