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Documents one family's descent into darkness, using a compilation of found home-made footage. In the remote woods of upstate New York... more | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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Unbearable Tension. moreCast
(Credited cast) | Adrian Pasdar | ... | David Poe |
 | Cady McClain | ... | Clare |
 | Amber Joy Williams | ... | Emily Poe |
 | Austin Williams | ... | Jack Poe |
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Wow. Saw the sold-out screenings at Fantasia Festival. Happy to hear Ifc Films will be distributing Home Movie. I love Adrian Pasdar. I love this film.
Home Movie is a taut and trenchant examination of psychological warfare. If Cassavettes made a horror movie, he would have made this. But Home Movie is less a "horror movie" than a probing, paralyzing family drama. Sure, it hits the genre notes with terrifying proficiency -trust me, hide the family cat-, but this film is more than its accumulated terror.
Christopher Denham's directorial debut, working from his own script, is smart enough to know what you do not see is scarier than what you do. Time and time again, Denham ratchets the tension by showing only shadows. This is not a movie about gimmicks. This is a movie about a family free-falling into a black hole.
Don't get me wrong. Home Movie is also very, very funny. Adrian Pasdar gives undoubtedly his best performance ever. I have been a life-long Pasdar fan, but never has he been allowed him such freedom to be funny. Pasdar's David is a achingly real portrait of paternal fear.
Overall, the sold-out audiences were glued to the screen. The only criticism I heard was that there "wasn't any blood." but, to me,that was my favorite thing. Any first-time filmmaker can show blood and guts. This film-maker shows restraint.