What spot would that be?
The spot where it happened.
Where what happened?
The anchoring event: the Bad Thing around which the rest of the events in the film will arrange themselves like garnish around a main course.
Sometimes there is more than one such event – as is the case at the Overlook Hotel, where Mr. Halloran explains to Danny that “a lot of things happened right here… and not all of them was good.”
Weird. Funny. Strange. As in a radio station going off the air all of a sudden. As in Tippi Hedren pointing out to Suzanne Pleshette that the gull that crashed into her house in The Birds couldn’t have lost its way in the dark, because there’s a full moon out. Or as in the guy throwing the stick for Pippet the dog in Jaws suddenly… not being able to find him anymore. That’s funny. Pippet was a big dog. Where could he have gone?
When characters in horror (or science fiction) films run into something weird, the first thing they try to do is pretend that it’s not there. How COULD it be there, after all, when it doesn’t fit into their model of what the world is?
The film is supremely creepy and the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm in the role he was obviously born to play) has gone on to rightfully earn his place amongst the genre's most iconic villains.
Whisperer chronicles the correspondence between two strangers who begin comparing notes about mysterious occurrences in the New England woods.
This week, two newcomers take over the horror rankings, including a movie that won't even see the light of day until next year.
