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Inspiration
Canada 2016
produced by Jim Fuller, Karrie Fuller, David Mun, Chris Abell, Chris Carnel, Jason Armstrong (executive), Jacqui Armstrong (executive), Scott Williams (executive), Mitch Mommaerts (executive), Chad Chatterson (executive) for SKG Films
directed by Jason Armstrong
starring Emily Alatalo, Ry Barrett, Jennifer Polansky, Sean Anthony, Colin Paradine, Valerie Morrissey, Andrew Roth, Chris Carnel, Tianna Nori, Jake Raymond, Caleigh Le Grand, Torin Langen, Becky E. Shrimpton, Sean Kaufmann, Drew Brown, Tony Longworth, Jeff Lamers, Kaleb Takacs, Ciara Kaleva, Haley Csernetics, Kendra Madill, John Cross, Jay Hiiuvain, Emily Schooley, Mike Klassen, Scott Williams, Zach Ramelan
written by Jason Armstrong, music by Tony Longworth
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Samantha (Emily Alatalo) has once been a successful horror writer, but
then she switched to romance ... and pretty much failed - so her agent
(Tianna Mori) wants to persuade her to return to horror, but without
success ... at first, because eventually, Sam catches her husband (Ry
Barrett) cheating on her, and thus she decides to leave it all behind to
move to a little village in the mountains to have the appropriate peace
and quiet for writing, and horror should be just the right genre to get
over her frustrations. Things start to get the wrong way though when she
accidently runs over a guy on crutches (Chris Carnel) and kills him, and
then instead of reporting the thing, burns his body. Problem is, from now
on she seems to see him everywhere, killing her friends, which does get
kind of annoying, plus the persons around her, including her neighbours
(Valerie Morrissey, Andrew Roth) and her maybe future lover (Colin
Paradine) start to act weird, and when her sister (Jennifer Polansky)
brings two hitchhikers (Jake Raymond, Caleigh Le Grand) who might have
sinister motives to a party at Sam's, things do get completely out of hand
... Now if you need your horror movie's story spoon-fed, Inspiration's
probably not the film for you as it plays with the audience's perception
of things, offer's its lead's visions as sort of an alternate reality,
leaves the plot open to wild interpretation and the like ... and that all
works totally for the movie, it's basically a mindfuck of a movie that
totally bears repeat watching and applies the logic of a nightmare to
things - which is never a wrong thing to do in the horror realm. But to
really make this work, Inspiration is based on a very clever script
and directed subtly enough to not lead the viewer even further away. And
add to this a very able ensemble cast, and you've got yourself a pretty
awesome piece of horror!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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