kamyk on 4/7/2009 at 11:06
Quote Posted by saatana
I fail to see a major connection between the movie and and cradle... :confused:
The cradle wasn't even an asulym.
o.O
So the crazy patients who became puppets were just vacationing there?
jtr7 on 4/7/2009 at 11:38
Saatana, it WAS an asylum. It started as an orphanage, but the White Hall half was converted into an ASYLUM, and the orphans and patients were allowed to mingle too much, instead of not at all.
saatana on 4/7/2009 at 11:50
I guess my argument falls straight over there since I remembered cradle only as a former orphanage. But! still it's not like the subject (haunted/scary asulym) hasn't been used enough for it to become a cliche.
jtr7 on 4/7/2009 at 12:05
Some things are always going to be scary, and used repeatedly.:)
Beleg Cúthalion on 4/7/2009 at 12:28
Humans, as I said. :p People are always scary.
SubJeff on 4/7/2009 at 16:29
Visually interesting but hey guess what Leo is the 67th patient and only thinks he works for the fbi oh dear did I spoil it come on guys get original.
Herr_Garrett on 4/7/2009 at 16:31
Quote Posted by Subjective Effect
Visually interesting but hey guess what Leo is the 67th patient and only thinks he works for the fbi oh dear did I spoil it come on guys get original.
Precisely what I thought.:thumb:
Dante on 4/7/2009 at 21:08
Also what I thought, but I'm hoping against Hollywood hope that the damn director has dared put a spin on it. Either way, I'll probably see it and at least enjoy it for the visual spectacle.
*Zaccheus* on 5/7/2009 at 10:07
Needs more orphans. :joke:
OldMeat on 6/7/2009 at 21:54
I do not really see too many resemblances to the Shalebridge Cradle other than a spiral staircase, a catwalk, a few environments that look similar, and that there was some kind of fire.
Until recently, mental institutions and bedlams of the past were extremely brutal places, radical treatments, like ice dunking, lobotomies, localized body part isolations with tortorous devices, etc. just to name a few; quite often with doctors and staff being as insane as many of the inmates or patients and often sadistically worse. These forms of barbarity still take place today in many parts of the world. These methods probably do nothing to help a human being at all.
The 67th patient? The one looking for the 67th being the 67th because he is only counting 66 total not including himself?
I could be wrong but it looks a little like a slight altered re-hash of the German impressionist silent film 'The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari'.
It might be pretty good if they could pull off a surprise like that done in the movie 'Quills'. I was always a bit fascinated with the ending of that film. Of course, if one considers this to be a cop-out, I can not think of what will please them for this type of movie.
I might not be the best judge of movies, but I thought 'Session 9' was a fair telling of a possesion story with a great audio tape sequence ending; for me, this aspect of it made the movie more powerful as well as the atmosphere of a general creepiness that the building's past gave; it was the building and the building's past that was the real performer in this movie. It got some pretty bad reviews, but I am not sure what the critics looking for in this movie.
