Missing Allen - Wo ist Allen Ross? (2001)

User Rating:

8.2/10   

Director:

Christian Bauer

Writer:

Christian Bauer (writer)

Release Date:

8 November 2003 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

When beloved Chicago movie cameraman Allen Ross' personality dramatically changed and he mysteriously disappeared...

Plot Keywords:

Sect | Missing Person | Friendship | Character Name In Title

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

Gaylon Emerzian	...	Herself
Linda Greene	...	Herself (archive footage)
Allen Ross	...	Himself (archive footage)
Laurdis Ross	...	Himself

Also Known As:

Missing Allen (Germany) (short title)
Missing Allen: The Man Who Became a Camera (International: English title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Germany | USA

Language:

German | English

Color:

Color

Company:

Tangram Film Produktion

Sad and creepy

Somewhere around the mid-way point, this fascinating film moves off the beaten path into a dark area of America, one criss-crossed with secret roads and sinister people. Allen has been missing for 4.5 years, and a fellow documentary film-maker goes to find him. By the time the search leads to the basement of an Oklahoma monastery, and the discovery of an abandoned once-beloved car, the viewer realizes there will be no happy ending to this story. We find that Allen has been drawn into a sinister and sad world of cult theorists, and more and more creepy elements are brought forth to be revealed. An abandoned cabin in the mountain of Colorado provides further links; the approach and search of the house are terrifying in a way that it shouldn't be...after all, it's only a house, right? But the connections made to the apparent crime force the viewer to see everything through the lens of worst-case scenarios. The only sticking point? Why didn't we get to see any of Allen's unfinished films that he had been working on in Oklahoma?