Hot Picks
|
|
|
Seclusion
USA 2016
produced by Joe Bandelli, Matthew Wise for Seclusion Productions
directed by Joe Bandelli
starring Matthew Wise, Clea Alsip, Duane Nakia Cooper, Nicole Pacent, Jackie Byrne, Alyson McKenzie Wells, Joe Bandelli, Ralph Cashen
written by Joe Bandelli, Matthew Wise, music by John Andy Smart, special effects by Joe Bandelli, special effects makeup by Lexan Rosser, visual effects by Platinum Platypus/Pete Sussi, stunt coordinator: Kazy Tauginas
review by Mike Haberfelner
|
|
It should have been the most beautiful day in Grant (Matthew Wise) and
Sarah's (Clea Alsip) lives, their weddingday ... so they have invited only
the closest of their friends to the cermony in a cabin in the woods, plus
a supposedly cool marriage registrar, Jay (Joe Bandelli) - but somehow the
thing doesn't work out quite as romantically as planned as the registrar's
"coolness" reduces itself to him trying to pick up babes most of
the time, somebody has brought Grant's former soulmate Dani (Nicole
Pacent), who's actualyl madly in love with him, and everybody but Grant
but especially Sarah notices it, Grant's best man Carter's (Duane Nakia
Cooper) is a slut, and he tries to not see it but it's breaking him down,
Beth (Jackie Byrne) is a irredeemable cynic, and caretaker Walter (Ralph
Cashen) is just weird. Now the scene is all set for a weekend in hell ...
even before it becomes apparent that there's a serial killer on the
premises, and the more of Grant and Sarah's friends die, the more apparent
it becomes that it's one of the group who's behind all of this ... Not
only for a slasher movie, Seclusion is pretty well-written - not so
much because the revelation comes at a surprise but because the characters
are well fleshed-out and actually downright funny most of the time. Plus
the main and main supporting characters do have their own arcs rather than
just ending up as cannon fodder, and while most of the situations are not
exactly novel, the approach to them is at least. Now add to that a
light-footed direcorial approach, gore in all the right places, and a cast
obviously in on the film's joke, and you've got yourself a fun genre
movie!
|
|
|
review © by Mike Haberfelner
|
Feeling lucky? Want to search any of my partnershops yourself for more, better results? (commissions earned) |
The links below will take you just there!!!
|
|
|
Thanks for watching !!!
|
|
|
Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
|