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Flay
USA 2017
produced by Eric Pham, Kristine Pham, Trung Pham (executive), Jared Smith (executive), Brett Harrison (executive) for Phame Factory
directed by Eric Pham
starring Elle LaMont, Johnny Walter, Dalton E. Gray, Violett Beane, Aaron Spivey-Sorrells, Peggy Schott, Kaylee King, Noé de la Garza, A. Michael Baldwin, Rick Delgado, Sarah Joy Byington, Mike Dell, Shelby Davenport, Mike Rains, Brian Wilson, Matt K. Baker
written by Matthew Daley, music by Akihiko Matsumoto, special effects makeup by Ali Davis
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Patricia (Peggy Schott) was an artist who has been fighting with drug
problems all her life - until she's found dead in her studio, and even
though she was believed to be clean of late, everybody's assuming an
overdose. Patricia's daughter Moon (Elle LaMont) has left mother years ago
since she couldn't handle her drug issues anymore, but she comes back for
her wake - to reunite with her teenaged brother River (Dalton E. Gray) who
has never forgiven her for leaving him behind, as he was to young to move
out on his own back when. He has since turned into a bit of a trouble
child, also egged on by his girlfriend, bad girl Bethany (Violett Beane).
Plus, Moon's former boyfriend Tyler (Johnny Walter), who's now a police
officer, hasn't completely given up on her, which at first doesn't agree
to her too well.
Thing is, Patricia didn't die from drugs at all. Actually, her death
has to do with a centuries old chain once used to chain up a Native
American medicine man who has cursed it since. And when Patricia stole the
chain, her fate was sealed. Problem is, the chain's still around, and it
seems to draw everybody around to it, so soon, links of it land in Moon's
handbag, while Bethany makes friendship trinkets out of them for herself,
River, and their friends Chrissie (Kaylee King) and Hector (Noé de la
Garza) - which calls a couple of white-masked killers, one male, one
female, onto the scene as well as opening a gateway to a nightmare
dimension ...
Basically, Flay is of course a slasher movie, with all the
elements in place, from the high school setting to the insubordinate
teens, the maked killers to the gruesome and inventive murders. But what's
nice (and unusual) about Flay is it also spends time with its
characters, treats them like more than mere cannon fodder (to the point
where it's impossible to guess who dies, who survives), gives them
character arcs and conflict that would also work outside a slasher
framework. And that said, the film's still tense and suspenseful and
violent in all the right places, to make this one cool genre
entertainment.
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