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<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>Country bumpkin Joshua (Braeson Herold) feels a little lost in New York City, so he asks sophisticated local Veronica (Allison Siko) for directions - and ultimately she takes him to her apartment for some BDSM sex, with her playing the dominant part. But it was all just roleplay, actually she's a prostitute, and the apartment is Joshua's, who has made himself a birthday present. Then though, when they're having a goodbye drink, he collapses, with blood coming out of his eyes. He urges Veronica to leave, but she does the right thing instead and drags him to his bed then nurses him until he feels better. During this time they have long conversations about everything, from the spiritual to the mundane, and grow close to one another. Thing is, there's something odd about Joshua - but Veronica finds out only much too late when she slowly loses her senses after having been drugged. You see, Joshua is an immortal - as long as he sacrifices a woman to his father, a water demon, every year, on his birthday ...<p> <p><b>Zero Avenue</b> tries to be many things at once, horror, fantasy, romance, drama and comedy, all while confining its action mostly to just one not too big apartment and to two actors. And surprisingly enough this blend mostly works, thanks to a cleverly structured script that doesn't give away too much too soon, a rather dynamic directorial effort, and camerawork that gets the most out of the limited sets. But what really makes the film are the performances by the leads who not only have great chemistry but also manage to bring the ambivalence of the script to life, to make this a very engaging genre-bending tour de force. <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 = "2022"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>