July 30, 2004

M. Night Shyamalan's new movie The Village has just been totally and completely slashed, kicked and stomped on by both Ebert and The New York Times.

Too bad, I have to say. I was looking forward to seeing it. I really, really liked all his other movies. They're so deliciously scary. Come to think - they're almost as creepy as the documentary the Sci-Fi Channel made about him. Now that one *really* freaked me out. All 3 hours of it. I could hardly sleep after that.

Too bad again though that CNN exposed the documentary as an elaborate hoax (and incidentially, the Sci-Fi website for the doc is down).

Maybe M. Night should consider airing the documentary in place of "The Village". As skillfull as this guerilla doc is, I bet it would help M. Night retain his viewership and loyal following much better than "The Village" ever will ...