Under most circumstances I would not be wasting my breath talking about Wes Craven. I’m not very fond of Wes Craven under most general circumstances because I find his work to have all the subtlety of an open cask of Sarin, which is why I like to call him Wes “Nerve Gas” Craven.

But then, every so often, Wes Craven likes to screw with the tattered remnants of my sanity by coming out with a halfway decent movie or doing something otherwise unlike him. Indeed, Wes Craven sought to buck the system and prove the Broken Clock Theory correct with his film Red Eye.

The Broken Clock Whanow?

For those of you who aren’t familiar, the Broken Clock Theory states that, simply, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Which makes sense…if that clock gives up the ghost when the big hand’s on the three and the little hand’s on the eight, then that clock will be right at eight-fifteen AM and PM every single day. Which, of course, extends also to shoddy filmmakers—sometimes, against all reason or common sense, they get one right.

Nerve Gas Gets Into Terrorists

If you follow Wes’ career very hard, you know that most of his stuff trends heavily toward exploitation horror—real Last House on the Left type stuff. So when he actually brought out a suspense thriller about a hotel employee caught up in a plot to assassinate the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, well, I couldn’t help but take notice.

This worked out pretty well for Wes, whose work has absolutely no subtlety, and thus allowed him to blow up a hotel room with a rocket launcher and make it look totally natural. It really makes me wonder if this isn’t the field of choice for Wes Craven in the future.

Want to be right more than twice a day? Then try our Red Eye movie trivia!

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