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Hell's Threshold
USA 2006
produced by Felix Diaz, Mark Moss for Felmark Entertainment
directed by Felix Diaz
starring Gervase Peterson, Matt von Siegel, Anna Maria Fargiosa, Melissa Elizabeth Forgione, Martha Gay, Ella Lazo, Jillian Peters, Sabrina Riedel, Giancarlo Maleno, Sara O'Connor, Rodrigo, Bolden Abrams jr
written by Felix Diaz, Mark Moss, Rodrigo, music by Bolden Abrams jr, David Brothers, Rodrigo
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A TV-reporter (Martha Gay) interviews Sam Bishop (Gervase Peterson), a
man suspected of multiple murder, but never convicted due to lack of
evidence. She tells him she wants to hear his side of the story, but it
becomes clear from the get-go that she just wants to get her overly biased
piece of sensationalist yet run-of-the-mill TV-fodder and she is not
really interested in what the man has to say as long as it fits with their
views. Sam Bishop however is not very interested in TV-popularity or doing
the woman favours - instead he tells his tale about his wife being
brutally murdered, and about four models (Anna
Maria Frangiosa, Melissa
Elizabeth Forgione, Jillian Peters, Sabrina Riedel) touring an
apartment for sale with their realtor (Ella Lazo), an apartment that
actually turns into a death-trap when a creature from another dimension
comes and kills them one by one. And he tells the reporter how this all
has ties to a Romeo
and Juliet-like lovestory from 155 years ago. The reporter
is shocked - about how little the interview has to do with what she was
planning to hear. But does that say it's not true? Hell's
Threshold might not sound like much in writing, but it's a pretty
clever film, a movie that's told in a mazelike manner, that deliberately
gives plot elements away way too soon to later present them once more in a
different light, and a movie that is heavy on atmophere, even in the most
mundane of scenes. That said though, Hell's Threshold is not quite
the masterpiece it could have been, at times it just seems a bit too
repetitive, and some of the (probably improvised) dialogue is just too
trivial to really hold one's interest for long - but as a whole, this is a
pretty good low budget horror flick!
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