Running Scared

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Watched With: Dominic, Zoe

I love love love this film. It's just insane and so incredibly dark. Like Freeway, it's a modern kind of fairy tail, completely gritty and seedy and gratuitous. The kids in this one go through some serious hell.

I think a lot of people wrote this off as some stupid Paul Walker action movie. I have no strong feeling about him either way, but it is definitely not a stupid action movie. Well it's pretty ridiculous and outrageous at times but I wouldn't call it stupid. A drug deal gone wrong, corrupt cops, child abuse, mob violence, prostitutes and pimps and scariest and most horrifying of all, the pedophiles. Those scenes alone are worth watching for. Elizabeth Mitchell from Lost and V is utterly terrifying. She and the amazing Vera Farmiga going head to head is the greatest thing ever. I wish there was more of that.

I really can't stress that enough. It's one of the sickest, depraved and deliriously gleeful scenes I've seen in a film in a long time. This film relishes this whole dark seedy world and this is the worst of it. It's incredible. And at the centre of it all are these poor kids and Paul Walker trying to get his gun back.

This film flies by at an incredible place. There's a lot of crazy digital camera trickery, flash edits, time reverses and cool transitions. The big finale takes place in black light on an ice rink. John Noble shows up as a Russian mob boss. He's neat. It looks awesome, and the rest of the film is very grimy and oppressive. You'll want a shower after watching this but It's very rewarding.

And the Animated end credits are great and really sell the whole dark fairytale thing. Check this one out!