A Halloween frightfest
by - Written: Jan 18 '00
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Pros: Excellent portrayals which bring the issues posed by the script out into the open to be discussed
Cons: Can be frightening for young children and even young adolescents
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| Kidnykid's Full Review: Incident |
THE INCIDENT would make an ideal Halloween film because it is a terribly frightening film. No, it isn't the "so bad it's funny" or "mildly horrifying" type of film, nor is it of the Mel Brooks "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" genre. It scared the living daylights out of me the first time I saw it on the cable channel Encore.
Tony Musante and Martin Sheen star in their first film, and they are the bad guys. They spend a good chunk of the film plotting the evil they are going to do, and then they get on a subway (with Beau Bridges, Brock Peters, Ed McMahon and others) and do what they planned on doing. The passengers come off the elevated train at the end of the movie obviously in shell shock. The reason why the film is called THE INCIDENT is that the horrors wreaked upon the passengers all happen within the time period of one ride on the elevated train. You see all these passengers prepare to get on and then you see Musante and Sheen terrorize them so thoroughly once they embark on their elevated-train ride that it is obvious by the end of the film that they will be mental basket cases for the rest of their lives. No matter what the passengers do to try to stop the bad guys, Musante and Sheen figure out another way of terrorizing the passengers, and it is up to Beau Bridges to save the day.
This is the type of movie I would show to abnormal-psychology classes. It is an example of antisocial personality disorder; the characters played by Musante and Sheen can fairly be diagnosed as being psychopathic (the old term for antisocial personality disorder). They have no morals whatever. The rest of the passengers come down with post-traumatic stress disorder (called shell shock or battle fatigue by older veterans). There is no reasonable way a parent can cause a child to get antisocial personality disorder, but there is a way society as a whole can prevent these people from bringing on PTSD/shell shock in others. At the first sign of violence toward others, we must all band together to isolate those similar to the characters played by Musante and Sheen. For this reason - getting a discussion going as to what to do about people like the bad guys - I recommend seeing this film, and seeing it in a group.
Recommended:
Yes
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