Tess (Annabella Rich) has just had her first rehearsal with her bandmate and ex (Jackson Batchelor) since he has dumbed her for another woman. And even though rehearsal itself went great, for her it was a rollercoaster fide, so when her dad (Phil Lyndon) calls her and asks her to stick around the venue she has rehearsed at for a little while as he might have found a buyer for it and wants her to host him  till he himself comes around, she's actually happy with this as it might be the diversion she needs. And when she meets the prospective buyer, Edward (Cy Henty), things go rather nicely at first, as he's a musician like her, and he even offers her to become part of the club's life line-up. Everything goes well really until he starts to talk about his wife, Alice (Keeley-Jo Rupp), and how she died, leaving it open whether it was murder or manslaughter. One certainly can't blame Tess for getting slightly creeped out, but eventually she manages to kick him out. Only a few minutes later he knocks at the door, acts all apologetic, and persuades her to let him in under a pretense. And once they're alone inside the place again, he shows his true colours - which are worse than what Tess could have ever imagined ...

This movie is pretty much a tour de force entirely lying on the shoulders of its two leads, Annabella Rich and Cy Hendry, who both give marvelous performances and can really make the emotional rollercoasters their respective characters are on palpable. And the scripts they're working from is pretty much relentless - but also well-structured, and it affords the lead characters quite some depth, while the direction and camerawork give the proceedings a very stylish look that nevertheless doesn't distract from the emotional core of the film and leaves the actors plenty of space to breathe. That all said, this is quite a disturbing flim, and certainly not for everyone - but genre fans most certainly won't be disappointed.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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