Directed by:
Jack MessittScreenplay:
Jack MessittComposer:
Penka KounevaCast:
Rebekah Brandes, Daniel Bonjour, Brea Grant, Bebe Pham, Jon Briddell, Michael Gleissner, Michael Swan, Arthur Roberts, Mandell Maughan, Jim Mahoney (more)VOD (1)
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At a run down theater in a sleepy suburban town, a group of friends get together for a midnight screening of an early 1970s horror film. The director/star is thought to have died five years earlier in a psych ward massacre. But the detective and doctor who witnessed the aftermath of the bloodbath suspect that the director was not a victim, but the perpetrator of the killings and is still on the loose. What none of them understand is that he has enshrined his soul into the film itself. As the film starts, the kids heckle the old black-and-white scenes, but are jolted when the movie’s gruesome killer butchers one of their friends on screen! They realize that it is not the prank that they had hoped it was as they soon become the stars of the very movie they are watching on the screen. Caught between the world of reality and the screen’s flickering shadows, these unsuspecting viewers fight to stay alive in the locked theater. (official distributor synopsis)
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An original, tense, bloody and fun slasher with an intense, proper B-movie flavour, the kind we haven’t seen in a long time. Really, this film was a very pleasant surprise, especially given the current rating in IMDB (3.6). I expected something ugly, but what I got instead is a film that’s more than just solid, one clearly created by horror fans (and made for them, too). I loved the beautiful murders (especially the “two with one hit” one :-D), the diversity of the characters and, above all (considering the circumstances), their rational behaviour. This is the kind of slasher that makes you forget questions like “Why don’t they try this? Why don’t they do that?”, because this time the characters do try out most of the clever ideas. Another good thing is the villain. With a bit of care, this killer could become a pretty popular horror icon (it looks nice enough, has a typical gait and an interesting origin), especially if in the sequel (for which the film casually leaves the back door open) he can get properly unleashed and, well… crawl out of the screen. It’s clear that rookie director Jack Messitt has made me very happy with his debut, and I will look forward to his future projects.
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