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I've seen psychological thriller's that try to scare you more than melt your brain, this one I'm proud to say does both. It's a very, very malicious and haunting thrill machine. I t brings the very essence of how horror and Psycho thriller's are suppose to be done, not with over the top gore and CGI, but with old school conventional means.Secret Window is as sinister as it is smart it rolls along at a very steady pace and brings more to the table than what was required. It shows you what the decent into madness and utter chaos looks like, it shows you the depth and moral ambiguities of a torn man who's lost everything. With that said you can examine the physic of the mind as it cracks under extreme and constant pressure and how your choices do affect who you help, or who you hurt. This film's pace and dark style is meant to reflect horror films of the 40's, 50's, 60's and early 70's before gore became cool but that makes this film such a joy to watch and study. And that makes it a great film, not a good film, a great film.Johnny Depp( who was fantastic here.) gives a very eccentric and brilliant performance as the conflicted writer Mort Rainey, John Turturro does exceptionally well as the sinister and vicious Shooter and he almost outclasses Depp in this film. Charles S. Dutton does well with the few scenes he's. But the main let down and I think the reason for this film's poor reviews from critics were the bland and very lame performances of Timothy Hutton( he won an Oscar he can do better than this.) and Maria Bello, they really lowered the caliber and class of this film and forced Depp to try harder to make them look good and make there time on screen with him good, but he succeeds and they fail. But Turturro and Depp hold up strong.Secret Window is a very Keene and captivating psychological/horror thriller that is surefire mind boggling entertainment and out of this world fun. This movie is great rainy day entertainment or any day entertainment for that matter it's just all around a fantastic and mind boggling film that makes you question the sanity of writers and the world they live in ( speaking as one myself.) it brings to question as the thoughts in our mind really our conscious or our selves just speaking out to right the wrongs doe against us It's a film that ask those questions and then you have to answer. All in all Secret Window was a sinister, malicious and thought provoking film that delivers a movie going experience like no other.

Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" forced us to identify with Janet Leigh's character from the very beginning. She's in almost every frame, and we have a lot of shots from her point of view. This, her murder, roughly two thirds of the way through the film came as a real shocker.In "The Secret Window" we are caused to identify with Stephen King's manifestation in Mort Raimey, Johnny Depp. That is, we see a lot of things through his eyes. And he talks to himself (ie., the audience). And we are made to feel that injustices are heaped upon him -- he catches his wife in the sack with Timothy Hutton and some backwoods loony accuses him of plagiarism and threatens his life.So far it's rather like Marion Crane in drag. But what would "Psycho" have been if Marion Crane, instead of Anthony Perkins, had turned out to be the murderer with multiple personality? That's more or less what happens here. Depp begins as a rather ordinary guy, an author with writer's block, spending the summer in a comfortable old lakeside cabin in Connecticut. He has all sorts of endearing human traits. He's slothful, dresses in a ripped robe, and is doing his best to quit smoking in the middle of divorce proceedings. The persecution by John Turturro, against whom he is legally and physically helpless, trap him into a Paul Sheldon mold, out of King's "Misery." But then, following a couple of murders, he begins not only to talk to himself but to visualize his other self. He holds complete conversations with his other self, who patiently explains that he, Mort Rainey, is the arsonist and murderer, and that the Turturro character is only a hallucination. He becomes as nutty as a Granola bar and as violent as Jack Torrance in "The Shining." There's even an ax involved, and a replay of the "Redrum" device in which "Shooter" turns into "Shoot Her." The first part of the movie is okay. The production design is accomplished. The many plot holes begin about the time Mort Rainey's dog, Chico, is killed by the loony with a screwdriver. If Turturro's character is made up by Rainey as a way of showing his evil side without having to recognize it, which turns out to be the case, then why would Rainey kill his own dog? It gets more complicated until the end, which yields almost complete confusion. Eating a crop of fresh corn that is growing out of your wife's grave is gruesome but doesn't add to the plot or tell us anything we needed to know.As King's movies go, this one is photographed and acted well, and it looks right. But there is a crazy logic to, say, "Misery" that's lacking here. I can understand a writer being trapped in a fruitcake's bed with a pair of broken legs, but I can't begin to get inside Mort Rainey's skin. Mediocre.

Secret Window

2004

Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Secret Window

2004

Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

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A very well crafted and skilled psychological thriller

Mr. Torrance, This is Mr. Sheldon.

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