映画|パニック・ゲーム|The Hamiltons

ハミルトン家はかつて農場を所有し、家族は仲良く幸福に暮らしていたんだが、父母が死んだあと、子供たちは農場を売って引っ越しをせねばならなくなった。

映画は、兄弟の末っ子フランシスの視点で家族ドラマが進行する。彼らには世間に知られてはならぬ秘密があり、バレそうになると夜逃げ → 引っ越しというのを何度も繰り返しているそうな。

こんなかんじのみなさん↓

• 末っ子フランシス（コーリー・ナウフ）... 悩める思春期繊細少年。
• 長男デヴィッド（サミュエル・チャイルド）... 長男として家族を引っぱらねばならぬとがんばっているが、努力が空回りでイライラ。
• 次男ウェンデル（ジョセフ・マッケラー）... 精神不安定の暴力男。
• 長女ダーレーン（マッケンジー・フィーガンス）... 変人イカレ女。

この4人に加え、じつはもうひとりいるんだが、その正体は映画の最後に明かされます。

彼らは「生きるため」と称して、地下に2人の女を監禁している。末っ子フランシスだけはこれが嫌であり、ときどき女の顔を見にいって水を飲ませてあげたりするんだが、かといって、兄たちにタテついて逃がしてあげる勇気はない。彼は悩んでいるんですな。

ハミルトン家のみなさんにはいったいどんな秘密があるのでしょう。

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感想

同じ監督さんの最新作『The Violent Kind (2010)』を観たので、こちらからレビューします。

この映画『The Hamiltons (2006)』は第1回After Dark Horrorfest（2006年）の参加映画で、私はこの年のヤツの中でコレが一番よかった。『パニック・ゲーム』という邦題で日本版もリリースされたんだが、あまり話題にもならなかったみたいですが、けっこうイイんですよ。

ミッシェル・アルティエリとフィル・フローレスが、2人合わせてブッチャー・ブラザーズなんて、バカなプロレスラーみたいなコンビ名なんだが、その名前とは裏腹に、緻密かつ硬質なドラマ性がこの監督の持ち味です。変人キャラをねちねちと描くのがうまい。

この映画はホラーとサスペンスの中間のような雰囲気で、ショッカー系を期待するとハズすでしょうが、ドラマとしてよくできているとおもう。そういうのが好きなひと向け。

この家族にはどんな秘密が隠されているのであるか。というのがお話の焦点だが、恐らく早い段階で気づく人も多いと思うんだが、それがわかった上でなお、最後のオチがギョッとするからえらいです。

最新作の『The Violent Kind (2010)』では、この監督さんらしい繊細／悲しげ／奇妙な風合いが受け継がれており、さらにドハデなゴア描写がトッピングされ、ぐわーんとおもしろくなっていますよ。繊細少年フランシスくんを演じたコーリー・ナウフが同じく主演で、他のキャストも何人かダブっています。

• The Violent Kind (2010)

後日追記。

その後、本作『パニック・ゲーム (2006)』の続編PART2が出ました↓

• The Thompsons (2012)

Memorable Quotes

Francis Hamilton: What does it mean to be happy? To be content in the world around you? Mom used to say it was family. That family was the heart of everything, even existence. Without it, there's nothing. She would always have these simple answers that somehow would sound so brilliant. And then she died. My father died along with her. Shortly after that, my brother David had to sell the farm where we grew up. Now we're just trying to be an ordinary family. Trying to figure out where we fit in the world. And for me, I'm trying to figure out where I belong, right now in this exact moment.

David Hamilton: Morning sleepyhead! You want some breakfast?
Darlene Hamilton: Why do you even bother?
David Hamilton: Because that's what families do. They have breakfast together.

Francis Hamilton: The twins. They've always been distant from the family. Wendell is the main reason why we move a lot. He just got out of jail for biting some guy's ear off in a Cheesy Chuck's pizza parlor up north. Darlene is just as mean but more refined. Like when we were kids, she used to lock me in the closet just to hear me scream, and hours later would let me out, pretending she was the one who saved me. And I always fell for it.

David Hamilton: I'm off and you go to school.
Francis Hamilton: I really don't fit in there.
David Hamilton: Look, I know it's hard for you, but can you please at least try?
Francis Hamilton: Why? It's not my fault we're always moving!
Wendell Hamilton: [walking in] You're right, Francis. It's my fault. I'm sorry guys. I know I have a bad temper. What do you want me to do?

David Hamilton: Have you fed Lenny?
Wendell Hamilton: Don't look at me, look at granny.
Francis Hamilton: Oh come on, I just did it two days ago!

Paul Glenn: That's quite a creative look you got going on there, young lady. What do you call that?
Darlene Hamilton: [smiling] Death!

David Hamilton: [talking to Paul about working at a slaugherhouse] I'm a carver. I take out organs, prep them, stuff like that.
Darlene Hamilton: Yes, David has had a real knack for gutting the life out of things.
David Hamilton: [nervously laughing] Thank you Darlene!

Paul Glenn: [upon hearing screaming] Did you guys hear that?
Wendell Hamilton: Oh, it's probably just cats... fucking.
Wendell Hamilton: [pounding his fist into his hand] Yep, that's definitely cats fucking alright!

David Hamilton: Alright, so you're sure that they're good?
Wendell Hamilton: Positive. On a road trip? It's gonna be two or three weeks until anyone notices.
David Hamilton: Healthy?
Wendell Hamilton: Oh yeah. I took one for a test drive.
David Hamilton: Quit acting up, okay? I don't want their faces to be showing up on the ten o'clock news like last time. This could sustain us for a while.
Wendell Hamilton: Trust me.
David Hamilton: Alright. Let's get to work.

Wendell Hamilton: [to Francis] Look, I know it fucking seems fucked up, alright? But we do what we do to survive. Alright? You do anything to fuck up our family or most importantly me, I'll fucking kill you.

Kitty Davies: [watching a horror movie] Turn it off! Turn it off!
Darlene Hamilton: It's just a movie, sweetheart. I thought you liked this kind of stuff?
Kitty Davies: I do. It's just these movies are too real sometimes.
Wendell Hamilton: Kitty, if monsters were real they'd be a lot different than they are on TV.

Francis Hamilton: You keep telling yourself that things will change. That it's all a bad dream and one day you'll wake up. I just wish they would catch us, and then it'll all be over.

Francis Hamilton: [after hearing a loud noise] Don't worry. It's just Lenny.
Samantha Teal: What's Lenny?
Francis Hamilton: You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
Samantha Teal: You kill people and then you feed them to something called Lenny?
Francis Hamilton: We're not like you, okay? We're sick. We have a fucking disease.

Francis Hamilton: We live with a disease. Mom used to say it was the one thing that kept us close. I always thought it would be the one thing that keeps us apart. But I was wrong, and everything you thought you knew about us was wrong. We live in the houses next to you. We work in the stores you shop at. Our kids play with your kids. We're just trying to be an ordinary family. Trying to figure out where we fit in, in the world. But we do need blood, and we need a lot of it. Fruitly fresh, and not frozen.

David Hamilton: [to new neighbors] Howdy. We're the Thompsons.

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