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Molly (Lana Morris) loves her brother Finlay (Lee Patterson), with whom
she runs a farm in the middle of howhere since the death of their parents.
And that said, Finlay's mentally unstable and delusional, and needs
constant checking up on so that he doesn't get into trouble, also for his
violent temper. One day, Finlay finds an unconscious woman (Sheila Raynor)
in a fresh car wreck, and he drags her home believing her to be their
mother returned to life. Now it doesn't take Molly long to notice the
woman is slowly dying and needs medical attention, but Finlay will have
none of it. Of course she can't risk just calling the authorities to take
care of the situation, because they'd probably take her brother in in the
process, so she tries to make up ruse after ruse to take the woman away
from her brother, ruses that also involve Tom (Peter Dyneley), a
befriended neighbourhood repairman, but while Finlay might be mentally
unstable, he's not stupid and soon realizes something's going on behind
his back - and thinks his hated father has come back to take his mother
away. Molly fails to convince him otherwise, which is especially bad since
Finlay has a gun, and would use it on his father or on anyone he thinks is
he ... A low budget less than an hour long programmer, this
little thriller made barely a ripple upon its release and little more
since - and that's a shame as it's an extremely tight psycho thriller that
might be a bit sketchy and over-simplifying in its characterizations, but
it makes more than up for it in terms of tension and atmosphere, making
the best of uses of the limited sets and locations, and the camerawork
that sometimes leans towards expressionism sure does its share to make
this one polished movie. A forgotten gem really that deserves way more
attention than it's getting.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
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