Stoker (MOVIE) directed by Park Chan-wook

Stoker. 2013.
Screenshot of India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska.)

STOKER (2013)
Directed by Park Chan-wook
Notable Actors: Mia Wasikowska as India Stoker, Nicole Kidman as Evelyn Stoker, Matthew Goode as Charlie Stoker.

Rating: 8 out of 10.

HEAVY SPOILERS. DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT IT SPOILED.

This movie is about India Stoker. It begins on her eighteenth birthday. This also happens to be the day that her father gets into a tragic accident, and dies. Most would say India is soft-spoken, but I believe she chooses her words well. She does not say much all movie long, but what she does say is rather important to the telling of the story. Her uncle, whom never visits, appears at the wake held for her father, and insists on staying till Evelyn (India's mother) gets back on her feet. India is wary of her uncle, but her mother has an attraction to him. Various people start disappearing from the Stoker's life, such as the head house caretaker, an aunt, and other people. India is starting to get suspicious of her uncle Charlie, and with good reason too. After finding a locked drawer in her father's study, the key she got for a present from her birthday opens it. There are pictures of three brothers; Richard, Charlie, and Jonathon. India doesn't know who Jonathon is, but he disappears from later photos taken. India also finds letters that her uncle wrote her every year, claiming that the sights he sees on his travels are amazing, and how he wishes India could come with him. India is moved by all the letters and goes to take them upstairs...only to realize on the back of every letter is the same stamp, to a mental institution. Charlie's estrangement wasn't from traveling, but being locked up. We find out that Charlie, killed his younger brother Jonathon when they were children because he was jealous of the attention that Richard gave their brother. Charlie goes onto to start woo'ing India to come with him to New York, which she agrees. Her mother ends up spotting the two of them, and uncle Charlie tries to kill her by strangling her with a belt. India shoots him with her rifle that her father used to take her hunting with, and takes his car to leave. On her way out of town, she on purpose speeds to catch the sheriff's attention, and stabs him with gardening sheers before shooting him with her rifle.

Even Nathan Fillion is stunned.
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So....wait wait wait....what? I didn't read anything about this movie before I chose it. I saw Stoker and thought....I love classic literature turned movies, it must be good. Whelp...it wasn't at all what I expected, and it was awesome. India is completely an anti-social psychopathic bad-ass and she just doesn't take crap from anyone. I never pictured the ending, which is crazy, because usually movies are predictable. I thought India would see her mother cheating with uncle Charlie, confront her mother, mother slaps her around, India goes out for a hunt, comes back with a giant dead animal carcass, mom goes ballistic, and shoot her mother. Never in a million years could I believe that it would turn out that Charlie was a weird incestual, psychopath who kills people when he doesn't get his own way. Like seriously, never saw it coming. This is one mental mind game of a movie, and I guess this is why I rated it so high. It has everything that is messed up and keeping you guessing on what is actually going to happen.

If you like chilling, aggressively creepy psychological thrillers, then Stoker is completely up your alley.

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