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When Darkness Falls
UK 2022
produced by Nathan Shepka, John Lepper (executive), Adam Whitton (executive) for Shepka Productions
directed by Nathan Shepka
starring Michaela Longden, Emma O'Hara, Nathan Shepka, Craig McEwan, Ben Brinicombe, Tony Macdonald, Niamh O'Donnell
story by Tom Jolliffe, Nathan Shepka, screenplay by Tom Jolliffe, music by John McFarlane
review by Mike Haberfelner
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In high school, they were best friends, but they've since lost track of
one another - until Andrea (Emma O'Hara) contacts Jess (Michael Longden)
to persuade her to go on a hiking trip through the Scottish Highlands, as
there's a farm somewhere in the middle of nowhere Andrea really wants to
visit. And on the trip the two get on remarkably well given their
different temperaments and that they haven't seen one another in years,
and also taking into account that the hike's actually a pretty dull
affair. But then they stop at a pub for beer and attract the attention of
two "locals", Nate (Nathan Shepka) and Tommy (Craig McEwan), who
are quick to invite them for drinks - and while Andrea's all up for it,
Jess smells something wrong, and when she can't get Andrea to leave, she
just walks ahead. Now Jess's instincts are of course on the money, and
once Jess is gone, Nate roofies Andrea, and Tommy can only be scared off
stalking Jess by ex-cop Beck (Ben Brinicombe), whose way they cross rather
by chance. However, eventually Jess gets very worried about Andrea's
whereabouts, and somehow she can track her and Nate's track to a cottage -
where she rund into just recently stabbed to death Tommy, finds the corpse
of another girl (Niamh O'Donnell), runs into and actually manages to
overcome Nate - but there's no trace of Andrea. And it doesn't take her
long to figure there was something bigger going on than "just" a
rape ... A very clever little thriller that manages to play
with audience expectations and surprise the heck out of the viewer with
what shapes up to be a straightforward yet well-executed story. But after
the set-up pointing in a certain direction, surprise twist is pretty much
heaped onto surprise twist - which admittedly isn't always a good idea,
but here it works very nicely as the story was well thought-through, and
above this well-structured, so to never give away things sooner than
absolutely necessary. And thanks to very solid acting and a genre-savvy
directorial effort that also makes perfect use of the Scottish Highlands,
this has turned out to be just really good genre entertainment.
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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