[Dark Trope] Implied child death

[u/Argie_Theft_Auto3]

• Family Guy - In a deleted scene, Evil Stewie is shown entering the bully's house and giving him a noogie. It seems rather harmless until Stewie mentions "Why's his knuckle turning red?" Then screams of the bully are heard, implying that Evil Stewie noogied his head so hard it punched a hole through the bully's head.

• Old (2021) - In a deleted cold opening, a man is shown crawling and shouting for help in the aging island. What makes this more terrifying is that this person could originally have been a baby or child, it's implied since he's walking on all fours

[u/DyingSunSeverian]

The acting in that movie is uniquely terrible. Around its release I commented somewhere that it was like every actor involved gave career-worst performances, including fine actors like Rufus Sewell and Gael Garcia Bernal.

Shyamalan has never been a strong writer especially with dialogue but I think Old was meant to have a much more heightened style than a lot of his other films. But it just came across like everyone got 1 take and moved on, it was just all stilted, the delivery and the emotions too. Perhaps didn’t help it was filmed at the start of covid.

I should have loved that movie cause I actually like Shyamalan for the most part for his emphasis on strange shit, and as a huge Twilight Zone fan this has the perfect premise, but man is it a turd.

[u/_LXIX_CDXX → u/DyingSunSeverian]

This describes nearly every movie Shyamalan has made

[u/pbentham25 → u/_LXIX_CDXX]

“He’s made a good movie!” - Producer Guy

[u/spiritbearr → u/pbentham25]

He now funds a chunk of his own movies and takes lower budgets to maintain creative control. This actually makes him really great at maintaining budgets while actually ensuring a level of profitability. His model is what everyone says studios should be doing.

Meanwhile he's getting every tax credit he can in Pennsylvania which are very limited so it fucks over any local aspiring filmmakers.