Okay so I know not many fans of the NOES franchise are big fans of the 2010 installment, but I actually am and I think it might be because I saw the potential and what it was going for but more importantly what it could’ve been if they had just gone there.
And while I’ve got so many thoughts, ideas and rants about the movie and characters especially Freddy I wanna talk about a character who didn’t get enough screen time and doesn’t get enough love:
Kris Fowles.
Let’s start by saying I absolutely loved her character, I think Katie did so good and whoo boy can she scream. Kris is reminiscent of Tina Gray but is a separate character from her. They share small similarities and the biggest being that their characters were sort of fake outs for the real protagonist of the story, Nancy. But I think Kris was just as much a main character as Quentin and Nancy. Her boyfriend being the first to die really set her off, she was struggling to cope and convince herself that the visions and nightmares shared no connection to recent events but the further it went the more she began to uncover. Being the first to begin questioning her childhood and digging into her past, raising questions meant that she was far more intuitive and smart than the movie lets on.
She’s complex, emotionally mature and so gentle and it’s another thing I love about her character. She wasn’t stereotyped and watered down, the few scenes she had Kris owned and it made me love her and wish she played a bigger role. I wanted more of her dynamic with Nancy, to see their friendship and get a deeper understanding and feel for Nancy’s plight when Kris eventually dies. I know her character served a purpose and most of the time a big group in movies like this serve as a barrier between the big bad and the final boy or girl but I think Kris honestly deserved better.
She was strong and it was great to see her putting up such a fight against Freddy. Her realizing that maybe the dreams aren’t just dreams and that there might be something more to them was nice. Her classroom dream was cool too, and again, that SCREAM. Was kinda chilling when I first watched I won’t lie.
I loved the body bag scene in the hallway with Nancy too, for obvious reasons but it was nice that her character got to still make one last small appearance before we fully focused on Nancy and Quentin’s journey.
I don’t wanna think of Kris as a side character or even fake protagonist because I feel she really did play a big role in the movie it would’ve been nice to at least see her off til the end and then maybe she dies then.
I’m definitely gonna go through my other thoughts about the 2010 movie but I needed to ramble about Kris for a sec.
I guess I didn’t realize this was a Netflix original. I thought this would be terrible, but it wasn’t. I typically like Netflix originals a bit more than Hallmark originals. Something else I discovered about myself while watching this- I am not really a fan of Brooke Shields, but I did warm up to her a little by the end.
Sophie Brown (Brooke Shields) is a famous author whose fans have revolted against her because she killed off the love interest in her popular Emma Gale series. After an appearance on the Drew Barrymore show goes a bit off the rails and with her fans and her publicist Claire (Desiree Burch) breathing down her neck to bring back Winston from the dead, she decides to go to Scotland for a while. Specifically to the small town near the castle Dun Dunbar because her father worked there as a kid before moving to the states. She quickly meets several people from the town, including the castle tour guide Thomas (Lee Ross) and the groundskeeper Myles (Cary Elwes) and his dog Hamish. After visiting the castle and getting into a fight with Myles, she goes to the pub. There she meets a knitting club and quickly befriends them all- middle aged divorcee Maisie (Andi Osho), elderly Helen (Tina Gray) who went to school with Sophie's dad, young and free spirited Rhona (Eilidh Loan), and strong and silent Angus (Stephen Oswald).
Sophie is trying to write her next Emma Gale novel (and she plans on giving in to her fans demands), but it's just not coming to her. She is also trying to buy Dun Dunbar from the owner, who she discovers is Myles, but he's not going down without a fight. So between failing to write, spending time with the knitting club, fighting with Myles, and video chatting with her daughter Lexi (Vanessa Grasse) in college, Sophie is very busy. Claire is still harassing her, but life is showing her that she might have a different story she wants to tell.
I really enjoyed the music in this movie. Like, I'm strongly considering looking into other movies with scores by the same person. Also, I appreciated the de-glamorizing of life in a castle. Brooke Shields isn’t a great actress, but everybody else did well. As an aspiring writer and avid reader, I can appreciate the position Sophie is in. I don't think I'd be someone wanting her to bring back the dead guy, though.
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