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The Day After Halloween
USA 2022
produced by Jennifer Askew, Lloyd Jay Fass, Chad Ostrom, Danny Schluck for Penelope Studios
directed by Chad Ostrom
starring Danny Schluck, Brandon DeLany, Aimee Fogelman, Victoria Meade, Joe Lazenby, Zander Schaus, Aaron Champion, Jon Hunter, Jennifer Askew, Lloyd Jay Fass, Corey Pace, Matt McClanahan, Virgil Cardamone, Joshua Dubois, Jeff Mattox
written by Danny Schluck
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's Halloween, and like every year, best buddies Addison (Danny
Schluck) and Hayes (Brandon DeLany) celebrate first at the drive-in
Addison runs, showing scary movies, then have an afterparty with friends
at his house - so just a routine, really, only this time the next morning
they find a dead girl (Aimee Fogelman) in the bath tub, and not just any
girl but Addison's girlfriend, and bruises around her neck suggest she's
been strangled. Now she has broken up with Addison in a rather nasty way
only last night, so he's not really all that devastated about her death,
but exactly for this he would be the key suspect concerning her murder, so
the two of them decide to cut the body apart and bury the parts somewhere
in the woods. But first they want to piece together what might have
happened the night before - and that's not all that easy to piece together
as due to some heavy drinking, things seem a bit hazy. But everything
might have to do with a pretty girl in a silly vampire costume (Victoria
Meade), who in turn might have had something to do with Addison's break-up
with his ex ... Now I don't know if above synpsis hints at it,
but The Day After Halloween is actually a comedy, and a pretty
funny one at that, thanks to well-set and welcomely under-played
punchlines, macabre spots ever so often, and also the very relatable
slacker performances by Danny Schluck and Brandon DeLany, leading a very
solid cast. And what also makes the movie is its non-linear that at first
seems to jump back and forth in time at random, and only after a while the
pattern behind the madness emerges, to pretty exhilarating and hilarious
effect.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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