The Reeker

Yesterday I watched a movie called 'The Reeker' I didn't watch all of it. I actually only caught the last 40 minutes of it or so. And if you are interested in watching this movie and do not want to know the ending, I'm telling you to stop reading now cause I'm going to get into detail. I will recommend you watch it though, not because of it's [enter sarcasm] great acting, beautiful cinematography, wonderful writing [end sarcasm] but for the Twist at the end. So now... if you wish to watch this movie... stop reading as I am going to go on about it.




Anyhow... These people get stuck at a hotel/rv camp for some reason, like I said I missed the first part of the movie. This strange thing that has a certain oder begins to pick them off one by one. Some guy says that the smell is the smell of death. They eventually met up with a friend who was missing the arm. This is literally how the conversation went:
"Hey what's up?"
"Not a whole lot."
"Are you okay?"
"I'm missing my arm."
"Are you kidding man?"
"I wish I was."

I was speaking for the guy during this though.
"Hey what's up?"
"Oh you know... nothing. I'm just missing my arm."
"Are you okay?"
"Uh... no. I'm missing my arm. Do you see the blood seeping down from my shirt sleeve?"
"Are you kidding man?"
"Yeah. yeah I am. sorry. Jokes on you!"

I mean seriously... this acting and everything was just horrible.
The main girl kept seeing this strange guy covered in blood trying to help her, but she couldn't hear him all the well and he kept disappearing. Eventually only two were left and they drove a jeep with the bad guy in front of them into a motorhome. Suddenly it shows the guy that was trying to help the girl out giving her CPR as she's unconscious on the ground. There's ambulances and cop cars all around. Apparently their jeep was hit by a motorhome and the whole movie was them fighting death. That's what goes on within those seconds before you die... a whole hour off trying to escape death. If you escape him, you live. Truly an amazing thought. I wish they would have had better writing and better acting, and better cinematography to make this story work up to the potential it could have. It just reminds me of the same mentality I have.

Many peopleoften would deam this movie an epic failure, but truly it wasn't. From the outside it was, but you have to look on the inside of movies. Just like you and I, movies have a different personality on the inside than what they show. And they need to be taken into account for as well.