I have a lot of movies in my Netflix queue. As in 446, not including
those that aren’t available on DVD at the moment. Some of them, I’m
saving because they are or were available for streaming. I’m not sure
about the rest. As I was going through the titles in my queue, I came
across Odd Thomas. It had been there for a few months. I’m not sure
how I found it, but it looked like one of the better selections.
The movie is based on a series of books by Dean Koontz. It’s about a man actually named Odd Thomas. He can see dead people and he is of the mind that he should do something about it. The movie starts with Odd helping a recently deceased woman get her killer arrested. He happens to be friends with Police Chief Wyatt Porter. Helping Odd is Stormy Llewellyn, who manages an ice cream shop at the mall.
Odd knows that something big is coming. He’s tipped off by the presence of bodachs, which are ghostly beings that seem to come around when someone important is about to die. Not every death attracts one, but the presence of several dozen gets Odd’s attention. He’s never seen that many at once. (By the way, he’s the only one that can see them.) Odd doesn’t know exactly what’s going to happen, but he‘s given clues in the forms of dreams and hallucinations.
Fortunately, I didn’t seen much in the Netflix reviews comparing the movie with other media, not that I read a lot of reviews before watching a movie. There’s always that temptation to compare the movie to something else. (“If you liked the Dead Zone…”) Yes, there is a reference to The Sixth Sense, but it’s not really harped upon.
Yes, this is a scary movie. Netflix has it listed as NR, but IMDb has a self-applied PG-13 for the movie. I don’t think this is a movie for children, mainly because of the bodachs. This could give a young child nightmares, as they’re basically very scary. They’re seen following people and occasionally possessing someone.
I think most adults will be able to handle the movie and even enjoy it. I know my parents are often turned off by anything paranormal at first, even though they’ve enjoyed similar movies. I’d be interested in reading the books. This isn’t to see how closely the movie follows them, but rather to see more of the story. I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more about the movie or the books. Granted, I haven’t been watching movies in the theater much lately, but I’d think with a name like Koontz, someone would have mentioned this to me.
The movie is based on a series of books by Dean Koontz. It’s about a man actually named Odd Thomas. He can see dead people and he is of the mind that he should do something about it. The movie starts with Odd helping a recently deceased woman get her killer arrested. He happens to be friends with Police Chief Wyatt Porter. Helping Odd is Stormy Llewellyn, who manages an ice cream shop at the mall.
Odd knows that something big is coming. He’s tipped off by the presence of bodachs, which are ghostly beings that seem to come around when someone important is about to die. Not every death attracts one, but the presence of several dozen gets Odd’s attention. He’s never seen that many at once. (By the way, he’s the only one that can see them.) Odd doesn’t know exactly what’s going to happen, but he‘s given clues in the forms of dreams and hallucinations.
Fortunately, I didn’t seen much in the Netflix reviews comparing the movie with other media, not that I read a lot of reviews before watching a movie. There’s always that temptation to compare the movie to something else. (“If you liked the Dead Zone…”) Yes, there is a reference to The Sixth Sense, but it’s not really harped upon.
Yes, this is a scary movie. Netflix has it listed as NR, but IMDb has a self-applied PG-13 for the movie. I don’t think this is a movie for children, mainly because of the bodachs. This could give a young child nightmares, as they’re basically very scary. They’re seen following people and occasionally possessing someone.
I think most adults will be able to handle the movie and even enjoy it. I know my parents are often turned off by anything paranormal at first, even though they’ve enjoyed similar movies. I’d be interested in reading the books. This isn’t to see how closely the movie follows them, but rather to see more of the story. I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more about the movie or the books. Granted, I haven’t been watching movies in the theater much lately, but I’d think with a name like Koontz, someone would have mentioned this to me.
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