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It Be an Evil Moon
UK 2023
produced by Ben Etchells, Rebecca Matthews for Lycan Motion Pictures, Medusa Media, Geordiewood
directed by Ben Etchells
starring Ian Ray-White, Rod Glenn, Sue Moore, Karla Chang, Lesley Sim, Gordon Joseph Millar, Jud Charlton, Chelsea Grace, Rita Limão, Charles Henry, Richard Allen, Wayne Dobson, Sue Bowmer, Meera Solanki, Ian Gardener, Steven Mcardle, Kim Le Tan (voice), Ben Etchells (voice), Kirsty Halliday (voice)
written and music by Ben Etchells, prosthetics designed by Jodie Storey
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Freddy Campbell (Ian Ray-White) is a mild-mannered scientist by nature,
but plagued with a sickly mother (Sue Moore) who treats him like a slave
without ever acknowledging his efforts. Unfortunately, Freddy has also
fallen on hard times of late, so he has become easy prey for crime kingpin
Silon (Rod Glenn), who's quick to take advantage of his predicament and
make him his meth cook. When he's not cooking meth though, Freddy is in
the process of developing a wolfbane-based hair tonic - mainly to grow his
own hair back. He first secretly experiments with it on his mother, and to
his surprise it gets her out of bed and makes her more agile than she had
been in years. That's good enough for Freddy, so he tries the tonic on
himself - and grows a full mop of hair overnight, and the self-confidence
that goes with it. Thus he's finally able to ask pretty storeclerk Karla
(Karla Chang) out on a date, and they have a really good time together -
only for Freddy to come home and find his mother has turned into a hairy,
wolf-like monster, and he ultimately has to kill her in self defense.
Problem is, Freddy soon finds himself turning into a monster as well. On
the good side that means he's finally able to stand up to Silon and his
men and slaughter them. On the bad side that means he's soon deemed a
serialkiller and has to flee into the woods. And on the worse side that
means Silus's brother Milius (also Rod Glenn) gets on his trail to avenge
his brother, and he's as ruthless as they come ...
Now this one sure is fun, an underdog story that somehow rolls
gangster, mad scientist and creature feature tropes into one to tell its
tale of horrors with a hard comedic edge. That doesn't say there isn't any
violence in the film, as the film does get pretty gory at times, but these
scenes are enjoyably over the top, and basically the film's more focussing
on good storytelling. And in that respect, Freddy's monster makeup
deserves special mention that can make him look both menacing and pitiful,
whichever the story demands - helped of course by a very relatable
performance by Ian Ray-White. And a genre-savvy directorial effort of
course also helps making this a cool piece of horror entertainment.
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
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