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Being an aspiring writer, knowing aspiring writers, and being apart of a world filled with aspiring writers, \u201cValerie on the Stairs\u201d was really an interesting installment that spoke about how ideas and imagination can tend to die with a horrible writer, and on how some ideas can be housed somewhere. In \u201cValerie on the Stairs,\u201d we visit a home for aspiring writers whose own abode has become the breeding ground for a monster who perhaps may be a figment of imagination taken shape. Garris\u2019 installment is a provoking little humdinger, with slight shades of subtlety, explore the condition of being a writer and the suffering that becomes apart of it. What happens when unfulfilled imagination manifests and rebels violently against its creators?<\/p>\n
Is it possible for imaginations to be strong enough? It\u2019s possible, but Garris\u2019 neo-noir hazy fever dream is a fascinating episode with some of the quietest symbolism about writing and ideas that I\u2019ve ever seen. It took many a conversation with fellow movie nerds to explore the symbolism, and surely you\u2019ll either think this was one of the worst, or one of the best. I was in the middle ground. Garris and Barker present some original concepts that are both tense and entertaining in fleeting doses, and KNB provide some excellent make up effects with Tony Todd performing at eleven, as usual.<\/p>\n
Barker and Garris also manage to serve up a pretty interesting second half that will leave its audience rethinking not only the sequence of events, but the entire episode altogether. But then, while watching, I wondered. Did Barker and Garris just completely rehash \u201cDreams in the Witch House\u201d and turn it into something completely? Granted, I really disliked \u201cDreams in the Witch House,\u201d so why did I have to see it again? \u201cValerie on the Stairs\u201d comes off a lot like a sequel to \u201cDreams\u201d with the same inept man, with a goal, who moves into a weird building, with strange residents, who finds himself entangled with the specters behind and within the walls. What\u2019s really the point of rehashing a truly weak episode anyway?<\/p>\n
When its not rehashing the original garbage, there\u2019s Christopher Lloyd who doesn\u2019t serve much a purpose except to channel Doc and gaze in his usual befuddlement as an eccentric old man bearing witness with his young cohorts. \u201cValerie on the Stairs\u201d presents some truly original ideas and concepts, but Garris never manages to add an appealing spin to them venturing into the often cheesy and unbearably hokey time and time again. Surely, it\u2019s not \u201cDreams\u201d but it\u2019s not as good as I expected, either. It presents many original ideas, but ultimately just feels a lot like a rehash of “Dreams in the Witch House,” and I didn’t enjoy that episode. It’s a decent episode for the ideas it presents, but can never pull itself together to be engrossing, or entertaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Being an aspiring writer, knowing aspiring writers, and being apart of a world filled with aspiring writers, \u201cValerie on the Stairs\u201d was really an interesting installment that spoke about how ideas and imagination can tend to die with a horrible writer, and on how some ideas can be housed somewhere. In \u201cValerie on the Stairs,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[103,419,477,638,1008,1087,1132],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-tomb","tag-anthology","tag-gore","tag-horror","tag-masters-of-horror","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}