Catherine Hardwicke’s (Twilight, Thirteen) movie Plush (2013) is another thriller as opposed to a horror film, but it is a good flick nonetheless. As many of you have noticed I have strayed away from horror movies in the past few articles because honestly I have not seen a decent horror movie, new or old, that is really worth my time to write about. Instead I have been clogging my Netflix queue with independent suspenseful thrillers since that seems to be where the art is these days. Nevertheless, another digression, back to Plush.
This movie had me at the hot guitarist guys with dark hair and guyliner. Even big ball-bustin’ writer/horror enthusiasts like myself have their weaknesses. I also harbor a fantasy of being a rock goddess for 4 ½ minutes that will rock your face off, but since I have absolutely no musical talent that I care about it will just forever be a dream. Either way, enter this movie. I got to watch a fantasy on screen, but whatever.
Hayley (Sucker Punch‘s Emily Browning) and her brother Jack (Thomas Dekker, The CW’s The Secret Circle) headline a pretty successful rock band together. Hayley meets Carter (Cam Gigandet, Twilight) and starts a family as where Jack continues to live the rock star life which ultimately ends in him overdosing. After her grief, Hayley returns to the music scene with a very, very bad wig and finds a replacement guitarist for her band. Enzo (Xavier Samuel, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse [has anyone noticed a trend here?!]) turns out to not only be a super-fan of Plush, but is also a musical genius and even looks like Jack. With all the above talents his induction into the band makes things pretty easy. The new Plush album flops and Hayley seeks solace in Enzo’s arms because at first she thinks he is gay. Wrong. They start a very hot and torrid love affair creating better music along the way. The affair is a little unhinged because in a sense Hayley is sleeping with a guy that not only takes the place of, but looks like her brother. Very weird, but still steamy enough to make you forget about that tidbit and remind yourself that he is not her brother.
When Hayley starts to get creepy gifts from a stalker things start to take a turn, but she brushes it off. Enzo starts to immerse himself further into Hayley’s life becoming slightly unstable as they go along (and he still manages to look gorgeous even being crazy, what the hell?). A few deaths here and there, a few story threads that make events make more sense, a couple of surprises, some hot sex scenes, Enzo in leather pants holding a film camera….yeah, I liked this movie for all the wrong (or right?) reasons. Hardwicke delivers her usual style in this movie (think blue filters on the camera lenses and hand cams), but the movie isn’t the greatest of hers that I have seen. It offers up more eye-candy than anything else for the person with any groupie fantasies.
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