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Red Hook
USA 2009
produced by Brad Rubenstein, Kris Stewart, Joel Ehrlich (executive), Phyllis Ehrlich (executive) for Red Sand Media Partners
directed by Elizabeth Lucas
starring Christina Brucato, Tate Ellington, Bryan Flenkart, Hollis Scarborough, Karla Mosley, Frankie Shaw, Alex Brightman, Brian J.Smith, Karissa Staples, Terrence Mann, Debargo Sanyal, Jessica Aitken, Kelli Barrett, R.Scott Denny, Jay DeYonker, Asmeret Ghebremichael, Lizzie Moore, Jamal Patterson, Shoshanna Richman, Shonn Wiley
story by Sammy Buck, Elizabeth Lucas, screenplay by Sammy Buck, music by Quentin Chiappetta
review by Mike Haberfelner
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When she was 10 (and played by Jessica Aitken), she has seen her sister
(Kelli Barrett) killed by a cop, and she has had issues with trusting
anyone ever since. Now Jenny (Christina Brucato) is 18 and has just
moved to a dorm in NYC, and finally she starts to open up, and even
starts a relationship with Gavin (Tate Ellington), a young man who just
like her has experienced loss early in life. Then, Tim (Bryan Fenkart)
persuades Jenny and all of her friends to take part in a scavenger hunt,
and Jenny is immediately worried when Gavin doesn't show up at the
appointed location - but then the scavenger hunt just starts without him.
Jenny though has every reason to be worried, as her friends are
slaughtered one by one, as is Tim, who was of course the logical suspect. Eventually,
Lt Fox (Terrence Mann), the man who saved Jenny from her sister's killer,
is presented as a new suspect, but when Jenny, with most of her friends
already dead, enters the lion's den, the killer turns out to be (to
nobody's real surprise) Gavin, who has killed all of Jenny's friends
because ... aw, who cares anyways. In the end, Jenny is saved by Lt Fox
yet again. Uninteresting slasher full of characters you don't
care for in the least and subplots that lead to nowhere, carried by only
minimal tension and full of suspense scenes that are so run-of-the-mill
they are nothing short of boring. Some of the electronic minimalist incidental music
is pretty good though, at least.
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