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Star Vehicle
Canada 2010
produced by John Craig (executive), Charie Van Dyke (executive) for Plotdigger Films, New Image Entertainment
directed by Ryan Nicholson
starring Dan Ellis, Sindy Faraguna, Nathan Durec, Nick Windebank, Mike Li, Paige Farbacher, Erindera Farga, Kris Michaleski, Matthew Janega, Ady Mejia, Glenn Hoffmann, Gary Starkell, Jason Victor Hernandez, Rochelle Lynn-Jones, Tina Baloochestany, Christopher Lomas
written by Ryan Nicholson, music by Gianni Rossi, (= Steve Moore), special effects by Colin Decker, makeup and prosthetics designer: Michelle Grady
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Scream queen supreme Riversa Red (Sindy Faraguna) shoots a new movie
with first time director Luke (Nathan Durec), another in a long line of
slashers she has done over the years. But this shoot is special inasmuch
as Riversa has a mysterious stalker, one that might be an actual threat to
her well-being if not life. So thank God there's her driver Donald (Dan
Ellis), who also happens to be her biggest fan. And even though he does
show some behavioural problems, including outbreaks of violence, he's
fiercely loyal to her and would never as much as touch let alone hurt her.
So with him she feels safe ... not knowing of course that he has a habit
of killing those who come too close to her, even her boyfriend (Matthew
Janega) coming for a surprise visit. Eventually, his behaviour gets Donald
fired from his job, so he takes Riversa, fellow scream queen Sienna
(Erindera Farga), director Luke, makeup girl Jenny (Paige Farbacher) and
the team's lodge's caretaker (Nick Windebank) hostage to make a real-life
horror movie with him at the whelm. Thing is, this is not even the worst
thing that happens to Donald's captives ... One can't but love Star
Vehicle for its premise already, a slasher movie about the making of a
slasher movie. And fortunately, the film grasps the opportunity to fill
its story with all sorts of self-irony. But despite its comedic bits, the
film doesn't shy away from either gruesomeness or suspense either, and
especially the finale is properly tense, only heightened by a very
disturbing plot twist. And a slick direction that pays plenty of hommage
to old school slashers, and a solid cast this one is one pretty genre trip
indeed.
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