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Lily Grace: A Witch Story
USA 2015
produced by Scott Seegmiller, James Palmer, Wes Miller for Where We Are Productions
directed by Wes Miller
starring Scott Seegmiller, James Palmer, Greg Travis, Sonya Cooke, Ross Crain, Matthew Koenig, Sean Harrigan
written by James Palmer, music by Sid De La Cruz, special effects makeup by Andy Wright
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Rather unexpectedly, Ronald (Scott Seegmiller) inherits a house and
fortune from a father he never really got to know - but going through the
house - somewhere in the middle of nowhere, USA -, he finds some
disquieting things, like notes about one Lily Grace (Sonya Cooke),
apparently a witch his father was mortally afraid of. Ronald tries to find
out from the Sheriff (Greg Travis) if his father was actually master of
his own senses, but only gets evading answers. The area surrounding dad's
house does have a surreal quality though, he finds heaps of abandoned
clocks in the woods, and empty picture frames by the dozen, none of which
makes sense. But what about that pink purse Ronald finds and carries back
home ... which almost immediately gets him at odds with Jake (James
Palmer), a petty criminal after the same purse - but not the brightest of
beings, so Ronald talks him into helping him finish a trap his father has
started to build to capture Lily Grace. Soon, Jake and Ronald even become
kind of friends ... until a trio of hoodlums (Ross Crain, Sean Harrigan,
Matthew Koenig) show up and want to take possession of the purse, not
knowing it plays a central part in Ronald's plan of catching the witch - a
situation that can only amount to bloody chaos ... Now to be
terribly honest, it's rather easy to at times lose the plot of Lily
Grace: A Witch Story, as much of the film remains under-explained, and
some vital clues and explanations are not even given until way too late in
the movie ... but that said, this all doesn't really matter all that much,
as the movie's well-structured, well-written, features interesting
characters and tensely written dialogue, and even if there's not all that
much actual on-screen "action", there's hardly a dull moment,
either - which is also thankt to the direction that's atmospheric to boot. Really
worth your while!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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