b-somers-1
Joined Jan 2007
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It may appear that I was lording it over all commentators, that it was I and not they who was brilliant enough to write this or any script. NO!!! And a thousand times NO!!! My lording it is ONLY over those who hysterically criticised the film and not those who saw good things in it. And please ..... have a little sense ..... a first time screenwriter is not at all powerful enough to force a bad screenplay on the financiers/producers etc. They made me write about ten scripts until I got what they thought was right. Crimetime was meant to be a funny/clever/ nasty little slasher movie and I think the producers and financiers were afraid of that - the video nasty scare was still in the air and they hadn't the guts to understand what the public wants. I'm afraid the acting with the exception of Pete and that wonderful actress playing the waitress(I'm serious!) wasn't what I wanted at all. Bobby was meant to be an utterly normal nice guy not the brooding presence that Baldwin was from word go. Finally read the Sight And Sound review (1996) for a less hysterical view that my detractors (one even criticised me for only having written German TV films!!!!).
I loved this movie but was deeply disturbed by it. The acting is brilliant and the writing quite unnerving. If you have any interest in the horror genre this is a MUST SEE film!! The direction is interesting but not intrusive and at times quite riveting. This is the story of a murderess who is released after thirty years - we never know what her crime was but are convinced it was absolutely awful - the film begins with the killer's mother finding a severed finger in a jam jar which usually holds pencils! The main thrust of the story is a journey the killer takes through a park in her home town. During this walk she encounters young muggers a as well as a cross section of the disenfranchised. At the same time we see the daughter of one of the victims journeying on a train with a hammer in her handbag towards the town where the killer now lives. Inevitably they meet but the meeting is far from the intentions of the would be killer. The monster finally triumphs but in a way no -one suspects. A subtle cold nerve twisting study of evil and society paranoia.