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The Dead Ones
USA 2019
produced by Jeremy Kasten, Dan Griffiths, Niels Harboe (executive) for Sick-O-Scope
directed by Jeremy Kasten
starring Sarah Rose Harper, Brandon Thane Wilson, Katie Foster, Torey Garza, Clare Kramer, Muse Watson, Amelia Talbot, Michael James Levy, Shannon Cusack, Shane Tunney, Erik Odom, David DeBoy, Jeff Butler, Bobby Brown
written by Zach Chassler, music by Sean Murray, special makeup effects by Elvin Jones, Jason Collins
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A quartet of misfits, Mouse (Sarah Rose Harper), Scottie (Brandon Thane
Wilson), Emily (Katie Foster) and Louis (Torey Garza), is tasked with
cleaning up their high school as part of summer tetention. As if that
wasn't a bad enough job in itself, it's made a lot worse by the fact that
the school had been the target of a brutal attack that didn't only leave a
clear path of destruction, but also many students and staff dead. And
creepily enough, our four heroes also have to do all cleaning at night.
Now naturally the four are on edge a bit, not made any better that the
teacher (Clare Kramer) overseeing their work goes completely off the
rocker and suddenly shows horrible scars in her face for no discernable
reason. What's worse though, it seems the four are not only locked in with
no way of escape, also the four assassins of above shootings, modelled
after the four riders of the Apocalypse, have gained access to the school,
and it's not very likely they mean well. But that's not even the worst of
it, as it seems reality gradually shifts away from our misfits, and what
they get instead are horrors based on their personal guilts - and
eventually it dawns upon them that they might not be totally innocent in
regards to their own ordeals ... Now this is a mindfuck of a
movie - but in the best possible way, as this is the main premise of the
story, and the film is really successful in gradually leading its audience
down the rabbit hole without giving too much away in advance or
over-explaining at any point. Seriously, the film starts out as pretty
much your standard slasher with what seems like the exact characters one
would expect - but takes more and more turns to the left and right until
its very shocking reveal in the finale including a fate for our heroes
nobody saw coming. And a direction heavy on mood that aims for more than
just jump scares and solid performances help bring this slightly concept
to life rather creepily.
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Robots and rats,
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