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The Fields

USA 2011
produced by
Faust Checho, George Englund jr, Tom Mattera, David Mazzoni, Harrison Smith for Mr. Big Productions, Expressway Productions, Infinity Media, MazWa Productions
directed by Tom Mattera, David Mazzoni
starring Cloris Leachman, Bev Appleton, Joshua Ormond, Tara Reid, Faust Checho, Louis Morabito, Karen Ludwig, Brian Anthony Wilson, Suzanne Inman, Adriana Munera, Renee McCartney, Tom McCarthy, Jane Tarica, Betsy Sanders, Danielle Treuberg, Tom Mattera
written by Harrison Smith, music by John Avarese

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Rural USA, the 1970's: After his parents (Tara Reid, Faust Checho) had a row that almost ended in disaster and had him traumatized, young Steve (Joshua Ormond) is sent away to stay with his grandparents (Cloris Leachman, Bev Appleton) while mommy and daddy try to sort things out.

Steve is an impressionable kid, and the mix of his Godzilla-toys, reports about the Charles Manson-trial, and the horror movies his granny lets him watch influence his perception of the world. So when granny tells him old-wife tales about the cornfield next to their home, he finds it hard to resist the lure of whatever might lie beyond the first few rows of corn, where granny tells him to never go if he doesn't want to get lost and die. Of course he eventually goes into the cornfield, to find all sorts of things, from a fresh corpse to an abandoned fairground, from a bunch of hippie girls that look a bit too much like the Manson-girls to a weirdo (Louis Morabito) who could be Manson himself.

Steve tries to tell his grandparents about what he has encountered, but nobody seems to be willing to listen to him, they think his stories are only figments of his imagination - until his "figments of imagination" attack, kill grandpa's dogs, throw rocks through their home's windows, eventually even use firepower on Steve and family ...

 

I have to admit I am of two minds about this movie: On one hand, it's beautifully directed, manages to capture the atmosphere of menace that carries the movie quite nicely, and especially the cornfield and fairground sets are as impressive as can be. Plus, the film is carried by several excellent performances, especially by Cloris Leachman and Bev Appleton.

On the downside though, the film is just not that well-written. Most of the characters seem to be grossly underdeveloped, several storylines that seem to be essential to the plot evaporate into thin air, others that are essentially of no consequence are fully played out, the resolution of the film's central mystery seems to be a bit on the half-assed side, and the many references to 1970's pop culture get a tad tiring before too long.

That's all not to say The Fields is a terrible film, because it isn't by a longshot, it just lacks the certain spark that could have catapulted it to greatness.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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