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The Luring
USA 2019
produced by Sandy Ayesh, Brian Berg, Christopher Wells for Kaleidoscope Pictures
directed by Christopher Wells
starring Rick Irwin, Michaela Sprague, Molly Fahey, Daniel Martin Berkey, Henry Gagliardi, Matan Barr, Ava-Riley Miles, Patricia Hammond, Gavin Maddox Bergman, Alex Emanuel, Angela Rambourg, Jack Garrity, Laura Spaeth, Al Marz, Chelsea Reed Davis, Jake Katzman, Troy Underle, Mary McGloin, William Stedina, Rory Higgs, Kristan Lyon, Kristian Parenteau, Chris Roy, Brian Berg
written by Christopher Wells, music by Al Creedon
review by Mike Haberfelner
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As a child, Garrett (Rick Irwin) has been institutionalized after
something horrible that has happened in his parents' Vermont vacation
home, but while whatever-it-was is still bothering subconsciously, he
can't for the life of it, what has actually happened. An adult now, he
decides to take the bull by the horns and spend a short vacation at the
cabin with his girlfriend Claire (Michaela Sprague). Now she does the best
to accommodate him, but he gets irritated more and more, by visions, by
fragments of memories, by locals who claim to know him, and ultimately by
Claire herself, whom he soon treats like shit. On the plus side though, he
scores a date with a local beauty, Jennifer (Molly Fahey) ...
Eventually, memories start to return, memories about a birthday party
back when Garrett was a kid (and played by Henry Gagliardi), where he
wasn't exactly nice to an autistic boy (Matan Barr), but still what
actually happened remains hazy - but it had to do with a red balloon. At a
bar, Garrett meets a stranger (Daniel Martin Berkey), who really brings
out the worst in him, and whatever happens after is at least in part the
stranger's fault. Thing is, the stranger is tied to the cabin in some
uncanny way, which means only tragedy can result from his involvement ...
Basically, The Luring is a jigsaw puzzle, disguised as a horror
film - or vice versa, actually -, and this is a concept that works just
beautifully in this case, as the film manages to piece together a mystery
on a grand scale with only giving away the relevant info by the by and
slowly building up the dread of the situation as a whole. This is only
heightened in the directorial approach to things that hides much of the
story in hints rather than go full-on right away and manages to keep one
guessing throughout. And a solid cast ground the story enough in reality
to care, too, and make this a quite fascinating movie.
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