For those of you wondering when I was actually going to review something here it is:
HARPER’S ISLAND
is a thirteen week long slasher movie with soap opera plots. It has all the yummy goodness of a horror flick with the creamy center of a soap opera. The island has a murderous history which is exactly why former locals, Henry Dunn and Trish Wellington, want to have their wedding there, to bring good karma back to the island. Little do they know that most of their guest won’t make it to the nuptials, if they do themselves. In the first episode we lose two guests one of which never even made it to the island. The deaths are surprisingly gorey. I was not expecting that.
From Nightmare on Elm Street to Friday the 13th to Scream we’ve always been allowed to see who our terrorizer was, whether he came from Hell or a sociopath in a Ghostface mask. But what makes this scary is the fact that we haven’t seen out killer yet. The blockbusters should take that into account, not knowing who’s chasing us is way scarier than finding out who is.
Harper’s Island has also given us all of our favorite slasher characters: the damaged heroin, her love interest, the pretty girl, the bitchy blonde, the a**hole older guy, the extremely creepy little kid and of course the token black guy. And over the next 13 weeks one or more of them and several others will be viciously butchered. I can’t wait.
Harper’s Island is on CBS Thursday nights at 9c/10, and CBS.com.
Enjoy. It’ll be a scream.
HARPER’S ISLAND
is a thirteen week long slasher movie with soap opera plots. It has all the yummy goodness of a horror flick with the creamy center of a soap opera. The island has a murderous history which is exactly why former locals, Henry Dunn and Trish Wellington, want to have their wedding there, to bring good karma back to the island. Little do they know that most of their guest won’t make it to the nuptials, if they do themselves. In the first episode we lose two guests one of which never even made it to the island. The deaths are surprisingly gorey. I was not expecting that.
From Nightmare on Elm Street to Friday the 13th to Scream we’ve always been allowed to see who our terrorizer was, whether he came from Hell or a sociopath in a Ghostface mask. But what makes this scary is the fact that we haven’t seen out killer yet. The blockbusters should take that into account, not knowing who’s chasing us is way scarier than finding out who is.
Harper’s Island has also given us all of our favorite slasher characters: the damaged heroin, her love interest, the pretty girl, the bitchy blonde, the a**hole older guy, the extremely creepy little kid and of course the token black guy. And over the next 13 weeks one or more of them and several others will be viciously butchered. I can’t wait.
Harper’s Island is on CBS Thursday nights at 9c/10, and CBS.com.
Enjoy. It’ll be a scream.
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