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Greywood's Plot
USA 2019
produced by Josh Stifter, Daniel Degnan, Nathan Strauss, Keith Radichel for Flush Studios, Don't Blink
directed by Josh Stifter
starring Josh Stifter, Keith Radichel, Daniel Degnan, Kim Fagan, Nathan Strauss, Jennifer Stifter, Stefanie Eidenshenk, Lauren Addy, Sarah Yannarelly, Ben Gardner, Matthew Greve, Jordan Greeve, Alice Crozier, Finn Degnan, Avery Merrifield, Samantha Kirchoff, Chuck Houk (voice), Bentley Michaels, Erling Stoehr, Aaron McKenna
written by Josh Stifter, Daniel Degnan, music by Curtis Allen Hager, visual effects by Josh Stifter
Chupacabra
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Dom (Josh Stifter) is a wannabe cryptozoologist who has turned so
disillusioned by things - from his failing podcast to still having to live
in the basement of his mother's (Kim Fagan) place - that he has started to
develop suicidal tendencies. Then he receives an anonymous package
containing a tape that might actually show the Chupacabra that also
reveals the location of the sighting, and he gets all excited again, and
pretty much forces his partner in cryptozoology Miles (Keith Radichel) -
who's much more a skeptic and realist than he is - to accompany him to the
location, situated on the land of one Doug Greywood (Daniel Degnan), who
at first sight seems to be somewhat sympathetic to their cause and open to
let them camp however long they want. At first though the expedition seems
to be a dead end though like all their other expeditions, but then they
find a weird skeleton, definitely not from any known species - and while
Dom finds himself vindicated at last, Miles freaks out and wants to quit.
But then, Dom is abducted while Miles stumbles into a land of
cryptozoological wonders. Thing is, there's something seriously wrong with
all of this, as both Dom and Miles will soon painfully find out ... First
of all, even if it may sound like it, this is not a found footage movie -
and it's actually quite nicely filmed, too, especially the scene when
Miles stumbles through cryptozoological wonderland, also due to nice
prosthetic effectswork of course. And that out of the way, this is a quite
an unusual film, especially since it starts out a bit like a slacker
comedy, with the two main actors playing off one another quite nicely
while each really gets quite a few giggles - before the third act changes
everything with its quite explicit scenes of surgery, weird creatures and
nightmarish images - all of which makes this a pretty nice
off-the-beaten-track piece of horror cinema of course.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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