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A Bad Luck Guy in a Bad Luck Town
USA 2015
produced by Kyle Johannessen, Greg Metro, Justine Gendron (executive) for Transparent Frog Films
directed by Kyle Johannessen
starring Chris Goodwin, Diana Porter, Theresa Dern, Aaron Andrade, Guy Penumbra, Rachel Brown, Kyle Johannessen, Greg Metro, Jay Romanus, Adam Pender, Alexandra Dos Santos, Rachel Brown, Bridget Cadigan
screenplay by Kyle Johannessen, based on the short story A Bad Luck Day for a Bad Luck Guy in a Bad Luck Town by Joe Botsch, music by Erin Murray, cinematography by Mikel J. Wisler, edited by Justine Gendron, sound design by Evelyn Arteaga
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review by Mike Haberfelner
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It really isn't our hero's (Chris Goodwin) day, from being awakened by
a piano crashing onto the pavement from the third floor to being mugged on
his way to his favourite breakfast place (which is presently burning down
by the way), nothing has gone right. It's karma claims his sister (Diana
Porter) ... but then of course she dies right in front of his very eyes
from a freak choking accident. Somehow, our hero is led to a fortune
teller (Theresa Dern) by the one item his sister has left him, and since
he's got nothing to use, he goes in and finds the fortune teller a rather
charming lady who can really relate to his story ... of course, until she
turns into a demon (Aaron Andrade) who thinks he's got the rights to steal
our guy's soul ... but finds out he actually hasn't - which is good for
our hero as he gets to keep his soul yet another day, but also bad because
whoever has set him on that demon's list has something even worse in store
for him ... A Bad Luck Guy in a Bad Luck Town is really
a hoot of a movie - and that's because it doesn't seem to try to be. On
the surface, the film's dead serious, mixing film noir mainstays
(including first person voice-over narration and a fatalistic approach)
with the supernatural (like the demon and the lead's constant hints at
being something of a rogue demon hunter), and (apart from Aaron Andrade as
the demon maybe) the cast plays it straight, and it's really the
situations they are thrown in, the often intentionally stilted mono- and
dialogue, the many little details and the very dry approach to everything
that make this one really worth your while!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
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