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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 378137" data-attributes="member: 8">HOWL (2015)[ATTACH=full]48926[/ATTACH]A squeaky-clean but somewhat hopeless and joyless young man (a &quot;Hugh Grant&quot; for the depressing 2020s) is forced to work a double shift as conductor on a train.All the passengers are equally joyless and some of them downright rude, and I just love these stories about people not really wanting to be where they are, let alone together with other people.The first 20 or 30 minutes before anything significant happens are quite suspenseful, but I was also feeling a bit anxious and agitated myself so perhaps that exaggerated the feeling of doom in the film.The train rudely-unexpectedly stops and everybody complains about the inconvenience.One guy says to the conductor that it made him drop his book just when the story &quot;was getting very exciting&quot; and now he doesn&#039;t remember the page he was reading.I thought it was the loveliest complaint I&#039;ve ever heard.The first moments of horror are good but as with DARK WAS THE NIGHT, once the horror shows itself it kills a lot of the suspense.There are of course the moments of howling and the group of people screaming and running for their lives - which looks unintentionally funny - and at some point it becomes so over-the-top that I stopped caring altogether, but it was still stupid fun to watch.The phones don&#039;t work (that&#039;s a rule, of course) and the outside world doesn&#039;t seem to care about the train that has vanished into thin air.It&#039;s a mix of good and rubbish but it&#039;s never boring. I hope that helps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 378137, member: 8"] HOWL (2015) [ATTACH type="full"]48926[/ATTACH] A squeaky-clean but somewhat hopeless and joyless young man (a "Hugh Grant" for the depressing 2020s) is forced to work a double shift as conductor on a train. All the passengers are equally joyless and some of them downright rude, and I just love these stories about people not really wanting to be where they are, let alone together with other people. The first 20 or 30 minutes before anything significant happens are quite suspenseful, but I was also feeling a bit anxious and agitated myself so perhaps that exaggerated the feeling of doom in the film. The train rudely-unexpectedly stops and everybody complains about the inconvenience. One guy says to the conductor that it made him drop his book just when the story "was getting very exciting" and now he doesn't remember the page he was reading. I thought it was the loveliest complaint I've ever heard. The first moments of horror are good but as with DARK WAS THE NIGHT, once the horror shows itself it kills a lot of the suspense. There are of course the moments of howling and the group of people screaming and running for their lives - which looks unintentionally funny - and at some point it becomes so over-the-top that I stopped caring altogether, but it was still stupid fun to watch. The phones don't work (that's a rule, of course) and the outside world doesn't seem to care about the train that has vanished into thin air. It's a mix of good and rubbish but it's never boring. I hope that helps. [/QUOTE]

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