Spoiler alert. To fully discuss this final episode of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, I’m going to have to spoil the ending. I hope you’ll understand why.
It’s hard really to know where to begin with this episode. It’s the last episode of the season and the series.
I wasn’t expecting it to have a fully happy ending. I wasn’t expecting everyone to live through it.
I also didn’t expect to feel so utterly betrayed in so many, many ways.
The episode starts with Sabrina Morningstar falling through the mirror into Sabrina Spellman’s bedroom. She dies almost at once after delivering a cryptic warning. The last of the Eldridge terrors is coming, The Void.
Unsure what to do, Sabrina is visited by the Trinket Man again. And if you’re wondering if we ever get an explanation of who he is, we don’t. He just shows up, somehow possessing things like an Eldridge Terror and Pandora’s Box. Look, I’m not asking for his whole background. But some idea would be nice.
He gives Sabrina Pandora’s box and tells her to open it inside The Void to destroy it. But he cautions her that she might be trapped in the box as well.
Riddled by guilt, Sabrina heads into The Void to do just that. She does pretty well, too. The Void is slowly being sucked into oblivion, and she’s standing her ground. That is until her aunts decide to pull her back.
They can’t pull back her body, The Void has hold of that. But they can pull back her soul. And so they do, pulling it right into the body of Sabrina Morningstar.
Sorry, but if Morningstar is dead, then her body is dead. Putting another soul inside is not going to heal the damned body. Not that I expected anything else at this point.
But somehow she stands right up, perfectly fine in this body.
Except that, somehow, The Void has attached itself to her soul.
The result of this, after some shenanigans with Father Blackwood, the aunts have to cut Sabrina’s throat to open a portal to get back people taken by The Void. They think they can keep her stable, but they just barely run out of time.
Now, here’s the thing that really got under my skin. Sabrina is in the afterworld, in what looks like a pretty comfortable place. She’s sitting on a bench, reading when Nick shows up. He threw himself into the Sea of Sorrows.
He committed suicide to be with her.
And I’ve got a real problem with that. I think that’s a sick way to end a show that was aimed at teens and young adults. It’s a horrible lesson, and a horrible note to end on.
After watching this final episode, I don’t know that I can say I’m sorry I watched the series. The show has always had its funny, charming, exciting moments. And when it’s good, it’s blow you out of the water good. But when it’s bad, it’s really bad. It’s sloppy, cliche, oversimplified. It’s offensive, insulting, and potentially dangerous.
Sabrina deserved better than this. If you haven’t seen any of the show, I’d consider whether the good parts are worth dealing with the bad.
YES! The last episode was a goddamn mess! How could Morningstar and “Salem” die? Like of what? Running to fast? I didn’t mind her dying but then Nick, who’s all, “You weren’t worth it” last season dies to go after her?
I don’t mind the trinket man so much. Sometimes you just gotta deus ex machina yourself into life.
Episode seven of Netflix’s Dahmer brings the spotlight, finally, to the hero of our story. Glenda Cleveland.
Glenda was Jeff’s neighbor. And honestly, I can’t think of a worse neighbor. A horrific stench is always coming from his apartment. He has people over, and they make a lot of noise.
While they’re dying.
If you’ll recall episode one of Dahmer ended with all of his neighbors, including Glenda, being forced to leave their homes. The whole building was declared a crime scene. They’re not given any place to go, of course.
Everyone’s got a few thousand dollars socked away for an unexpected motel stay, right?
Fortunately, Glenda was able to get a motel room. And that’s where she is when Reverend Jesse Jackson finds her.
Glenda pours out her story to Reverend Jackson. The rest of the episode consists of her dark and troubling encounters with Dahmer.
The most compelling scene, I think, is when Dahmer brings Glenda a sandwich. He’s being evicted, and he knows it’s because she’s been complaining about the smells coming out of his apartment.
He tries to pour on his little boy charm. He tells her that he got his apartment cleaned, just for her. He brings her a pulled meat sandwich as a present.
Notice I don’t say pulled pork, because I’m fairly sure it was human meat. Or, it was just drugged.
Or both.
This episode just hummed with tension and rage. I was so happy to see Reverend Jackson tear into the police in the most polite way possible. I hated seeing what Glenda went through. And even though I know she lives through this horrific encounter, I held my breath the entire time she was alone with Jeff.
Dahmer is certainly not afraid to jump back and forth between the past and present. But they are careful to never do it in such a way that I felt lost. And I honestly think this was the best way to do it.
The reason for this is that it adds a level of suspense that Dahmer might have lacked without it. Suspense is something that true crime stories can lack. Especially well-known ones. We have heard this story before. We know how it ends. But in presenting the tale this way, first from one point of view and then another, it reveals sides of it that we may not have seen before.
I loved seeing the story from Glenda’s point of view. She was brave, determined, and selfless. She had every right to be furious at the way the police dismissed her concerns for years. And yet she continued to handle everything professionally. She never stopped trying to help people, even when no one else seemed to care. And for that, she is a true hero.
The second half of the 1990s was a comeback of the slasher sub-genre, thanks to Wes Craven’s Scream. It was precisely because of its success that Kevin Williamson was able to pitch the script for I Know What You Did Last Summer. An extremely loose adaption of the book of the same title, it follows a group of teenagers who drunkenly commit a hit-and-run. They decide to – what a surprise – get rid of the body to get away with it. Let’s have a look at why this film is a cult classic of its kind, shall we?
