While Trap does center on the pursuit of a serial killer, it probably falls more accurately into the genre of thriller than horror movie, but I'm going to include it in this countdown anyway because it's directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who's no stranger to the horror genre, both good and bad.
Josh Hartnett plays a dad who is taking his tween daughter to a "Lady Raven" concert at an arena in Philadelphia. Lady Raven is played by Saleka Night Shyamalan, the director's daughter, who is indeed a pop singer, though not in the realm of selling out arenas, which makes this movie just an elaborate ploy by M. Night to give his daughter a concert movie. Nicely played, M. Night. Nicely played.
Within the context of the movie, the concert is also a ploy, in this case an elaborate trap to catch a serial killer called the Butcher. So rude! Ruining a nice afternoon between a serial killer and his daughter!
Trap is a lot of dumb fun. It is not lost on me that Haley Mills, of The Parent TRAP, also plays an FBI profiler. And I don't know enough about the "trap" genre of music to say if the concert qualifies as trap, but I do know a trap door makes an appearance near the film's end, which, be warned, does not contain a "twist," per se, but does include a few swerves.
Trap is currently available to rent online - and just premiered on Max.
2 comments:
This movie went past fun dumb into frustrating. Not a fan.
Oh I totally get that!
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