Look how Stevenson composes the shots, even just the landscapesto make something strange and disturbing out of it, how he arranges objects in the shots to suggest something else, how he puts makeup on and dresses people, but also just how he works medieval paintings and iconography to put the image of the demon, well before the jokes debase him. Even at a certain point, in one of the protagonist’s many hallucinations, comes very close to showing an uncensored birth, with great skill he blurs the image, draws attention to the fantasy part, misleads with horror but in fact shows almost everything. It is not common in this type of film, which must not have authorial flourishes but go straight to the satisfaction of the widest possible audience. These are usually fearful films, which want to follow orders and seem the same as a thousand others.
Omen – The origin of the omen Instead he wants to do something crazy, within the constraints of a film for a major studio, and above all he knows how to do it. Touch moments from Dario Argentotouches on the association between politics and fantasy of Guillermo Del Torohas a very 80s horror material imagery but then use solutions from Rosemary’s Baby when he needs to, he even quotes little-known horror films only with images. In short, this It’s a film that’s impossible not to loveeven if his plot is cheap, because he gets agitated and doesn’t want to follow the rules, because he dreams of being much more than he is and proves that he has all the means to do so.
