Ghost Stuff

THE PRESENCE-2010-A woman writer, the victim of incest (Mira Sorvino, also one of the producers) spends time in a isolated cabin. She is observed (SIXTH SENSE like) by a ghost (perhaps her father played by Shane West from the cable TV show WEEDS). Nothing really happens until "The Man" arrives. This seems to be her boyfriend and he asks her to marry him. She accepts and then begins to display unusual erratic behavior. Meanwhile another ghost, the man in black (Tony Curran) advises the ghost on how to possess the woman. After the man in black fails to kill (?) the woman an African American ghost shows up and takes the ghost away.  This pretentious "art film" seems to have been made by a guy just out of film school who saw too many Ingmar Bergman films.  Movies like this don't surprise me though. It's typical of many actresses like Sorvino who wins an Academy Award early in her career then struggles to find  more mainstream roles and winds up co-producing vehicles like this for herself. Director Tom Provost edited episodes of TV's THE BACHELORETTE.

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It Might Bug You

MIMIC-(1997)-Some people like insects. Love 'em or hate 'em Guillermo del Toro's MIMIC at the very least will make your skin crawl.

A entomologist (Oscar winner Mira Sorvino) accidently creates a mutant type cockroach that likes to eat humans. It's pretty routine until the fairly exciting climax in an old subway terminal where blood, guts and gore fly. Charles Dutton is on hand as a cop who says "fuck" a lot. Jeremy Northam (who was in ARMISTAD the same year) is Sorvino's boyfriend- doctor who whispers most of his lines. Giancarlo Gianini hangs around too. You could do worst....

Del Toro's next effort was the excellent THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE and then BLADE 2.

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