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They Reach
USA 2020
produced by Bry Troyer, Jason Connelly (exectuive) for Rocket Rat Pictures, Single Schred Films
directed by Sylas Dall
starring Mary Madaline Roe, Eden Campbell, Morgan Chandler, Ash Calder, Frederick Floyd, Taylor Bartle, Steffanie Foster Gustafson, Elizabeth Rhoades, Eric Schmidt, Kyan Zielinski, Damian Vines, Adrienne Jordan, Bry Troyer, Jason Heishman, Tony Gee, Tim Schrup, Tyler Timm, Kara Puerschner, Landon Shepard, Bill Read jr, Leopoldo Ramos, Michael Murphy, Adam Rosand, Maya Sawicka, Lance Caver, Morgen Johnson, Roberto Benitez, Jacob Waluconis, Chase Parton, Lane Nylin, Michaelle Shadday, Jessi Hanson, Dee Dee Roe, Joel Derefied, Philip Roe, Phil Nylin, Ivan Winters, Ezra Winters, Chad Blenkhorn, Jeff Bele, Sylas Dall, Emma Chepard (voice), Bry Troyer (voice)
written by Sylas Dall, Bry Troyer, music by Carlos Garcia, prosthetics and creature effects designed by Danny Brown, creature design by Sylas Dall, special effects makeup by Abby Hartung, Hannah Krutsinger, Rebecca Bex Morrison
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Small town USA, 1979: Both Jessica (Mary Madaline Roe) and her dad John
(Ash Calder) love to spend time in the workshop - so when Jessica one day
brings a box of, basically, trash, they couldn't be happier. And when
Jessica cuts herself and bleeds over an old tape recorder from that box,
it doesn't seem like a big thing - only it is, as this tape recorder is
somehow evil, and soon Jessica starts seeing things, and very disturbing
things at that. Thing is, others start to see these things as well.
Jessica and her best friends Sam (Morgan Chandler) and Cheddar (Eden
Campbell) are quick to link this to Jessica's injury from earlier,
especially since Jessica's scar starts to grow and form some kind of
symbol. Then Jessica comes home one day to see her mum (Elizabeth Rhoades)
pretty much hack herself to bits. Somehow she's convinced this wasn't
really her mum and has to do with the symbol on her hand, so she, Sam and
Cheddar go to the library to find out more, and fortunately the strict
librarian (Steffanie Fostre Gustafson) turns out to be a pretty cool
expert in all things supernatural who hooks them up with the former owner
of the tape recorder, Alex Quinnley (Taylor Bartle), once assistant to his
paranormal investigator dad (Damian Vines) but now a priest, who knows
exactly what's going on, and it seems bleeding on the tape recorder has
awakened a demon who needs Jessica as a tool to open the gate to another
dimension, but to gain enough strength to open the gate, the demon has to
eat enough souls (as in kill people) - so there's still time to stop him
and reverse the process. Time's pressing though, as in the meantime
Jessica's dad has been arrested for killing her mum, and the demon starts
killing all the policemen involved with this in increasingly bizarre ways,
so much so that the local sheriff (Frederick Floyd) comes round to
believing the kids' crazy explanations for all of this. But believing is
one thing, defeating a demon quite another ... A nice throwback
movie to 1980s horrors, not only in regards to sets and props but also in
its approach to the story, meaning everything from its main characters to
its many gory scenes to its strictly practical effects (at least as far as
I could tell) - and it works, as I'm sure fans of these horrors of old
might agree, as apparently the filmmakers loved their blueprints but also
understood their inner workings, and thus present the viewer with a well
mapped out story with all the suspense, shocks and even humour in all the
right places, without trying to force some post modern re-imaginations on
things, and in result making this one fun ride for horror the dedicated
horror fan.
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