Trope: Home Alone Traps

  • How to Sell a Haunted House

    How to Sell a Haunted House

    When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and…

  • The Purge: Election Year

    The Purge: Election Year

    I find it funny that this movie came out in 2016, when Trump won the office for his first term. Like the other Purge film I talked about, the symbolism is in-your-face, criticizing the current government and begging people to trust the system and using their vote to change things rather than taking direct action.…

  • The Purge: Anarchy

    The Purge: Anarchy

    As I watched it, I was laughing to myself. No wonder it is so popular a series. For people like me, it’s a criticism of the government putting systems in place that fuck over the lower class in order to build a world where those on top stay on top, enjoying the fruits of the…

  • Nobody

    Nobody

    My parents went nuts trying to get me to watch this ASAP. My dad says that it’s one that he can’t stop watching if it happens to come up on TV. I’ll call it a suburban John Wick, playing itself straight and yet knowing precisely what it is. I’ll just toss out this scene here.…