Top not atmosphere makes a big difference
I must’ve said this in one of my previous reviews but to me at least, the setting in a movie can make or break the viewing experience. In I Know What You Did Last Summer, I always found it a paradox and also highly effective that the action occurs in a fishing town with tons of open land and the sea. However, the characters feel trapped to the point of suffocating by the choices they made because, despite all the roads leading out, they always end up back there.
Dude, you promised to take acting classes! (source http://imdb.com)
Their small town is living in its own little utopia with beauty pageants, firework displays, and unsurprisingly, not a single person the group can turn to for help. I thought it was really well done and it doesn’t hurt cinematography in general is beautiful.
Would the suggestions of the fans make sense?
Something that the fans of the movie have long debated is that they needed to swap the final girls of the movie, killing off Julie and making Helen the survivor. A lot of factors contribute to this. Sarah Michelle Gellar is phenomenal in her role and with all respect to Jennifer Love Hewitt, her portrayal pales a bit in comparison. Helen’s chase scene is one of the best if not the best in horror with how hard she fought for survival and how close she was to safety. On the contrary, Julie’s chip on the shoulder got on a lot of people’s nerves, mine included sometimes.
One has to think of the narrative purpose of the two characters. Julie serves as the outright goody two shoes, the one who actively fights Barry to go to the police, and the one who shows the most obvious remorse for what they’ve done. Helen is meant to be the ditsy blonde, however, throughout the movie, she’s shown to have more going on and that the incident affected her just as much even if it wasn’t so transparent.
Not the kind of afterparty I imagined (source: https://bloody-disgusting.com)
Her endurance throughout the chase is a nice juxtaposition to the role she is meant to play, and to Julie’s scene later on (again, with all due respect, she does nothing apart from scream and run a bit) and the fact that she still dies after it gives a good gut punch that actually makes you care about these people despite their more than questionable decisions.
When it comes to the guys, I don’t actually have much to say. Barry is a classic jerk stereotype and Ray is a glaring red herring throughout the movie (I would also say Freddy Prince Jr was the weakest actor out of the four but again, I am no acting coach, just my opinion).
Final impressions
To sum up my thoughts on I Know What You Did Last Summer – it definitely has its flaws and asks the audience to suspend their disbelief (even for slasher standards). Regardless, it’s a staple entry of the genre and the 90s due to its atmosphere, tension-building, and for the most part decent acting. A must-have in your collection for horror buffs. No wonder it inspired a loosely based TV adaptation (its success is debatable but the thought still counts, right?)
The sweet putrid stench of love lingers through the air which can only mean one thing…Valentine’s Day and its annoying little winged cherub mascot, Cupid, is fast approaching. Soon, partners will be spoiling one another with extravagant bouquets of roses, heartfelt Hallmark cards, obnoxiously large teddy bears, glistening diamond jewelry, and heart-shaped candies or boxes filled with assorted mediocre chocolates. You know? Normal things couples do. I tend to prefer my chocolate boxes filled with bleeding hearts, à la ‘My Bloody Valentine’ but, beggars can’t be choosers, right? All jokes aside, Valentine’s Day is special for many couples, however, there are also many others who find themselves celebrating this day without a significant other. Luckily, Shudder, along with drive-in king Joe Bob Briggs and co-host Darcy the Mail Girl (Diana Prince) will graciously be keeping us lonely mutants’, and yes, all you horror fanatic couples’ company on Friday, February 10th as they return with The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Vicious Vegas Valentine, premiering live at 9pm EST.
Love Spells Abound…
Back in 2021, Joe Bob and Darcy invited us to a gruesomely passionate night of spell-binding love witches and animatronic dinosaurs infused with teenage human brains during The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob Put a Spell on You. Many, including myself, were introduced to the tantalizing 70’s inspired retro throwback ‘The Love Witch’and the graphically goofy cult classic ‘Tammy and the T-Rex’, providing the perfect viewing pleasure to mend any broken heart. While the two films for this year’s morbid love-induced special have yet to be announced, as a special treat, Briggs has announced for the first time on The Last Drive-In, he will be marrying one lucky couple during the live showing. We here at HauntedMTL are eagerly awaiting the return of the ghoulish duo so, as is tradition, we will be proudly hosting a watch party on Twitter during the broadcasting of The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob’s Vicious Vegas Valentine. Be sure to follow us on Twitter and tag us @hauntedMTL as well as @shudder, @therealjoebob, and @kinky_horror to partake in this night of unholy love.
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What started off as a one-time special premiering on Shudder July 13, 2018, ‘The Last Drive- In’ was originally meant to be Brigg’s swan song; one last special before hanging up the bolo tie in retirement. However, due to so many mutants, excuse me…viewers tuning in and breaking the Shudder servers, it was only natural to announce an official full season of ‘The Last Drive-In‘, which would make its explosive debut March 19, 2019. Since then, Darcy and Briggs have spawned many exclusive holiday specials, have graciously donated to many charities within the community, and have accumulated 4 seasons of ‘The Last Drive-In’, with a fifth currently in production premiering on Shudder’s 2023 schedule sometime this year, let’s hope sooner rather than later.
An unexpected ceremony during The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob Put a Spell on You (2021) special.
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VoodooPriestess
January 28, 2021 at 11:10 pm
YES! The last episode was a goddamn mess! How could Morningstar and “Salem” die? Like of what? Running to fast? I didn’t mind her dying but then Nick, who’s all, “You weren’t worth it” last season dies to go after her?
I don’t mind the trinket man so much. Sometimes you just gotta deus ex machina yourself into life.