(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <p>A self-gouverned farm community somewhere in the rougher stretches of the Appalachian mountains: Lemon (Danielle Deadwyler) has always been a hard worker, has never caused any trouble and has always paid her "taxes" to the comminity's ruling family, the Runions - but her husband, who has abandoned her and their son Coy (Ezra Haslam) has left a considerable debt with Tommy Runion (Catherine Dyer), cookie-obsessed matriarch of the family, and she gives Lemon just two days to pay up, otherwise her sons (Jayson Warner Smith, Brad Carter, Adam Boyer) will kill her son, and to make a point they already dig up a grave. Being in no position to pay up, Lemon starts digging up dirt regarding the Runions and their age old adversaries, the Knoxes, and ultimately what she comes up with starts a bloodshed that also involves the local acid-obsessed cult. But having achieved all that much, she has her hands full staying ahead of the avalanche she has caused ...<p> <p>Heavy on sun-drenched atmosphere of unease, this is a very chilling piece of Southern gothic, also because it doesn't just use its premise and impressive backdrops just for soulless big spectacle but puts an effort into making the mood palpable and give the whole thing a very archaic feel, as if the violence that eventually breaks out has been hiding under the surface all along - that surface being best esemplified as Catherine Dyer's character, who's never shown not baking cookies and who's made it her habit to weave death threats into the endless recipes she recounts. And thanks to a very grounded cast and a no-nonsense directorial effort, this has turned out to be a wonderfully unsettling film. <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2020"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>