A group of young people hang out together during a lazy, drunken weekend in the Hamptons. The house is haunted : one of the guests, called Ruth, meets an actual ghost. The couple spend the night together. Soon after Ruth begins to feel, well, weird...
It is hard, here, not to think about the poem "The Sick Rose" by William Blake. But the ghost does not seem to be malignant, or all that malignant ; it is the specter of a young man who met with some cruel fate (murder ?) and has been wandering the earth ever since, dazed and confused. He does not know where he came from, how long he is going to "remain", nor where he's going to move to afterwards : he tries to console himself with a self-made theory about the perpetual cycle of life. Talk about a bleak afterlife.
"Lace Crater" (don't ask me about the title, please) can be read as an allegory on a sexually transmitted disease. But there are other themes too, such as the fragility and impermanence of friendship, especially in the young. Many of us will have been part of strong friendship groups, somewhere in our late teens or early twenties. At the time, it seems as though these relationships are going to last forever, but people move, people marry, people drift apart...
I rather enjoyed "Lace Crater". It provided a new spin on an old (a very old) tale and it had touches of dark wit and originality. It also had a very relatable female protagonist.
If you like a good horror movie, watch this one instead of a made-by-committee blockbuster.
It is hard, here, not to think about the poem "The Sick Rose" by William Blake. But the ghost does not seem to be malignant, or all that malignant ; it is the specter of a young man who met with some cruel fate (murder ?) and has been wandering the earth ever since, dazed and confused. He does not know where he came from, how long he is going to "remain", nor where he's going to move to afterwards : he tries to console himself with a self-made theory about the perpetual cycle of life. Talk about a bleak afterlife.
"Lace Crater" (don't ask me about the title, please) can be read as an allegory on a sexually transmitted disease. But there are other themes too, such as the fragility and impermanence of friendship, especially in the young. Many of us will have been part of strong friendship groups, somewhere in our late teens or early twenties. At the time, it seems as though these relationships are going to last forever, but people move, people marry, people drift apart...
I rather enjoyed "Lace Crater". It provided a new spin on an old (a very old) tale and it had touches of dark wit and originality. It also had a very relatable female protagonist.
If you like a good horror movie, watch this one instead of a made-by-committee blockbuster.