Stoker
Director: Park Chan-Wook
Year Released: 2013
Rating: 1.5
Following the suspicious death of her father (Dermot Mulroney), the mother (Nicole Kidman) of an introverted, bullied high school girl (Mia Wasikowska) allows her long lost uncle (Matthew Goode) into her house and the two become uncomfortably close. Park tries to dress up Wentworth Miller's jejune gothic-horror script with stylistic embellishments in a misguided attempt to lend 'significance' to most everything (little girl shoes versus adult woman shoes!), but it only comes across as belabored filmmaking. Goode's character appears ominous and up-to-no-good the very second he appears on screen, making him a one-note kook; Wasikowska's defining characteristic is that she's depressed.
