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Getaway
Getaway Girls
USA 2020
produced by Jaclyn Betham, Erin Naifeh, Liz Zwiebel, Lane Toran (executive), Ryan Bury (executive), James Andrew Felts (executive) for Getaway Productions
directed by Lane Toran
starring Jaclyn Betham, Scout Taylor-Compton, Landry Allbright, Lane Toran, Lane Caudell, Noah Lowdermilk, Jamil Walker Smith, Ben Deschaine, Liz Zwiebel, Chrystopher Ryan Johnson, Nick Price, Luke Gregson, Olivia Dickerson, Justin Moore, Erin Naifeh, Kynsleigh Queen, Danielle Nicole (voice), Lane Ragsdale (voice)
written by Jaclyn Betham, Lane Toran, music by Lane Toran
review by Mike Haberfelner
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All Tamara (Jaclyn Betham) wanted to do is to catch up with her
girlfriends Maddy (Scout Taylor-Compton) and Brooke (Landry Allbright) for
a "relaxing" weekend at the lake - with a bit of booze and
partying on the side. But then her car breaks down, and while she's soon
helped by "Samaritans" Merv (Lane Toran) and Kib (Noah
Lowdermilk), the two of them show less than honourable intentions. That
night, Tamara has caught up with her friends, and the three of them party
like crazy at a local dive, so crazy that Tamara fails to notice that
someone has slipped something into her drink - and eventually she passes
out and later that night wakes up tied up in a shed, with her captors
being Merv and Kib and their Pa (Lane Caudell), all of whom turn out to be
religious nutters with the intention to rape/impregnate and kill her to
her give birth to a new angel in heaven. Tamara is scared shitless, as one
would, but she keeps it together inasmuch that she puts a good scare into
them by cursing them pretending she's an emmissary of Satan. Of course, an
empty curse shows only limited effect even on the gullible, but then weird
and definitely less than holy things start to happen in and around the
shed Tamara's kept at ... At first, Getaway comes across
as your typical backwoods thriller, really ticking all the boxes and
actually doing a good job doing just that, but at the same time not
exactly spelling originality - to then really turn things around in the
third act when the story (and the formula as such) is turned onto its head
and really pulling no stops in the process. The result is a really tight
horror flick that manages to not only scare but also surprise one several
times down the road, and furthermore keeps one on the edge of one's seat
throughout, all of which is making this a pretty cool genre flick!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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