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Left One Alive
USA 2025
produced by
David Axe, Sarah Massey for Defiant Productions
directed by David Axe, Caylin Sams (guest)
starring Caylin Sams, Lorelei Linklater, Rachel Tracy, Rachel Petsiavas, Aaron Blomberg, Alex Javo, Raj Karottukunnel, Julian Horton, Sanethia Dresch, John Castle, Mike Amason, Chase Daniel Borders, Roman Jacob Boylen, Mary Beth Gray, Pepper Wren, Olivia 'Cookie' Pontoo, Adam Cowart, Arelis Rivera, Ed Janostak, Paige Blackcloud, Christopher Harvey, Jeff Guerrero, Thomas Michael Ryan, Scott Pyke, Wanda Ingram-Thomas, Stephan Jensen, Donte Muse, Tarynn Stineman, Cleve Langdale, Morgan Shaley Renew, Kira Dobbs, Brendan Thompson, Shastity Sousa, Roger Garvin, Ingrid Kempf, Audrey Ann, Autumn Renee, Cody Curtis, Adam T. Slaughter, Paul Reyes, Ceirra Burdyck, Chloe Burdyck, Zoe Young, Bryson Chapman, Sarah Massey
written by David Axe, music by Tyler Matthews
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Driving through a forest, a couple (Julian Horton, Saethia Dresch) stop
dead in their tracks when a blood covered girl, Sara (Caylin Sams)
stumbles out of the woods right in front of their car, holding a
spear in one hand, a severed head in the other. What has happened was she
was on a camping trip with her dodgeball team when they were attacked by a
monster that killed all her friends but ionecplicably left her alive. Of
course, nobody believes her monster story, however, the head she had been
carrying is that of an as-of-yet undiscovered humanoid species. Of course,
this story of hers coupled with the discovery of a new species is soon
enough to make the news, turning her into a bit of a celebrity, to the
point where even a film is made out of her ordeal - for which she doesn't
only get a small fortune, she also for a while dates the actress playing
her, Tara (Lorelei Linklater). But none of that makes Sara really happy,
as she's suffering from survivor's guilt and feels a certain emptiness in
her heart, so much so that those closest to her, her sister (Rachel Tracy)
and a befriended cop (Rachel Petsiavas) start to worry about her. What's
especially troubling is that Sara feels pulled back to the very piece of
forest she's lost all her friends in ...
Monster movies are a dime a dozen, and arguably it's next to
impossible to come up with a new approach to such a pretty much ancient
genre - and yet writer/director David Axe tries and succeeds, as it takes
the genre to the meta-level (which includes self-parody) and pretty much
puts its monsters center stage without showing them for the lontest time,
dealing with issues surrounding their discovery instead. Now this could
still spell recipe for a disaster, but at the same time David Axe is
director who's genre-savvy enough to make it work, to not only serve the
meta-level but also the more visceral espectatiions of his audience. And
the outcome then is just a real joy to watch, a thinking man's monster
movie that still delivers the goods.
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