Thursday, September 26, 2019
The Morgue ep 102
Welcome to Lakewood, we are no longer in the quaint town of Woodsboro. As much as anyone knows none of that ever happened nor does it matter to the story. 1.1 Million viewers signed on to see a new version of Scream. A whole new group of teens just waiting to be murdered is Emma, Audrey, Noah, Brooke, and Kieren. Emma is our stereotypical final girl. Audrey is our emo/goth girl. Brooke is the blonde cheerleader. Kieren is our brooding love interest for Emma. Noah our main man is the horror movie god. As much as this story changes the plot of Scream it really uses the structure of Wes Craven, who was still with us when the show was running. The first season is a great love letter to what Wes Craven gave us back in 1996. The show knows that slasher movies are not supposed to be in TV show format and instead of making a meta joke about it, they use it to their advantage. In a horror movie you spend an hour getting to know people and thirty to forty minutes to watch them die. Noah says in the show, "You can't make a slasher film into a TV show, think about it. Girl and her best friends arrive at the dance, the camp, the deserted town whatever. Killer takes them out one by one. Ninety minuets later the sun comes up and the survival girl is sitting in the back of the ambulance as she watches her friends bodies being wheeled passed. Slasher movies burn bright and fast TV likes to stretch things out." The show uses this to its advantage and stretches out the killings so you spend the 7 hours knowing the characters and 3 hours wondering what will be their fate and caring about what happens to them. Scream was always a who done it, so the tv show is able to stretch out and make you really wonder who did it. IT WILL LEAVE YOU DYING TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT. Thank you for your time and see you next week for a new episode of.... THE MORGUE
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You are one funny guy, Jacob. With all the work that you are putting into a simple TV show I may just need to watch it. I've seen all the Scream movies, and enjoyed them but you are going crazy about how much better the show is. Keep up the great work!
ReplyDeleteThank you Quest, Im very happy about how well THE MORGUE is being received.
DeleteI didn't read your last blog when it was published but decided to go and read it so that I can keep up on "The Morgue". Good points on both blogs that I've noticed. Movies tend to capitalize and carry the momentum from their first movie and rarely it works out. Also, the comment on this blog about the time a movie has, versus a TV show, to introduce characters and also have them killed. When explained this way, it seems almost as common sense to have a horror TV series instead of a movie. A connection to characters makes the plot more interesting and makes it really grasp the characters. You're giving some good thinking material and you've nearly convinced me to watch this show (if I ever go a night without homework in Hollowell's).
ReplyDeleteThank you Aidan, I too have much hollowell homework. It also blew my mind that many haven't thought to make more horror shows. Thanks for the great reception of THE MORGUE.
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