Emma
09-12-2005, 05:16 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/images/avatars/supernatural/snav4.jpg" width="85" height="85" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="right" border="0" alt=" Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Supernatural, WB"> You're instantly sucked into this new horror series by an opening vignette, set 21 years ago, that has the unreal yet unshakable vividness of a nightmare you and a therapist could spend years explicating. The creep-out oomph of the scene--a shadowy intruder has invaded a baby's bedroom--culminates in this image: The child's mother, victim of a poltergeist (or some force of evil with greater suction than a Dyson vacuum cleaner), is pinned up against the ceiling. Then she's consumed by fire, an almost lavish sea of flames that's unsettlingly apocalypto-religious.
Supernatural is about the poor woman's two grown-up sons (Gilmore Girls' Jared Padalecki and Smallville's Jensen Ackles) and their adventures as they track down other unpitying intruders from beyond or below. (Their father, as of the Sept. 13 opener, has gone missing on the trail of another investigation. Same career path, though.) The series' grim tone and overall look of a grimy world in perpetual need of dusting or wiping is a long way from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and closer to Japanese movies like The Grudge. Horror seeps over life like a toxic fog. And never lifts. The premiere has some very nice special effects, flickering and elusive, involving a murderous ghost woman who wanders along a road skimpily dressed in white, as if she were doomed to never find the casting call for a Tim Burton film. But the real spell is cast by that woman on the ceiling, and the possibility that her fate will continue to haunt her sons' lives. [3 1/2 STARS]
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Source: People
09-12-2005
Byline: Tom Gliatto
Publication: People
Issue: September 12, 2005 Vol. 64 No. 11
Publication Date: 09-12-2005
Page: 45
Section: Picks & Pans/TV
Supernatural is about the poor woman's two grown-up sons (Gilmore Girls' Jared Padalecki and Smallville's Jensen Ackles) and their adventures as they track down other unpitying intruders from beyond or below. (Their father, as of the Sept. 13 opener, has gone missing on the trail of another investigation. Same career path, though.) The series' grim tone and overall look of a grimy world in perpetual need of dusting or wiping is a long way from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and closer to Japanese movies like The Grudge. Horror seeps over life like a toxic fog. And never lifts. The premiere has some very nice special effects, flickering and elusive, involving a murderous ghost woman who wanders along a road skimpily dressed in white, as if she were doomed to never find the casting call for a Tim Burton film. But the real spell is cast by that woman on the ceiling, and the possibility that her fate will continue to haunt her sons' lives. [3 1/2 STARS]
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Source: People
09-12-2005
Byline: Tom Gliatto
Publication: People
Issue: September 12, 2005 Vol. 64 No. 11
Publication Date: 09-12-2005
Page: 45
Section: Picks & Pans/TV