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Somewhere deep in the middle of nowhere, rural Tennessee: When Paw
(Victor Hollingsworth) and his teenaged son Caleb (William Ryan Watson)
find young Sylvia (Jackie Kelly), all bloodied up, by the roadside, they
don't ask too many questions and give her abode at their farm to nurse her
back to health. Since she has no place to go, they ask her to stay and
help out with farmwork, which he happily agrees to. Caleb finds Sylvia
very alluring, and it turns out she's not at all adverse to his advances,
and they soon enough start to screw. Behind Caleb's back, Sylvia soon
seduces Paw as well, and when Caleb finds out, he just figures it's the
nature of things. One day, Reverend Simms (Wynn Reichert) stops by to pick
up Sylvia, who's still underage, and return her to the orphanage she's run
from, but Paw has the idea that Sylvia ought to sleep with him as well, on
a weekly basis, just to keep him at bay. Caleb protests, but Sylvia is
surprisingly ok with it. And truth to be told, all three men soon take a
liking to the arrangement, after all, they're all satisfied, sexually, and
Sylvia doesn't complain at all. Of course, there are signs that
everything's not quite as ok as it seems, from mysteriously dying
lifestock to brute Ronnie (Jason Christ) stopping by with the intention to
kill Sylvia, to the Reverend's wife (Christine Poythress) claiming
Sylvia's of the Devil, but the three men are thinking with their dicks, so
they just try to keep a good thing going - and then she tells them she's
pregnant, and of course has no idea which of them's the father - but of
course, one of them has to marry her to keep up appearances. And here's
where things go to hell ... A very nice piece of horror that
blends catholic and rural folklore, bits of erotica and even comedy with a
general undercurrent of unease, all brought to life in the farmlands of
Tennessee, with an atmospheric directorial effort making most of the
locations bringing the feel (and heat) of the area really across and
making it palpable for the viewer. And thanks to a clever narrative
build-up the audience is left guessing till the end. And of course, a very
solid cast doesn't hurt one bit, either. Worth a look for sure. And if this has
gotten you at all interested, you might want to get Tennessee Gothic
from either of these places: Rent/Buy VOD:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/tennesseegothic
Blu-ray & Merchandise:
https://www.gypsyrootproductions.com/shop
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