Thursday, November 14, 2013

The Hanged Man (2007)

A group of whiny, unhappy people bond in a chat room where they decide to meet up in real life and commit suicide together.  The leader, Dwarfstar, is supposed to bring poison so that it will be over quickly and not hurt.

Eventually they all show up and wait around for Dwarfstar to show up.  One of the guys gets tired of waiting and decides he's going to hang himself.  One of the girls tries to stop him, and after he walks off, she insists that someone go look for him and stop him.  Um, isn't that what they came there to do anyway?

For a group that came together to end their lives, they're spending an awful lot of time avoiding death.  There are other examples, such as a gun is pulled and the intended victim is afraid she'll be shot, or someone being upset when the gun goes off during Russian roulette.  Who cares? You're there to end your miserable lives.

There's lots of talk from characters you don't care about, and  - I'm going to spoil it right here for you - after much emotional baggage is dumped on each other, people have flashbacks about their past, and hurt feelings are shared, no one dies. That's right, the whole gang of suicidal idiots who were so into ending their lives that they made a special trip to a farm in the middle of nowhere end up running away scared because they might die.  Yeah, so that was a waste of time.  Oh and apparently ghosts use Internet chat rooms. It's not as clever as it may sound.

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