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15 November 2007 (Malaysia)
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Don't forget to breathe...
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Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist; the intention is to help her overcome her phobia, an intense fear of cars. Unexpected events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true. | add synopsis
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Sdcc '09: After Dark Horrorfest 4 updates
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Penny Dreadful and Wicked Little Things (Horrorfest Flashback Reviews)
(From Fangoria. 29 March 2009, 3:38 AM, PDT)
(From Fangoria. 23 July 2009, 9:58 AM, PDT)
Penny Dreadful and Wicked Little Things (Horrorfest Flashback Reviews)
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(Credited cast) | Rachel Miner | ... | Penny Deerborn |
 | Mimi Rogers | ... | Orianna Volkes |
 | Chad Todhunter | ... | Alvin |
 | Mickey Jones | ... | Eddie |
 | Liz Davies | ... | The Hitchhiker |
 | Michael Berryman | ... | Gas Station Attendant |
| Lucy Rogers-Ciaffa | ... | Young Penny |
 | Elyse Mirto | ... | Penny's Mother (as Elyse Marie Mirto) |
 | Tammy Filor | ... | Mary Saunders |
| Casey Sander | ... | Truck Driver |
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Rated R for violence/terror, some sexuality and language.
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Plagued with horrible weather, the cast and crew had to work through a sandstorm and several inches of snow in order to finish production.
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Factual errors: During the entire movie at specific points, the girl looks at a digital clock on the car. Yet we are also shown that there is no key in the car (which is why the car would not start), and in those cars digital clocks would not operate without a key in the transmission so the time could not have been showing at all times.
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Penny Dreadful is an interesting film. It's simplistic and executed for most of it's 98 minute running time intensely. But it drops the ball so drastically in it last quarter that the film almost falters completely. No doubt the most entertaining of the three it tells the story of a young girl named Penny whom witnessed her parents dying in a car accident. Growing up some years later she has a fear of cars and is taken by her psychiatrist up to the mountains to confront this fear head on at the place it happened. However upon reaching their destination they accidentally hit a grotesque hitchhiker and upon dropping him off are left stranded in the middle of nowhere after he attacks the car. With a blown off tire, no cell phone reception and a busted ankle Penny is left to fend for herself against the homicidal maniac. The concept is simple and scary imagined being entrapped in such a small space and terrorized. People of course come to help and are brutally slain. Some of the suspense sequences work wonderfully well from the camouflaging of the killer, to noises and sounds in the night. Rachael Miner's performance as Penny is multi layered and award worthy. The film has some nice supporting nods to from Mimi Rogers and others. The Direction is decent and promising while the score and cinematography are top notch and quite impressive. The films problems are simple pacing, it gets a little long in places, the killer he should never be aloud to speak and the final act. What seems to be racing towards a crazy finale ends up reaching it boiling point early and never erupts. The finale is weak and predictable and because this is such a simplistic movie it's hard to understand why they couldn't have executed a standard finale with the same intense gusto they had been demonstrating throughout. In the end Penny Dreadful is engaging, entertaining and delightfully creepy but with further tweaking we could've had a horror classic on our hands.