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Safe House 1618
USA 2021
produced by Jamal Page (executive) for Black Sparrow Media
directed by Calvin T. Shepherd
starring Jasmine Day, Matison Card, Brittney Carpenter, Jesse Davis, Ryan Fredericks, Cody Alban, Andrew Hook, Michael Puchino, Wyatt Jordan, Randy Rochford, Maddie Steele, Ryan Hart, Emma Gollob, Micah Wilborn, James Slorf, August Ricardo, Byron Thompson (voice), Miko Coffey (voice), Garrett Brady (voice), Jamal Page (voice)
written by Calvin T. Shepherd, music by Wyatt Jordan
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Three women in masks - Joelene (Jasmine Day), Lee (Matison Card) and
Jamie (Brittney Carpenter) - execute a young man, Ronan (Cody Alban), and
do an expert job of getting rid of the body, the weapon, and they make a
getaway to a safe house, where they and their driver Craig (Jesse Davis)
are to spend the next 40 or so days to then try to make it out of the
country. Problem here is, Ronan was not just any young guy, he was the son
of Senator Kelly (Andrew Hook), and the senator wants the death of his boy
avenged, and in contrast to his official law-and-order attitude he hires
professional hitman No. 1 (Ryan Fredericks) to kill whoever's responsible
for his boy's death. And that's not too hard to figure out, because the
girls had a strong motive to kill Ronan, as he took Joelene and her best
friend Julia (Maddie Steele) captive, shot Julia dead and raped and
tortured Joelene in front of her dead body - and despite all the evidence,
he went away scot free for being the son of a senator. But Lee has planned
the execution and also the getaway well, so if the girls and Craig avoid
any contact to the outside world, including just stepping outside, there's
no way they even can be found. Problem is, Jamie has a boyfriend and has
smuggled a cellphone into the house to call him every now and again, and
Craig has a drug problem and has to see his dealer ever so often. All
clues No. 1 uses to gradually track down the girls without them even
knowing he's coming ...
A pretty tight thriller that somehow manages to turn its
rather far-fetched premise into a believable and even relatable story,
thanks to nicely drawn, interesting characters with enough depth to keep
an audience engaged, and enough fallability to keep the tension up. And of
course, a nicely structured script with suspense and outbursts of violence
in all the right places and a genre savvy directorial effort also help in
make this a very thrilling piece of entertainment.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
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the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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