Lull Me to Catatonia

After a day's work, Uh-huh Girl shifts to couch potato mode and turns on the telly.  Unknown to most, Uh-huh Girl's father instilled in his two daughters' minds that Tagalog television dramas were not worth watching since they all have the same formula.  Rich girl/boy falls in love with a poor boy/girl, the rich parents go berserk and do everything to break them apart.  Then the lovers elope, the girl gets pregnant but little do they know that the rich parents still keep a tab on them.  Once the girl gives birth, some switching was done at the hospital so two couples end up having the wrong baby.  By now, you already know how the story goes.  But in spite of their father's prejudice, he did cut his daughters some slack by allowing them to watch Anna Luna, Eat Bulaga and That's Entertainment.  This is why Uh-huh Girl watches television the way she does now.  Her fingers would automatically press the remote for  Sky Cable channels 24, 27, 29, 30, 31, 40 and 41.

Uh-huh Girl noticed that often times than not, the movies being shown are crappy B movies.  She is not in the mood for more Facebook after doing her rounds on Cafe World, Farmville, Fashion World, Mall World and Retail Therapy.  She is even too tired to sleep.  So she decides to be benevolent and try to see some good in these movies only to find out that these movies were an overkill to boredom that Uh-huh Girl couldn't even bury them in her subconscious.  While she was watching these movies, try as she might, her limbs were immobile.  Uh-huh Girl has been lulled to catatonia.

Considering that this movie was based on a novel by Scott Smith who was praised by Stephen King, Uh-huh Girl expected to be terrified and be compelled to sleep with the lights on.  Instead, Uh-huh Girl was left wondering about the history of the ruins, what kind of creature was in the ruins, and wished she could have understood what the Mayans were saying.  Maybe that would have cleared everything up. 

One of the merits of this film was when Laura Ramsey 's (The Covenant, She's the Man)  character self-mutilates to get the vines out.  There are a lot of pretty AND annoying actresses out there that Uh-huh Girl gets satisfaction from seeing their movie characters harmed or killed.   And Laura Ramsey is just one of them.  A fitting end it was for Jena Malone when it turns out that the vines got to her.  Uh-huh Girl blames the entire tragedy on Jena Malone's character.  It if weren't for her getting too close to the ruins and taking those stupid photos, then no harm would have befallen them.  Uh-huh Girl thinks that Jena Malone's character got what she deserved.

At one time, Uh-huh Girl found herself watching CinemaOne, a Tagalog channel.  She stumbled across a horror flick, a genre which she enjoys.  She also learned that the movie was Pa Siyam which starred Roderick Paulate and Aubrey Miles (another actress that Uh-huh Girl finds pretty and annoying).

The story revolves around siblings who came home to the province for their mother's death which they deemed as unusual.  The spookiness starts to unravel as they observe the 9 days of prayer for the dead, and the town's spiritista decides to lend them a hand.  She then proceeds to tell them that their mother suffered which led to her death.  Uh-huh Girl anticipated the climax.  It was the 9th day of prayer and their mother was to appear.  And she did in a ghastly form.  She then proceeds to narrate to her children how she was treated for the past few years.  The caretakers of their property who also served as her companions maltreated her, leading to the deterioration of her health and eventual death. When Roderick Paulate's character asks who killed her, she replies in a voice of fury that it's her children who killed her.  Had they not left her alone, had they visited her often, she wouldn't have suffered under the caretakers' hands.  So as a means of reparation, she proceeds to take Aubrey Miles (whose character was mentally challenged) to the grave with her.  Talk about making your children guilty.   Uh-huh Girl regrets having stayed up late for this movie.

Uh-huh Girl expects that Friday night movies on cable channels would be interesting.  After a few minutes of channel surfing, Uh-huh Girl stumbled across an Anne Hathaway movie.

The story unfolds when Anne Hathaway's character (a psychotherapist) is being tasked to help the survivors of a plane crash.  One of the survivors (Patrick Wilson) behaves differently from the group since he refuses to be depressed.  He even develops a romantic relationship with the psychotherapist.  Uh-huh Girl is bored, but wants to find out why this creepy guy (David Morse) keeps on stalking Anne Hathaway.  Soon, the survivors start to disappear one by one.  Still the creepy guy continues to stalk.  Anne Hathaway tries to find out the real cause of the crash, only to realize that she died in that plane crash, and so did the "survivors".  The cute Siberian Husky and the old man in pyjamas who appeared at the crash site when Patrick Wilson's character decided to take a look at the fuselage, were actually his dog and his grandfather who both died when he was a kid.  Uh-huh Girl realizes that this movie was a poor cross of the horror flick "Sundo" (sans the evil element) and "The Sixth Sense". 

Sometimes, Uh-huh Girl is a glutton for punishment.