Logging

Film:  Stoker

Dull is the first word that comes to mind.  Nihilism the second.  Phoniness the third.  I saw this film because I'm a huge fan of Shadow of a Doubt, but the film only seems to pay passing homage to it in the most generic ways - naming a character after the Joseph Cotton character and using the strange relative comes to stay with the family idea.  But beyond that, nothing.  Which is strange, right?  Why market yourself as a reimagination of a film and then fail to deliver?  It wouldn't surprise me in the filmmakers weren't even fans of the original.  The movie was off from the beginning.  The filmmakers were most interested in the erotic pleasure of murder, which in my limited and privileged life experience, isn't all that relatable.