That's Amber Heard there, in her seventeen-thousandth horror film in the past five years. She's really angling for Scream-Queen status, isn't she? I'll have some more to say on the remake of The Stepfather, which I watched yesterday, a little while later today once my bearings are gathered a little better (really effing groggy this morning), but I will say that Heard, while given not much to work with, was slightly better than she had to be. And I still have reserve good feelings for her after All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, so I'm cautiously optimistic that, if Carpenter gives her something to do in this new film, she could give him some sort of performance back in return. I've just been burned by Carpenter so many times there through the 90s that I fear this new film. I fear it! I want him to make a good movie again! Badly! He made so many greats, from Halloween to The Thing and on. I'd love for him to reclaim his place.
There's another image and some art-work for the film at that BD link, if you wanna.
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Oh my god, deliver me from Amber Heard. A plague upon my eyes and ears.
I remember that you hate her but I can't remember why.
Mostly because she was in that crappy Kevin Williamson show that I had to recap for TWoP called "Hidden Palms." The show was not good in general, but she was mindblowingly awful. All the "kinda maybe not terrible I guess if you squint" performances she's given since have not made up for anything.
Having recently watched both The Informers and Never Back Down, I can only think of one reason why Ms Heard has so many projects listed on her IMDB page and my feminism prevents me from actually saying that reason out loud.
Hollywood, stop trying to make Amber Heard happen.
Good grief, what have I begat? Y'all are making me feel as if I should defend her, even though I don't particularly have any reason or real desire to. And I haven't seen her in half of the things y'all are calling out and I'm sure you're right and she's terrible in all of them. But in The Stepfather - a really horrible film, by the way - she gave one of the only actual convincing character moments, and it endeared her to me briefly.
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