11&12 for the haunting meme!
12. Pick an item: a mirror, kittens, gloves, a hat, buttons, the forever house, an industrial fan, or a red door.Gloves. I don’t have a particularly strong reason for picking this. Maybe because it’s the only thing that wasn’t tainted in some way. And I guess, there’s a part of me that builds a wall and can keep people at a distance so gloves it is!
11. Talk about a moment you think is underrated.This might be less underrated and more, I’m slow on the uptake but anyway, lol. I’m sure there are other moments but the one that comes to mind is Luke’s monologue at the end of The Twin Thing. My first watch, I was only really paying attention to what was visually playing out (him getting jumped, the bowler hat man, etc.) that I missed so many things to love about that scene. First of all, when he’s describing how he didn’t understand his mom’s death yet and was SO excited when he’d see a car, hoping his mom would come out of them but the cars kept driving past: “Those taillights, they were the worst. Red eyes in the dark, just taking hope with them.” Like holy SHIT that line was so poetic?!
I also get really sad thinking about how he came to this point with the monologue overlaying what’s happening. He’s being haunted by things that happened in that house and he tries to convince himself that it’s not real but they are so persistent that he uses to make them go away. Every time I hear him say some variation of “They never believe me,” an angel loses it’s wings. I cry.
Also, when he says, “I guess I’ll never know how it felt for them to be done like that…I hope I never know” and on second rewatch I realized that it was right after Joey did him like that? Umffff.
THEN!!!! When he’s counting and the ghost is gliding behind him and he stops, just resigned, defeated. He swallows thickly and A SINGLE TEAR FALLS DOWN HIS CHEEK?! That tear should have it’s own Emmy, WTF?!
Finally, when he faces it and the car stops, and he sees that it’s Steve. I just…I’m sure he was already so relieved because that old ghost/demon/spirit has been haunting him all day and here’s his older brother there to make it go away but coupled with that line about passing car taillights taking hope with them but this time!! This time those headlights were for him. I cry.