Anika Begay
Summary
- Both M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap and Ishana Night Shyamalan’s The Watchers utilize the same horror film tropes involving tormented characters.
- Cooper in Trap has hallucinations about his mother, while Mina in The Watchers has memories of her sister, which influences their backstory.
- The Watchers effectively incorporates the cliché of relative hallucination into its central narrative, while Trap fails to fully explore this element.
Both by M. Night Shyamalan Trap and Ishana Night Shyamalan The Observers use a similar horror movie cliché. The acclaimed director behind classics like The sixth sense AND Unbreakable he recently released his latest feature film, Trapreleased in theaters. Josh Hartnett leads the Trap as Cooper, a father who also works as a serial killer. At a pop musician’s concert with his daughter, he realizes that the entire stadium has tightened security to locate and arrest him before the night ends.
The Observers takes a very different approach to the horror genre, exploring the realm of the fantastic through the point of view of a young woman. The Observers The cast is led by Dakota Fanning, who plays Mina, a troubled woman in her twenties who finds herself trapped in a haunted forest dominated by mystical creatures. Mina and Cooper are significantly different characters, but both are linked by a similar concept as they hallucinate about their relatives.
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Trap & The Watchers have tracks haunted by the hallucinations of a relative
Cooper sees his mother, while Mina sees her sister
In Cooper’s case, he has visions of his mother. As the film later explores, Cooper’s mother was a leading advocate for the extensive psychological damage that led him to commit murderous acts. He sees her at the stadium throughout the film, but there’s no real explanation as to why, and the hallucinations don’t have much of an impact on the narrative. They seem to be there just to demonstrate Cooper’s trauma, but Shyamalan’s thriller only touches on that aspect of his life.
In The ObserversMina relives the memories of her twin sister Lucy, which add to her backstory and the reasons that drove the director to shoot the horror film. Mina was involved in a tragic car accident when she was younger who caused her mother’s death. Because of this, she feels guilty and has spent most of her life avoiding her sister. It is interesting that both films used this common trope for very different reasons. For Mina, the hallucinations are due to the magical elements of the film tormenting her.
The Watchers explains its relative hallucination better than Trap
Mina’s sister is central to the Guardians’ story
Both The Observers AND Trap They had little success with critics, both receiving low scores on various sites. Trap had a slightly better response, though The Observers It is the film that actually used the hallucination trope most successfully, as it was incorporated into the central narrative of the film.. The film provides Mina’s full story, and the hallucinations allow for an interesting subtext about her coming to terms with her tragic past. In TrapNot much is known about Cooper’s mother, and she may even still be alive.
Trap
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Trap is a film by writer and director M. Night Shyamalan under his Blinding Edge Pictures banner. The film is part of a deal with Warner Bros to direct and produce several films under their banner.
- Release date
- August 2, 2024
- Launch
- With Josh Hartnett, Hayley Mills, Marnie McPhail, Vanessa Smythe, Saleka Shyamalan, Malik Jubal, Jonathan Langdon, Peter D’Souza, Ty Pravong, Kaitlyn Dallan
