JACK GOES HOME
"I always thought this house was haunted.”
"Really? Why?”
"I don’t know. Ever since we were kids, it just felt like there was some dark vagina just hovering over this place, waiting to swallow me up.”
"I don’t know. Ever since we were kids, it just felt like there was some dark vagina just hovering over this place, waiting to swallow me up.”
“Maybe it was just your
latent homosexuality talking, hmmm?”
“Shut up. I’m being
serious. I’ve always been scared here, dude.”
For
much of its initial section of running time, Thomas Dekker’s Jack Goes Home plays more like a dysfunctional
domestic drama than anything else, as the titular Jack Thurlow (Rory Culkin) receives
some tragic news that precipitates his--as the film’s title indicates--return
to his family home.
But,
since this is ¡Qué horror! territory,
it’s a safe bet that that’s not what
the film is ultimately about.
Or,
put another way, maybe it is a
dysfunctional domestic drama, but in a really terrible, horror movie way, as we
slowly witness Jack uncover some dark family secrets, while gradually questioning
his sanity…
Dekker
(who also wrote the screenplay, and is perhaps best known as the TV John
Connor) ropes in some noteworthy genre names here, including Daveigh Chase, Natasha
Lyonne (who appears in a brief, single scene), and Britt Robertson (who’d
worked with Dekker previously on the short-lived The Secret Circle).
But
the genre coup here is, without a doubt, Lin Shaye, who appears as Jack’s
mother, Teresa.
And,
oddly enough, while Dekker is also credited as one of the film’s producers, who
do we see credited as an Executive Producer but Uwe Boll (!).
Parting
Shot:
I
honestly did not recognize Daveigh Chase here, until the end credits rolled…
So,
yeah, Samantha Darko (Sparkle Motion, go!!!) and Samara, in the house!
And
speaking of, 15th anniversary of Donnie
Darko! Huzzah!
(Jack Goes Home OS courtesy of
bloody-disgusting.com.)
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