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Live-Evil
USA 2015
produced by Laura Irvine, Tryst Chagnon, Bruce Kirschenbaum (executive)
directed by Ari Kirschenbaum
starring Charlene Amoia, Vladimir Kulich, Tony Todd, Vincent M. Ward, J. Richey Nash, Karen Wheeling Reynolds, Ed Ricker, Carter, Tamara Farias, Frank Saverino, Ira David Wood III, Tim Ross, Raven Whisnant, Jackson Prather, Russell A. Bryan, Meredith Parks, Dani Gehle, Meagan Mackenzie
written by Ari Kirschenbaum, music by Shawn Lee
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The craziest things happen at halloween night, so at first it doesn't
even seem strange when deputy Hancock (Charlene Amoia) takes in a naked
woman that seemed to go up in flames before her very eyes but then came
out of it totally unscathed. It gets a little weirder, when, once the
woman's in a cell, Sheriff Peter (Vladimir Kulich) thinks she's his dead
father, and the other deputies see totally different persons in there ...
and it's only thanks to Hancock that nobody shoots her in some street
justice gone out of hand. But that might not be an entirely good thing ... You
see, the later the evening gets, the freakier things occur, and it all
might have to do with some mysterious box two of the FBI's most wanted (Ed
Ricker, Carter) have brought to town, and which a professor of the local
university (Ira David Wood III) brought in for an expertise inadvertedly
opens to ... well, apparently raise the dead - and saying all hell breaks
loose then would be a bit of an understatement ... Tony Todd plays the
local Pastor, who finds himself at the mercy of the undead and is forced
to do ... something oddly unusual. Live-Evil is first
and foremost just a fun genre film. Sure, on closer inspection, the plot
might not be entirely hole-less or always following proper logic - but at
the same time it's very well timed to not give one too much time to worry
about such things, it's very stylishly shot with plenty of references to
zombie classics of old without just becoming a postmodern copycat, it
profits greatly from its somewhat ironic take on its own story without
becoming moronic or forgetting tension and suspense, and the cast all seem
to be in on the joke, but give straight performances still. Ultimately,
it's horror entertainment the horror fan (at least) is sure to enjoy!
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