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The Devil to Pay
Reckoning
USA 2019
produced by
Allison Maier, Gabriel Olson, Martin L. Kelley, Danielle Deadwyler, Lane Skye, Ruckus Skye, Robert Eagar (executive), Thomas Magill (executive) for Crooked Crow Films, Buckhead Film Group
directed by Lane Skye, Ruckus Skye
starring Danielle Deadwyler, Ezra Haslam, Jayson Warner Smith, Brad Carter, Adam Boyer, Catherine Dyer, Charles Black, Parisa Johnston, Tim Habeger, Shelby Hofer, Luce Rains, Allison Maier, Donnie Johnson, Steven Keith Phillips, Morris Phillips, Bill Tipton, Clay Logan, Matthew Dunaway
written by Lane Skye, Ruckus Skye, music by Brad Carter, special effects by Vii Kelly
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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A self-gouverned farm community somewhere in the rougher stretches of
the Appalachian mountains: Lemon (Danielle Deadwyler) has always been a
hard worker, has never caused any trouble and has always paid her
"taxes" to the comminity's ruling family, the Runions - but her
husband, who has abandoned her and their son Coy (Ezra Haslam) has left a
considerable debt with Tommy Runion (Catherine Dyer), cookie-obsessed
matriarch of the family, and she gives Lemon just two days to pay up,
otherwise her sons (Jayson Warner Smith, Brad Carter, Adam Boyer) will
kill her son, and to make a point they already dig up a grave. Being in no
position to pay up, Lemon starts digging up dirt regarding the Runions and
their age old adversaries, the Knoxes, and ultimately what she comes up
with starts a bloodshed that also involves the local acid-obsessed cult.
But having achieved all that much, she has her hands full staying ahead of
the avalanche she has caused ... Heavy on sun-drenched
atmosphere of unease, this is a very chilling piece of Southern gothic,
also because it doesn't just use its premise and impressive backdrops just
for soulless big spectacle but puts an effort into making the mood
palpable and give the whole thing a very archaic feel, as if the violence
that eventually breaks out has been hiding under the surface all along -
that surface being best esemplified as Catherine Dyer's character, who's
never shown not baking cookies and who's made it her habit to weave death
threats into the endless recipes she recounts. And thanks to a very
grounded cast and a no-nonsense directorial effort, this has turned out to
be a wonderfully unsettling film.
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